Tears and Laughter: Women in Japanese Melodrama During the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema
On October 15, 2017 October 15, 2017 By Genki JasonIn Film Festivals, Film PostersLeave a comment
There will be a season of films dedicated to the female actors who dazzled as stars during the Golden Age of Japanese cinema at the BFI Southbank from October 16th to November 29th It is called, Tears and Laughter: Women in Japanese Melodrama. Billed as "an opportunity for audiences to explore the cinema of Japan's 'Golden Age', with a distinctly female focus," there are thirteen films programmed and several of those titles are rarely screened in the UK so this is a good opportunity to get acquainted with them.
The season opens with a double bill of films by Kenji Mizoguchi and that will followed up by a season introduction on October 17th, – Women in Japanese Melodrama – during which experts including Alexander Jacoby and Alejandra Armendáriz will discuss the work of the female stars who dazzled at the heart of mid-century Japanese cinema. Following that will be the rest of the films from directors such as Yasujiro Ozu. Keisuke Kinoshita, Mikio Naruse and others who made powerful female led dramas such as Setsuko Hara, Hideko Takamine and others who are now becoming well-known across the world.
I've only seen one of these films so I'm using the synopses from the BFI's site.
It's a great line-up! Here is what has been programmed:
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