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French film: ”SIMONE, Woman of the Century,...
I just saw the film at a small theatre in Tokyo. It was a biopic about the French politician who lived through holocaust and after the war became a lawyer and the minister of French government and became the first female president of European Union assembly. She helped promote w... Read more ...
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Film “Hidden Figures” breaks the stereotype
It’s been thought women are not good at mathematics and not suitable for engineering jobs. But that kind of notions were proved to be nonsense a long time ago. The film “Hidden Figures” described three Afro-American women working for NASA rocket engineering department as mathematicians, in Jim-C... Read more ...
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Film ”Bombshell” Trump and FOX culture in America
A real story about women who worked in America's conservative mainstream news media network, FOX during 2016 US presidential election. A popular anchorwoman, Gretchen was demoted and finally fired because she refused to accept her boss, Ailes, president of FOX news network. Then she decid... Read more ...
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Film “East Side Sushi” Can Japanese accept the...
A story of a Mexican American woman who worked in Japanese cuisine restaurant for the purpose of getting a stable job and later came to want to be a sushi chef. The story took place in California. In Japan you can rarely meet a female sushi chef. It is said that women are unfit for the job beca... Read more ...
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Great words from a Canadian principal
I have recently become a big fan of TV drama "Hanako and Anne" aired daily on NHK, Japan's public broadcasting station. It is a story on a real woman who lived between end of 19th century and 1960's. The woman's name was MURAOKA Hanako. She was a translator who translated famous English books i... Read more ...
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Film”The Iron Lady” Mrs. Thatcher was indeed...
Biopic of former British prime minister, the only female PM in British history. Maybe she was as notable as Queen Elizabeth in pre-modern time. She was born in a family of grocery. Her father was local mayor. She studied in Oxford. She lived through 2nd world war, and struggled with ... Read more ...
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Film ”Working Girl” Back to 1980's
Working Girl is a 1988 romantic comedy film, which tells the inspiring story of a Staten Island-raised secretary, Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith), working in a Wall Street investment bank. When her boss, Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver), breaks her leg skiing, Tess uses Parker's absence and co... Read more ...
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True lesbian story ”Юрико, до свидания.”
The title is Russian but it is Japanese film about two Japanese women who had a sexual relationship in 1920's. It means "Yuriko, Good-bye!." One of them is Yoshiko Yuasa , who was a translator for Russian literature. The other is Yuriko Nakajo, a novelist. They met in Tokyo and start... Read more ...
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French film ”Coco Avant Chanel” Sad Story
The film featured early life of the founder of world's most famous fashion brand, Chanel. The film started with her life as an orphan and later she became a singer in the bar. She found a patron, a rich peer man but she fell in love with a rich English businessman who later supported her avant... Read more ...
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Disney's ”Sleeping Beauty” is sexist, racist,...
Walt Disney has been known as Hollywood's most racist and sexist person in history. His movies reflect his views. "Sleeping Beauty" was one of the good examples. It reflects public opinion at that time. The film was released in 1959. The princess named Aurora was cursed by a witch. The curse... Read more ...