The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Tokaido, Yesterday and Today (1958)

新日本地理映画大系 東海道の今と昔

This film presents a contemporary Tokaido completely transformed from the scenery famously portrayed by Utagawa Hiroshige in the Edo Period: a landscape traversed by rail tracks and busy with cars coming and going. Heading west from Tokyo, we encounter the traditional industries that developed in the cities and localities along the highway, as well as the mechanical industries that arrived with modernization. The journey continues to Kyoto and Osaka

Date of release
1958-03-22
Runtime
21m
Director
Shinkichi Noda

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