Tokyo 1958

A collaborative, newsreel-style portrait of Tokyo in 1957–58, blending photography, animation, and historical imagery to capture the city’s labor, rituals, and nightlife at the moment it became the world’s largest metropolis.

Director: Masahiro Ogi, Sadamu Maruo, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Yoshiro Kawazu, Kanzaburo Mushanokoji, Susumu Hani, Kyushiro Kusakabe, Ryuichiro Sakisaka, Zenzō Matsuyama

Cast: Donald Richie

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.