The Weavers of Nishijin

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]

The Weavers of Nishijin
Directed byToshio Matsumoto
Produced byEiichi Asai
Written byHiroshi Sekine
Toshio Matsumoto
StarringHideo Kanze
Narrated byTakeshi Kusaka
Music byAkira Miyoshi
CinematographyYoshio Miyajima
Edited byMiyuri Miyamori
Fusako Shuzui
Production
company
Kyoto Documentary Film Society
Release date
1961
Running time
42 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Cast

References
  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.


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