Tsukiji

Tsukiji is a city symphony film of sorts dedicated to the largest fishmarket in the world and one of the last surviving proletarian spaces in Tokyo A film about cutting in a double sense it harkens back to a moment of intersection of modernism and social realism evoking the ghost of the leftwing Japanese novelist of the 1920s and 30s Takiji Kobayashi author of Kani kosen The Factory Ship and an early victim of Japanese fascism Allan Sekula