Research Catalog

Title

Faces of Japan [videorecording] / TeleJapan USA, Inc.

Publication

New York : TeleJapan, c1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cavett, Dick.
• TeleJapan (Firm)

Description

13 videocassettes (30 min. each) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

This series, hosted by Dick Cavett, presents an overview of Japanese culture and daily life. Each segment focuses on a particular individual whose life reflects a certain aspect of Japanese society. Subjects include: fashion, medicine, music, theatre, the armed forces, sports, agriculture, education, business and finance.

Subject

• Women > Japan
• Music > Japan
• Physicians > Japan
• Motion pictures > Production and direction > Japan
• Sumo
• Documentary films > Japan
• Japan > Social life and customs

Credits (note)

• Narrator, Dick Cavett.

System Details (note)

• VHS.

Contents

episode 1. Fashion model -- episode 2. Island doctor -- episode 3. Bunraku apprentice -- episode 4. Reporter's story -- episode 5. Woman soldier -- episode 6. Behind the camera -- episode 7. Sumo: an American portrait -- episode 8. Uncertain harvest -- episode 9. East of Wall Street -- episode 10. Leaving the shipyard -- episode 11. Frontier fisherman -- episode 12. High tech composer -- episode 13. Cram school.

Title

Faces of Japan [videorecording] / TeleJapan USA, Inc.

Imprint

New York : TeleJapan, c1988.

System Details

VHS.

Credits

Narrator, Dick Cavett.

Added Author

Cavett, Dick.

TeleJapan (Firm)

Branch Call Number

VC 952.04 F