Poster of The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Tokaido, Yesterday and Today

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
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Portrait of Shinkichi NodaShinkichi Noda
Shinkichi Noda was
42 in The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Tokaido, Yesterday and Today
as 'Director'
Fri, Jan 28 1916 –
Mon, Nov 22 1993