Tokyo Black Hole: Year Zero in Post-WWII Japan
50 min
2017JP
Documentary
User Score
Overview
World War II comes to an end. Tokyo is a destroyed place, without law, driven by hunger and greed. From over 100,000 pages of declassified CIA documents and hours of newly discovered footage, recorded by American occupation charges and private individuals, the documentary shows Tokyo during this crucial year, Year Zero. Observed from the point of view of a young man who finds himself transported in time, the NHK documentary uses color images and state-of-the-art video techniques to reveal how a desperate population is published as the foundations of today's megalopolis.
Movie cast
Takayuki Yamada
Kenji Mizuhashi
Bob Werley
Himself
Hinata Kaizu
Himself
Kenji Oka
Himself
Hirohisa Nagai
Himself
Ryusuke Yamanaka
Himself
Ryota Mishima
Himself
Ayumi Nakano
Himself
Hayato Takamiya
Himself
Yuzuru Sugawara
Himself
Dawn Matus
Narrator
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