JAPANSCAPE by Empty Mind Films

This is a short selection of clips we put together that were shot mostly around Tokyo during downtime from making our Japanese Sword film in October and November 2009. Ninety percent were shot using the Canon EOS 7D hand held - we were actually testing the 7D for the first time with these shots around Tokyo! The fast motion clips were shot using our EX-3. Like all shoots of Tokyo, we include our version of the famous Shibuya crossing. Enjoy. Go to http://emptymindfilms.com for information and to visit our DVD store.

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Travel & Events

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• Japan
• Tokyo
• emptymind
• Jon Braeley
• Travel
• Nihon
• japan
• tokyo

[Quy4life]

Japan is so wonderful. the culture, the people, the language, the landscape, the nature are so beautiful!!!!

[Peekingduck]

Empty Mind Films are the best.

You guys are just totally outstanding !

[larbo1616]

I'll always be in love with Old Japan...

[mafurock33]

@beatrockas

You make a very valid comment.. but what is interesting, is everything that Japan has imported culturally they have really made their own, and beautifully naturalized into their own aesthetic.

A good example of this is music, If you compare Chinese and Japanese Koto music. Both are diverse traditions, but to generalize, Chinese is much more metallic, cheerful, bright, shining, immediate. Japan's koto is incredible depth, is more shadowed, subdued, transparent, open.. etc....

[mafurock33]

Might I suggest for alternate ideas for more culturally accurate traditional sounding music:

tracks containing shinobue, koto, shakuhachi, shamisen, biwa, nohkan, etc...

But while I critique the music, I wanted also to emphasize I also like the overall effect, especially the contrast of modern sounds/images with more traditional sounding images.

[mafurock33]

I *love* this film, but I did notice ONE thing that I that I feel was a big mistake:

The music.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

2 tracks in the film, containing flute and zither. They were beautiful, but these struck me as strikingly Chinese and NOT Japanese.

Japanese flutes and zithers do exist, but these definitely sound Chinese to me.

I really do love the video, but I think as a company that touts its self (justly) as a foremost expert on Asia, you should check and revise.

[beatrockas]

@sgtodeath well korea took what they learned from china and brought it to japan you ignoramus

[sgtodeath]

@beatrockas Korea my ass. Korean Culture was also Chinese. Both Korean and Japanese cultures were borrowed from China and eventually changed on their own.

[beatrockas]

@Quy4life you do know a lot of their culture is borrowed from china and i think korea

[TheSakanaR]

すこいい！！

おめでとうございますのありがとうございます。

This is a nice film, I'm heading off to Japan around late June after I attend Japan day in NYC.

[antijapanstyle]

我々日本人はあなた方の国に既に騎兵隊がいないことも知っている­しもともとアメリカに住んでいた現地人を概ね殺し終わったことも­知っています。が、海外の人々はこの表面的な動画で私たち日本の­国というところがどういうところか誤解しつつ理解していることも­知っています。