NFB Collection
Japan Inc: Lessons for North America?
198027 min 59 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Kalle Lasn
Production: Kalle LasnJohn TaylorPeter JonesJohn Coney
Script: Joe Wiesenfeld
Co-produced by the NFB KCTS/9, University of Washington, and Psychomedia.
Organization, discipline and productivity in Japan are on a scale not known in any other country of the world. For the 110 million people of Japan, survival means doing things together--a concept that has seen that nation automate and computerize at an unparalleled rate. Just how this level of achievement was reached is the subject of this absorbing documentary study of Japanese business and industry.
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Subject categories
- Industry and Commerce > Foreign CountriesManagementWork and Labour Relations
- Social Issues > Foreign SocietiesWork and Unemployment
- Work and Labour Relations > Human ResourcesWork Processes
- Foreign Countries > Japan
- Health/Personal Development > Careers & Education
- History and Citizenship Education > Economy and Development (1500-present)
- Diversity > Identity
- Geography > Territory: Regional
Credits
- director
- Kalle Lasn
- producer
- Kalle Lasn
- editing
- Kalle Lasn
- executive producer
- John Taylor
- Peter Jones
- John Coney
- script
- Joe Wiesenfeld
- camera
- Bill Schmalz
- Yukio Yamashita
- Fumio Sakuma
- sound mixer
- Paul Sharpe
- narrator
- Stan Peters
- Hideo Iso
Awards
- Silver Screen AwardU.S. Industrial Film Festival
- Chris Bronze Plaque - Category: Social Studies International Film and Video Festival