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Japanese Behaviour Reel 3

Reel Number: 221034-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1940s

Country: Japan

Location: Tokyo

TC Begins: 08:42:56

TC Ends: 08:50:45

Duration: 00:07:49

Japanese Behaviour Reel 3 Office of Strategic Services - Japanese Background Study Program Part 3 - On the psychology and living habits of the Japanese people. NB Many scenes taken from pre-1941 Japanese feature films. Japanese domestic scenes: precision in household design and furnishing - uncluttered - women cleaning and flower arranging. Family eating dinner at low table; father walks outside house. Man comes home from work - sits on floor cushion in certain position. Tea ceremony - Geisha observing precise way of serving drinks to husband. Woman showing correct way to enter house - kneel, slide door open, enter, kneel, slide door closed, etc. Sarcastic narration. 08:45:58 Religion: Japanese visitors outside temple; man washes mouth and hands, approaches shrine, rings bell. Woman w/ baby on back prays at shrine draped in prayer flags. Boy eating dinner w/ father - lays offering for dead mother on small shrine. 08:46:45 Community unisex bath house - “where ‘appropriate behaviour’ calls for no clothes...and no gags please” - CU people washing feet and legs before entering water - Japanese woman enters small pool; LS bath house interior w/ vars marble pools - Japanese men bathing. 08:47:07 Japanese Theatre: EXT carved entrance; INT Geisha’s looking at artwork; LS audience applauding intricate perfomance; CUs masks; actor applying heavy make-up. Play in progress and costume changes. 08:48:31 Painting of Japanese version of Jacob’s Ladder - Emperor at top, masses at bottom - intricate heirarchy of Japanese society. 08:49:45 Young children bow to adults - woman bows to man - farmer bows to landowner - civilians bow to military - subjects bow to Emperor Hirohito on horseback. Royal motorcade along street - people lined up on street bow all upper floors of offices closed so people not higher than Emperor. WWII. Customs.

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