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The Weavers of Nishijin 1962

a.k.a 西陣

The Weavers of Nishijin Director : Toshio Matsumoto

The Weavers of Nishijin Plot

The Weavers of Nishijin classically captures the process of Nishijin textile manufacture in rich black and white reminiscent of Kurosawa‘s Seven Samurai era.

The Weavers of Nishijin Cast

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Nishijin, is a 1961 Japanese short documentary film directed by Toshio Matsumoto. It starred Hideo Kanze as a Noh player. Film scholar Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano has written that the film's "depiction of a craftsmen's forced life in the traditional textile trade of Kyoto discloses the multiplicity of the Japanese as well as offering an instance to contemplate the role of cinema as the most popular culture at that time."

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