On the Road A Document , Dokyumento roj? is a Japanese documentary from 1964 directed by Noriaki Tsuchimoto.
The film was originally commissioned by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the National Police Agency as a traffic safety documentary. Tsuchimotos proposal had won the competition for the project, but he ended up changing the film after cooperating with a cab drivers union which was protesting work conditions. The film was partially scripted and amateur actors played the main roles. The resulting film offended the TMPD, which refused to use it.The film won several foreign and domestic awards in 1964. The film critic Chris Fujiwara, commenting about the DVD, called On the Road A Document a breakthrough film . . . Constantly imaginative and vigorous in depicting movement but never fetishising it in a facile or celebratory way, On the Road has the workingclass speed and grimness of an early1930s Warner Bros film, at the same time reshaping stray observational surprises in the manner of Beat poetry. ........
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