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Film ID | ACE196 |
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Title | Japan Live Performance |
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Date | 1989 |
Director | Philip Day |
Production Company | Koninck Projects |
Synopsis | Contemporary performance art in Japan. |
Minutes | 52 min |
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ACE196.2 (00:28:55 - 00:35:50) Tokyo. 06:30. Early morning scenes, traffic, trains, commuters. A “clockwork orange morris” group “attacks” commuters. Commuter is questioned about the incident but has little to say. A temple. Member of Goro Namerikawa. Noh actor. Members of Yume no Yuminsha. Female lift attendant. Male street performer. Man with globe. Woman with papier mache pumpkin. Roller-skaters jump through hoop. Religious procession. Temple. Actor. Noh. Actress from Saburo Teshigawara. Actor. Motor-cyclists. Cyclists. Street performers – roller-skaters, dancers, etc. Commuter interviewed says the performers only appear on Sundays. Japan’s intelligentsia in restaurant discuss theatre culture. One describes Tokyo as centre of Japanese culture; only in Tokyo can everyone benefit from speedy new communications systems but this makes the society unstable. Street scenes, day and night. Commentary suggests that unchanging tradition underlies this constant change ACE196.3 (00:35:50 - 00:42:23) ACE196.4 (00:42:23 - 00:52:23) ACE196.5 (00:52:23 - 00:53:24) ACE196.6 (00:53:24 - 01:03:37) ACE196.7 (01:03:37 - 01:16:03) ACE196.8 (01:16:03 - 01:21:30) |
Full credits | With thanks to J.A.L., Kawasaki City Museum, Mitsukoshi, Yokohama Harley Davidson Club, SOAS, University of London, The Tokyo International Theatre Festival, Lutz Becker, Christopher Fryman, Mitsuo Fukuda, Koji Hamazaki, Takeshi Kawamura, Osamu Motoyoshi, Hideki Noda, Hiroshi Oda Shoga Ohta, Christopher Petit, Ikuko Saito, Sayako Yamaguchi The Performers Dai San Erotica, Toshima Takigi Noh, Tenkei Geki Jo, Saburo Teshigawara, Suzuki Company of Toga , Goro Namerikawa Arabaki-Dan, Ennosuke Kabuki, Yume no Yuminsha, Banyu Inryoku; Individual performers Hiromi Ogawa and Family, J. A Seazer, Ben Shozu, Tadashi Suzuki; Narrator Vivian Stanshall; Instrumental music written by Alex Balanescu; Musicians Nicole Tibbles, Alex Balanescu, Alan Ball, Moray Welsh; Electronic music written by Roger White; Graphics Steve Masters; Production manager Takashi Asai; Location manager Binbun Furosawa; Tokyo Consultant Tetsuo Kinoshita Lighting Camera Yoshiharu Tezuka; 1st assistant camera Yoshihisa Fujii; 2nd assistant camera Hiroshi Mikuriya; Sound Kazuyoshi Kawashima; Sound mix Nigel Edwards; Online editor Phill Tweedy; Dubbing editor Sean Mankenzie; Film editor JoAnn Kaplan; Programme consultant Christian Flood; Executive producers Keith Griffiths, Rodney Wilson; Producer Shelley Williams; Director Philip Day. With Financial Support from The Japan Foundation, Hoso-Bunka Foundation Inc., The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. Koninck Projects Production for the Arts Council of Great Britain in association with Channel Four Television Ltd. © Arts Council of Great Britain MCMLXXXIX. |
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ACE196.2 (00:28:55 - 00:35:50) ACE196.3 (00:35:50 - 00:42:23) ACE196.4 (00:42:23 - 00:52:23) ACE196.5 (00:52:23 - 00:53:24) ACE196.6 (00:53:24 - 01:03:37) ACE196.7 (01:03:37 - 01:16:03) ACE196.8 (01:16:03 - 01:21:30) |
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