Films this year:
25. Kaoru Ikeya, The Daughter from Yan'an (2002)
Just back from Dalian, China. On the previous day of my departure from Tokyo I watched on DVD this extraordinary documentary. A daughter born of a premarital relationship between two teenage city students "released below" to the rural area because of the cultural revolution... a life inutil from the beginning, unlooked after, unwanted. And behind all this is the shadow of Mao and his over-passionate entourages.
The director Ikeya is of the same age as me. Chapeau, maître. This is a great film.
