Baraka: many interesting Japan scenes

Posted on 19. Jan, 2009 @ 6:38 pm by in Media Views: 833

I recently watched Baraka, a beautiful film featuring scenes of humanity from around the world. Lots of the scenes in the film were shot in Asia, and there are a significant amount from Japan. I don’t have a blue-ray player so I saw it on DVD, but word on the street says it is one of the most impressive movies to watch on Blue-ray available today.

The movie is a bit “old” now and it seems that most of the shots are from the 1980s, but it’s a great film – really a joy to watch and I highly recommend it .

There are many clips from Baraka on YouTube, but really, check out the DVD (or Blue-ray disc if you’re lucky enough to have a player) and try to watch it on a big screen with good audio as its meant to be watched.

As I mentioned, many scenes from Japan found their way into Baraka, including capsule hotels, monks, crowded trains, factory workers, and temples and Japanese rock gardens to name a few. Having lived in Japan for so long it was fun seeing Japan from an “exotic” perspective again.

This YouTube clip is from one of the many excellent scenes in Baraka. You’ll notice that Japanese Butoh dancing makes an appearance as well.

Some Japan scenes are in this next video at about 8:35 – even has a guy on a platform wiping his sweat… fascinating.

Enjoy!

- Harvey

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  • John Wang

    Nice post Harv… Baraka is great. I always wondered if the human race died out, and future civilisations stumbled upon this DVD (and a dvd player :), would it be a good insight into our species.

  • Luke

    Might look great on DVD, but looks like crap on YouTube! :-P I’ll have to check it out sometime- they have it at the library?

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    Yeah they have it at our library! On DVD! No blueray… not like us students have blueray players anyway though.

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