Production Year 1995
The Cows Who Live over the Tunnel
DC239513
トンネルの上の牛飼いたち 静岡・丹那盆地 [NHK]
|Length : 28min. |Year : 1995 |
The Shinkansen "Bullet Train" is a marvel of modern technology, quite at odds with a traditional Japanese dairy farm. There is exquisite irony, therefore, in the location of the Kamio family's farm right above the Shinkansen's famous Tanna Tunnel. The trains speed through underground but Mr.Kamio and his son pay no heed. They tend their cows the old-fashioned way, with organic cow feed. The result is gallons of wholesome milk every day and a lot of pride. Only in Japan!
The Always Cheerful Christine
DC239514
クリスティンは今日も元気印!山形・真室川町 [NHK]
|Length : 29min. |Year : 1995 |
Are international marriages difficult? Katsuyoshi Sato would most likely answer no. Katsuyoshi met Christine when she came to Yamagata Prefecture from the Philippines as an apprentice seamstress. Married for five years now, they live in a large household of seven, including their two children, and are very happy. With the support of her family and other Filipino wives married to Japanese, Christine has largely overcome the problems of an "international marriage" and living in Japan.
Home is a Sumo Ring
DC239515
わが家は土俵の上 田中英寿・優子 [NHK]
|Length : 29min. |Year : 1995 |
Hidetoshi Tanaka is a big man in a lot of ways - but, of course, there is a woman behind every great man. That woman is Tanaka's wife Yuko, who supports him in his efforts to develop sumo as a college sport. As supervisor of Nihon University's sumo club, Tanaka has helped train many top wrestlers including Tomonohana and Daishoho. He and his wife work together to nurture their club which has some 40 boarding students. Theirs is a fascinating, if different kind of dream!
Fishing for Dreams – Young Men of Kiribati –
DC239516
サオ一本で夢を釣れ 南洋・キリバスの若者たち [NHK]
|Length : 44min. |Year : 1995 |
Suffering from a chronic shortage of fishermen at home, the Japanese fishing is going international; more than 20 percent of the crews responsible for Japan's bonito catch are fisherrnen from Kiribati in the Pacific. Young Kiribati crewmen like 18 year old Aoshi study their craft at the Ocean Training Center in Kiribati under a 67-year-old Japanese fisherman. The program focuses on the efforts of Aoshi and other young trainees - and the bond that develops between them and their teacher so far away from home.
Living in the Nuclear Age
DC249510
核時代と人間 [NBC]
|Length : 59min. |Year : 1995 |
Could the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima have been part of a gigantic experiment? It seems so. This disturbing documentary was made using the American Freedom of Information Act to gain access to data never before made public. In addition, the program looks at the nuclear contamination near the Hanford nuclear weapons manufacturing facility in the U.S. where there are high rates of hypothyroidism, cancer, and other ailments associated with exposure to radiation.