Literary Labor: Radclyffe Hall’s Reproductive Futures

Hannah Roche

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Nishi’s young daughter has died, and his wife, Miyuki , is terminally ill with leukemia.

Takeshi Kitano (Nishi), Kayoko Kishimoto (Miyuki), Ren Osugi (Horibe) Narrative Summary Hana-bi.1997.720p.BluRay.AVC-mfcorrea

The following report summarizes the key elements of the 1997 Japanese film (also known as Fireworks ), written, directed, and edited by Takeshi Kitano , who also stars in the leading role. Film Overview Release Date: September 3, 1997 (Venice Film Festival) Genre: Crime Drama Director/Writer/Editor: Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi) Composer: Joe Hisaishi Nishi’s young daughter has died, and his wife,

To pay for his wife's medical care and settle debts with yakuza loan sharks, Nishi robs a bank disguised as a policeman. Nishi’s young daughter has died

About the Author(s)

Hannah Roche

Hannah Roche is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of York. She is the author of The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance (Columbia University Press, 2019) and co-editor of the first Oxford World’s Classics edition of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (2024).