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Rising Japanese Star Toko Miura, Producer Ayumi Sano on Women’s Rights, Ahead of Mipcom Premiere ‘Elpis’

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Liza Foreman CANNES – Three film women of Japan hit the Croisette on Tuesday for Mipcom’s Asian World Premiere screening of Kansai TV’s groundbreaking female TV reporter series “Elpis,” set in Japan’s male-centric TV universe.

In the plot, a female journalist has been demoted, following a scandal, to “Friday Bonbon,” a show far less serious than the newscast that she was involved in before.

She soon gets her mojo back, however, investigating a complicated murder case with the help of some friends in high places. It’s not necessarily easier being a female producer than a reporter in Japan, said Sano.

The industry is “10 years behind” in terms of women breaking through in film. So getting the show made represented an extraordinary effort on the part of Sano whose previous credits include “My Dear Exes” and “Quartet.”  Not to mention the added complication of the pandemic.

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