Masculinity and femininity in Bean Cake

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Social exchanges in Japan tend to be formal and follow prescribed rituals. In Bean Cake, gender representation reflects the rigid order of the Japanese society of 1933. But, as a story of pure love, aesthetically influenced by the cinema of Ozu, the film shows the feminine bedrock of that society.</jats:p>