japanese
Kamei Fumio Retrospective [PR and Educational Films]

Norihei Travel Manners

(“Norihei toraberu manaa”)
- 1966 / Color / 16mm (orig. 35mm) / 27 min

Director: Kuramasu Takuma
Script: Ishikura Masako
Photography: Nakao Shunichiro, Matsuda Tadahiko
Sound: Ohashi Tetsuya (Aoi Studio)
Music: Ono Matsuo
Narrator: Miki Norihei
Planning: Japan Airlines
Producer: Tsuruoka Masao
Cast: Miki Norihei, Tomita Kotaro
Production Company, Source: Japan Document Film

This film depicts overseas travel etiquette as we follow comedian Miki Norihei on a European journey. Miki checks in at the airport, fills out a customs declaration, does last-minute preparations on the plane, eats inflight meals, and fills out a disembarkation card. After arriving in Europe, he exchanges money, then winds up staying at the wrong hotel. In Paris he gets lost and ends up sightseeing with JAL package tour members. At the hotel he floods the shower and then goes into the hallway naked. Later, he goes shopping in town, then is surprised to realize that all of his purchases say “Made in Japan.” Also in the film, we see a Venetian gondola, the guards at Buckingham Palace and Spanish flamenco.



• Kamei Fumio Retrospective [Pre-War Works] Hiking Song | Shape without Shape | An Introduction to Radio: The Audience | School Broadcasting | The Geology of Fuji | Airspace [Pre-War Documentary Films] Shanghai | Peking | Fighting Soldiers | Kobayashi Issa [Post-War Documentary Films] A Japanese Tragedy | Children of the Base | The People of Sunagawa | Wheat Will Never Fall | Still It’s Good to Live | Record of Blood: Sunagawa | The World Is Terrified: The Reality of the “Ash of Death” | Living in a Rough Sea | Fluttering Pigeons | Voice of Hiroshima | Men Are All Brothers | Towards a World without Arms | All Must Live: People, Insects and Birds | All Living Things Are Friends—Lullabies of Birds, Insects and Fish [Feature Films] War and Peace | A Woman’s Life | Become a Mother, Become a Woman | Woman Walking Alone on the Earth [PR and Educational Films] Poem of Life | Invitation to Japanese Architecture | Penmanship | Quiet Construction Methods | Living with Ideas: A Profile of Sharp | Let’s Weave a Rainbow | Hong Kong, Taipei | Norihei Travel Manners | The Southern Cross Is Calling | Wishing for Tomorrow’s Happiness [Other Works] Underwear Makes the Woman | The Models and the Photographer | Kamei on Kamei: A Record of Yesterday’s Film Production Discussion Group | Human Conceit: The World of Director Kamei Fumio