School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village (movie)

School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village (movie)

村の婦人学級
  • Production country: Japan
  • Producer: Sumiko Haneda
  • Production companies: Iwanami Productions
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release date: 1/1/1957
  • Run time: 25 min.

Movie description

Haneda’s debut as full director, made after four years spent as an assistant, is set in a farming village in Shiga Prefecture (east of Kyoto). The film depicts the traditional architecture, lifestyles and customs of the village, its agricultural and domestic labour, but its central focus, as with many of Iwanami’s early films, is on education.