women in film

[Asian Hooker]

How about Senbon Yoshiko, known for  "Akai Kujira to Shiroi Hebi"?(Red Whales and White Snakes"? Is she too old to what you are asking? 

PS: "Single" also includes widowed and divorced?

Gagazilla




On Jan 29, 2011, at 0:02, Dolores Martinez <dm6 at soas.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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
>