Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire

9.5 2004 165 min
NR
Documentary History

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it flourished not through conquest and exploration, but by fierce and defiant isolation. And the man at the heart of this e…

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Directors
Deborah Ann DeSnoo, Lyn Goldfarb
Writers
Deborah Ann DeSnoo, Joan Meyerson, Lyn Goldfarb
Classification
NR

Cast

The cast behind this title

Michael Auslin Himself - Nikko Toshogu Shrine
Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey Herself - Otsuma Women's University
Richard Chamberlain Narrator
Michael Cooper Himself - Former Editor, 'Monumenta Nipponica'
Luke S. Roberts Himself - UC Santa Barbera

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