Bad Girls of Japan (2015)

0.0/10 58 min Documentary

Overview

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. The essays explore deviancy in richly diverse media. Mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls, and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.

Cast

Mari Tanaka

Meiko Kaji

Jitsuko Yoshimura

Rumi Koyama

Nana Katase

Yoko Ono

Yayoi Kusama

Rin Takanashi

Laura Miller

Anthropologist

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