Flowers

The film looks at the lives of six women across three generations. The account runs from the nineteen thirties to the present. In the first generation is Rin, who has doubts about her arranged marriage. Then come her three daughters. One is making her way in a working world full of men, another loses her husband in a road accident. In the third generation are the granddaughters, and the story ties itself to the present. The work gives each period an image language of its own: black and white for the thirties, colour after that. So the difference between generations stands in the picture as well. Yu Aoi, Yuko Takeuchi and Rena Tanaka appear in Norihiro Koizumi’s Japanese film of 2010, a hundred and nine minutes long.