Description: Torchlight Noh at the Bloomsburg Town Park Band Shell in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania August 7, 2004. Noh--the classical Japanese Performance form which combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly aesthetic stage art. It developed largely into its present form during the 14th and 15th centuires thus making it one of the oldest continuously performed stage arts in the world. Noh is still performed today in Japan by over 1500 professional performers and tens of thousands of amateur performers.Torchlight Noh at the Bloomsburg Town Park Band Shell in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania August 7, 2004. Noh--the classical Japanese Performance form which combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly aesthetic stage art. It developed largely into its present form during the 14th and 15th centuires thus making it one of the oldest continuously performed stage arts in the world. Noh is still performed today in Japan by over 1500 professional performers and tens of thousands of amateur performers.Torchlight Noh at the Bloomsburg Town Park Band Shell in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania August 7, 2004. Noh--the classical Japanese Performance form which combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly aesthetic stage art. It developed largely into its present form during the 14th and 15th centuires thus making it one of the oldest continuously performed stage arts in the world. Noh is still performed today in Japan by over 1500 professional performers and tens of thousands of amateur performers.Torchlight Noh at the Bloomsburg Town Park Band Shell in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania August 7, 2004. Noh--the classical Japanese Performance form which combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly aesthetic stage art. It developed largely into its present form during the 14th and 15th centuires thus making it one of the oldest continuously performed stage arts in the world. Noh is still performed today in Japan by over 1500 professional performers and tens of thousands of amateur performers.Torchlight Noh at the Bloomsburg Town Park Band Shell in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania August 7, 2004. Noh--the classical Japanese Performance form which combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly aesthetic stage art. It developed largely into its present form during the 14th and 15th centuires thus making it one of the oldest continuously performed stage arts in the world. Noh is still performed today in Japan by over 1500 professional performers and tens of thousands of amateur performers.Torchlight Noh at the Bloomsburg Town Park Band Shell in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania August 7, 2004. Noh--the classical Japanese Performance form which combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly aesthetic stage art. It developed largely into its present form during the 14th and 15th centuires thus making it one of the oldest continuously performed stage arts in the world. Noh is still performed today in Japan by over 1500 professional performers and tens of thousands of amateur performers.Torchlight Noh at the Bloomsburg Town Park Band Shell in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania August 7, 2004. Noh--the classical Japanese Performance form which combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly aesthetic stage art. It developed largely into its present form during the 14th and 15th centuires thus making it one of the oldest continuously performed stage arts in the world. Noh is still performed today in Japan by over 1500 professional performers and tens of thousands of amateur performers.Torchlight Noh at the Bloomsburg Town Park Band Shell in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania August 7, 2004. Noh--the classical Japanese Performance form which combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly aesthetic stage art. It developed largely into its present form during the 14th and 15th centuires thus making it one of the oldest continuously performed stage arts in the world. Noh is still performed today in Japan by over 1500 professional performers and tens of thousands of amateur performers.Torchlight Noh at the Bloomsburg Town Park Band Shell in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania August 7, 2004. Noh--the classical Japanese Performance form which combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly aesthetic stage art. It developed largely into its present form during the 14th and 15th centuires thus making it one of the oldest continuously performed stage arts in the world. Noh is still performed today in Japan by over 1500 professional performers and tens of thousands of amateur performers.Torchlight Noh at the Bloomsburg Town Park Band Shell in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania August 7, 2004. Noh--the classical Japanese Performance form which combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly aesthetic stage art. It developed largely into its present form during the 14th and 15th centuires thus making it one of the oldest continuously performed stage arts in the world. Noh is still performed today in Japan by over 1500 professional performers and tens of thousands of amateur performers.Torchlight Noh at the Bloomsburg Town Park Band Shell in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania August 7, 2004. Noh--the classical Japanese Performance form which combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly aesthetic stage art. It developed largely into its present form during the 14th and 15th centuires thus making it one of the oldest continuously performed stage arts in the world. Noh is still performed today in Japan by over 1500 professional performers and tens of thousands of amateur performers.Torchlight Noh at the Bloomsburg Town Park Band Shell in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania August 7, 2004. Noh--the classical Japanese Performance form which combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly aesthetic stage art. It developed largely into its present form during the 14th and 15th centuires thus making it one of the oldest continuously performed stage arts in the world. Noh is still performed today in Japan by over 1500 professional performers and tens of thousands of amateur performers.Torchlight Noh at the Bloomsburg Town Park Band Shell in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania August 7, 2004. Noh--the classical Japanese Performance form which combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly aesthetic stage art. It developed largely into its present form during the 14th and 15th centuires thus making it one of the oldest continuously performed stage arts in the world. Noh is still performed today in Japan by over 1500 professional performers and tens of thousands of amateur performers.

Description: A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.

Description: A Japanese woman tries to expand her horizons after her husband becomes too wrapped up in business.

Description: "Shinto Festival Music" was filmed in Tokyo at the 1993 Sanja Matsuri in the Asakusa district, and the Suiyoshi, Hachiman, and the Meiji shrines. Host of the program is Dr. William Malm, professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan. He explains the variety of musical tradtions in Shinto Festival and discusses the use of musical instruments. Dr. Sidney Brown. professor of Japanese History at the University of Oklahoma, introduces the rituals of Shinto and the rich tradtions of Japanese mythology. The celebrated Hayashi Ensemble led by Taneo Wakayama performs with driving rhythms to accompany elaborate theatricals of mime and dance.

Description: Amidst the swirl of Tokyo's seamy nightlife of designer drugs, casual sex, and American slang, Zhou turns 30. It's a spiritual crisis for this Chinese immigrant who quotes Confucius, this Lothario and con artist who fences stolen goods. He falls for Kyoko, a seemingly shy provincial woman looking for the man who jilted her sister. As their relationship plays out, Hanawa intercuts stories of Kazuo, a hyper- kinetic artist who loves the trendy Yoko (Kazuo bores her and she pursues the indifferent Zhou), and Ali, a Pakistani Muslim who, broke and forlorn, stands outside a convenience store love-struck by a clerk because she looked into his eyes (she thought he was shop-lifting).

Description: A hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and two children to visit his parents in his hometown for the 1991 new year holidays. He decides that they will go by car to save on expenses. Unfortunately, the long drive from Tokyo to his hometown becomes a much longer journey than expected due to traffic, sickness and other misfortunes and by the time they arrive three days later, they only have time for a short but happy visit.