Mako Idemitsu

Director · born 1 January 1940 · Tōkyō, Japan

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.

Where to start: The Past Ahead (2000).

As director 45

The Past Ahead

2000

The Past Ahead

2000

As director 45

The Past Ahead

Kae, Act Like A Girl

Kiyoko's Situation

Yoji, What's Wrong With You?

Great Mother (Sachiko)

Hideo, It's Me, Mama

The Marriage of Yasushi

Whispering Light

Play and Capriciousness

Great Mother (YUMIKO)

Great Mother (Harumi)

Shadow Part 2

Animus Part 1

Animus Part 2

Toryanse

Emotional Volatility About My Father

Shadow Part 1

My America, Your America

Housewives and a Day

At Yukigaya 4

Make Up

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

At Any Place 5

At Karuizawa 1

Another Day of a Housewife

Women

At Any Place 3

At Yukigaya 3

At Any Place 2

Something Within Me

At Any Place 1

At Santa Monica 3

At New Mexico 1

At Yukigaya 1

Baby Variations

At Santa Monica 2

At Yukigaya 2

Sam Are You Listening?

What a Woman Made

At Santa Monica 1

Next

Woman's House

Inner Man

Hi! Eckard

You Can't Get What You Want