Girls of the Night

Kuniko (Chisako Hara) has just left one of the rehabilitation centers set up after Japan's 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, and she is trying to find honest work and a place to live. The women she meets outside, among them Chieko (Akemi Kita), carry the same past, and the world keeps handing it back to them. Kinuyo Tanaka watches Kuniko's first fragile attempts to start over, where one wrong word from a stranger could close every door.