Women in Prison (1956)

4.0/10 146 min Drama Crime

Overview

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair. She loves the jailed criminals and almost sees them as family. One day at a workshop someone faints while working hard to make money because she has a poor boyfriend. Another inmate is knocked up Another is a mother and has her child with her.

Cast

Setsuko Hara

Prison Officer

Michiyo Kogure

Yasuko Chiba, prisoner

Kyōko Kagawa

Taeko Hara, prisoner

Yoshiko Kuga

Senko Minami, prisoner

Kyōko Anzai

Yoshiko Taki, prisoner

Yōko Sugi

Kayo Sagawa, prisoner

Chieko Naniwa

Mitsuko Kaneoka, prisoner

Yoko Tani

Mary, prisoner

Keiko Awaji

Keiko Nomi, prisoner

Mariko Okada

Kazuko Hirai, prisoner

Kinuyo Tanaka

Prison Warden

Noriko Sengoku

Tenko Takahashi, prisoner

Kichijirō Ueda

Ohno

Hisao Toake

Yamashita

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