Film · 1958

Tokyo 1958

Name: Tokyo 1958
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1958-04-24
Rating: 6.2

24 min · Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Documentary

6.216
ratings

A collaborative, newsreel-style portrait of Tokyo in 1957–58, blending photography, animation, and historical imagery to capture the city’s labor, rituals, and nightlife at the moment it became the world’s largest metropolis.

Cast

Donald Richie

Crew

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

Producer

Kyushiro Kusakabe, Kanzaburo Mushanokoji, Sadamu Maruo, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Zenzō Matsuyama, Ryuichiro Sakisaka, Masahiro Ogi, Susumu Hani

Writer

Susumu Hani, Ryuichiro Sakisaka, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Sadamu Maruo, Kanzaburo Mushanokoji, Zenzō Matsuyama, Masahiro Ogi, Kyushiro Kusakabe

Editor

Masahiro Ogi, Susumu Hani, Kyushiro Kusakabe, Ryuichiro Sakisaka, Kanzaburo Mushanokoji, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Sadamu Maruo, Zenzō Matsuyama

Cinematography

Yoshitaka Fuji, Hiroshi Segawa, Shu Kikuchi

Composer

Hiroo Hara

Details

Studios: Cinema 58
Countries: Japan
Languages: English, French, Japanese
Release: April 24, 1958

Themes

frantic

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