![[the-ainu-bear-ceremony--Film-list-image]](/wp-content/plugins/rai-films/uploads.php?file=uploads/rai/rai_the_ainu_bear_ceremony.jpg&w=800&h=auto)
1931 / 27 minutes
- Directed by
- Neil G. Munro
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
Buy film
Institutional use
£80 / $100 / €90
plus VAT if applicable
plus VAT if applicable
1 year $149; 3 years $299; perpetual $499
The RAI has reedited the original film of this ceremony among the Ainu people of Japan. In the bear ceremony, now no longer performed, a specially reared bear was reverently killed and its flesh and blood eaten by the participants. The film shows a series of ritual acts with some commentary on their meaning.
![[the-ainu-bear-ceremony--Film-list-image]](/wp-content/plugins/rai-films/uploads.php?file=uploads/rai/rai_the_ainu_bear_ceremony.jpg&w=1053&h=auto)
- Language and subtitles
- English (no subtitles)
- Region
- Central Asia and Far East
- Country
- Japan
- Keywords
- Ritual Animals Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples