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SURPRISE! We’ve got one more Kinuyo Tanaka movie in the tank, because Cody and Jason weren’t able to get 80s Action Extravaganza tickets this year. With Cody out anyway, we’re covering DRAGNET GIRL, our first silent film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It has a very, VERY different energy from his better-known works with color and sound (for better and worse).

A gangster and his moll enter a sort of love triangle when a scrappy ruffian wants to join the gang — only for the young upstart’s sister to catch the gangster’s eye. What follows on Trylove is a discussion of queer subtext (on which we’re not experts), prewar Japanese social constructs of masculinity (on which we’re not experts), and how cool this movie could be if it was like 35 minutes shorter (we’re kind of experts on that one tbh).

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References:

• “Movie of the Week: Dragnet Girl’” by Richard Brody for The New Yorker (April 15, 2015)
• Trylove Episode 190: FOREVER A WOMAN (1955) (aka THE ETERNAL BREASTS)
• Trylove Episode 192: LOVE LETTER (1953)
• Trylove Episode 193: GIRLS OF THE NIGHT (1961)
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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music from the DRAGNET GIRL soundtrack we heard when watching it at home, but I legitimately cannot find out who composed or performed that version.