Mako Idemitsu
Directing
Biography
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.
As actor 1
On the crew 45
Inner Man
1972
Hideo, It's Me, Mama
1986
Yoji, What's Wrong With You?
1987
Next
1973
Baby Variations
1974
Hi! Eckard
1970
Make Up
1978
At Any Place 4: From the Tango of a Housewife by Yoneyama Mamako
1978
Women
1977
At Santa Monica 1
1973
The Marriage of Yasushi
1986
What a Woman Made
1973
At Yukigaya 3
1977
Kae, Act Like A Girl
1996
Play and Capriciousness
1984
Great Mother (Harumi)
1983
Kiyoko's Situation
1989
Great Mother (Sachiko)
1986
Something Within Me
1975
Emotional Volatility About My Father
1981
Another Day of a Housewife
1977
Whispering Light
1985
Woman's House
1972
Animus Part 1
1982
Shadow Part 1
1980
Toryanse
1982
The Past Ahead
2000
At Any Place 1
1975
My America, Your America
1980
At Yukigaya 2
1974
Great Mother (YUMIKO)
1983
At Yukigaya 1
1974
At Santa Monica 3
1975
Housewives and a Day
1979
At Santa Monica 2
1974
At Any Place 3
1977
You Can't Get What You Want
1970
Animus Part 2
1982
Sam Are You Listening?
1974
At Any Place 2
1975
Shadow Part 2
1982
At Yukigaya 4
1979
At New Mexico 1
1975
At Any Place 5
1978
At Karuizawa 1
1978