Life and scenes in Japan Accession Number: F04951

Description

Opens with title 'Presenting life and scenes in Japan'. Mount Fuji. Japanese children. Mt Fuji again. Driving a car up a mountain road near Mount Fuji. Title: 'A rural sequence near Fuji'. Shows Japanese peasant women carrying sheaves of rice. Loading rice onto a horse's back. Young Japanese woman and baby. Village children with US army officer. Brigadier O'Brien walks to old man sitting outside hut. Title: 'Training for the next arrivals'. Shows village children. Village women washing clothes in a stream. Water mill. Various shots of village children. A motor tricycle pack high with goods. Studies of villagers. Title '400 year old Cryptomeria groves'. Car driving through forest. More shots of villagers and children. Title 'Rice threshing'. Title: 'Gagaku dancing' 'The Imperial performers' Shows an outdoor stage with Gagaku dancers and musicians. Title '17 reed pipe organ' Shows a musician with the instrument [Japanese name Sho]. Title: 'Political demonstration' shows demonstrators with banners in Tokyo. Title: "Cherry blossom time near the British Embassy" Scenes in Tokyo - people fishing, walking in the park etc. Title: 'New Year' Japanese civilians and children in kimonos. Title: 'Sumo battle of giants' 'Parade of champions' Shows Sumo wrestling ceremony. Title: 'Announcing combat' 'Limbering up' Shows more scenes of Sumo match. Park scenes. Unidentified Europeans and old Japanese man pose for camera in front of cherry blossoms. Title: 'May Boy's Month one carp-one boy' Carp flags flying. Title: 'Fire fighters' 'Yards of talk'. Japanese Fire brigade demonstration. Spectators include Soviet military personnel. Title: 'Old Tokyo' 'The Edo fire auxiliaries'. 'The Imperial sport' Duck netting. 'Presenting place cards' 'Selecting the nets'. Shows large pole nets distributed to the hunters. "The hunt master entices the ducks into the canal" 'Netters in action' 'The lagoon acres of ducks' Shows Allied officers netting ducks. 'The falcon gets all the netters miss' 'The day's catch' 'duck Sukiyaki luncheon' Shows officers and wives holding up ducks. Japanese man with bicycle towing heavy trailer. European girls shopping. Old Japanese ladies. Old man with boy. School children. Title: 'Part two of two' School children at a sports carnival. Mt Fuji and lake. Title: 'The end an O'Brien production'

Details

Conflicts

• British Commonwealth Occupation Force, 1946-1952 (Japan)

Units

• Japan (British Commonwealth Occupation Force) (13 February 1946 - 28 April 1952)

Tags

• Sightseeing
• Wrestling
• Japanese
• Military occupation
• Prostitution
• Ducks