The Moon Has Risen (Kinuyo Tanaka, 1955)
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forever a woman (1955), dir. kinuyo tanaka
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KINUYO TANAKA and HIDEKO TAKAMINE in WHERE CHIMNEYS ARE SEEN (1953) dir. Heinosuke Gosho
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Forever a Woman (1955) ‘乳房よ永遠なれ’ Directed by Kinuyo Tanaka, the second woman director in Japan.
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a film about poetry, illness, unrequited love, freedom, death, desire, embodiment. cried my eyes out. it captures, with aching precision, the desire for succor in the face of one's mortality. when Fumiko reaches her hands around the back of Ōtsuki's neck, something inside me broke. if only a touch could ward off death. it's strange how desire can make us alive to ourselves for the first time yet somehow can't keep our bodies alive. I love the recurring motifs in the film--the lake, the corridor of misery, the bathtub, the music box. pure visual poetry.
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The Moon Has Risen (Kinuyo Tanaka, 1955)
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