<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>For actress-wise, Kagawa Kyoko, Kiki Kirin, Iwashita Shima, Tanaka Kinuyo and... well I'll post or e-mail Lola off-list their names seen in contemporary Japanese films since the list members should be familiar with those who are starring in the classics. I'm no longer a huge TV fan but when I turn on my TV occasionally, it comes to my attention that lots of actresses(is this PC?) have reached the age with grey hair and play elder women's role, which means I'm getting aged, too.</div><div><br></div><div>Gagazilla~</div><div><br><br><br><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Jan 29, 2011, at 1:29, Michael Kerpan <<a href="mailto:mekerpan@verizon.net">mekerpan@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>One more (not seen by me -- but I read about it).</div>
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<div>Tanie Kitabayashi in Amda-do dayori (2002). <br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 1/28/11, Dolores Martinez <i><<a href="mailto:dm6@soas.ac.uk">dm6@soas.ac.uk</a>></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 <<a href="mailto:dm6@soas.ac.uk">dm6@soas.ac.uk</a>><br>Subject: women in film<br>To: <a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu"><a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">kinejapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a></a><br>Date: Friday, January 28, 2011, 3:02 PM<br><br>
<div id="yiv948749568">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></tbody></table></div></blockquote></body></html>