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A Full Life
(Mitasareta seikatsu)

Screening on Film
Directed by Susumu Hani.
With Ineko Arima, Koshiro Harada, I. George.
Japan, 1962, 16mm, color, 102 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: HFA

Hani's stylish and understated second feature has been frequently compared to Antonioni for its subtle telling of a young woman's growing awareness of her environment, and herself. Dissatisfied with her failing marriage, the woman abruptly joins a political theater trope and is pulled into the feverish activist scene ignited by the massive and unprecedented anti-US Security Pact protests. While Hani's dazzling use of Tokyo locations and documentary style camerawork clearly link A Full Life to his earlier work, Hani’s compelling and feminist fable of political awakening introduced a new sophistication into his cinema.

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