Official Website www.paravi.jp/static/tokyo aikoi Broadcast From 12.00 a.m., Saturdays, 11 September 2021 Episodes 7 Network Paravi Story A native of Shiga Prefecture, Wada Kae is 35 this year and works for a company in Tokyo that rents properties. While she thinks it is about time to get married to her boyfriend of 10 years, Hashimoto Tatsuya,…
Japanese cinema is typically viewed as a masculine domain. Until the 1980s, the studio systemâs structure presented a formidable barrier for women hoping to enter the industry in a creative capacity. Barring Japanâs first woman director, Sakane Tazuko, who made a single feature in 1936, the long-lost
Hatsu sugata, the few who chalked up a directing credit generally hailed from an acting background.
Only in the past decade have Japanese women filmmakers made real headway. Their swelling ranks and the acclaim, both domestic and international, for such names as Nishikawa Miwa (Dear Doctor, 2009;
Dreams for Sale, 2012), Tanada Yuki (
Moon & Cherry, 2004;
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Films celebrating the past 20 years of Japanese cinema streams online throughout the U.S. on Japan Societyâs virtual cinema
February 13, 2021
New York, Feb 13, 2021 – The Japan Society and the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (ACA), in collaboration with the Visual Industry Promotion Organization (VIPO), announce the inaugural ACA Cinema Project online film series 21st Century Japan: Films from 2001-2020, streaming nationwide on Japan Societyâs Virtual Cinema from February 5-25, 2021.
Katsura Toda, Senior Specialist for Arts and Culture at the Agency for Cultural Affairs, says, âThe ACA Cinema Project was launched with the hope of sharing the diverse appeal of Japanese films to audiences around the world and to create more opportunities for these films to be seen. We are pleased to present U.S. audiences with the works of a great variety of directorsâincluding well-established masters, filmmakers wi