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The psychosexual drama Yoji, What’s Wrong With You? examines the identity of women as mothers in Japanese culture, through an Oedipal narrative of a skewed “family romance.” When Yoji announces to his mother that he wants her to meet a new girlfriend, the mother’s jealousy destroys the relationship. Idemitsu’s signature device of using a television monitor within the domestic space works as a powerful metaphor for the ubiquity of the mother in Yoji’s psychological life. Idemitsu’s melodramas always articulate a double-edged irony: With no identity outside of her maternal role, Yoji’s mother fastens onto her son, ultimately destroying him. Yoji himself is seen as emotionally stunted, unable to leave his mother or experience love for any other woman

Yoji, What's Wrong With You (1987) Mako Idemitsu.mp4

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https://nitro.download/view/70248262F92A73D/Yoji,_What’s_Wrong_With_You_(1987)_Mako_Idemitsu.mp4

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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HIDEO, It’s Me, Mama is a psychological melodrama that introduces narrative and structural devices that are integral to Idemitsu’s work. Exploring the flawed universe of the contemporary Japanese family, she focuses on a woman’s identity as mother through mother-child and husband-wife relationships. Hideo, a young man living away from his parents, is kept under constant surveillance by his doting mother via an omnipresent television monitor. In a cogent metaphor for familial relations in the media-saturated culture of contemporary Japan, Mama can only communicate with her beloved, absent son through the video screen. Idemitsu’s poignant irony is embodied in the scene in which Mama, blind to her husband’s needs, caresses Hideo’s video image. (Electronic Arts Intermix)

More info:
Idemitsu-san’s website explaining why she made the short: https://makoidemitsu.com/work/hideo-its-me-mama/?lang=en

Hideo, It's Me, Mama (1983) Mako Idemitsu.mp4

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https://nitro.download/view/0D0A7427D9B5B84/Hideo,_It’s_Me,_Mama_(1983)_Mako_Idemitsu.mp4

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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This film shows the images of a dancing woman who is wearing Kimono overlapping another image which a naked man is dancing. This is one of the original psychological concepts of C.G. Jung. For women, Animus is an image of a man by projection of her mental energy.

Inner Man (1972) Mako Idemitsu.mp4

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https://nitro.download/view/59AAAF9FA57DD6A/Inner_Man_(1972)_Mako_Idemitsu.mp4

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The film shows vivid close-ups of a liver with the background music of “My Baby” by Janice Joplin.

Baby Variations (1974) Mako Idemitsu.mp4

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https://nitro.download/view/99539C100445707/Baby_Variations_(1974)_Mako_Idemitsu.mp4

Language(s):None
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Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

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letterboxd:
A woman’s image as a mind-scape, after she had plastic surgery.

And a few links about the filmmaker:
https://southsideprojections.org/2022/mako-idemitsu-the-qa/
https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/mako-idemitsu/

At Santa Monica 1 (1974) Mako Idemitsu.mp4

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https://nitro.download/view/099902468C1D5C8/At_Santa_Monica_1_(1974)_Mako_Idemitsu.mp4

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