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Kobayashi Issa (1941)
Directed by Fumio Kamei
Documentary · 28m
The film uses the haiku of early 19th century poet Kobayashi Issa as its motif to portray the lives of farmers residing deep in the mountains of Nagano. Commissioned by the Nagano Prefectural Department of Tourism, the movie became instead, in the hands of Kamei, a depiction, sometimes ironic, of poverty and the harsh life of the inhabitants of the area. The short movie is often considered Japan’s first “poetic documentary”.
Cast
Musei Tokugawa
Crew
- Director
- Fumio Kamei
- Director of Photography
- Shigeru Shirai
- Original Music Composer
- Masao Oki
Details
- Original title
- 信濃風土記より 小林一茶
- Release date
- 1941-02-18
- Runtime
- 28m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Toho Eiga