Documentary
Japan : The Inside Story | The Unsung Experts of Japan | Japan in Focus | Japan Sketches | Discover Asia | New Job! New Freedom! | Young People at Work | Hello Nippon - We Are Cosmopolitans | Special Lessons | We're the Professionals! | 2000 and Beyond : Visualizing a New Century - The Earth and Our Environment : The Boundaries of Plenty - |
Special Lessons | Create Your Own Sound
DC119903
課外授業 ようこそ先輩 | 探せ!たたけ!自分の音を [NHK]
|Length : 42min. |Year : 1999 |
Ms. Sumire Yoshihara is a percussionist known for creating her own world of music, using not only percussion instruments from around the world, but also using everyday objects as instruments. After the lesson in hitting percussion instruments freely, she assigns a task to the children, to "find the sound that makes you feel the best". The children look for that sound and make hand-made instruments. In the final lesson, everybody takes part in a concert, using their hand-made instruments.
Special Lessons | Making Invisible Things Visible
DC119902
課外授業 ようこそ先輩 | 見えないものが見えてきた [NHK]
|Length : 42min. |Year : 1999 |
Mr. Katsuhiro Hibino is a famous Japanese pop artist who characteristically uses cardboard material in his work. Mr. Hibino first teaches the importance of "observation". The next task he presents the children with is expressing "invisible" emotions, such as "excitement", "irritation" and "gentleness", in a shape or form by using objects found around them. Enchanted by the improvised novel art displayed by Mr. Hibino, the children devote themselves to making objects using balls, basketball shoes, and newspapers.
Special Lessons | Flipbooks Become Art
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課外授業 ようこそ先輩 | パラパラ漫画がアートになった! [NHK]
|Length : 42min. |Year : 1999 |
Mr. Toshio Iwai is a media artist, who is receiving the most attention today for his collaboration performances combining images with music, such as with his unique imagery pieces using computer graphics. The children learn the theories and history behind images using visual tools, and make 8-frame animation. A moving image is finally created by drawing pictures and adding voices all according to one's own original story. The children quickly change from viewers to makers of image media.
Hello Nippon - We Are Cosmopolitans | One-Man Band – Mastering the Chindon Rhythm
DC090113
ハローニッポン - われら地球人 - | ワンマンバンド ちんどんのリズムに挑戦 [NHK]
|Length : 20min. |Year : 2001 |
Bruce Smith is a street performer from Australia. While looking for ways to make his show more enjoyable, he discovered the attraction of the traditional Japanese street performance, chindon. Chindon bands can be traced back to an Edo Period candy seller. The dish-shaped bell and large and small drums produced the distinctive "chinchin dondon" rhythm that lent itself to the name chindon. Other instruments in the band included a samisen and clarinet. The bands were a common sight on the streets of Japan until the 1950s.
Hello Nippon - We Are Cosmopolitans | I Am a Member of My Housing Complex Association
DC090112
ハローニッポン - われら地球人 - | 私は団地の自治会役員 [NHK]
|Length : 20min. |Year : 2001 |
Many Brazilians live in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture and are employed in the automotive factories. Recently, the number of Brazilians in this housing complex has increased, and they now make up one-third of the resident population, nearly one hundred households. Paulo Galvao works as a member of his housing complex association, while operating a private school for Brazilian children. He has a tough job, having the resident's newsletter translated in Portuguese, organizing a Japanese class and trying to convince the Brazilian residents not to park illegally.