Osaka: The Dynamic City

Duration: 600

Year Published: 1986

Creator: Japanese National Tourist Organization

Complete Record: Promotional tourism film about the city of Osaka, Japan. Color, 1986, sound, 20 min. Scenes include: street parades and celebrations traditional costumes, women in kimonos shops appealing to tourists modern cityscape with high rise buildings city automobile traffic and pedestrian scenes the river flowing through the city with tourist boat traditional wooden buildings and ancient temples Osaka Castle - a national landmark map showing relation to closest cities on the island inside the Japanese stock exchange autumnal color of tree leaves crowded city streets city parks children in traditional costume traditional puppet performance stone temple interior of traditional houses tea ceremony luxury hotel and fine dining contemporary fashion show with catwalk waterfalls and fountains ceremonial processions ancient dolls modern shopping mall night exteriors of the city neon lighting of buildings and flashing billboards restaurants and dishes available electronic stores dance performance with Broadway/cabaret costumes tea gardens with pedestrian bridge more street parades city scenes at night with the river Osaka is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū. Often dubbed the second city of Japan, Osaka was historically the commercial capital of Japan, and to date the heart of Japan's second largest metropolitan area. A unique title that the city of Osaka holds is the first place in Japan for day to night population ratio, a depiction of Osaka's economic- and commerce-centric character. While at night time the population ranks third place in the country at 2.6 million, in daytime it surges to 3.7 million, second only after Tokyo. Osaka is traditionally considered the gourmet food capital of Japan.