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WEEK IN WOMEN: Lumiere Festival honors Kinuyo Tanaka with retrospective – Brandy McDonnell reports

October 6, 2021October 9, 2021 Brandy McDonnell “women’s liberation” trilogy, japanese directors, Kawakita Film Museum, Kinuyo Tanaka, Lumière Festival, Shōchiku Studios, spotlight

The late, legendary Japanese actor and filmmaker Kinuyo Tanaka will be honored with a retrospective at the 2021 Lumiere Festival, set for Oct. 9-17 in Lyon, France. [Lumiere Festival photo][/caption]The late, legendary Japanese actor and filmmaker Kinuyo Tanaka will be honored with a retrospective at the 2021 Lumiere Festival, set for Oct. 9-17 in Lyon, France.

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SPOTLIGHT October 2021: Kinuyo Tanaka, Japanese Golden Age Actor, Director, and Lumière Honoree

September 30, 2021October 2, 2021 Marilyn Ferdinand (Archived Contributor) “women’s liberation” trilogy, japanese directors, Kawakita Film Museum, Kinuyo Tanaka, Love Under the Crucifix, Lumière Festival, Shōchiku Studios, spotlight, The Eternal Breasts, The Life of Oharu, Ugetsu

2021 was the year the film world rediscovered Japanese actor and director Kinuyo Tanaka. Tanaka acted in more than 200 films for some of the greatest directors Japan ever produced during a career that spanned from 1924 through 1976—just a year before her death. Her work as a director, however, is largely unknown, but thanks to the restoration of some of her films by The Japan Foundation, audiences are gaining access to her ground-breaking work.