Tokyo 1958

1958 24 min Documentary

A collaborative, newsreel-style portrait of Tokyo in 1957–58, blending photography, animation, and historical imagery to capture the city’s labor, rituals, and nightlife at the moment it became the world’s largest metropolis.

director Masahiro Ogi, Sadamu Maruo, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Yoshiro Kawazu, Kanzaburo Mushanokoji, Susumu Hani, Kyushiro Kusakabe, Ryuichiro Sakisaka, Zenzō Matsuyama

writers Kyushiro Kusakabe, Kanzaburo Mushanokoji, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Susumu Hani, Ryuichiro Sakisaka, Sadamu Maruo, Masahiro Ogi, Zenzō Matsuyama, Yoshiro Kawazu