Tokyo 1958 (1958)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 24M

Director : Susumu Hani, Yoshiro Kawazu, Kyushiro Kusakabe, Sadamu Maruo, Kanzaburo Mushanokoji, Masahiro Ogi, Ryuichiro Sakisaka, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Zenzō Matsuyama
Writer : Susumu Hani, Kyushiro Kusakabe, Sadamu Maruo, Zenzō Matsuyama, Kanzaburo Mushanokoji, Masahiro Ogi, Ryuichiro Sakisaka, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Yoshiro Kawazu

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Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to create a "frantic, non-stop pop newsreel". Mixing cutout animation with color and black & white photography, this snapshot documents Tokyo in 1957-58, when it had eight and ½ million people and was the largest city in the world. Pollution, bridal fashion, rites, rituals, partying-- Nearly every angle of Tokyo life is compacted into a mere 24 minutes.

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