Kaiheki
1959
Japan
60 minutes
Japanese
This film is the first Japanese documentary to be made in cinemascope, even before the process was used for fiction films. For eighteen months, the film crew followed the construction of a thermal power plant at Yokosuka, south of Tokyo. A dam, abandoned by the Navy, is used to help build a sea wall. The embankment work, the struggle against the typhoon and the dynamiting give rise to particularly spectacular images.
Kazuo Kuroki
1930-2006.
De 1954 à 1961 il travaille pour la Production Iwanami. En 1961, il devient indépendant et réalise des courts et moyens métrages documentaires. A partir de 1966, il fera une dizaine de films de fiction, sans pour autant abandonner le documentaire.
Production :
Iwanami Production
Iwanami Production
Sound :
Zenichiro Sakurai
Zenichiro Sakurai
Photography :
Kazuzo Kato
Kazuzo Kato