Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss in order to pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
mistress
embezzlement
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
3.7 / 5
Cast
Isuzu Yamada
Ayako Murai
Chiyoko Ôkura
Sachiko Murai
Shinpachirō Asaka
Hiroshi Murai
Yōko Umemura
Sumiko Asai
Kensaku Hara
Susumu Nishimura
Eitarō Shindō
Yoshizo Fujino
Kunio Tamura
Dr. Yoko
Takashi Shimura
Inspector
Crew
Kenji Mizoguchi
Director
Tazuko Sakane
Editor
Masaichi Nagata
Producer
Kenji Mizoguchi
Story
Popular Reviews
17 reviews
Meja
8.0★ · 03/15/26
I love how Kenji Mizoguchi portrays female characters. They are complex yet simple, and so real.
Both this & sisters of the gion screams ”a woman in a man’s world” and it still hits hard 90 years after release.
I love how Kenji Mizoguchi portrays female characters. They are complex yet simple, and so real.
Both this & sisters of the gion screams ”a woman in a man’s world” and it still hits hard 90 years after release.
Lia Martinez
6.0★ · 11/04/25
shout out to the guy snoring in front of me in class
shout out to the guy snoring in front of me in class
Kaia Chambers
8.0★ · 09/07/25
god forbid a girl has a side hustle...
god forbid a girl has a side hustle...
Cineception
8.0★ · 11/10/24
80/100
Kenji Mizoguchi makes the 30s look like modern day cinema.
80/100
Kenji Mizoguchi makes the 30s look like modern day cinema.
AiBets
8.0★ · 03/31/24
Really endearing screenplay which intertwines some comedy into something that really is at its heart a grand deconstruction of the unfair and shame-driven culture of Japan at the time
Really endearing screenplay which intertwines some comedy into something that really is at its heart a grand deconstruction of the unfair and shame-driven culture of Japan at the time
