After a long slump, he finally turned things around in 1949 with the movie 'Yoru no onnatachi' (Women of the Night) portraying the women who lost their husbands in a war and were forced into prostitution due to poor living conditions. 24年、戦争で夫を亡くし敗戦後の生活苦から娼婦に堕していく女性のシビアに描いた「夜の女たち」で長きスランプから復調。 |