If you loved The Woman in the Rumor, try Street of Shame

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The Woman in the Rumor

1954 · dir. Kenji Mizoguchi

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Both films are directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, and they both carry the cult, devastating, foreign gem mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Woman in the Rumor, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Street of Shame is

All About Eve, without the champagne. Five women work at a Tokyo brothel as a law banning prostitution gains traction. Mizoguchi's final film observes the economic realities of marginalized women.

If you loved The Woman in the Rumor, try Street of Shame

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