A Cheerful Girl (1957) (4K Restoration)

Original Title: 青空娘

Alternative Title: Aozora Musume, The Blue Sky Maiden

Director: Yasuzo Masumura

Runtime: 89 mins

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese with English subtitles

Rating: TBA

4K RESTORATION

SINGAPORE PREMIERE

Synopsis

Marking Yasuzo Masumura’s first collaboration with actress Ayako Wakao, A Cheerful Girl began a longstanding partnership that would span twenty films. Yuko (Wakao), a freshly graduated high school student, leaves her small village for Tokyo after discovering that she was born from her father’s affair. Moving into her estranged father’s dysfunctional household, she finds herself caught between the family’s tensions and resentments while adjusting to life in a rapidly westernising post-war Japan.

Led by Wakao’s spirited performance, A Cheerful Girl observes the changing social and familial structures of post-war Japan.

This screening is part of the programme Twin Tales: Kon Ichikawa and Yasuzo Masumura. For more screenings, please click here .

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