The Weavers of Nishijin

The Weavers of Nishijin
Directed by	Toshio Matsumoto
Produced by	Eiichi Asai
Written by	Hiroshi Sekine; Toshio Matsumoto
Starring	Hideo Kanze
Narrated by	Takeshi Kusaka
Music by	Akira Miyoshi
Cinematography	Yoshio Miyajima
Edited by	Miyuri Miyamori; Fusako Shuzui
Production; company	Kyoto Documentary Film Society
Release date	1961
Running time	42 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

The Weavers of Nishijin (西陣（にしじん）, Nishijin), also known in English simply as Nishijin,[1] is a 1961 Japanese short documentary film directed by Toshio Matsumoto.[2] It starred Hideo Kanze as a Noh player.[3] 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."[4]

Cast

Hideo Kanze as a Noh player

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gollark: No.

gollark: As previously stated, no and I don't want to.

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gollark: I also disagree with the people saying they should teach stuff like doing taxes; there are entirely too many random "life skills" and they change lots. They should probably teach stuff like the ability to look this up on the internet on demand, and to usefully work from this information, rather than specific things.

References

"Documentarists of Japan #9: Matsumoto Toshio". Documentary Box. Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
Matsumoto, Toshio (4 October 2017). "The Weavers of Nishijin". YouTube. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
"Toshio Matsumoto | The Weavers of Nishijin (1961) | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo (2014). "Reading Nishijin (1961) as Cinematic Memory". In Miyao, Daisuke (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema. Oxford University Press.

External links

The Weavers of Nishijin on IMDb

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[DocBox-1] "Documentarists of Japan #9: Matsumoto Toshio". Documentary Box. Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Retrieved 27 February 2018.

[2] Matsumoto, Toshio (4 October 2017). "The Weavers of Nishijin". YouTube. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

[3] "Toshio Matsumoto | The Weavers of Nishijin (1961) | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

[Wada-4] Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo (2014). "Reading Nishijin (1961) as Cinematic Memory". In Miyao, Daisuke (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema. Oxford University Press.