of girls

Filmed in Tokyo and Yokohama, of girls brings a variety of contemporary voices in resonance with two distinct female voices from Japan’s literary and political past. Both popular authors of their time – the period from the late 1920s on – Fumiko Hayashi and Yuriko Miyamoto both died young, in 1951. They each had a strong feminist and class consciousness as well as an impressive literary voice, but came from very different backgrounds and expressed their ideals through different paths. The power and contradictions in both these women’s worlds reverberate in dialogues and images of an intergenerational cast moving through the various spaces of knowledge, memory, and culture, and reflect today’s struggles around gender, politics, and love.