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Short films by Steven Okazaki, Vol. 1 : featuring the mushroom club ; hunting tigers ; life was good / Farallon Films ; a film by Steven Okazaki.

Burbank, CA : Farallon Films, 2005, 1995, 1988.

1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

The mushroom club. "Filmmaker Ozazaki returns to the city where the first atomic bomb was dropped to find a society where memories of the devasting event are fading ... He finds a dwindling community of survivors and others wheo seek to keep the story alive and vivid."--Hunting tigers. "Hunting Tigers provides an off-beat and entertaining look at four strange and wonderful Japanese artists in a world populated, not by soulless salarymen, but by unique and sometimes brilliant creative spirits. Features Nobel Prize-winning writer Kenzaburo Oe, Genqui Numata, Jun Togawa, Rosa Tsukinoyo and Saburo Teshigawara." -- Life was good. "Life Was Good chronicles Claudia Peterson's transformation from Mormon housewife into political activist as she realizes that her family's health and happiness is threatened by her own government's atomic testing program." -- videodisc cover.

Hunting tigers: Discussion of art and culture in Japan by Kenzaburo Oe and other Japanese artists.

Life was good: A documentary about Claudia Peterson, a woman whose life was forever altered by being downwind from the Nevada nuclear testing site. This documentary chronicles Claudia's experiences from her seemingly idyllic childhood to her realization that the threat to her family's health and happiness has come from her own government's atomic testing program.

Documentary films.

Art -- Japan.

Art, Japanese.

Nuclear weapons testing victims -- Utah.

Japan -- Civilization.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.

Oki, Keisuke.

Ōe, Kenzaburō, 1935-2023

Okazaki, Steven.

Watanabe, Tomoko.

Orenstein, Peggy.

Nakazawa, Keiji.

Saiki, Toshiko.

Togawa, Jun.

Numata, Genqui.

Tsukinoyo, Rosa.

Teshigawara, Saburō.

Peterson, Claudia.

Boshell, Emoret.

Peterson, Phil.

Orton, Larry.

Farallon Films.

Mushroom club

Hunting tigers

Life was good

Mushroom club: Tomoko Watanabe, Peggy Orenstein, producers ;John Adams, Tin Hat Trio, Icarus, music, ; Steven Okazaki, produced, writter, director, film & editor.

Hunting tigers: Photography, Minoru Hiroyoshi.

Life was good: Photography, Marc C. Pingry ; music, Karl J. Goldring ; narrator, Peggy Orenstein.

Mushroom club: Keiji Nakazawa, Toshiko Saiki.

Hunting tigers: Kenzaburo Oe, Jun Togawa, Genqui Numata, Rosa Tsukinoyo, Saburo Teshigawara.

Life was good: Claudia Peterson, Emoret Boshell, Phil Peterson, Larry Orton.

DVD.

English.

2005 Academy Award nominee Best Documentary Short Subject.

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