Post-war Housewives and the Tsuma-mono
Post-war Housewives and the Tsuma-mono
The historical development of the post-war housewife role is described, contextualizing the following analysis of Ozu Yasujirō’s tsuma-mono film A Hen in the Wind (Kaze no naka no mendori, 1948). The chapter presents a chronological account of the development of the housewife trope on-screen from the early postwar period into the 1960s. Hybrid characters composed of stereotypical ‘mother’ and ‘wife’ characteristics, which began to appear from the early 1960s, are analyzed in the last section of the chapter. Case studies include Repast (Meshi, Naruse Mikio, 1951), The Happiness of Us Alone (na mo naku mazushiku utsukushiku, Matsuyama Zenzo, 1961), and Mother (Haha, Shindō Kaneto, 1963).
Keywords: Wife, tsuma, Ozu Yasujiro, Tanaka Kinuyo, Americanization
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