Choose a film by a Japanese filmmaker related to the so-called New Wave, and critically assess the film’s depiction of one of the following topics

Choose a film by a Japanese filmmaker related to the so-called New Wave, and critically assess the film’s depiction of one of the following topics: youth, gender, or the notion of ‘modernity’, in relation to the construct of ‘postwar Japan’. The analysis should address stylistic and narrative elements of the film.