DAWN OF THE FELINES

SYNOPSIS: Three women adrift in Tokyo’s escort trade — a jaded veteran, a runaway wife, and a naive newcomer — circle each other’s lives while working out of the same low-rent agency, each searching for a scrap of tenderness in a business built on transaction. This unflinching update of the Roman Porno classic “Night of the Felines” trades exploitation for empathy, finding raw, unsentimental humanity in the loneliness beneath the neon. It’s a portrait of women surviving on the margins of the city after dark.