Tokyo in 1949 - Amazing Vintage Footage

[@katyu16]

This is the best footage of Tokyo I've ever seen!

[@NicOz42]

This camera is better than the ones we have to secure our home.

[@azia5051]

Love how every one wear a western cloths.

[@alexlinkinparkful]

Those times when Japan had to rebuild its cities, and they did it quickly.

[@azia5051]

I know right, in America it’s take years to do it’s.

[@kennethdaniels3000]

@@azia5051 Even in Minneapolis, you could see burnt ruins of the BLM riots torching everything. Same thing with Baltimore and other inner cities. Diversity works!

[@walterthecat2145]

@@azia5051 When was America bombed

[@Discontinuedalready7372]

@@azia5051 _America assisted the rebuilding by paying the Japanese government for recovery_

[@obamalastname34]

One thing that can't Africa do. Japan was annihilated yet they rose to the occasion.

[@palashbaruah4653]

The locality with wooden buildings on both sides at the end looks exactly like some of the small towns of 2020 in my state. Wow.. incredible.

[@adel-711]

Those are priceless videos they should be preserved for future generations.

[@alukuhito]

WTF do you think is happening now? You're literally watching a film that has been carefully kept for over 70 years and it's been put on KZbin where it will likely stay a very long time.

[@stephenlight647]

Very interesting video. It would be great to have some information on the source of the recording, as well as the section(s) of Tokyo shown.

[@scootin123]

Stephen Fotos go idea . To the publisher . Title this in Japanese so The Japanese can pick it up. Their comments would be interesting

[@hsun7997]

Read the comments below the video...

[@freemarketjoe9869]

Breathtaking. Mesmerizing, priceless footage. Japan and America seem to be remarkably always on the same page, for two completely different cultures. Franklin Lloyd Right studying in Japan clearly shows in his prairie style architecture. I wish i could jump right off the footage and be there it is so fascinating.

[@alukuhito]

On the same page in what way? This is US-occupied Japan.

[@古本隆男-k3g]

This picture was taken in December 1948. It is a film for "Tokyo Joe" starring Humphrey Bogart. The place is in Tokyo, Shimbashi, Shibuya, Haneda.

[@linusfotograf]

Is it raw footage which they took parts from and put it in a movie?

[@jminx._8366]

My grandma was born in Tokyo in the year of 1929

[@huskymomo]

Tao민 nice is she still in japan?

[@raferut2088]

Tao민 wow that’s nice in the 50’s my grandma worked at a hotel in Kyoto I forgot what it was called but my mom visited her mother’s places.

[@artart9671]

Mine was born in Hiroshima in 1916

[@Incognito_Name]

Jenichi Kawakami was born this yeat.

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

@@artart9671 Did she survive ww2?

[@robertshanks3674]

Beautifully photographed

[@neilalbaugh4793]

More of post-war Japan: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKGrdmCjZcl5gcU

[@vocaloiddownloader6461]

映像に子供が結構映ってる…この子たちが今日の日本に尽力したんだと思えて感慨深い

[@patriciahowellcassity767]

Very good, thank you.

[@androstein1863]

Nice camera with nice stabilizer

[@slyellow2travels]

What a smooth video... is gimbal cam exist in 1950s?

[@IsleNaK]

judging by another comment it was shot by professionals (with professional equipment) for the film "Tokyo Joe" starring Humphrey Bogart.

[@iTiffanyi]

Anybody know where the music comes from? It's very relaxing. Nice vid!

[@wendigo2442]

I made that

[@neilalbaugh4793]

A stroll along the Ginza @ about 3:00. It was a familiar sight when I lived there as a kid 1047 to 1950. I remember buying stuff from those canvas-covered stalls along the sidewalk.

[@neilalbaugh4793]

1947

[@MapleMilk]

Thank you for posting this footage.

[@doransshield9176]

7:45 that kid who's still learning how to walk properly has now lived out an entire life, I wonder how he/she is doing nowadays

[@kato4871]

0:00(1)　外堀通り（現・新橋二丁目交差点辺りから西へ） 1:01(2)　(1)を引き返し 1:57(3)　道玄坂西へ・・・映画「Tokyo Joe（1949）」で使われていた。 3:19(4)　(1)の道路反対側より 5:25(5)　羽田（弁天橋辺りから弁天橋通りを西へ） 6:51(逆さ4)　(5)と同じ道。 　 「Okeyjet さん、すいません。操作ミスで以前のコメントが消えました。」orz

[@kato4871]

0:00 (1)　Sotobori Street (Shimbashi) 1:01 (2)　Sotobori Street Return 1:57 (3)　Dogenzaka (Shibuya)・・・Movie「Tokyo Joe（1949）」scene 3:19 (4) 　(1)From the other side of the road 5:25 (5)　Bentenbashi Street (Haneda) 6:51 (Upside down 4) 　Bentenbashi Street (Haneda)

[@bvierville1]

Thank you!

[@raferut2088]

I know I’m late to comment on this but holy cow this really makes me emotional. 😢

[@andycheng9066]

Hard to believe that this was all ashes just 3 years before this was filmed

[@MrEjidorie]

I guess most of passersby in this footage have already passed away, but they made great contributions to rebuild Japan after World War II. As a postwar Japanese, I appreciate them for their great efforts to make today`s Japan as an affluent nation.

[@savedbygrace2397]

I wish that I could step into the picture.

[@sticc3978]

Tru

[@suriac6749]

i was 14 years old in 1949 ( i am japanese ) im 84 now

[@frenkli9815]

suri ac do you mind me asking what was your personal experience during the war? You don’t have to answer I’m just very interested in hearing the stories of those that survived. My grandfather was also alive during that time but in Europe.

[@JunaidKhan-up2nb]

Huge respect Sir.

[@grandmamildred8688]

CN you tell about the war sir

[@addisonyoungg8052]

Impermanence is such a beautiful thing it’s interesting to see how things were like 70 plus years ago on the other side of the planet

[@eddyjuillerat835]

Stunning.

[@vat513]

Not even 5 years after the world war II , Japan developed so much at that time .

[@Keplerb-od1lr]

Back when people in Tokyo were well dressed and conducted themselves in an orderly fashion.

[@IsleNaK]

this is footage for a movie (judging by comments. "Tokyo Joe" starring Humphrey Bogart.)

[@alukuhito]

It's still pretty much the same in those regards compared to other countries.

[@wintersnoob]

Each face a history. How many Japanese veterans appear here? How many of them suffered, practiced or seen brutalities? War is very tragic thing but time.... time is by far the most tragic thing of all. It's been 70 years, pretty much all of those that appear are dead, probably their children too. Their time on this world is now only evidenced by a scene in a video uploaded to youtube.

[@highrevs6110]

wintersnoob. Not All,, I was there as a soldier four years later. Very similar conditions

[@Kirio1984]

Awesome, thanks

[@orchidlilly7518]

I wonder who did the music? Thank-you.

[@vikramrao6391]

Prolly the last time there were so many American cars on Japanese streets. Amazing footage, apt music...perfect.

[@jusride7]

So different from what I saw. Amazing. We will all do this.

[@capstone19]

That’s amazing!

[@nizamudinauliaghifary3511]

bruh even in 1949 their city is more developed than my city now

[@brunofanti6047]

very interesting !

[@elmaster6207]

I know there is a comment that says MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE AREN'T ALIVE ANYMORE.

[@removed107]

Que diferença entre os anos 80 até 50, japão criou tudo muito rápido, e as eras passam num instante.

[@naoyay.9970]

by the way, why did you add such a creepy background daily noise on first half of this video? As a Japanese, (since I can understand Japanese, of course) It is obviously mismatching :( But video was just awesome. Thanks for uploading

[@Pralco]

I think it fits very well, and is not creepy at all. Just a matter of preference, I don't think it has to have anything to do with Japanese culture.

[@Claudia-wm5jf]

I didn't think it was creepy, more like relaxing music.

[@andylindsaytunes]

The fact that the incidental audio in the clip clearly isn't from the images we see, and it's distracting. Seems like an odd choice.

[@savedbygrace2397]

Naoya Y., the music evokes glimpses of a lost era, like peering at a sunken ship. It’s not about the subject but the distance they are to us. It’s a lost world.

[@naoyay.9970]

What I mean is, it's like listening to the Avengers' low-tone-voice trailer while watching old movie's trailer. Selling strategies and phrases that didn't exist in 1949 appeared several times in added audio, and since Japanese society was far more masculine than today, it was impossible for women to be a sales person and yell at streets. I respect those of who have responded to my comment, and I don't care whether you know either Japanese history or culture. However, if original video film was a silent film (or if the original audio had been lost), they could post silent film with bgm as usual, instead of adding daily noise. I cannot understand why the uploader has needed to add inaccurate daily noise. just a soliloquy.

[@pncake_]

ahhh yes. i remember those roads. good times.

[@xxxtakaji-kaixxx9016]

How does it look like now?...is it still the same when u returned to those roads that u have been too?.....if not bc I’m sad for u That...bc the roads are changed into different new roads....may god bless ur soul

[@jinqiankanqi3651]

@@xxxtakaji-kaixxx9016I lived near the place in the last footage and I cant believe that many infrastructures are built just few years after the war. It completely different right now though since its already been replaced by apartments. But some old buildings still remains.

[@jinqiankanqi3651]

@@xxxtakaji-kaixxx9016 But the roads form are still just the same

[@Playsinvain]

All these people, still alive today

[@pengyigu7164]

Amazing.

[@kappakonbu]

I don’t know What to say but I definately felt something to watch this video,,

[@silentakafantasytsg1526]

That's a pretty peace of footage

[@dannyrz2237]

Where is the another video with the cool shamizen music?

[@dangeroustoaster2688]

Ahhhh, the good days without anime. *exhales*

[@Claudia-wm5jf]

I know you were making a joke, but anime has existed since before the war.

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

This is before modern anime which is crap at least there were no weebs in the 40s

[@gerijokub7737]

@@AbrahamLincoln4 ahem no weebs back then? Lafcadio Hearn... From 19th century?

[@hsun7997]

Dawn Bringer you gotta smoke a blunt buddy

[@tobyque9399]

Wow japan was so westernized then

[@planetpaulie5566]

I think you mean "developed", but yes, it was. And this is after all of the destruction from the war.

[@broks689]

no

[@broks689]

china no

[@KM-tb8vn]

1600s Tokyo was already the most populous city in the world. And the worlds dominating military power (most guns in the world). It was already a developed first world nation pre war.

[@IsleNaK]

it was already westernized in the 1920s

[@alfonsorincon6098]

how beautiful it looks. but the atmosphere seems sad and calm to me. I do not know .

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

+FootageArchive - Videos From The Past >>> Any idea what kind of camera and camera mount this was shot with? This was filmed *decades* before the "Steadicam" was invented. Was the cameraman just *that good* at holding the camera steady?

[@thegriffin88]

My grandparents went to Japan around this time and I've seen their slides of their trip (and although we all want to be willed the stone lantern they somehow got back to NJ nobody wants the Kabuki doll that thing is scary and probably haunted.) I've always wondered what it actually felt like. That mid-point between the traditional and the modern Westernization and then that mix you see today. For reference: My grandfather was a chemical engineer and his company was setting up a location in Japan so he and my grandmother went there to take a tour of it in the late 50's. I wish I could have asked them more about it.

[@猪口玉来留夫]

何処だろう…　銀座かな？　凄い貴重な映像ですね！

[@videlladelveen5048]

Wow nice

[@dennischapman8683]

Gorgeous

[@disicaray5495]

can i use it in my short film

[@marknailis]

This footage was used in Tokyo Joe (movie)

[@武の子-v6o]

They build cities so fast and every time it gets destroyed is built up and thriving the next decade. Sim city irl Tokyo edition.

[@CuteLamb]

1080p 30fps ?!?!

[@richardlau7488]

In 1949 most women still wore Kimono, by 1954 most women wore western cloth.

[@nazarpolischuk2969]

What's the music?

[@p47koji]

Some initial footage in the city showed Hibiya but it was hard not to stare into the faces in the chance my grandparents, mom and aunt were filmed. If this was 1949, it was definitely pro stuff. It surprised me not seeing more Allied Occupational Forces. My dad was a Japanese-American who enlisted in the US Army and was stationed there 1947 to 1949 as a sergeant translating at thousands of war crimes tribunals conducted in Quonset huts. Any vehicles shown were operated by military personnel unless contracted.

[@theresamariewilliams4080]

yes, could not escape the looks on their faces.I wondered the same things as you. My mother would have been 13 years old & displaced. She's 88 yrs old, now. I a presently searching for her Koseki. She was age 20 when she left Japan, 7 months pregnant with me. My Dad was an African American soldier, stationed near Yokohama. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@p47koji]

If you journey back to Japan, you can try to personally go to the administrative offices and ask for any records. You may need birth documents, marriage certificates, etc., but you may find them to be cooperative.

[@frangio4862]

There was a lot of American influence on cars.

[@gerijokub7737]

That's because most of the cars in this video were American :D

[@alpzepta]

Around this time Toyota was just made their first car: Toyoda AA Subaru,Datsun, and Honda didn’t even exist Mitsubishi probably only focus on their Fuso Truck and Jeep clone

[@JesseReinosa]

Incredible footage. The closest we will get to a time machine. 95% of the people we see are dead now

[@alukuhito]

More like 70%. Lots of those kids are probably still around now.

[@elmermelendez4139]

Impresionante!

[@After4th]

Back when you spot mostly left handed steering vehicles other than jeeps and speed limit in miles per hour.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

(1) It would be *interesting* for *someone* to return to these locations - in 2018 {or whenever} - and shoot video in the same places this film was shot in. (2) After watching this, I realized that the vehicles are all driving on the left side of the road. I thought vehicles drove on the right side of the road in Japan.

[@jminx._8366]

RocKiteman _ 2001 Some people in japan still walk on the left while going forwards but not all of us.

[@m1k3x07]

RocKiteman _ 2001 I believe some of these roads might not exist anymore. Tokyo drastically changed. I’ve seen images from 1960s to 2015 and roads and buildings have been totally altered. I can’t imagine the 1940s locations being same. Regardless, I can’t believe some of these are tokyo!!’ Totally different place

[@jawohlmeinfuhrer8933]

japan already have drones in 1949

[@NT-jb2vy]

Nice footage, would be a shame if an enormous radoactive reptillian monster destroyed the place in 6 years

[@MrEjidorie]

Are you talking about Godzilla? Don`t worry, Tokyo was rebult very quickly after that disaster.

[@greekmacedonianwegreeksare6035]

And Greekistan never developed, improved and changed for the bettter in 70 years. Wow.

[@nazarpolischuk2969]

Music?

[@Mr_x_19922]

Damn!! Japan was so poor back then

[@alukuhito]

It's weird that of all things, THAT's what you're thinking when you watch this. How strange.

[@dharkalex2653]

Onichan yamete no kudasai ieeeee itaiiii iku ikuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[@therondo6116]

Looks better than Berlin 1949

[@박승-v8j]

지금의 어느 광주시내 와 견주어도 손색이 없이 발전된 동경이네요.

[@xxxtakaji-kaixxx9016]

5 yrs ago 1945:America Dropping little boy and Fat man on both Japanese lands Hiroshima and Nagasaki Tokyo heard the ground shake and seeing a devastation mushroom cloud over the horizon on Hiroshima They all panicked if they were there next victim for the bomb but nothing happen the people in Hiroshima have died or lived through the blast Many people are still in the bomb zone doing there casual things of ignoring the destruction of there city 1 yr later 1946:people are helping to rebuild the city after its aftermath of the dead zone they decide to bring in more people to help and rebuild its place This may take for yrs and months or even days to rebuild what it was many workers have come to see this huge place crumble As workers start to work as many of them are living and ofcourse dead many people are rescued from there injured body More bricks and supplies are coming as they rebuild its city and this may not be easy for them to rebuild for yrs 2 yrs later 1947:it’s construction is not going well for the people as many people are dying from radiation sickness and loss of hair they exit the aftermath that morning but never cannot enter intill it’s radiation is gone from the dead zone 3 yrs later :more coming soon till tomorrow or the next day:

[@alukuhito]

The USA bombed Tokyo with conventional bombs so much that it wouldn't have made a big difference if they also dropped an A-bomb on Tokyo.

[@roygbiv330]

dprk of 1990s looked similar to the landscapes

[@pubegokpubegok9243]

From aceh indonesia l love u japan!!♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@tokyobrandon]

I know that dude

[@yogadgsix]

I want to back on these year, where is my time machine?

[@IsleNaK]

you think post-war times were fun?

[@sorin_channel]

Damn, world was so colourless back then!

[@zetuboutosyaana]

もう焼け野原とか闇市とか無いのかな？ 浮浪児とかもいなさそうだけど

[@mistagunther8569]

And kiddos,,, Please know this was not done for Google maps!!!!!

[@عبدالرحمنفراجالدوسري]

مغيرين ومتكبرين من صغرهم

[@seekfreak5281]

انت عندك مشكلة.

[@seekfreak5281]

انت عندك مشكلة

[@jonathanriveraromero5960]

The fashion

[@猿田彦-s9o]

戦後4年とは思えないな

[@amigochevere5217]

All women still wearing traditional dresses, I wonder around when they switched

[@Targetbanking-pe6ml]

apna dili abhi bhii aisa hai

[@gameteacher2007]

🇮🇳❤🇯🇵❤🇰🇷

[@noeltheshemale]

2:48 pretty Japanese girl.

[@Bny30]

ahhhh yes before the JDM :(

[@alpzepta]

This was when Toyota was still produce their first car a Toyoda AA It’s probably a Supra back in the day lol

[@eternal0795]

Cuando el anime aun no existia

[@TheMrTTT]

No potholes. Mmmm

[@artbasss]

fkn gorgeous

[@grahamparr3933]

Yes they were rebuilding with yankee dollars, same as West Germany, meanwhile their erstwhile allies the Brits were paying off the “debt” owed the the yanks till 1986.

[@jetsamjetsam]

better than india today

[@ce9068]

Am i the only one who thinks that they were literally black and white in these days?

[@alukuhito]

Be quiet.

[@user-gf6kl2bq2]

49년인데 뭔 한국 60년대 같냐?

[@khoirulanam9141]

Tokyo 1945 was destroy and at 1949 like this, that insane

[@jaivekkanabar6865]

khoirul anam Tokyo was not destroyed Nagasaki and Hiroshima was destroyed

[@暁くたち]

@@jaivekkanabar6865 khoirul anam is right. all over Tokyo was completely destroyed by over 100 air raids of bombing and firebombing from Nov. 1944 to July 1945, 100,000 citizens dead and 150,000 injured. we, Japanese, call it the "Great Tokyo Air Raids".

[@alukuhito]

@@jaivekkanabar6865 What are you talking about? Tokyo was utterly destroyed in WW2 by conventional bombs. Look it up.

[@andycheng9066]

@@jaivekkanabar6865 Deadliest air raid in history, look up Operation Meetinghouse

[@gamingpassion4449]

If this was us people would be waving and doing cring shit in front of camera.

[@9965paul]

*The man in the high castle but its opposite day*