Girls of Dark (Kinuyo Tanaka, Japón, 1961, 95')

19:00, Irene González López. Talk about Kinuyo Tanaka.

20:00, Girls of Dark (Onna bakari no yoru), Kinuyo Tanaka, Japan, 1961, 95'

In the late 1950’s prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this profession they were sent to a reformatory. This is a story of one of these brave women, Kuniko, who is released from the reformatory and tries to build a new life.