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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.

Directing:
  • Susumu Hani
  • Hiroshi Teshigahara
  • Zenzō Matsuyama
  • Yoshiro Kawazu
  • Kyushiro Kusakabe
  • Sadamu Maruo
  • Kanzaburo Mushanokoji
  • Masahiro Ogi
  • Ryuichiro Sakisaka

Writing:
  • Zenzō Matsuyama
  • Susumu Hani
  • Hiroshi Teshigahara

Stars:
Release Date: 1958-04-24
themoviedb icon 6.2/10
  • Country: JP
  • Language: Français | 日本語 | English
  • Runtime: 24
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