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Synopsis
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.
Donald Richie
Cast
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Director
Kanzaburo Mushanokoji
Director
Kyushiro Kusakabe
Director
Ryuichiro Sakisaka
Director
Masahiro Ogi
Director
Sadamu Maruo
Director
Susumu Hani
Director
Yoshiro Kawazu
Director
Zenzō Matsuyama
Director
Susumu Hani
Writer
Ryuichiro Sakisaka
Writer
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Writer
Sadamu Maruo
Writer
Kanzaburo Mushanokoji
Writer
Zenzō Matsuyama
Writer
Masahiro Ogi
Writer
Kyushiro Kusakabe
Writer
Yoshiro Kawazu
Writer

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