Eclipse Series 48: Kinuyo Tanaka Directs Blu-Ray (US Import)
Criterion

Título original: Love Letter / The Moon Has Risen / Forever a Woman / The Wandering Princess / Girls of the Night / Love Under the Crucifix

Año: 1953 - 1962
Pais: Japan
Código de región: A
Contenido: Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515333016

Imagen: 1.37:1 / 2.35:1 / 2.39:1 (1080p)

HDR: -

Audio: Japanese - Mono

Subtítulos: English

Calificatión por edades: Not Rated

Género: Drama

Reparto: Masayuki Mori, Chishu Ryu, Yumeji Tsukioka

Director: Kinuyo Tanaka


Sinopsis:

Kinuyo Tanaka was already one of Japan’s greatest actors—celebrated for her collaborations with auteurs such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Mikio Naruse—when she took a brave leap by embarking on a directing career in a studio system that actively discouraged female filmmakers. The six features she made over the course of a decade center on women characters who refuse to conform to restrictive roles as they seek independence. With compassion and insight, Tanaka critiques the social conditions and forces that shape her heroines’ struggles: sex work and social shaming, the expectation of passively entering arranged marriages, taboos surrounding illness and the female body, imperialism, and religious persecution and forbidden love.

Extras:

• An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith