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Journal Article
Three Japanese actresses of the 1950s: modernity, femininity and the performance of everyday life
2003
Overview
[...]some of the most impressive performances by women in Japanese cinema consist of a subtlety, containment and a \"holding back.\" [...]the best films of the period combined elements of traditional Japanese culture and aesthetics, with some of the new principles of individualism introduced by the occupation. Sugimura's Variety obituary describes her as \"a lady of the stage,\" and indeed she was a member of an important theatre group, for which she won a cultural merit award in 1974.41 She starred in more than 900 performances of a play called \"Life of a Woman\", and performed in at least one TV series in the 1970s as a middle-aged housewife who runs her husband's business.42 There is no question that Sugimura's contribution to the construction of the postwar Japanese woman was significant. Because she almost always played older women, she was more or less desexualized, and could therefore get away with more unorthodox behaviour than some of her contemporaries. [...]I believe there is far more complexity to these stars and their various roles than conventional film criticism has thus far revealed.
