Miwa YOSHIMINE 吉峯美和
This Planet Is Not My Planet
Nippon Docs ¾
Mitsu TANAKA is a pioneer of the Japanese women’s liberation movement. She started her activism in the early 1970s, motivated by the feeling she already had as a child: This world with its rules and power structures is not the world she wants to live in! Her main concern today is to transfer feminism as a comprehensive moral attitude into one’s occupational, family, and everyday life. Miwa YOSHIMINE has accompanied the protagonist of her documentary for several years, creating an in-depth portrayal of the person behind the political struggles: Mitsu TANAKA doesn’t hide her rough edges.
Tue.,
June 09,
2020
—
Sun.,
June 14,
2020
Vimeo on Demand
European premiere
Original with English subtitles
Territories: Germany
Female Futures Social issues Documentary
この星は、私の星じゃない
Kono hoshi wa, watashi no hoshi janai
Japan 2019
90 minutes
Director
Miwa YOSHIMINE
Cinematography
Miwa YOSHIMINE, Yukio MINAMI, Hisayo OGUCHI
Production
Pandora, BEARSVILLE
World sales
Pandora
About Miwa YOSHIMINE
吉峯美和
Miwa YOSHIMINE was born in Tokyo in 1967 and studied French literature at Ochanomizu University. Since 1991, she has worked as an independent director for TV documentaries by the Japanese public broadcaster NHK and by private broadcasters. She focuses primarily on art and women’s issues. Nippon Connection has screened her debut film THIS PLANET IS NOT MY PLANET (2019 / NC ‘20), for which she received the 26th Women Culture Award.