A Woman’s Uphill Battle
Kōzaburō Yoshimura: Tides of Emotion
December 5 - 11, 2025
Yoshimura teamed up with the great Mariko Okada for this delicate parable on the effects of modernity, centered on a woman who inherits a traditional sweets shop in Kyoto.
Kōzaburō Yoshimura teamed up with the great Mariko Okada for this delicate parable on the effects of modernity, lensed in color by Yoshio Miyajima, Masaki Kobayashi’s famed cinematographer. Okada stars as a woman who inherits a traditional sweets shop in Kyoto; through her, we encounter a variety of women trying to get by in the old capital as the winds of change blow ever more forcefully. A Woman’s Uphill Battle is one of Yoshimura’s boldest experiments with color, marked by an at-times jarring palette that evokes the shock of the new and the slow disintegration of the old. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
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