Director
Mako Idemitsu
86 years · Tōkyō, Japan · 40 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 40
KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts–
2013 · Actor
Kae, Act Like A Girl
1996 · Director, Writer
Kiyoko's Situation
1989 · Director
Yoji, What's Wrong With You?
1987 · Director
Great Mother (Sachiko)
1986 · Director
Hideo, It's Me, Mama
1986 · Director
The Marriage of Yasushi
1986 · Director
Whispering Light
1985 · Director
Play and Capriciousness
1984 · Director
Great Mother (YUMIKO)
1983 · Director
Shadow Part 2
1982 · Director
Animus Part 1
1982 · Director
Animus Part 2
1982 · Director
Toryanse
1982 · Director
Emotional Volatility About My Father
1981 · Director
Shadow Part 1
1980 · Director
My America, Your America
1980 · Director
Housewives and a Day
1979 · Director
At Yukigaya 4
1979 · Director
At Any Place 4: From the Tango of a Housewife by Yoneyama Mamako
1978 · Director
Make Up
1978 · Director
At Any Place 5
1978 · Director
At Karuizawa 1
1978 · Director
Another Day of a Housewife
1977 · Director