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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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French film ”Une Nouvelle Amie (The New...
The story of the film reminds me of American transwoman, Caitlyn Jenner, who was a Olympic gold medalist named Bruce Jenner. He turned himself to be a woman at the age of 65 but her sexual preference was the same as before. She loves women. The story started with a funeral scene and a woman na... Read more ...
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Film: 007 ”On Her Majesty's Secret Service”...
I learnt the queen is called "Her majesty" by this film. Just like Emperor is called "His majesty." The story is just as unrealistic as other films in the series. James Bond went to Switzerland to search for a bad guy who tried to spread poisonous chemical all over the world. While the search, ... 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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TV drama: ”Cashmere Mafia” Elite women in America
I just happen to rent a DVD of this TV show. A story of 4 successful working women in New York. Lucy Liu, Chinese American actress seems to be a main character. This is surprising thing. Asian woman took a main role in a popular soapopera. The story features America's latest social movement... Read more ...