Yokohama Mari’s video review

The background of the era and the people in the film - Mary was a prostitute in the Showa era. To the current Japanese, she represents "history". After the Showa era, it was the postwar period and the defeat of the occupying forces. period of Japan.

What does this film want to express? ——Rather than saying that this is a documentary that reflects and condenses a certain period of Mary's life, it is better to say that this film records the lives of a group of interviewees who appear in the film and introduce Mary's life. These interviewees include Mr. Motojiro, geishas, ??actresses, famous Japanese SM novelists, film directors, novelists, shamisen players and singers who are inheritors of Japanese traditional art, etc. In post-defeated Japan, life is condensed.

Mary is WHO? ——A photographer who followed Mary said: Mary is a big tree. Wherever she goes, it becomes the starting point. Mary is the city coordinate of Yokohama. Mary’s disappearance seems to represent the disappearance of Yokohama’s past history. It seems that the director is describing the life of a prostitute. Japanese newspapers even used the term "83-year-old prostitute" to describe Mary. However, this film does not have any sexy plot, only people's tenacious struggle to survive and survive after the war. Mary in Yokohama is not a person, but represents a group of people who struggled for survival and survival after the war. After the war, the term "gypsy girl" appeared in Japan, which is "panpan" in Japanese. The so-called gypsy girl is a woman who sells her sex to foreigners. A female writer in the film said: This is a woman who sold her sex for the occupying forces to make a living after the war, in post-defeated Japan.

The director’s opinion - as the subject of a documentary, he has no right to conceal the real Mary. After understanding this, he no longer has to worry about whether the real Mary appears in the entire work, and it becomes easier to shoot. It goes without saying that this may be the charm of documentaries, recording the truth.