Agenda Municipal / Movies Women of Ginza

Thu 28 Apr
Cineclube de Joane programme (There Are No Cinephiles left?!, Unknown Japanese Masters)

Casa das Artes | Small Auditorium - 21h45

Admission: 4 euros | free for members of the Cineclube de Joane | Organisation: Cineclube de Joane | Original title: Ginza no onna (Japan, 1955) | Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Cast: Nobuko Otowa, Sumiko Hidaka, Yukiko Todoroki, Jô Shishido |Rating: M/12 | Duration: 109 min.

Ikuyo is the mistress of Shizumoto, a geisha household that employs four other women. All of them, simultaneously, reveal the extreme hardships of their profession. From the frustrated search for popularity in the newspapers, to the diffuse desires for motherhood and ending in disillusioned love, the five women survive under the incandescent sky of Ginza, one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in Tokyo. Told from the perspective of a recently hired young geisha apprentice, Women of Ginza is an acid and lucid portrait of these women who, even in defeat, come out enlightened.


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