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    Eat the Kimono

    Kim Longinotto 1989 Japan/England Documentary color 60min 16mm
    How do the Japanese females get rid of the traditions better?
    “You must eat the kimono, and gobble it up. ”is a brilliant documentary about Hanayagi Genshu, a Japanese feminist and avant-garde dancer and performer, who has spent her life defying her conservative culture contempt for independence and unconventionality. She denounced Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal, and dismissed death threats made against her by right-wing groups. Not afraid of dangers, she opposed the Emperor Akihito's enthronement by throwing firecrackers and ended up in jailed. She established an avant-garde dance theater to express her reaction to the society by her art creation.
    “Eat the Kimono” says Genshu, making reference to the traditional Japanese dress designed to restrict movement for women.

    Director

    Kim Longinotto

    Kim Longinotto studied camera and directing at England's National Film School. In 1986, Longinotto formed the production company Twentieth Century Vixen with Claire Hunt. Together they made Fireraiser, a look at the bombing of Dresden; Eat the Kimono, about the controversial Japanese feminist performer Hanayagi Genshu; Hidden Faces, the internationally acclaimed, collaborative documentary with/about Egyptian women; and The Good Wife of Tokyo in which they examine women, love and marriage in Japanese society.

    Kim Longinotto

    2005 Sister in Law

    2002 Day I Will Never Forget

    2000 Gaea Girls

    1998 Divorce Iranian Style

    1996 Rock Wives(ㄒV)

    1995 Shinjuku Boys

    1994 Dream Girls

    1992 Good Wife of Tokyo

    1990 Hidden Faces

    1989 Eat the Kimono

    1982 Underage

    1976 Pride of Place

    1975 Theatre Girls

    Directed/ Kim Longinotto & Claire Hunt

    Print Source: Women Make Movies

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