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  1. Japan Live Performance (1989 Film, Video)

    Director
    Philip Day
    Producer
    Shelley Williams
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An exploration of Japan’s theatre performing arts. Features nine theatre and performance groups including Goro Namerikawa’s group Arabaki Dan and Saburo Teshigawara. Against the traditions of Noh, Kabuki...

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  2. Japanese Fishermen, The (1956 Film)

    Subject
    Sociology; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The crew of the fishing boat ‘Lucky Dragon’, caught in the fallout 70 miles from the Bikini H-bomb test area. Warnings of the likely effects of contamination of the sea, rain, food and drink.*

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  3. Southern and S e Asia: China and Japan from Space (1980 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, 20 slides. col.

    Shows the enormous geographical contrasts of Asia outside the USSR. Areas of high population density and intensive agriculture are recorded alongside scenes of some of the undeveloped or underdeveloped...

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  4. Nampo No Tomo e (1943 Film)

    aka: To South-East Asian Friends

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows foreign students from India, Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines (a solitary German and a Frenchman are also conspicuous) studying and relaxing at a hostel of the International Student Fellowship at...

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  5. Marine Flowers: The Biosphere of ‘Coelenterata’ (1975 Film)

    Director
    Kazuo Okada
    Producer
    Sozo Okaka
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Originally produced in a three-screen version for the International Ocean Expo ‘75 at Okinawa, this single-screen version was made later. It provides excellent visual material on ‘Hydrozoa’,...

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  6. Ainu Bear Ceremony, The (1931 Video)

    Director
    N G Munro
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 27 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    An examination of the lives of the Ainu people of Japan, who are racially and culturally different from their Japanese neighbours and who obtain their food mainly by hunting and gathering. The bear ceremony,...

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  7. Idiot, The (2005)

    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 166 minutes), £19.99

    Kurosawa’s only adaptation of a Dostoevsky novel. His dramatisation uproots the novel’s Russian summer setting to a snowbound Hokkaido — the northernmost island of Japan. DVD extras: newly restored...

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  8. Developmental Biology of an Ascidian: ‘Halocynthia Roretzi’ (1982 Video)

    Producer
    Kazuo Okada
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale (video - BUFVC), Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min., 1996 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows the life cycle of the sea squirt ‘Halocynthia roretzi’. ‘Halocynthia’ adults from Mutzu Bay in Northern Japan are shown to spawn at a certain time of the day and differences in spawning time...

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  9. Edo Stage, The: Kabuki and Bunraku (1970 Film)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Film (16mm, 29 minutes)

    Explains the elements of Kabuki theatre and shows part of a traditional social satire in which a rich man is ‘brought down a peg’ by a commoner. The Bunruku sequence uses elaborate nearly life-size...

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  10. Patrolling the American Lake (1998 Video)

    aka: American Lake, The

    Producer
    Jeremy Cooper
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    With the end of the Cold War there is no longer any clearly identified ‘enemy’ against which the USA can deploy military defences in the Pacific, but the US military presence is still huge, especially in...

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