Based on famed Japan commentator Donald Richie’s book of the same name, and is narrated by him; the great NY Times reviewer Vincent Canby said “nearly everything the camera finds prompts contemplation” and Hiro Narita’s cinematography is the key to the striking and often surprising view of a very different Japan than is usually seen in media here. Canby adds, “the minutely observed details of a particular time and place are only the initial excuse for what becomes, at last, a meditation on the meaning of history and the peculiarities of civilization.
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