The English-language title suggests one of those baleful dramas about geishas Japanese cinema was awash with during the fifties. But (as the original Japanese title 'All-Women's Night makes clear) director Kinuyo Tanaka and Kurosaw's regular cameraman Azakazu Naikai employ the widescreen format with the effortless grace peculiar to the Japanese to fill the screen with lively young ladies who bustle about and pull their hair for an hour and a half.