Year: 1977
Runtime: 1hr 49min
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Cast: Shima Iwashita, Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Naraoka, Taiji Tonoyama
Plot/Sypnosis:
The story follows Orin, a blind woman who as a young girl became a goze, or itinerant entertainer; one of the few options available for a blind woman in Japan at the time (one of the others, far less appealing, was a prostitute).
Orin’s life is largely miserable, and the story makes it clear that her misery is a result of traditionalist attitudes, which keep her bound by religion, sexual mores, and a paternal oppressiveness that grants few rights to women.
The film is a potent depiction in which women are fiercely punished for society’s view of them rather than for any crimes they actually committed.
Orin forever remains locked in this paradox, fully believing in her own imagined sins and crimes, never grasping that her society is punishing her merely for the twin “crimes” of being a woman and crippled.
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