Japan Live Performance - ACE196.2

Tokyo. 06:30. Early morning scenes, traffic, trains, commuters. A "clockwork orange morris" group "attacks" commuters. Commuter is questioned about the incident but has little to say. A temple. Member of Goro Namerikawa. Noh actor. Members of Yume no Yuminsha. Female lift attendant. Male street performer. Man with globe. Woman with papier mache pumpkin. Roller-skaters jump through hoop. Religious procession. Temple. Actor. Noh. Actress from Saburo Teshigawara. Actor. Motor-cyclists. Cyclists. Street performers – roller-skaters, dancers, etc. Commuter interviewed says the performers only appear on Sundays. Japan’s intelligentsia in restaurant discuss theatre culture. One describes Tokyo as centre of Japanese culture; only in Tokyo can everyone benefit from speedy new communications systems but this makes the society unstable. Street scenes, day and night. Commentary suggests that unchanging tradition underlies this constant change