women in film

[Michael Kerpan]

If a woman who has remained single after being widowed many decades previously counts -- there is Chieko Baisho's character (Bee) in 
Honokaa Boy (2009).
 
Second the Ogigami suggestion -- Masako Motai is a fixture in her films -- usually playing an older, single woman.
 
In a more classic vein -- Haruk Sugimura in Naruse's Late Chrysanthemums.
 
 
 

--- On Fri, 1/28/11, Dolores Martinez <dm6 at soas.ac.uk> wrote:


From: Dolores Martinez <dm6 at soas.ac.uk>
Subject: women in film
To: kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Date: Friday, January 28, 2011, 3:02 PM


Hi all,
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?
I need your collective encyclopedic knowledge on this one!  Lola

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