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Street of Shame (1956)

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

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David Denby 04 Mar 2013

Of all the films about prostitution, Kenji Mizoguchi's Street of Shame, made in 1956 at the end of his career, is perhaps the greatest.

Stella D 16 Oct 2011

mizoguchi's last film sees the elegant geisha of his earlier period films fallen to the level of common prostitutes in the post war period. each of the five or so main characters have distinct personalities and very different reasons for and ways of dealing with their work and its consequences. machiko kyo, the beautiful ghost from ugetsu, is especially striking as cynical modern girl mickey.

Adam S 13 May 2010

Kenji Mizoguchi was already sick when he made this studio assignment about five prostitutes in the declining era of the brothel, textbook Mizoguchi territory, and it would be his last film, but there's nothing to suggest a man creating for the last time, it's as vibrant, emotional, and hard hitting as his masterworks twenty and thirty years earlier. Mizoguchi doesn't seem to be as angry as he was in his "Sisters of Gion" days, but the film does tackle issues directly related to the politics of the day, mainly, what are these women to do if prostitution is outlawed, where will they live, work, how will they pay off their mounting debts, and wasn't it men who drove them to this lifestyle in the first place? Criterion shuffled this off to it's Eclipse series, with no extras, but it deserves a more studied look, and if you can watch it, the Masters of Cinema version has a commentary by Tony Rayns, who really knows his Mizoguchi.

Ryan H 04 Feb 2012

It's disappointing that this film didn't have more heart. Mizoguchi creates this interesting situation of prostitutes trying to make a living in a job that's being outlawed by the government, but it doesn't really give many interesting insights. Go figure, a prostitute is doing this because she is in debt and she desperately needs the money. Then the older ones are sad because they are older and the men want younger women. But it never really delves into their actual emotions. One of the women is upset because her son disowns her for being a prostitute. Great story, but it pretty much stops there. Maybe I was just wanting more from each character, and somehow that wasn't what Mizoguchi was going for? I just felt like there was so much more set up with a young woman coming in to work for the brothel and then have the older ones be upset. Instead, it just takes the obvious paths and never surprised me. It's entertaining and well done with the performances, but if you're looking for something deeper, I'd say look somewhere else.

Bosley Crowther 25 Mar 2006

The late Kenji Mizoguchi, who directed Ugetsu, failed to show as much imagination in this one as in that one.