#eternal breasts

[loneberry]

Forever a Woman (1955) ‘乳房よ永遠なれ’ Directed by Kinuyo Tanaka, the second woman director in Japan.

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a film about poetry, illness, unrequited love, freedom, death, desire, embodiment. cried my eyes out. it captures, with aching precision, the desire for succor in the face of one's mortality. when Fumiko reaches her hands around the back of Ōtsuki's neck, something inside me broke. if only a touch could ward off death. it's strange how desire can make us alive to ourselves for the first time yet somehow can't keep our bodies alive. I love the recurring motifs in the film--the lake, the corridor of misery, the bathtub, the music box. pure visual poetry.

#forever a woman #kinuyo tanaka #eternal breasts #poetry #illness #cancer #乳房よ永遠なれ #film #cinema #Japanese cinema #literature

[emmaandherartblog]

Forever a Woman (1955) dir. Kinuyo Tanaka

#art #artwork #portrait #emmaart #drawing #colors #traditional art #colorful #painting #colours #gouache #forever a woman #eternal breasts #kinuyo tanaka

[miguelmarias]

Chibusa yo eien mare (Tanaka Kinuyō, 1955)

Tanaka Kinuyō (1910-1977) fue una famosa actriz, favorita de Mizoguchi y muy presente en las filmografías de Ozu y Naruse… y de casi todos los cineastas japoneses que hicieron cine entre 1924 y 1976, pues intervino en 214 películas. Es mucho menos sabido que entre 1953 y 1962 dirigió seis películas. De ellas logré ver ya cinco hacia 1990, y cuatro se cuentan desde entonces entre las que más me emocionan y admiran de cuantas he visto. Quizá la mejor sea Chibusa yo eien mare (1955), que al parecer significa "Pechos eternos"; es para mí la máxima obra cinematográfica dirigida por una mujer, y ninguna hecha por un hombre me parece superior. Pero podría decir lo mismo de las dos primeras que realizó, Koibumi (1953) y Tsuki wa noborinu (1954/5), que algunos días se alternan en pasar a ser mi preferida... y casi de las tres últimas. Es decir, una carrera de directora breve, pero extraordinaria y además variada.

De las múltiples historias que, como quien no quiere la cosa, cuenta Tanaka en esta su tercera película, me impresiona de modo especial una muy marginal. La protagonista, Fumiko, una mujer en trance de separarse de su marido, y poeta, visita - con su niña Aiko - a su amiga Kinuko, casada con el poeta Hori, que está enfermo. Kinuko tiene que salir, Fumiko mira un álbum de fotos (en el que aparecen los tres, más jóvenes, antes de la guerra); Aiko se queda dormida, y de pronto se pone a diluviar. Hori las acompaña hasta la parada del autobús, cubriendo a Fumiko (que lleva a Aiko cargada a la espalda) con un paraguas. Por el camino, Fumiko le dice a quien comprendemos quería que no volverá a visitarle. Un lento travelling les sigue, mientras ella le confiesa que sólo acude a las tertulias poéticas para verle.

Se paran junto a una valla, ante la parada del autobús, y la cámara sigue adelante un poco. Ella, en plano un poco más cercano, le desea felicidad con Kumiko; él advierte que se acerca el autobús. Hori la ayuda a subir y queda solo bajo la lluvia en la carretera, cubierto por el paraguas. (En la escena siguiente sabremos que Hori ha muerto).

Todo muy tranquilo, muy triste.

Actualización de 2020 de un e-mail a Álvaro Arroba de 2006 sobre “escena favorita” para la revista Letras de Cine

#miguel marías #chibusa yo eien mare #eternal breasts #tanaka kinuyo #kinuyo tanaka #1955 #cine japonés #letras de cine

[shihlun]

Kinuyo Tanaka

- Forever a Woman aka The Eternal Breasts

1955

#kinuyo tanaka #田中絹代 #forever a woman #the eternal breasts #乳房よ永遠なれ #japanese film #1955

[wetgeliscasualinterval]

The Eternal Breasts (1955) dir. Kinuyo Tanaka

#the eternal breasts #kinuyo tanaka #film #cinema #movie #movie stills #film frames #cinematography

[dykefaggotry]

considering entering my sobriety era for no reason other than that I can't drink for a while bc of surgery and the thought of ever drinking alcohol again is so unappealing for some reason

#maybe the alcoholism gene was stored in the breasts. #but seriously I'm just like.... might actually attempt that #the issue is I'm a social drinker but usually when I go out I'm doing other stuff anyway like drag shows or pool etc #so being eternal dd for that and making sure my boyfriend doesn't die doesnt sound awful #but I hit that 24hr hangover right before surgery and you know what I think that was it for me lmao

[ireallydolikeyou2]

The days in which men wanted/ preferred that women be built like airpods, have haunted me Ever since...

#eternally grateful for having been built quite the Opposite (naturally) #(noah fence(All women are Queensss)) #((but know Some who get Super defensive the moment I point out not minding that I don't have Incredibly large breasts..)) #like sorryy 2 disappoint in coming to terms w/ Loving myself ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ #((would Much prefer the back-end Anyy day (Anywayss) but that's just Me )))

[480pfootage]

it does piss me off a little when people draw marika really petite and feminine when she and radagon have the same model... she's hot either way but she's hotter with the muscles you know...

#breasts out.. hammering that thang away............ #p.screaming #elden ring #marika the eternal

[nefarious-616-necromancer]

#amanda #beautiful girl #beautiful face #beautiful woman #beautiful soul #beautiful human #beautiful breasts #really doe #steppin' #eternally lost souls #so much pain #years of that rough life #help her see the light #passionate anger #passion #shouldn't have happened #should be together #life sucks #judgement #time goes by #crazy #bpd #aspd #life is hell and everybody leaves

[aeide-thea]

was reading a new yorker article about a 'pandemic-era rise in early puberty' that firefox suggested and like. interesting article but i got a little distractingly clotheslined by two things in it, one to do with historical medical ethics and another that was like

When they first broached the topic of early puberty, [the girl] was excited. “Yes! Now I can get a bra!” she exclaimed. Puberty in a younger girl could be a simpler rite of passage, at times even a thrilling one, [her more hesitant mother] said, “if there wasn’t society out there to worry about.”

like. intellectually i guess i'm aware that some people are excited about puberty and find it gender-affirming but. wow can i not relate. literally everything about the physical changes it inflicted on me was like. unwanted stuff i hated and feared and put off engaging with until peers started giving me flack about it.

#not to be like 'evidence of transness!!' at every turn but it's just so startling to me to realize how much puberty trauma i buried #like i didn't particularly remember this stuff or think of it as any way unusual #and then in recent years it's been like 'some people are actually *excited* by the prospect of puberty?? sounds fake but okay' #and like. attempting to bind like alanna and hide my hair in a hat and have a boy name #like. the extent to which obvious Gender Stuff just got filed under—i don't even know what. maybe didn't get filed at all #—it's just. absolutely wild to me. the ways our experiences get distorted and erased by normative narratives #(anyway this is not to say that male puberty would have been better. All Options Bad Really: eternally the name of my gender game…) #(also like. fundamentally the girl role kept my tenderness allowable and safe but at the cost of crushing any capacity for self-assertion) #(i think the boy role would have done the opposite maybe—although i'm not sure anyone could've been a boy in my family) #(like my parents both in different ways needed daughters to affirm their own genders and relationships to power) #anyway #idea of breasts as looked-forward-to just SO deeply wild and alienating to me‚ lol #past selves #feelingsblogging #embodiment (is violence)