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Ep. 4: Sisters of the Gion
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On this weeks episode, Aruba and Chris venture into the sleazy Gion district to talk Kenji Mizoguchi's early masterpiece and seminal contribution to the industry, Sisters of the Gion (1936). We get into Mizoguchi as one of the "Masters of Japanese Cinema," the progressive politics on display at the time, the prevalent "woman question" of the Japanese film, and the eternal feminine struggle of tradition vs. desire.
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