Women role

 The women's role in this movie is quite big, we see how Yasuko is almost like being sold to other families, they get certificates to prove she is worthy and no one tries to think that maybe she shouldn't get married. It is also arranged and her uncle and his friends it seems are making the decisions for her. Though she seems she wants to get married in many ways it seems like there is no choice it looks as if her life is not compleate without a husbund. In one scene the uncle and aunt talk about how they cant see her mother in heaven without her being married. Life without a husbund=bad with a husbund=happy (the way it should be). When even looking at setting the time in the living room it also shows how he calls her name and she does it. We can see that in that time Japan was a mans world. There is also a character who remarries or has a boyfriend after her child and it seems she is a bad character. Her daughter is also looked as a bad girl because she doesn't want a man instead wants to work and enjoy her life. I think at this time because Japan wasn't modernized the old way of thinking about women as care givers and people who work in the house is shown. Another scene is when her aunt apologizes to her sister in law who has passed on by that time but because of her sickness she is delusional and says I am sorry for not being able to have a child. 

By: Keiji