Movielogr

movie poster

View on: IMDb | TMDb

Tokyo 1958 (1958)

Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, Zenzô Matsuyama, Susumu Hani, Yoshiro Kawazu, Kyushiro Kusakabe, Sadamu Maruo, Kanzaburo Mushanokoji, Masahiro Ogi, Ryuichiro Sakisaka

Overview

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.

Length 24 minutes

Actors

Donald Richie