Women of the Night (1948)

Two geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto. After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other sister sets up various schemes to get rid of him.

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu.

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

Prostitution, rehabilitation centres and syphilis.

After World War II, Mizoguchi was inspired by Italian neorealism to make one of the most emotionally and visually raw films of his career. Filmed on location in Osaka, Women of the Night concerns two sisters—Fusako, a war widow, and Natsuko, having an affair with a narcotics smuggler—who along with their younger friend Kumiko descend into prostitution and moral chaos amid the postwar devastation surrounding them.

Both films in Post War Japan with prostitutes female leads that must survive.
They are both sent to a Rehabilitation Centre/ Women Reformatory.
Both denounce that part of the way of living of prostitutes is a direct consequence of an act of sexual violence that doesn't let them live a "normal" life.
In "Women of the Night", Kinuyo Tanaka is the female lead. In "Girls of the night", she is the film director.