Filmmaker: Mimae Mikiko

Mikiko Mimae

Gender:

Female

Awards/Recognition:

Winners at a film competition under the category of “depicting Japanese home front” (jūgo no Nihon o egaku).

Films:

Aiba kōshin [A March of a Favourite Horse] (1939)

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Biographical Notes:

One of only a small number of female filmmakers who appeared in the pre-1945 Japanese amateur film magazines.

Bibliographic Resources:

Noriko Morisue, "Filming the Everyday: History, Theory, and Aesthetics of Amateur Cinema in Interwar and Wartime Japan" (Yale University: PhD Dissertation, 2020): 203-4.