Hono to onna

Ibuki Shingo and his wife Tatsuko have a 17-month old son named Takashi, and the family appears to be happy at first glance. However, Takashi was artificially conceived, and this makes the couple’s relationship more delicate. It is further complicated when Shingo starts forming a friendship with Sakaguchi, the sperm donor, as well as by the jealousy of the latter’s wife. This sets a complicated dynamic in motion, by the end of which Tatsuko has come to the conclusion that Takashi is neither Shingo’s nor Sakaguchi’s child, but hers and hers alone.
Starting with A STORY WRITTEN WITH WATER, a common theme of Yoshida’s early independent films is the topic of filiation and the portrayal of female characters caught between the contradictions of maternity and sexual fulfillment and faced with the indifference, impotence or sterility of their male partners. Yoshida: “The film is like a science fiction movie based on the motif of artificial insemination. By perceiving a human being not as an entity but as a relational concept, sexuality, which is most fundamental to humans, is suddenly forfeited and floating. The question of whether something could be found to overcome the stagnation of everyday life was the starting point of this work.” (Roland Domenig)

All retrospective films that will be shown at the Filmmuseum after the Viennale - from 2.11. - can of course also be reserved as usual at filmmuseum.at or by calling 01/533 70 54 and purchased at the box office of the Austrian Film Museum. The prices of the Austrian Film Museum apply.

Yoshida Kijū: GOOD-FOR-NOTHING (1960), BLOOD IS DRY A.K.A BLOODY THIRST (1960), BITTER END OF A SWEET NIGHT (1961), AKITSU SPRING (1962), 18 WHO CAUSE A STORM A.K.A. 18 ROUGHS (1963), A STORY WRITTEN WITH WATER (1965), WOMAN OF THE LAKE (1966), IMPASSE (1967), THE AFFAIR (1967), AFFAIR IN THE SNOW (1968), FAREWELL TO THE SUMMER LIGHT (1968), EROS + MASSACRE (1969), HEROIC PURGATORY (1970), COUP D’ETAT (1973), A PROMISE (1986), WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1988), WOMEN IN THE MIRROR (2002), BEM-VINDO A SÃO PAULO (2004, Episode)