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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1940-01-01 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Tōkyō, Japan

Mako Idemitsu

Biography:

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.

Known For

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Yoji, What's Wrong With You?

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Kae, Act Like A Girl

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Kiyoko's Situation

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Hideo, It's Me, Mama

What a Woman Made

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At Yukigaya 1

The Marriage of Yasushi

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At Santa Monica 1

Great Mother (Sachiko)

Woman's House

Acting

2013

KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts–

Directing

1996

Kae, Act Like A Girl as Director

1989

Kiyoko's Situation as Director

1987

Yoji, What's Wrong With You? as Director

1986

The Marriage of Yasushi as Director

Great Mother (Sachiko) as Director

Hideo, It's Me, Mama as Director

1985

Whispering Light as Director

1983

Great Mother (YUMIKO) as Director

1979

Housewives and a Day as Director

1977

Another Day of a Housewife as Director

Women as Director

1975

Something Within Me as Director

At Any Place 2 as Director

At Any Place 1 as Director

1974

At Santa Monica 1 as Director

Baby Variations as Director

At Yukigaya 1 as Director

1973

What a Woman Made as Director

1972

Woman's House as Director

Inner Man as Director

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Make up as Director

At Any Place 4: From the Tango of a Housewife by Yoneyama Mamako as Director