Slideshow
PREVIOUSLY PLAYED
GINZA COSMETICS
3:15 8:00
Monday, October 21
銀座化粧 (Ginza keshô)
Director Mikio Naruse
Cast Kinuyo Tanaka, Ranko Hanai
Screenplay Matsuo Kishi | Cinematography Akira Mimura
1951 | Japan | 35mm print courtesy The Japan Foundation Film Library | approx. 87 min. | In Japanese with English subtitles
Kinuyo Tanaka knocks herself out to support her child by working as a Ginza bar hostess, but then has little time for the kid himself. Never a mistress for money, she may be finding a way out in the most curious of coincidences, but…