Name: Too Much: The Eternal Breasts (aka Forever a Woman)
Start: 2025-10-07T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast

Too Much: The Eternal Breasts (aka Forever a Woman)

Widely considered Kinuyo Tanaka’s first personal film, The Eternal Breasts (aka Forever a Woman) tells the story of a recent divorcée (Yumeji Tsukioka) who is diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer.
In adapting the real-life story of the poet Fumiko Nakajo, Tanaka and screenwriter Sumie Tanaka (a longtime collaborator of Mikio Naruse’s, though of no familial relation to Kinuyo) investigate issues of mortality, sexuality, and female independence with a frankness and audacity unprecedented in postwar Japanese cinema.
Too Much: Melodrama on film is a UK-wide season, supported by BFI National Lottery funding, celebrating the vivid visual language, heightened dramatics and emotional pathos at the heart of film melodrama.