BAPFF Tribute to Japanese Actresses

Overview

First, actresses Setsuko Hara, Hideko Takamine and Kinuyo Tanaka lit up their nation's cinema screens. Now, they'll do the same at the 2016 Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival. That's right — when BAPFF takes over the city from November 23 to December 4, it'll pay tribute to three of Japanese cinema's brightest talents.

Indeed, with Hara starring in Late Spring and Tokyo Story, Takamine featured in Floating Clouds and When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, and Tanaka known for The Swordsman and Sansho the Bailiff, their resumes could double as highlight reels for their homeland's film industry from the 1930s to the 1970s. Between them, they've worked with everyone from Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse to Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi. There's Japanese movie legends, and then there's this trio of leading ladies.

Expect plenty of their well-known work to feature in the program, which comes just a year after Hara's passing. Expect a showcase of Japan's greatest dramas, too, because that's what Hara, Takamine and Tanaka each starred in.