Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women (Eclipse #13, DVD) John Cassavetes Laura Mars (Dunaway) exhibits a

Laura Mars (Dunaway) exhibits a mystifying psychic ability

Inugami also discovers the truth behind his family heritage

Why They Call Him Buster (a montage of pratfalls)

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Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women (Eclipse #13, DVD) John Cassavetes Laura Mars (Dunaway) exhibits aOver the course of a three decade, more than eighty film career, master cineaste Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff) would return again and again to one abiding theme: the plight of women in Japanese society. In these four lacerating works of social consciousnesstwo prewar (Osaka Elegy, Sisters of the Gion), two postwar (Women of the Night, Street of Shame)Mizoguchi introduces an array of compelling female protagonists, crushed or resilient,