Nishijin
Nishijin
- Release Date
- July, 17th, 1961
- Running Time
- 26 min
- Genre
- Documentary
- Color
- Monochrome
- Screening Format
- 35mm
- Screening Format with Subtitles
- English
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ 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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