Bad Girls of Japan

Documentary · 2015

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. The essays explore deviancy in richly diverse media. Mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls, and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.

Starring

Marielle Nitoslawska, Louise Lush, Mari Tanaka, Meiko Kaji, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Rumi Koyama

Director

Marielle Nitoslawska

Producer

Louise Lush