| TV Programs aired in 2003 (Titles in English are tentative translation) |
| There Goes Musashi! - Trivia to be the Greatest Swordsman- |
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| Watching NHK's serial drama "MUSASHI"? Come and enjoy this trivia on the life of Musashi MIYAMOTO, the legendary and greatest swardsman in Edo-era, which will bring you full enjoyment of his story. |
| "Journey for Legends of MUSASHI" |
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| The program will take you to armchair trip to places in Japan related with Musashi MIYAMOTO, the legendary and greatest swordsman in Edo-era, and the hero of NHK's serial drama. |
| Uta-kiko (Journey with Tanka) Only Yesterday, Just Around Us --- Revisited |
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| Steam locomotives, shoe polishers, watchmaker's shop, street peddlers of balloons and goldfish..... Those things surely existed just around us, only yesterday, and were quite often became charming motifs of Tanka, Japanese traditional poems. Where have all these common and familiar things gone? The program portrays nostalgic or heartwarming moments by visiting sites where they live in various forms; still in real life, in other styles or places, or in the days of fading away. |
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| MONDO21 New Mondo Research Institute |
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| The program explores the world of Kuniyoshi KANEKO, charismatic graphic artist for sexuality. |
| Human Documentary Series: Min TANAKA --- A Dance of the Earth |
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| Min TANAKA, 58 years old, is a world renowned Butoh dancer, who was given the L'ordre des arts et des lettres (Chevalier) by the French government and give Butoh lessons at the Dramatic School of Art in Moscow. His uniqueness lies not only in his dance, but also in his lifestyle; self-sustaining farm life with young dancers at a remote village deep in the mountains in Japan. The program focuses on his life and art, both of which are firmly rooted on mother earth, covering the farming, exercises, and producing dance in their village. |
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| BS Prime Time Documentary Say No to Temptations of Death: Days of the Suicide Hospital in Budapest |
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| In the capital of Hungary, which is long known for its high rate of suicide, there is a special mental clinic for those who have attempted suicides. The program focuses on the silent but severe struggle by patients and doctors for life in this "crisis section" of National Erzsebet Hospital. |
| NHK Human Lecture: The Way to Watch the Films |
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| Although it has been more than a century since the invention of the films, yet there is no "universal standards" in the visual expressions represented by television and the films, as we have in writing or speaking words. Mr. Oguri, who is a renowned film director with his masterpiece Doro no Kawa ('81), explores rules to produce and view visual images. |
| "Journey to My Soul" "South Korea - To Meet Another Myself That Has Gone Far Away" traveler : Motoko MICHIURA, Tanka Poet |
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| Ms. Motoko Michiura is a well known poet of Tanka, the traditional poetry of fixed form with 31 syllables. She also writes essays and biographies, and has been attracted by Fumiko KANEKO, an anarchist who died at mere 23 year-old age, in 1926, after uncompromising fight against the imperial system of Japan. Ms. Michiura visits places in South Korea, where Fumiko lived in her childhood and rests in peace now, and finds herself that once longed to live and die young for her own thoughts like Fumiko, but has lived much longer to be drifted far away from where she used to stand. |
| "Toast to the Earth" "Sound of Khai, Reviving on the Land of Altai" |
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| Documentary program on the people of Altai, who try to revive traditional songs called "Khai", which once almost went extinct under the Soviet regime. |
| "American Sketch" by Ryotaro SHIBA, Revisited |
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| Ryotaro Shiba, one of the greatest history novelist of post war Japan, traveled around in the U.S. in 1984, to find and watch the prototype of the nation which is "built only by civilization." Twenty years after his travel, the program revisits places with Prof. Yoshihiro TSURUMI at New York City University, and tries to find out unchanging and changing faces of this superpower and how Japan should deal with her. |
| Uta-kiko (Journey with Tanka) Now Haiku, Japanese traditional poetry of the shortest fixed form, with only 17 syllables, is getting popular worldwide. Tanka is the original and longer form of Haiku, made of 31 syllables, in which Japanese people have crystallized their sentiments over 1300 years. Uta-kiko is a serial 2 minute program of an anthology of Tanka made by Tanka poets in 19th and 20th century, with beautiful and lyric sceneries in Japan.
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