The Song of Stone (Ishi no uta). Toshio Matsumoto, 1963.
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Edition screened: Included on Cineliciouspics Blu-ray Funeral Parade of Roses, released 2017. Japanese language with English subtitles, and score by Kuniharu Akiyama. Runtime approximately 24 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
An avant-garde documentary using photographs by Ernest Satow of sculptor Masayuki Nagare combined with documentation of industrial rock cutters at work.