The Wandering Princess

The Wandering Princess

classified 15 S

part of The Films Of Kinuyo Tanaka

Film

Please note: This was screened in Aug 2022

Director
Kinuyo Tanaka
Cast
Machiko Kyô, Eiji Funakoshi, Atsuko Kindaichi
Details
102 mins, & Subtitled, 1960, Japan
Primary language
Japanese

Kinuyo Tanaka’s first film in both colour and Cinemascope is an epic about a woman caught in the torrents of history.

Based on the memoirs of Hiro Saga,The Wandering Princess depicts the story of Ryuko (Machiko Kyo), an aristocrat who, at the outset of World War II, is forced to marry Futetsu (Eiji Funakoshi), the younger brother of the soon-to-be disposed Chinese emperor.

Ryuko’s enmeshment in the Japanese occupation of Manchuria realizes with startling depth Tanaka's ambition to relate a historical saga from a critical female perspective.


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