Being Two Isn't Easy

{{short description|1962 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Being Two Isn't Easy

| image = Being Two Isn't Easy.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Kon Ichikawa

| producer = Hidemasa Nagata

| writer = Michio Matsuda (novel)
Natto Wada (writer)

| starring = Eiji Funakoshi
Fujiko Yamamoto

| music = Yasushi Akutagawa

| cinematography = Setsuo Kobayashi

| editing = Yonesaburō Tsukiji

| distributor = Daiei Film

| released = {{film date|df=yes|1962|11|18}}{{cite web | language=ja | url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1962/cl003670.htm | title=私は二歳 | publisher=jmdb.ne.jp | access-date=14 July 2020}}

| runtime = 88 minutes

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

| budget =

}}

{{nihongo|Being Two Isn't Easy|私は二歳|Watashi wa nisai|lit. I am two}} is a 1962 color Japanese comedy film directed by Kon Ichikawa.{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%A7%81%E3%81%AF%E4%BA%8C%E6%AD%B3-748438|title=私は二歳|publisher=kotobank|accessdate=27 December 2020}} It was Japan's submission to the 35th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.{{cite web|url=http://www.eiren.org/academy/data.html|title=List of Japanese films nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|language=ja|publisher=Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan|access-date=2008-06-22| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080622025242/http://www.eiren.org/academy/data.html| archive-date= 22 June 2008 | url-status= live}}Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Style

Ichikawa utilized the screen personas of popular stars Fujiko Yamamoto (glamorous, restrained) and Eiji Funakoshi (hapless, self-conscious) to make the child's independence and frequent endangerment believable.{{cite book|last=Russell|first=Catherine|title=Cinematheque Ontario: Kon Ichikawa|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=2001|isbn=0968296939|pages=257–259}} The director contrasts Chiyo's well-coiffed, reactive approach to motherhood by shooting Misako Watanabe as her sister-in-law in a sensuous, intimate manner as she bathes her own newborn.

Cast

See also

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