The Garden of Women
The Garden of Women | |
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Japanese name | |
Kanji | 女の園 |
Directed by | Keisuke Kinoshita |
Written by | Keisuke Kinoshita Tomoji Abe (novel) |
Produced by | Takeshi Yamamoto |
Starring | Mieko Takamine Hideko Takamine Keiko Kishi Yoshiko Kuga |
Cinematography | Hiroshi Kusuda |
Edited by | Yoshi Sugihara |
Music by | Chūji Kinoshita |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Shochiku |
Release date |
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Running time | 141 mins.[1] |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
The Garden of Women (女の園, Onna no sono) is a 1954 Japanese drama film written and directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. It is based on the novel Jinkō Teien (人工庭園, lit. Artificial Garden) by Tomoji Abe.[2]
Plot
After the
Cast
- Mieko Takamine — Mayumi Gojō, teacher
- Hideko Takamine — Yoshie Izushi
- Keiko Kishi — Tomiko Takioka
- Yoshiko Kuga — Akiko Hayashino
- Kazuko Yamamoto — Toshiko
- Takahiro Tamura — Sankichi Shimoda
- Masami Taura — Yoshikazu Sagara
- Chieko Higashiyama — President
- Kikue Mori — Dean
- Kuniko Igawa — Yoshie's sister
- Nobuo Kaneko — Kihei Hirato
- Yūko Mochizuki — Landlady
- Chieko Naniwa — Tomiko's aunt
Reception
Film historians Keiko McDonald and Donald Richie have noted the film's contrast between the traditional, feudalistic Japan represented by the educational establishment, and the emerging, more democratic post-war values seen in the pupils.[2][3] Richie also commented favourably on Kinoshita's treatment of adolescent girls' emotional problems in this context, drawing comparisons to Mädchen in Uniform. Nagisa Ōshima named The Garden of Women as the film which led to his decision to become a filmmaker himself in his 1995 documentary 100 Years of Japanese Cinema.[4]
Awards
The Garden of Women received the 1954
References
- ^ a b "Entry for The Garden of Women at the Shochiku Cinema Classics site". Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ^ ISBN 9780765603883. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ISBN 0691007926. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ^ "100 Years of Japanese Cinema online at the BFI site". Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ^ "女の園 (The Garden of Women)" (in Japanese). Kotobank. Retrieved 22 February 2021.