66 years ago:
Tokyo Twilight (JP)
Original title: 東京暮色
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
1957-04-30
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/55192
#TokyoTwilight #YasujirOzu #SetsukoHara #InekoArima #ChishRy #Movies

60 years ago:
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (JP)
Original title: 武士道残酷物語
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.
1963-04-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/90299
#BushidoTheCruelCodeoftheSamurai #KinnosukeNakamura #InekoArima #SatomiOka #ToeiCompany #Film

Confessions Among Actresses (1971) [also known as "Confession, Theory, Actress"]
Kiju Yoshida

"You're the actress KAIDO Akiko. A transparent cinematographical object, unable to resist or react. Confronted with such things, a man feels like suspended into the void, left on their own. KAIDO Akiko the woman, not the actress, becomes, inevitably, the object of cruel thoughts. All that ends in a stupid way."

#film #KijuYoshida #JapaneseNewWave #feminism #MarikoOkada #RurikoAsaoka #InekoArima