Woman (1948 film)

1948 Japanese film

Woman

Onna
Directed by| Keisuke Kinoshita
Written by| Keisuke Kinoshita
Produced by| Takeshi Ogura
Starring|

* Mitsuko Mito
* Eitarō Ozawa

Cinematography| Hiroyuki Kusuda
Edited by| Yoshi Sugihara[1]
Music by| Chūji Kinoshita

Production
company

Shochiku

Distributed by| Shochiku

Release date

* 2 April 1948 (1948-04-02) (Japan)

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Running time

| 67 minutes[3][4]
Country| Japan
Language| Japanese

Woman (女, Onna) is a 1948 Japanese drama film written and directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.[2][3][4]

## Plot

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Revue dancer Toshiko is approached by her boyfriend Tadashi, who demands that she cancels her engagements to meet him in the city of Hakone. Although weary of his ongoing criminal behaviour, she does as he tells her, but after she learns that he was involved in a burglary and the killing of a policeman, she pleas with him to leave her. Tadashi explains his conduct with his desperate situation after his return from the war, and promises to change his ways if she stays with him. Upon their arrival in Atami, Tadashi steals money from a pawn shop to pay for the passover to Hamamatsu, and Toshiko realises that his promise was a mere pretense. Toshiko, followed by Tadashi who threatens to kill her, turns to the police, who arrest Tadashi.

## Cast

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* Mitsuko Mito as Toshiko
* Eitarō Ozawa as Tadashi

## Production, release and reception

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Woman was shot on location in and around Atami[5][6] and released on 2 April 1948.[2][3]

According to an article on Kinoshita in the Mainichi Shimbun published periodical New Japan, he succeeded in combining a "lyric [sic] style with a psychological angle" with this film.[7]

## Legacy

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Woman was presented in 2012 by the Film at Lincoln Center society, New York, as part of its Keisuke Kinoshita retrospective,[6] and at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival,[8] where it was announced as a "desperate portrait of a lethal passion against the backdrop of a Japan trying to return to some kind of normalcy",[6] consisting of "dangerously tilted images in which everything appears to be out of balance".[8]

Woman was released on DVD in Japan in 2012 as part of the "Keisuke Kinoshita 100th birthday volume 2" DVD box.[9]

## Awards

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* Mainichi Film Award for Best Director Keisuke Kinoshita (for Woman, The Portrait and Apostasy)[10]

## References

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1. ^ "Onna – Woman" (PDF). Berlinale.de (in German). 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
2. ^ a b c "女". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 July 2023.
3. ^ a b c d "女(1948)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 July 2023.
4. ^ a b "Woman". Shochiku Films. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
5. ^ Bock, Audie (1978). Japanese Film Directors. Japan Society. p. 201.
6. ^ a b c "Woman – Onna". Film at Lincoln Center. 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
7. ^ New Japan. Vol. 11\. Tokyo: Mainichi Newspapers. 1959. p. 156.
8. ^ a b "Onna – Woman". Berlinale.de (in German). 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
9. ^ "Kinoshita Keisuke Seitan 100 Nen Kinoshita Keisuke DVD-Box Vol.2". CD Japan. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
10. ^ "毎日映画コンクール 第3回（1948年）". Mainichi.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 July 2023.

## External links

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* Woman at IMDb
* Woman at the Criterion Channel

* v
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Films directed by Keisuke Kinoshita

* Army (1944)
* Woman (1948)
* Apostasy (1948)
* Wedding Ring (1950)
* Carmen Comes Home (1951)
* The Good Fairy (1951)
* Boyhood (1951)
* Fireworks over the Sea (1951)
* Carmen's Pure Love (1952)
* A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
* The Garden of Women (1954)
* Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
* She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)
* Farewell to Dream (1956)
* Times of Joy and Sorrow (1957)
* Danger Stalks Near (1957)
* The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
* The Snow Flurry (1959)
* Thus Another Day (1959)
* The River Fuefuki (1960)
* Immortal Love (1961)
* A Legend or Was It? (1963)
* The Scent of Incense (1964)
* Big Joys, Small Sorrows (1986)

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Mainichi Film Award for Best Director

* Tadashi Imai (1946)
* Akira Kurosawa (1947)
* Keisuke Kinoshita (1948)
* Yasujirō Ozu (1949)
* Kōzaburō Yoshimura (1950)
* Mikio Naruse (1951)
* Minoru Shibuya (1952)
* Tadashi Imai (1953)
* Keisuke Kinoshita (1954)
* Mikio Naruse (1955)
* Tadashi Imai (1956)
* Tadashi Imai (1957)
* Keisuke Kinoshita (1958)
* Satsuo Yamamoto (1959)
* Kon Ichikawa (1960)
* Masaki Kobayashi (1961)
* Kon Ichikawa (1962)
* Shohei Imamura (1963)
* Hiroshi Teshigahara (1964)
* Tomu Uchida (1965)
* Satsuo Yamamoto (1966)
* Shohei Imamura (1967)
* Kihachi Okamoto (1968)
* Yoji Yamada (1969)
* Satsuo Yamamoto (1970)
* Masahiro Shinoda (1971)
* Kōichi Saitō (1972)
* Yoji Yamada (1973)
* Yoshitarō Nomura (1974)
* Kaneto Shindo (1975)
* Satsuo Yamamoto (1976)
* Yoji Yamada (1977)
* Yoshitarō Nomura (1978)
* Kazuhiko Hasegawa (1979)
* Akira Kurosawa (1980)
* Kōhei Oguri (1981)
* Kinji Fukasaku (1982)
* Nagisa Oshima (1983)
* Juzo Itami (1984)
* Akira Kurosawa (1985)
* Kei Kumai (1986)
* Kazuo Hara (1987)
* Nobuhiko Obayashi (1988)
* Toshio Masuda (1989)
* Jun Ichikawa (1990)
* Yoji Yamada (1991)
* Yōichi Higashi (1992)
* Jun Ichikawa (1993)
* Tatsumi Kumashiro (1994)
* Kaneto Shindo (1995)
* Masayuki Suo (1996)
* Shohei Imamura (1997)
* Hideyuki Hirayama (1998)
* Yoshimitsu Morita (1999)
* Junji Sakamoto (2000)
* Hayao Miyazaki (2001)
* Hideyuki Hirayama (2002)
* Yoichi Sai (2003)
* Kazuo Kuroki (2004)
* Akira Ogata (2005)
* Kichitaro Negishi (2006)
* Masayuki Suo (2007)
* Kōji Wakamatsu (2008)
* Sion Sono (2009)
* Takashi Miike (2010)
* Katsuya Tomita (2011)
* Daihachi Yoshida (2012)
* Yuya Ishii (2013)
* Mipo O (2014)
* Shinya Tsukamoto (2015)
* Miwa Nishikawa (2016)
* Katsuya Tomita (2017)
* Shinichiro Ueda (2018)
* Kei Ishikawa (2019)
* Naomi Kawase (2020)
* Ryusuke Hamaguchi (2021)
* Shō Miyake (2022)
* Yuya Ishii (2023)
* Shō Miyake (2024)

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