Author Mel Aguilar

Mel Aguilar

Mel Aguilar is a Master of Arts in Media Studies (Film) candidate of the University of the Philippines Film Institute. She is currently a lecturer in the Multimedia Arts and Mass Communication department of Lyceum of the Philippines University. Her short films brought her national and international accolades at seventeen.

When A Woman Ascends the Stairs: Naruse’s Representation of Women in Post-War Japan

June 2015

Cinémathèque Annotations on Film

The international acclaim Mikio Naruse’s films received after the director’s death are an unique phenomenon in film history. Following the cinematic tradition of gendai geki (modern drama) with semblance...