Torches of the Todaiji
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content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2005.10.129
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content: Carleton College Library educational film collection
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content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 1440 feet, 16mm)
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content: 1974
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Edited film: Shoroku Onoe, Japan''s leading Kabuki actor, creates a new dance-drama inspired by Shunie, the ancient Buddhist ceremony of Nara''s Todaiji temple. Performed by Shoroku and troupe on multiple stages, the dance demonstrates how Japanese traditional arts are handed on and achieve new development. 

Credits: Prod. by NHK, Dir. by Yasushi Matsudaira