Very dated narration and commentary that couldn't be more boomer. The voice is pretty unpleasant too.
The clichés uttered are sometimes appalling.
Reflections on the Japanese people are superficial and unresearched, delivered in a peremptory tone.
The documentary must constantly fight against itself and rarely manages to stop talking about anything other than the narrator's uninteresting opinions.
The narrator persists in invoking Western artists and authors to compensate for his lack of insight, obsessively comparing them to Japan without ever really touching on Japanese artists and intellectuals.
A very 19th-century pseudo-scientific attitude.
Paternalistic through and through.
The hatred of cities and their inhabitants is profoundly stupid and childish.
Ditto for the new/old opposition and the aesthetic comments of very dubious quality.
It really does sound like the dim-witted white guy looking for magical natives and talking about them more as creatures than as humans.
Fortunately, in the quieter parts of the film, there are a few more relevant glimmers of the inland sea.
The clichés uttered are sometimes appalling.
Reflections on the Japanese people are superficial and unresearched, delivered in a peremptory tone.
The documentary must constantly fight against itself and rarely manages to stop talking about anything other than the narrator's uninteresting opinions.
The narrator persists in invoking Western artists and authors to compensate for his lack of insight, obsessively comparing them to Japan without ever really touching on Japanese artists and intellectuals.
A very 19th-century pseudo-scientific attitude.
Paternalistic through and through.
The hatred of cities and their inhabitants is profoundly stupid and childish.
Ditto for the new/old opposition and the aesthetic comments of very dubious quality.
It really does sound like the dim-witted white guy looking for magical natives and talking about them more as creatures than as humans.
Fortunately, in the quieter parts of the film, there are a few more relevant glimmers of the inland sea.
