Abstract:

Most of us know Japan primarily through its products - seductive consumer goods whose high-tech, high-fashion styling has taken the world by storm. Through unprecedented access to top designers and executives in the fields of electronics, furnishings, and fashion, this entertaining documentary shows how modern Japanese design has helped create a Japanese consumer lifestyle that is being exported around the world. Discussion guide. Produced by David Rabinovitch; written by Katherine McCoy, former director of the Industrial Design Society of America.