Woman of Tokyo (Tôkyô no onna)

Film Journal 2019 (225 movies items)

"A melodrama that condemns masculine idiocy really need a bit more fleshing out of the motivation of our lead, an aspect apparently cut during production (probably due to being a tad too revolutionary). As it stands, this is ten minutes of intrigue, twenty-five of dull arguing with little nuance or depth to any of the dialogue, and the final ten of condemning, but sprinkled with some incredibly obnoxious newspapermen and an ending right out of that Exorcist director's cut where it waters down a l"