Tazuko Mineno Jun 2026

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Mineno directed only two more films: Shinobi yoru Chūshingura (1939) and Geisha no tsuma (1940). Then, war consumed Japan. The militarist government clamped down on cinema; female directors were deemed “unsuitable for national morale.” After 1940, the film reels of The Garden of First Love were lost—probably melted down for war materials or destroyed in the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo. tazuko mineno