Bad Girls of Japan

(2015)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2015

Runtime: 58 мин

Country: Canada, Japan

Director: Marielle Nitoslawska

Cast: 田中真理, 梶芽衣子, 吉村実子, 小山ルミ, 片瀬那奈, Йоко Оно, Yayoi Kusama, 高梨臨, Laura Miller

Plot

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.