Release Date

July, 17th, 1961

Running Time

26 min

Genre

Documentary

Color

Monochrome

Screening Format

35mm

Screen Size

-

Sound Processing

-

Screening Format with Subtitles

English

[ Directed by ]

• MATSUMOTO Toshio

[ Produced by ]

• ASAI Eiichi

[ Staff ]

• SEKINE Hiroshi ── Screenplay
• MATSUMOTO Toshio ── Screenplay
• MIYAJIMA Yoshio ── Cinematography

[ Production Company ]

[ Story ]

Short film directed by Matsumoto Toshio, a pioneer of avant-garde documentary films. A documentary film appreciation group in Kyoto self-produced the film as part of their cultural activities. The film is not about Nishijin as the origin of the luxurious Nishijin-weave silk textile, but rather it uses numerous short close-up shots to depict the gloom of closed-off spaces layered with images evoking the unease and emptiness in the aftermath of the conflict surrounding the Japan-US Security Treaty. Won the Silver Lion at the 13th Venice International Documentary Film Festival.

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