1958-04-24 • 0h 24m

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.

Directors

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

Editors

Yoshiro Kawazu