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Manzan benigaki = Red persimmons / Benigaki Documentary Film Production Committee ; directors, Shinsuke Ogawa, Peng Xiaolian.
满山红柿 = Red persimmons the Benigaki Documentary Film Production Committee ; directors, 小川紳介, 彭下联.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 027 815
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Penn Museum Library - Media DVD HN723 .M263 2001
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Country life.
- Persimmon.
- Kaki persimmon.
- Social change.
- Japan.
- Social change--Japan.
- Kaki persimmon--Japan.
- Persimmon--Japan.
- Country life--Japan.
- Peasants--Japan.
- Peasants.
- Agriculture--Japan.
- Agriculture.
- Kaminoyama-shi (Japan).
- Japan--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Letterbox presentation.
- Other Title:
- Red persimmons
- Alternate title transliteration: Village of red kakis
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 2001.
- Language Note:
- In Japanese with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- 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 processing 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.
- Credits:
- Photographer, Tamura Masaki, Jong Lin ; editor, Peng Xiaolian ; music, Jomon Daiko Drum Group.
- Notes:
- Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 59674736
- Publisher Number:
- 854565001404
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