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Red Persimmons = Manzan benigaki : Kaminoyama kaki to hito to no yukikai
Title
Red Persimmons = Manzan benigaki : Kaminoyama kaki to hito to no yukikai / the Benigaki Documentary Film Production Committee ; directors, Ogawa Shinsuke, Peng Xiaolian.
满山红柿 : 上山柿と人とのゆきかい = Red persimmons : a record of people living with persimmons / the Benigaki Documentary Film Production Committee ; directors, 小川紳介, 彭下联.
Published
Brooklyn, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, [2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. Production began in 1984 and finished in 1998.
Production credits from subtitles.
Bonus features: documentary film "A visit to Ogawa Productions" (62 min. ; 2001); biographies of Shisuke Ogawa and Peng Xiaolian.
Public performance rights granted.
Photography, Tamura Masaki, Jong Lin ; editor, Peng Xiaolian ; music, Jomon Daiko Drum Group.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
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.
Variant and related titles
Manzan benigaki
Red persimmons
Alternate title transliteration: Village of red kakis
Visit to Ogawa Productions.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Japanese
Added to Catalog
November 28, 2017
Credits
Photography, Tamura Masaki, Jong Lin ; editor, Peng Xiaolian ; music, Jomon Daiko Drum Group.
Performers
No further credits provided.
System details note
DVD, region 1, NTSC, fullscreen presentation.
Partial contents
[Bonus film]: A visit to Ogawa Productions / a film by Jun'ichiro Oshige (62 min.).
Videorecording number
10710695
Subjects
Genre/Form
Motion pictures - Japan.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Ethnographic films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary - Feature.
Also listed under
小川紳介, 1935-1992.
彭下联, 1953-
Benigaki Documentary Film Production Committee.
First Run/Icarus Films.
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