| Woman | |
|---|---|
| Onna | |
| Directed by | Keisuke Kinoshita |
| Written by | Keisuke Kinoshita |
| Produced by | Takeshi Ogura |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Hiroyuki Kusuda |
| Edited by | Yoshi Sugihara[1] |
| Music by | Chūji Kinoshita |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Shochiku |
Release date |
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Running time | 67 minutes[3][4] |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Woman (女,Onna) is a 1948 Japanesedrama film written and directed byKeisuke Kinoshita.[2][3][4]
Revue dancer Toshiko is approached by her boyfriend Tadashi, who demands that she cancels her engagements to meet him in the city ofHakone. 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 thewar, and promises to change his ways if she stays with him. Upon their arrival inAtami, Tadashi steals money from a pawn shop to pay for the passover toHamamatsu, 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.
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 theMainichi Shimbun published periodicalNew Japan, he succeeded in combining a "lyric [sic] style with a psychological angle" with this film.[7]
Woman was presented in 2012 by theFilm at Lincoln Center society,New York, as part of its Keisuke Kinoshita retrospective,[6] and at the 2013Berlin 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 "dangerouslytilted 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]