Yuki Tanada
Yuki Tanada | |
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Born | Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan | 12 August 1975
Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
Yuki Tanada (タナダユキ, Tanada Yuki, born 12 August 1975, in Fukuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
Career
Born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Tanada pursued theater in high school before entering the Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image to study filmmaking.[1][2][3][4] Her independently produced film Moru won the grand prize at the 2001 Pia Film Festival.[2] Her next work, Takada Wataru: A Japanese Original, a documentary on a Japanese folk singer, was featured at the 2003 Tokyo International Film Festival.[5] She won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for her 2008 film One Million Yen Girl.[1] She has written the scripts for many of her films as well as contributed the script to Mika Ninagawa's Sakuran.[2] She has also directed for television.[1]
Japanese Female Filmmaker
Feminism
Japanese female director, Yuki Tanada, looks towards defining gender role and space for women in her work. In her films she showcases many young, female protagonists to represent and rework women in film. Two of her most popular films Moon and Cherry (Tsuki to Cherī, 2004) and One Million Yen Girl (Hyakuman-en to nigamushi onna, 2008) has two female protagonist who retain narrative agency and manage ultimately to live their lives on their own terms. This in turn creates selfhood and individuality to these characters that want to fulfill a wishful life even though their actions are frequently problematic.[6]
Looking at her debut film Moon and Cherry, a young university male Tadokoro, who after joining an erotic writing club, becomes involved with a girl named Mayumi. Tadokoro being a virgin falls in love with Mayumi and eventually gets involved with her sexually. Tadokoro doesn't know if he is being used for her sexual fantasies and begins to question Mayumi's intent. This control she has as a woman, especially with her body, is something that is very well highlighted throughout the film. It gives more attention to Tanada's agency to recognize individualistic values that woman carry whether it is with their career, body, mind, or life.[6]
Her most popular film One Million Yen Girl is a concise attempt to negotiate a space for a girl to reflect on coming of age, a journey to adulthood (as she leaves home), and more significantly to muliebrity and independence. The main character, Suzuko, before her migration away from home is constantly dragged by her problems with men; her imprisonment, comes after she reacts angrily to after her potential male housemate kills her cat. This was because he felt depression following a relationship break-up which lead him to throw out the little kitten into the street. Her retaliation by throwing away all his possessions then lands her in jail, and she refuses to pose as the housemate’s girlfriend even when told by the police that this would result in a less severe penalty. Her problems branching from multiple male figures in this film thrusts her determination to remain independent; to not be tied to a man.[6]
Selected filmography
Film
- Moru (モル) (2001)[7]
- Takada Wataru: A Japanese Original (タカダワタル的, Takada Wataru Teki) (2003)[8]
- Moon and Cherry (2004)[9]
- Akai bunka jūtaku no Hatsuko (赤い文化住宅の初子) (2007)[10]
- One Million Yen Girl (2008)[11]
- Ain't No Tomorrows (2008)[12]
- The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky (2012)[13]
- My Dad and Mr. Ito (2016)[14]
- Romance Doll (ロマンスドール) (2019)[15]
- Hama no Asahi to Usotsuki-domo to (2021)[16]
- My Broken Mariko (2022)[17]
Video on demand
- Tokyo Women's Guidebook (東京女子図鑑, Tōkyō Joshi Zukan) (2016) [re-released as Tokyo Girl (2018)][18]
References
- ^ a b c 2008年度 日本映画監督協会新人賞~タナダユキ監督インタビュー (in Japanese). Director's Guild of Japan. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ a b c 映画監督タナダユキ. Shigotonin (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ "Tanada Yuki". Tokyo Source (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ Sharp, Jasper. "Yuki Tanada Interview". Midnight Eye. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ "TIFF History: 16th Festival". Tokyo International Film Festival. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ a b c JSTOR: Bingham, Adam. “MODERN JAPANESE FEMALE DIRECTORS.” Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi, Edinburgh University Press, 2015, pp. 171–202. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt16r0hfm.14. Accessed 25 Sep. 2022.
- ^ "モル". eiga.com. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "タカダワタル的". eiga.com. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "月とチェリー". eiga.com. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "赤い文化住宅の初子". eiga.com. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "百万円と苦虫女". eiga.com. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "俺たちに明日はないッス". eiga.com. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "ふがいない僕は空を見た". eiga.com. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "お父さんと伊藤さん". eiga.com. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "ロマンスドール". eiga.com. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "浜の朝日の嘘つきどもと". eiga.com. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "平庫ワカ「マイ・ブロークン・マリコ」映画化、永野芽郁が親友の遺骨を奪って旅に出る". Natalie. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "水川あさみ×タナダユキ、東京カレンダー連載『東京女子図鑑』がドラマ化". Cinra.net. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
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- Yuki Tanada at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
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