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The CENTURY OF CINEMA: 100 YEARS OF JAPANESE CINEMA
(1996)
List of alternative names
- CENTURY OF JAPANESE CINEMA
- Copyright date
- Not available
- Production start date
- 1994
- Production end date
- Not available
Production countries
- Japan
- Great Britain
- Notes
- Released on video with GILWE-EN YOUNGHWA under the title: The CENTURY OF CINEMA: JAPAN AND KOREA
Library Synopsis
Personal film-essay on Japanese cinema by director Nagisa Oshima, considering the rediscovery of Daisuke Ito's 1927 film "Chuji's Travel Diary" and the effects of a re-examination of Japan's film history on modern Japanese culture. Analyses the drive for greater realism in depictions of family life and society; the appeal of war films and comedies;...
Top five credits
- Director
- OSHIMA, Nagisa
- Production Company
- Oshima Productions
- Production Company
- BFI TV
- Production Company
- Asahi National Broadcasting
- Executive Producer
- MacCABE, Colin