My Love Has Been Burning (a.k.a. My Love Aflame) October 7, 2004

October 7 ~ My Love Has Been Burning (a.k.a. My Love Aflame) (Waga Koi wa Moenu) (1949)
83 min., 35mm, B&W
Not one of Mizoguchi's favorite films, this story was inspired by the feminist, Eiko Kageyama. A young woman leaves her home to work on a new constitution with the Liberal Party. Shortly after joining them, she is disillusioned. Japanese with English Subtitles.

(Print provided by the British Film Institute. Permission from Janus/Criterion.)