Kumeko Urabe
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
日本語
Description
Filmed on location in Osaka, Women of the night concerns two sisters, Fusako and Natsuko, one a war widow and the other in an affair with a drug dealer. Along with their younger friend Kumiko they fall into prostitution and moral chaos and a life of gangs and gangsters, trapped by their city's postwar desperation and devastation.
2) Sōshun
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
A salaryman in postwar Tokyo has an illicit affair with an officemate in this sensitive portrait of a fragile marriage.
Series
Criterion collection volume 442
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
An elegant, emotional chronicle of a teacher's unwavering commitment to her students, her profession, and her sense of morality. It takes a simultaneously sober and sentimental look at the epic themes of aging, war, and death.