#modern girl
Happy International Women’s Day
千年女優 - Millenium Actress (2001)
Japanese anime film by director Satoshi Kon and animated by the Studio Madhouse. It tells the story of a documentary filmmaker investigating the life of an elderly actress in which reality and cinema become blurred. It is based on the life of Setsuko Hara and Hideko Takamine,both stars of the silverscreen of Japanese cinema in the 1930s onwards
Young woman in the 1920s using an electric tool to create those iconic finger waves. Amazing.
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中原淳一 Nakahara Junichi (1913-1988)
Famous illustrator and fashion designer, Nakahara Junichi’s art is credited with being the forerunner to the early manga styles and he is still widely appreciated today.
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入江 たか子 Irie Takako (1911-1995)
Japanese actress that starred in several majorly successful films such as Tokyo March and The Water Magician by Mizoguchi Kenji and also Sanjuro by Kurosawa Akira
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Anime/Mucha-style drawing of a modern girl. Found here (credit to artist not given at source)
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Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (1899 - 1948)
Dancer, or “Curved Line of the Instant” (Dansā, or Setsuna no kyokusen), 1932, ink and color on paper
I just love the movement and detail in this one! ^-^
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Takashima Aiko 高島愛子
An actress, model and moga. Born 1904 and died, in a firebombing raid on Tokyo, in 1945. She played Teruko in one of Mizoguchi Kenji’s silent films of 1925, Out of College 学窓を出でて.
She’s still one of my favourites
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Modern Girls Around The World! Silverscreen sirens from the early days of silent films onwards.These are some of the women who helped popularise the flapper/modern girl image and were icons for young women of the day.
L: Kurishima Sumiko, Japan (1902-1987) R:Sulochana (nee Ruby Myers), India (1907-1983)
L: Lil Dagover, German (1887-1980) R: Greta Garbo, Sweden (1905-1990)
Jessie Matthews, England (1907-1981)
Louise Brooks, USA (1906-1985)
Polaire, France (1874-1939)
Revisiting some of my favourites this week :)
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2005 edition Licca-chan ‘Ginza’ model - a modern day representation of our 1920s Modern Girl
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Asahi Graph アサヒグラフ cover magazine - two girls on a boat in the park - Japan - August 19, 1931
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