Kenji Mizoguchi's fallen women
(DVD)
Contributors
Published
[New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2008.
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (299 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Marina Branch - Videos
KEN 4 dvds.
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KEN 4 dvds.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Adultery -- Japan -- Drama.
Brothels -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Drama.
Described video.
Descriptive audio.
DVD-Video discs.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Foreign films
Geishas -- Japan -- Kyoto -- Social conditions -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Japan -- Drama.
Motion pictures, Japanese
Prostitutes -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Drama.
Red-light districts -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Drama.
Sexual harassment -- Japan -- Drama.
Sisters -- Japan -- Kyoto -- Drama.
Videos.
War widows -- Japan -- Drama.
Women -- Japan -- Kyoto -- Social conditions -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilians -- Drama.
Brothels -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Drama.
Described video.
Descriptive audio.
DVD-Video discs.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Foreign films
Geishas -- Japan -- Kyoto -- Social conditions -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Japan -- Drama.
Motion pictures, Japanese
Prostitutes -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Drama.
Red-light districts -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Drama.
Sexual harassment -- Japan -- Drama.
Sisters -- Japan -- Kyoto -- Drama.
Videos.
War widows -- Japan -- Drama.
Women -- Japan -- Kyoto -- Social conditions -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilians -- Drama.
More Details
Published
[New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2008.
Language
jpn
UPC
715515033527
Notes
General Note
Title from container.
General Note
Originally produced as Japanese motion pictures in 1939-1956.
Creation/Production Credits
Director, Kenji Mizoguchi ; produced by Masaichi Nagata.
Creation/Production Credits
Screenplay, Yoshikata Yoda (Osaka elegy, Sisters of the Gion, Women of the night) ; Masashige Nakamura (Street of shame).
Participants/Performers
Isuzu Yamada, Yoko Umemura, Chiyako Okura, Benkei Shiganoya, Kinuyo Tanaka, Sanae Takasugi, Tomie Tsunoda, Mitsuo Nagata, Machiko Kyo, Ayako Wakao, Yasuko Kawakami.
Description
Osaka elegy. Switchboard operator Ayako agrees to enter into an affair with her married boss after he promises to support her and her father - setting her off on a seemingly irreversible downward spiral.
Description
Sisters of the Gion. Two geisha sisters - one modern-minded, the other staunchly traditional - disagree over how to deal with the men controlling their lives and livelihoods.
Description
Women of the night. The story of two sisters, Fusako, a war widow, and Natsuko, in an affair with a narcotics smuggler, who, along with their younger friend Kumiko, descend into prostitution and moral chaos amid the postwar devastation surrounding them.
Description
Street of shame. In a brothel in Tokyo's red-light district, a group of working women, their profession on the verge of being outlawed, deal with life's disappointments, large and small.
System Details
DVD, Dolby digital mono, region 1, NTSC.
Language
In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mizoguchi, K., Nagata, M., Yamada, I., Umemura, Y., Ōkura, C., Shiganoya, B., Tanaka, K., Takasugi, S., Kyō, M., Wakao, A., & Kawakami, Y. (2008). Kenji Mizoguchi's fallen women . Criterion Collection.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kenji Mizoguchi et al.. 2008. Kenji Mizoguchi's Fallen Women. Criterion Collection.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kenji Mizoguchi et al.. Kenji Mizoguchi's Fallen Women Criterion Collection, 2008.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mizoguchi, Kenji, et al. Kenji Mizoguchi's Fallen Women Criterion Collection, 2008.
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