Fusako Owada
Kinuyo Tanaka
Fusako Owada

In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons.
Fusako Owada
Kinuyo Tanaka
Fusako Owada
Natsuko Kimijima
Sanae Takasugi
Natsuko Kimijima
Kumiko Owada
Tomie Tsunoda
Kumiko Owada
Kenzô Kuriyama
Mitsuo Nagata
Kenzô Kuriyama
Hospital Director
Kōju Murata
Hospital Director
Brothel Keeper
Kumeko Urabe
Brothel Keeper
Second Hand Clothes Shop Proprietres
Kikue Mōri
Second Hand Clothes Shop Proprietres
Koji Owada
Minpei Tomimoto
Koji Owada
Tokuko Owada
Umeko Ôbayashi
Tokuko Owada
Kiyoshi Kawakita
Hiroshi Aoyama
Kiyoshi Kawakita
Pureblood Society Lady
Fusako Maki
Pureblood Society Lady
Women's Home Director
Aizo Tamashima
Women's Home Director
Sadly, this is an overly convoluted tale that could have done rather more had William Rowland kept his cast focused. As it is, it's a fairly preposterous tale of some die-hard Nazis who may have a secret cosmic ray in the Oriental theatre of War. Determined to keep it from their Japanese allies who have just been victim to the Nagasaki A-bomb, much of the action takes place in a bordello, of sorts, where women have been drafted in from Shanghai University to "entertain" the Japanese officers and who are now bent on vengeance - or at least most of them are. Is there a traitor amongst them? Meantime, one of the German officers might be a spy too? There are far too many sub-plots, the writing is rambling and the performances are nothing much to write home about.
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