Bibliograph

Manzan benigaki, Kaminoyama kaki to hito to no yukikai = Red persimmons : a record of people living with persimmons, the Benigaki Documentary Film Production Committee ; directors, Ogawa Shinsuke, Peng Xiaolian

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Manzan benigaki, Kaminoyama kaki to hito to no yukikai = Red persimmons : a record of people living with persimmons, the Benigaki Documentary Film Production Committee ; directors, Ogawa Shinsuke, Peng Xiaolian

Language

jpn

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Manzan benigaki

Oclc number

59674736

Responsibility statement

the Benigaki Documentary Film Production Committee ; directors, Ogawa Shinsuke, Peng Xiaolian

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Sub title

Kaminoyama kaki to hito to no yukikai = Red persimmons : a record of people living with persimmons

Summary

Using film footage and composition notes left by the late Ogawa Shinsuke, Chinese director Peng Xiaolian shot additional film and completed the work, which colorfully yet elegantly depicts the manufacturing process of the Kaminoyama red persimmon. The inhabitants of the tiny Japanese village of Kaminoyama explain that it is the perfect combination of earth, wind and rain that makes their village's persimmons superior to those grown anywhere else, including the village just a few miles away. Ogawa's larger subject, however, is to memorialize a very special part of Japanese culture and to share its beauty with us. It is a record of the ineluctable forces of modernization that are slowly bringing to an end Japan's traditional culture, the end of a centuries-old way of life

Table Of Contents

[Bonus film]: A visit to Ogawa Productions / a film by Jun'ichiro Oshige (62 min.)

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Red persimmonsVillage of red kakis

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