Hadaka Mutsuri Festival
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 3
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hadaka Mitsuri (Naked Festival). DESCRIPTION: Thousands of men, in near nakedness take part in this annual ceremony of ‘Purification’ and then proceed to the main event - the hunt for the sacred amulets. SHOTLIST: GV dusk Buddhist temple. Angle ditto. MS Japanese lantern. MCU candles burning. MCU small boy. MS child’s face. MS candles lit. MS men dancing. MS small boy on shoulders of man. MS Japanese dancing. MS men into water for purification. Various of men in water. Men out of water jogging about. MS men around and on steps of the temple. MS mass of Japanese men. MS people watching. MS men en masse waiting for sacred amulets to be thrown in (not seen). Various of men jumping into mass to find amulets (2). Crowd clapping. Various of 2 men who found amulets being shouldered in triumph. MS crowd clapping. MS men carrying amulets.
- Keywords
- Ceremonies; Religion and belief
- Locations
- Japan; Saidaiji
- Footage sources
- Japan
- Card file number
- 78/35
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 300
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How to cite this record
'Hadaka Mutsuri Festival', British Movietone News Issue No. 2545, 12 Mar 1978. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/31115 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)