Tokyo 1958

(1958)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 16 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1958

Runtime: 24 мин

Country: Japan

Director: Masahiro Ogi, Sadamu Maruo, 勅使河原宏, 川頭義郎, Kanzaburo Mushanokoji, 羽仁進, Kyushiro Kusakabe, Ryuichiro Sakisaka, 松山善三

Cast: Donald Richie

Plot

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.