Mako Idemitsu
Directing
Born January 1, 1940 · Tōkyō, Japan
Experimental video artist Mako Idemitsu creates domestic narratives, that examine female identity within the context of the contemporary Japanese family. Echoing and subverting the popular melodramas of Japanese television, she applies a women's liberationist critique to her fictions of the psychological "family romance." Dramatising the strict gender roles that shape mother-child and husband-wife relationships, she explores the role of women in a patriarchal, mediated culture.
Directed (24)
Kae, Act Like A Girl
1996
Kiyoko's Situation
1989
Yoji, What's Wrong With You?
1987
Great Mother (Sachiko)
1986
Hideo, It's Me, Mama
1986
The Marriage of Yasushi
1986
Whispering Light
1985
Great Mother (YUMIKO)
1983
Great Mother (Harumi)
1983
Housewives and a Day
1979
At Any Place 4: From the Tango of a Housewife by Yoneyama Mamako
1978
Another Day of a Housewife
1977
Women
1977
At Any Place 2
1975
Something Within Me
1975
At Any Place 1
1975
At Yukigaya 1
1974
At Santa Monica 1
1974
Baby Variations
1974
What a Woman Made
1973
Woman's House
1972
Inner Man
1972
Make up
Shadow Part 1
