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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website “The Japanese Hollywood” () is a color, documentary film highlighting Japan’s movie industry during what is deemed “the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema.” The decade of the '60s saw the production of a wide array and high quantity of films ranging from politically radical New Wave films to mainstream genre films. This film was part of the Across the Seven Seas At Home Abroad TV series made by Jack Douglas and Bing Crosby Productions. Hosted by Jack Douglas himself, the film takes an in-depth look at Japan’s movie industry by visiting the sets of major film studios, interviewing film enthusiasts and actors, as well as intimate portraits of rising stars performing musical numbers. Additionally, through these interviews, the film tries to get a sense of how the rise of television is affecting Japanese cinema and how the public feels about America’s Hollywood. Opening sequence for Jack Douglas Television Series (0:07). Jack Douglas addresses audience (0:34). Hollywood, California: Capitol Records Building, Brown Derby restaurant, TCL Chinese 6 Theaters, Hollywood Walk of Fame handprints, footprints, stars (James Mason, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Shirley Temple) (0:39). Japanese Hollywood: montage clips cutting between Tokyo and Hollywood depicting pedestrian traffic, film sets, retro movie posters (1:08). Aerial view Tokyo skyscrapers, footage cuts to street view cars and buses on busy street, pedestrians crowd outside movie theater with large retro film posters and decorative cutouts - 101 Dalmatians, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon ft. John Wayne, The Hustler ft. Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason, King Kong vs. Godzilla (1:55). Interview with five local movie goers who speak English: mix of five young to middle-aged Japanese men and women; Douglas asks interviewees about their movie preferences; interviewees mention Charlie Chaplin, Audrey Hepburn, Gone with the Wind, West Side story, Casablanca (3:03-5:20). Examples of Japanese movie posters from 1960s on billboards lining commercial streets (5:21). Examples movie posters for French, Italian films dubbed in Japanese (5:40). Aerial view Hong Kong (5:50). Exterior Shaw Brothers Studio Hong Kong known for producing Mandarin, Cantonese films; movie star Angelina Ho exits studio and smiles at camera (5:56). Camera pans scaffolding, frame of buildings being constructed for set of new Shaw Brothers film “The Scarlet Mink” (6:13). Set for film “The Lady and the House Boy,” makeup and hair on set doing touch ups, actor wears white Chinese work jacket (6:46). Advertising insignias Japan’s major studios: Nikkatsu, Toho, Daiei, Shochiku, Toei (7:07). Tour of Toei Studios: men sit on tatami mats and work on wigs for Samurai films, wig makers apply wigs to actors’ heads (7:58). Filming Samurai drama, lighting changed and hair adjusted (8:58). Interview with Tatsuo Saito in his home, Saito recounts history of Japanese cinema while wife and son eat meal at table (10:07). Camera operator handles perhaps RCA TK60 camera on set for tv show for NHK Network (13:10). Mr. Saito walks onto set, actors share cigarettes during shooting breaks; footage cuts to other shoots in the NHK studio (13:17). Interview Paul Mizukami rep for 20th Century Fox of Hollywood in Japan; discusses distribution issues for foreign films in Japan (14:14). Posters featuring stars of Japanese cinema, youthful smiling faces (15:57). Young Japanese starlet Keiko Okuyama wearing Kimono celebrates booking role with agent, purchases pearl encrusted tiara (17:08). Okuyama sits at vanity, looks at reflection while brushing hair and sings song (17:48). Japanese film unit from Toei studio shooting on location, farmland near Kyoto and Osaka - period piece, actors wearing traditional dress of Kamakura period; silent film (18:12). Dialogue for film recorded later in studio, young woman stands with script in recording studio with sound engineer (19:08). Musical star Inoue Nobuo “the Japanese Nat King Cole” plays piano (20:00). Interview with Donald Ritchie, Japanese cinema film critic, as he sits smoking cigarette in brown suit while flipping through pages of his book “Japanese Movies” (20:58). Closing credits (23:11). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
