The Weavers of Nishijin

1961 Japanese film

The Weavers of Nishijin

Directed by| Toshio Matsumoto
Written by| Hiroshi Sekine
Toshio Matsumoto
Produced by| Eiichi Asai
Starring| Hideo Kanze
Narrated by| Takeshi Kusaka
Cinematography| Yoshio Miyajima
Edited by| Miyuri Miyamori
Fusako Shuzui
Music by| Akira Miyoshi

Production
company

Kyoto Documentary Film Society

Release date

| 1961

Running time

| 42 minutes
Country| Japan
Language| Japanese

The Weavers of Nishijin (西陣（にし じん）, Nishijin), also known in English simply as Nishijin,[1] is a 1961 Japanese short documentary film directed by Toshio Matsumoto.[2] It starred Hideo Kanze as a Noh player.[3] Film scholar Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano has written that the film's "depiction of a craftsmen's forced life in the traditional textile trade of Kyoto discloses the multiplicity of the Japanese as well as offering an instance to contemplate the role of cinema as the most popular culture at that time."[4]

## Cast[edit]

* Hideo Kanze as a Noh player

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Documentarists of Japan #9: Matsumoto Toshio". Documentary Box. Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
2. ^ Matsumoto, Toshio (4 October 2017). "The Weavers of Nishijin". YouTube. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
3. ^ "Toshio Matsumoto | The Weavers of Nishijin (1961) | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
4. ^ Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo (2014). "Reading Nishijin (1961) as Cinematic Memory". In Miyao, Daisuke (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199731664.013.003. ISBN 978-0-19-973166-4.

## External links[edit]

* The Weavers of Nishijin at IMDb

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