Customer Reviews

Discovery Atlas: Japan Revealed

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Having spent 39 months in Japan, I was disappointed in the content and brevity of the DVD. Too much time on the subject of Geisha and not enough time on the architectural and natural beauty of Japan.

Good video for someone interested in Japanese culture. Could be used with a class of intermediate or high school students. Reasonable balance between historic sights and modern Japanese culture.

This film is one of the best to introduce Japan and Japanese culture to non-Japanese people. I've been teaching Japanese culture over 7 years and figured out this film is the finest material to endorse what I try to explain about Japan.

I agree, this is not the best documentary made about Japan, and I admit that I was a little bit disappointed by it. However this is still a good documentary, with a lot of interesting informations about this great and fascinating Country. The biggest problem I have with this DVD is that it's only 43 minutes long, not even an hour, so this was really disappointing to me, but overall it's a good DVD to add to your collection. :)

For the price I expect a lot more. But it was just average quality. I would shop around for a better value. And the length of the video is short for the price.

I have been to Japan, studied Japanese for a time and have watched many travelog type videos on Japan but this is by far the best! I learned how a single tuna could be worth $8,000, about a civilization under the sea that has been recently discovered off Japan, about the life of a geisha, etc. We were enchanted from beginning to end. A fascinating culture and I highly recommended this enlightening DVD.