
Directing · Born Jan 1, 1940 · Tōkyō, Japan
Experimental video artist Mako Idemitsu creates domestic narratives, that examine female identity within the context of the contemporary Japanese family. Echoing and subverting the popular melodramas of Japanese television, she applies a women's liberationist critique to her fictions of the psychological "family romance." Dramatising the strict gender roles that shape mother-child and husband-wife relationships, she explores the role of women in a patriarchal, mediated culture.

Kae, Act Like A Girl
1996

Kiyoko's Situation
1989

Yoji, What's Wrong With You?
1987

Great Mother (Sachiko)
1986

Hideo, It's Me, Mama
1986

The Marriage of Yasushi
1986

Whispering Light
1985

Play and Capriciousness
1984

Great Mother (YUMIKO)
1983

Shadow Part 2
1982

Animus Part 1
1982

Animus Part 2
1982

Toryanse
1982

Emotional Volatility About My Father
1981

Shadow Part 1
1980

My America, Your America
1980

Housewives and a Day
1979

At Yukigaya 4
1979

At Any Place 4: From the Tango of a Housewife by Yoneyama Mamako
1978

Make Up
1978

At Any Place 5
1978

At Karuizawa 1
1978

Another Day of a Housewife
1977

At Any Place 3
1977

At Yukigaya 3
1977

At Any Place 2
1975

Something Within Me
1975

At Any Place 1
1975

At Santa Monica 3
1975

At New Mexico 1
1975

At Yukigaya 1
1974

Baby Variations
1974

At Santa Monica 2
1974

At Yukigaya 2
1974

Sam Are You Listening?
1974

At Santa Monica 1
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Next
1973

Woman's House
1972

Inner Man
1972