On the Feminist Narrative Strategy of Shunji Iwai's Film from a Perspective of Women's Dressing

The famous new director Shunji Iwai has made perfect description of feminism in Japan and Eastern Asia in the films A Love Letter, April Story, Swallowtail Butterfly, and All abut Lili Chou. Dressing is one of his successful narrative strategies. Of cause, this is because the dress has special significance for women. However, the director deliberately has fused his understanding of feminism into the dressing. Consequently, the space in which the tension between females and their dresses is active has become the most bright and imaginative place of the feminist narration in his films. Without exaggeration, it is on the dress in the films that the paths to the depth of the feminist world narrated in the Shunji Iwai's films are perfectly marked by the director.