catalogue of video recordings (vhs, dvd) - The Japan Foundation

Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library
Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number
Title: Ukiyoe no onna-tachi = Women in Ukiyo-e | [produced by NHK
International].| 浮 世 絵 の 女 たち = Women in Ukiyo-e e [produced by NHK
International].|
Publisher: [Tokyo?] : NHK International, [200-?].
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (45 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in.
Video Recording
System requirements:DVD (NTSC).
Language: Soundtrack in Japanese with English subtitles.
Summary: "Japanese ukiuo-e, or woodblock prints, made a
tremendous impact on European printers. When ukiyo-e emerged in
Japan in the 18th century, practitioners established a unique way of
depiciting women, utterly different from the way Europeans were
presenting women in the Rococo style that was flourishing at the time.
Why this vast disparity? The programme traces the history of
Japanese depicitions of women, culminating in ukiyo-e. It explores the
mystique of these images and the views of women underlie them." --
from 300 TV PROGRAMMES ON JAPAN.
Restriction & Screening notes: Not for loan. Licensed for public
screening at JF-Sydney
Call Number: 721.9 JAM 3
Title: Shiko Ito : the melody of the wind onto paper = Gaka Ito Shiko
(Kobo tanbo)
Publisher: Tokyo : Japan Media Communication Center = JAMCO 1992
Physical description: 25 min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Summary: "Shiko Ito is an artist preoccupied with the theme "cities".
She started her own career with sumi or Chinese ink drawing; then
went on to learn Western-style painting abd sculpture; and finally
developed her own, unique style of sumi. Three years ago, she det up a
astudio near Mt. HIEI. The prigram shows her at work". -- FROM
CONTAINER.
Restriction & Screening notes: Not for Loan. Licensed for public
screening at JF-Sydney
Call Number: 721.9 JAM 6
Title: Song of birds and flowers : the world of Atsushi Uemura, a
Nihonga artist = Kachofuei inochi o egaku
Publisher: Tokyo : Japan Media Communication Center = JAMCO
Physical description: 44 min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Summary: "Nihonga artist Atsushi Uemura, a noted ornithologist who
calls himself a "bird-and-flower painting" artist, is the third generation
of a distinguished family of painters: his grandmother Shoen Uemura
and father Shoko Uemura were both recipients of the Order of Cultural
Merit. On his retirement from Kyoto City University of Arts, Uemura
began working on a painting pf a white hawk, an ambition his father had
long held. This program illustrates the relationship between the
ornithologist and his birds, as well as his pasion for painting". -- FROM
CONTAINER.
Restriction & Screening notes: Not for Loan. Licensed for public
screening at JF-Sydney
Call Number: 726.1 WAY 19E
Title: One man's dream of becoming a manga artist = Mangaka shibo
[English edition] (The way of life in Japan = Nihonjin no raifusutairu)
Publisher: Tokyo : Bonjinsha 1996
Physical description: 20 min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Call Number: 726.1 WAY 19J
Title: One man's dream of becoming a manga artist = Mangaka shibo
[Japanese edition] (The way of life in Japan = Nihonjin no raifusutairu)
Publisher: Tokyo : Bonjinsha 1996
Physical description: 20 min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in Japanese.
Summary: "More than 300 of the Japanese magazines published each
month are dedicated exclusively to comic strips. Supporting this
startling wealth of cartoon creativeity is a 100,00-strong army of
illustrators throughout Japan. Many members of this gaint supporting
cast aspire to be a famous cartoonist in their own right, and here we
see what lisfe is like for one such MANGAKA wannabe.
Call Number: 726.101 JPF
Title: Manga, the cartoon in contemporary Japanese life = [Manga to
gendai Nihonjin] | directed by Susumu Hani.|Manga, the cartoon in
contemporary Japanese life = マンガと 日 本 人 | directed by Susumu
Hani.|
Publisher: c1982 (Tokyo : Japan Foundation, 2007)
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (29 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in.
Video Recording
System requirements:DVD (Region ALL).
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Summary: One of the most popular forms of entertainment in
contemporary Japan is the "manga". The work is usually translated as
"comics" in English, but mangas are not limited to the publishing
industry alone. In fact, this art form has extended its popularity into
almost every communication media such as movies, records, television,
etc. There are both children's and adult mangas, playing a definite role
in shaping cultural norms with their realistic, often dramatic narratives.
This videogram uses the manga, its devoted readers and their
circumstances in general to introduce one side of the Japanese
personality, a facet of Japanese culture as a whole.
Restriction & Screening notes: Licensed for public screening at JF-
Sydney.
Call Number: 726.101 NHK
Title: My father, Osamu Tezuka = Inochi : Waga chichi Tezuku Osamu
(NHK International tional video library)
Publisher: Tokyo : NHK International 1995
Physical description: 52min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Summary: "Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Astroboy and aother world
famous cartoon characters, revolutionized Japanese animation with his
soophisticated films. After his passing , his son Makoto Tezuka, who is
in his own way working in the avant grade of the visual medium,
produced a film about his father's early life and career. The
relationship that inspired this homage from son to father is both
enlightening and miving". --- FROM CONTAINER.
Restriction & Screening notes: Not for Loan. Licensed for public
screening at JF-Sydney
Call Number: 727 KOZ
Title: Japanese graphics now! [supplement DVD]
Publisher: Koln : Taschen 2003
Physical description: Video Recording 1 videocassette
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