An Encounter: Women Film Directors From Asia, Ratna Asmara and Kinuyo Tanaka
Ratna Asmara and Kinuyo Tanaka, women directors from Asia, offer a unique perspective in their films. They both started their film careers in the 1930s and debuted as film directors in the early 1950s. Ratna Asmara’s debut film, Sedap Malam (1951), tells the story of a jugun ianfu (comfort women) survivor after the Revolutionary War …
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