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  • Director

    Sode Yukiko

  • Starring

    Kadowaki Mugi, MizuharaI Kiko, Kora Kengo

  • Run Time

    124 mins

  • Release Year

    2021

  • Country of Origin

    Japan

  • Certificate

    12A

  • Language

    Japanese

  • Subtitles

    Yes

  • Format

    Digital

Aristocrats

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Hanako (Kadowaki Mugi) and Miki (MizuharaI Kiko) come from different walks of life. While Hanako has enjoyed a privileged upbringing and a luxurious lifestyle, filled with social functions among Tokyo’s wealthy elite, Miki has had to blaze her own path, coming to the capital from a small town and building a career in event planning. Yet neither woman can be said to be completely free from troubles; Hanako’s familial pressures to marry and follow standards of behaviour are equalled by Miki’s financial problems which force her to drop out of a prestigious university. When their paths are set on a collision course over the affections of aristocratic lawyer Koichiro (Kora Kengo), both realise that there may be another path available to them.

Sode Yukiko (Good Stripes) directs this elegantly distilled adaptation of Yamauchi Mariko’s novel, deconstructing modern Japanese understandings of gender, class, and the idea that “the grass is always greener on the other side”.

This screening includes a pre-recorded introduction from director Sode Yukiko.

READ: Aristocrats Programme Notes



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