The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Tokaido, Yesterday and Today
Plot: 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
Release Date:
Saturday, March 22 1958
66 years ago
66 years ago