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Produced by Eastman Teaching Films, Inc. of Rochester, NY in the late 1920s or early 30s, this black-and-white silent educational film takes the viewer on a tour through Japan. The film sheds light on various aspects of Japanese society like fashion, education, domestic life, industry, agriculture, religion, and arts and culture and features footage from one of the original Datsun automobile manufacturing plants (f. 1931) as well as other famous sites across Japan like Tōdai-ji Temple and Kabukiza Theatre. Additionally, the end of the film offers interesting insight and footage into Japan’s robust pre-war film industry.
Film opens, women wearing mix of traditional kimonos and western-style dress appear in frame; Perhaps exiting department store (perhaps Wako in Ginza district Tokyo) (0:13). Interior of department store, different products offered: Traditional “Geta” flip flops, fabrics for kimonos (0:20). Interior of newspaper offices, journalists sit at crammed desks (2:03). Workers manually set typesetting for printing (2:22). Pedestrians crowd around display case, view pages of paper (2:38). Scenes from elementary school: Relay races in schoolyard, calligraphy class, home economics/ domestic skills class (2:41). Nurse carries out physical examinations of elementary-aged kids, kids given oral dosage of vitamin D, weighed on scale, eye exam (3:51-5:25). Crowds of kids gather in school yard watch on as other kids do different sports, gymnastics drills, other friendly competitions: Relay races, tug of war, war game with accompanying drumming and kids dressed as samurais (perhaps “Kendo”) (5:26). Shots of babies in the crowd wearing traditional kimonos (6:55). Young men receive instruction in self-defense i.e. practice flips, tripping, and headlocks (7:15). Japanese archery “Kyūdō,” high level experts (kyūdōkas) wear robes and exemplify technique (8:10). Domestic life: Exterior of family home on street corner, family demonstrates customs i.e. shoes left outside, two women bow as family members enter home (8:36). Welcoming tea ceremony, hot towels given to guests to cleanse face and hands (9:31). Father of family changes from suit into traditional dress, helped into kimono by wife (10:50). Man puts on special stockings “tabi” worn with Geta footwear (11:22). The mother perfects hairstyle looking into mirror that is part of vanity set (11:46). Quick shots of dishes served at dinner (11:58). Potter vigorously kneads clay, potters mold pottery on hand-spun wheel (12:13). Automobile manufacturing: Exterior of manufacturing plant, employees arrive by bike and park them amongst other employees’ bikes (12:55). Scenes from various parts of assembly line: Man paints, women sit side-by-side at industrial sewing machines, men hammer various parts of small automobile together (Likely Datsun Type 11), safety checks and inspection (13:18). Datsun Type 14 (14:50). Agriculture: Woman in large wide-brim straw hat works in rice field (15:14). Rice dried on bamboo racks (15:48). Threshing rice by hand, dried bales pulled through rake-like apparatus (16:25). Grain collected in basket dropped into hand-operated separator, man inspects grains (17:18). Agricultural workers pound millet with special rotating wood stick (17:34). Man and woman wash sweet potatoes in small stream, dry them in sun (17:57). Man and woman harvest root of lotus plant for eating (18:28). Religion: Religious festival in Nikko, Japan - likely Nikko Toshogu Shrine Spring Grand Festival, portable shrine “mikoshi” carried through city, dragon dance, various traditional costumes (18:53). Pilgrim visits Buddhist temple in Nara, Tōdai-ji Temple (20:30). School children feed deer in Nara Park (21:07). Exterior Kabukiza Theatre in Tokyo (21:37). Male actors get ready backstage, put on make-up and wigs as all roles played by men (22:00). Female dancers dance in kimonos to live music accompaniment (22:58). National Bunraku Theatre (puppet theatre) in Osaka (23:49). Japanese film industry, sound film studio P.C.L. (24:18). Film ends (24:58).
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