Product Details

• Actors: Various
• Directors: Don Warrener
• Format: Color, Digital Sound, Full Screen, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Yamazato
• DVD Release Date: April 27, 2005
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009J2GW2
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #114,900 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
On this DVD you will see some of the World's best Taiko bands in action. Taiko originated from Japanese war drumming. Today, Taiko, as a musical genre, has become very popular worldwide. There are now hundreds of Taiko bands.

Traditional Taiko drumming has a sound that is as basic and as pure as the beating of the human heart.

This DVD features the disciplined performances of some of the world's best Taiko bands. You will see powerful drumming and hear unique rhythms that elicit an excitement that only Taiko can produce. These exciting performances will please you with their power and discipline as only traditional Japanese Taiko can.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Drums of Thunder, October 6, 2005

By	Sandra Ligowski - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The DVD is poorly shot. The sound is ok but it look like a home movie, shakey, people walking in front of the camera,most of the footage was shot with one camera.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Almost a home movie, September 6, 2006

By	Harry W. Moore - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The following comments are not about the very talented drummers who are making the music. It is the production that is the problem. I had not expected a commercial DVD to be shot in such a manner that:
-- there would be people walking between the camera and stage or talking loudly enough so that (at times) private conversation was picked up by the microphone.

--Most of the shooting appears to be shot from a single point of view.


-- There are no indications of who the groups are.

-- Some of the groups shots start with the group already playing.

-- The lead in the the disk shows a group playing but there is no sound.

Only a couple of times does the camera jiggle so that it is obviously being poorly hand held.

I would put the techincal aspects of this production at the mid to high end home movie range. The drummers are indeed good, but not up the the "world's best" as advertised.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not really "the World's Best", March 31, 2006

By	Taiko Guy (NorCal, USA) - See all my reviews

Bought this DVD expecting to see some of the "World's Best" taiko groups, but then watched it and realized it was just a free community concert of amateur taiko groups at Nisei Week in Los Angeles. I asked my friend about it, who's in one of the groups on the DVD, and she said she had no idea they were videotaped or put onto a DVD. That's messed up