Tokyo Black Hole: Year Zero in Post-WWII Japan
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- Runtime
- 50 mins
World War II comes to an end. Tokyo is a destroyed place, without law, driven by hunger and greed. From over 100,000 pages of declassified CIA documents and hours of newly discovered footage, recorded by American occupation charges and private individuals, the documentary shows Tokyo during this crucial year, Year Zero. Observed from the point of view of a young man who finds himself transported in time, the NHK documentary uses color images and state-of-the-art video techniques to reveal how a desperate population is published as the foundations of today's megalopolis.
World War II comes to an end. Tokyo is a destroyed place, without law, driven by hunger and greed. From over 100,000 pages of declassified CIA documents and hours of newly discovered footage, recorded by American occupation charges and private individuals, the documentary shows Tokyo during this crucial year, Year Zero. Observed from the point of view of a young man who finds himself transported in time, the NHK documentary uses color images and state-of-the-art video techniques to reveal how a desperate population is published as the foundations of today's megalopolis.
Cast
- Takayuki Yamada
- Kenji Mizuhashi
- Bob Werley
- Hinata Kaizu
- Kenji Oka
- Hirohisa Nagai
- Ryusuke Yamanaka
- Ryota Mishima
- Ayumi Nakano
- Hayato Takamiya
- Yuzuru Sugawara
- Dawn Matus
Director
- Kensuke Kishi
