Late Chrysanthemums
16 December 2015
Sighed and yearned in equal measure, at Mikio Naruse’s Late Chrysanthemums yesterday. It’s research because there’s a film I’m trying to make, and so far failing to make, which involves the impossibility of the Western mind ever really getting to grips with what the fuck a Geisha is. This film isn’t really about that culture. It’s about the lot of the older woman in Tokyo, post WWII. I’m feeling it.
![Late Chrysanthemums, 1954](http://janetopping.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/late_chrysantemums_01-300x168.jpg)
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