The Insect Woman

Shohei Imamura (director, screenwriter)
Keiji Hasebe (screenwriter)
Emiko Aizawa, Setsuko Amamiya, Tomio Aoki, Aomoko Aoyagi (starring)

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text in Japanese.

A metaphor for the Twentieth Century Japanese experience, particularly through World War II, told through the perspective of a woman named Tome, born into a lower class family. She finds herself in a cycle of self-defeat, repeating the same mistakes that have always plagued her.

Yellow titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 156 leaves, with last page of text numbered 29. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine.

Criterion Collection 473. Eureka 22.


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