<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>If a woman who has remained single after being widowed many decades previously counts -- there is Chieko Baisho's character (Bee) in <BR>Honokaa Boy (2009).</DIV>
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<DIV>Second the Ogigami suggestion -- Masako Motai is a fixture in her films -- usually playing an older, single woman.</DIV>
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<DIV>In a more classic vein -- Haruk Sugimura in Naruse's Late Chrysanthemums.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 1/28/11, Dolores Martinez <I><dm6@soas.ac.uk></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Dolores Martinez <dm6@soas.ac.uk><BR>Subject: women in film<BR>To: kinejapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<BR>Date: Friday, January 28, 2011, 3:02 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv194237479>Hi all,<BR>I've just been asked by BBC Radio about the representation of older (by which they meant in their 60s and 70s) single women in Japanese film (and was told that a Japanese woman who had already been interviewed replied to this with: Yes, women in their 30s and 40s do feature). The question threw me: lots of grandmothers came to mind and all sorts of women are represented in television films, but single elderly women in mainstream films? And positive reply representations of?<BR>I need your collective encyclopedic knowledge on this one! Lola<BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table>