Movies: Taeko Tomiyama

  • 1984
    Bursting Balsam Flower: My Chikuho, My Korea

    Bursting Balsam Flower: My Chikuho, My Korea (1984)

    Bursting Balsam Flower: My Chikuho, My Korea

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    Having spent her childhood in Dalian and Harbin in the former state of Manchukuo, Taeko Tomiyama carried within her the conviction: “As an Asian, as a woman, I will begin from the margins of beauty.” Noriaki Tsuchimoto, on the other hand, directed nu...

    Bursting Balsam Flower: My Chikuho, My Korea
  • 1981
    Free Kwangju, May 1980

    Free Kwangju, May 1980 (1981)

    Free Kwangju, May 1980

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    This short documentary was created by painter Taeko Tomiyama—who consistently resisted various forms of injustice around the world through her art—and film director and producer Katsuhiro Maeda, who was inspired by her. The film centers on the Gwangj...

    Free Kwangju, May 1980