As the BFI dedicates its latest film season to Kinuyo Tanaka, we highlight five vital tales of female agency and desire by one of the country’s first-ever female auteurs
in the West. And aswas born out of the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Yasujirō Ozu was creating gentle cinematic works that are today admired as some of the greatest of all time.while the stars of the screen were both male and female, the influential figures behind the cameras were predominantly men; the effect of a deeply patriarchal society historically bound by tradition.
Most discussions of this deeply influential period of global cinema, in fact, will have little to say about female filmmaking at all – there were so few figures consistently working in the field. It was not until a young Naomi Kawase won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes in 1997 that women filmmakers of Japan truly found sustained recognition overseas.
Much-welcomed, then, is the BFI’s latest film season, in collaboration with Edinburgh Film Festival and Janus Films. Titled, it explores the outstanding works of one of the country’s first-ever female auteurs – whose incredible and under-seen films have been newly restored in 4K. A screen icon in her own right , Tanaka defied the male gatekeepers of the industry to carve out her own career behind the camera.
Below are five highlights, which screen at the BFI Southbank in London and at the EIFF in Edinburgh across August and September.
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