A reenactment of Japanese audience at a theater in Japan. Women in kimonos arrive. The audience look towards a cinema movie screen and applauds. Views of faces of the men and women in the audience as they watch the film. A man and a woman watch the show.
Japanese emperor inspects Japanese fleet in Japan. Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his staff boards a flagship. Emperor Hirohito reviews his fleet. Japanese sailors salute their emperor. The Emperor's ship passes the Japanese fleet anchored in a harbor. Squadrons of aircraft fly overhead. Cruisers speed along and fire guns.
Activities of children in Japan. Japanese children walking on a street. Mountains in the background. Children on their way to school. A truck passes on the street. A woman rows a boat with oars underway at a river. Sailing boats underway at river. Children aboard a boat.
Activities of the people in Japan. People engage in different sports activities. Teams march in formation on the ground. People seated in the stadium to watch the matches and the games. Japanese flag flies atop flag pole. Teams participate in skiing, swimming, high jump and racing. Trees in the background. A ship underway at sea.
"Kabuki-Za" Theater (specialized in Japanese traditional kabukis) in Ginza Higashi, Kyobashi-Ward (current Chuo-Ward, Tokyo, Japan. Japanese crowd arrive at "Kabuki-Za" Theater. Japanese women wearing kimono look at wall paintings (kabuki posters). In the backstage, Ichikawa Danjyuro XI (famous kabuki performer,1909-1965) is reading play scripts of today's musical program called "Kagami-zishi" and a female impersonator (Danjyuro XI) is getting ready in front of the mirror. The stage curtain rises. The audience seated. Singers with traditional kabuki band starts playing and singing kabuki music on the stage. Danjyuro XI performs a kabuki dance as a female impersonator . Kabuki perfomers (consist of only males) dressed in costumes perform dance.
A sumo wrestling match in Japan. The sumo wrestlers and a referee in ring. Spectators watching the match. The crowd applauds.