Many Japanese folks at the moment are nostalgic for the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s, when the financial system was booming and the tradition had an thrilling vitality and creativity. Assume Pac-Man, Walkman and the “Sasori” motion collection starring Meiko Kaji as a fierce-eyed feminine prisoner out for vengeance in opposition to an evil patriarchy.
However as Taichi Kimura exhibits so rousingly and entertainingly in “Fujiko,” his dramedy a couple of striving single mother, the period was hardly a straightforward one for ladies.
Although the ladies’s liberation motion was then on the rise — the scrappy title protagonist (Yuki Katayama) even takes half in a raucous all-woman demonstration — male chauvinists considered a stubbornly unbiased girl like Fujiko with alarm and disdain.
