Fish is our life! / directed and [photographed] by Peregrine Beckman.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Beckman, Peregrine, director, cinematographer, author.

Sugisaki, Sojiro, producer.

Kawamura, Tomoko, producer.

Leicester, Elizabeth, producer.

Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), distributor.

Series:

Ethnographic video online.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Fish trade--Japan.

Fish trade.

Japan.

Educational films.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Ethnographic films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video (28 min.) : sound, color

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, [2005]

Language Note:

In English and Japanese with English subtitles.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Focuses on the small businessmen-proprietors who work the 1,100 family-owned businesses at Tsukiji Market, Tokyo's largest wholesale fish market. With its many small wholesalers and its seven large auction houses, Tsukiji is a small city in itself, with its own unique culture, work hours, and traditions. The video captures the vitality and earthy humour of a variety of people who work in the market, and examines how they, like all Japanese, are increasingly affected by the global market economy and by changes in the larger Japanese culture.

Credits:

Peregrine Beckman, author/ethnographer ; Sojiro Sugisaki, Tomoko Kawamura, Elizabeth Leicester, producers.

Notes:

Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed on Jan. 31, 2012).

Originally produced in 1993 and released in 1994.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.

OCLC:

212379527

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.