Village Potters of Onda

Onda ware is the pottery produced around the town of Onda by ten families. The entire village works -- or as of 1965, when this movie was made, worked -- in the process, from gather stones to be ground into clay to packing the finished product in rice straw. The sort of pottery is derived from Korean pottery that was brought to Japan in the 17th century. In 1995, the Japanese government declared Onda Ware an Intangible Cultural Property, a highly regarded process and set of skills.

To a background track of a shamisen, the narrator offer a discussion of the art, its history, how it is made, and the revival of such objects of folk art. Meanwhile the images show us what is going on. It's informative, although I am not as fond of the shamisen as some, appropriate to the subject as it may be.