Eclipse Series 48: KINUYO TANAKA DIRECTS: Forever a Woman (1955)
TANAKA, Kinuyo (Japan)
Forever a Woman [1955]
Eclipse Series 48
Blu-ray
Eclipse Series 48
Blu-ray
Generally regarded as Kinuyo Tanaka’s masterpiece, as well as her first personal film, Forever a Woman tells the story of a recent divorcée (Yumeji Tsukioka) who is diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer. In adapting the real-life story of poet Fumiko Nakajo, Tanaka and screenwriter Sumie Tanaka (a longtime collaborator of Mikio Naruse’s, though of no familial relation to Kinuyo) investigate issues of mortality, sexuality, and female independence with a frankness and audacity unprecedented in postwar Japanese cinema.
110 minutes
Black & White
Black & White
Monaural
in Japanese
1:37:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2026
Directors/Writer
Kinuyo Tanaka was 46 when she directed Forever a Woman.
Screenplay by Sumie Tanaka.
Other Tanaka films in the Collection:
The Film
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