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After successfully collaborating on “The Eternal Breast”, director/actress Kinuyo Tanaka and scriptwriter Sumie Tanaka would work together again when it came to the adaptation of a Masako Yana novel. Her fifth feature, which would only be followed by “Love Under the Crucifix”, after which the filmmaker would concentrate more on acting again, appearing mostly in Japanese television, focuses on themes she had discussed previously, most significantly the status of women within the society of her home country. “Girls of the Night” tells a story of a woman trying to adapt to a society after being labeled rehabilitated from her previous life as an “honorableness woman of the night”, and her struggles as no matter what she does, her reputation and her past follow her. It is a challenging film, even by today’s standards, and probably Tanaka’s strongest effort as a director.

“Girls of the Night” is screening...