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A Lullaby Under the Nuclear Sky (2014)
- Director
- KANA Tomoko
- Cast
Personal documentary from director Kana Tomoko, who has covered environmental issues and people suffering misfortune in films like Beautiful Islands. This film documents the pregnancy she discovered immediately after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and...
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DDT: Dramatic Dream Team!! -We are Japanese Wrestlers!- (2016)
- Director
- Muscle SAKAI, MATSUE Tetsuaki
- Cast
- OHKA Ken, HARASHIMA, DANSHOKU DIENO
Documentary about the DTT professional wrestling federation that advocates "cultural pro wrestling." Directed by wrestler Muscle Sakai of Gekijoban Proresu Kyanonboru 2014 and Matsue Tetsuaki of Flashback Memories 3D. Fall 2015. Matches are held bet...
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Zen and Bones (2016)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Takayuki
- Cast
- Henry MITTWER, WENTZ Eiji, YO Kimiko
Documentar y about the tumul tuous li fe of Japanese-American zen monk Henry Mittwer. Delves into Henry Mittwer as a person using documentary footage along with varied techniques including animation and drama vignettes. Directed by Nakamura Takayuki ...
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Watanabe Mamoru jidenteki documentary Dai 2 bu tsuwamono domo ga asobi no ato Watanabe Mamoru ga kataru pink eigashi kohen (2012)
- Director
- IKAWA Koichiro
- Cast
- WATANABE Mamoru
Watanabe Mamoru has shot over 200 pink films, dedicating the entirety of his directing career to the genre. In this final installment of a four-part documentary series, Watanabe talks about his own life. The director, Ikawa Koichiro, served as the sc...
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Watanabe Mamoru jidenteki documentary Dai 1 bu ito no kireta tako Watanabe Mamoru ga kataru Watanabe Mamoru kohen (2012)
- Director
- IKAWA Koichiro
- Cast
- WATANABE Mamoru
Watanabe Mamoru jidenteki documentary Dai 1 bu ito no kireta tako Watanabe Mamoru ga kataru Watanabe Mamoru kohen Watanabe Mamoru has shot over 200 pink films, dedicating the entirety of his directing career to the genre. In this second installment ...
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Inheritance (2015)
- Director
- INOUE Junichi
- Cast
- TARUKAWA Kazuya, TARUKAWA Mitsuyo
Documentary about the dialogue between students from Tokyo who visit Fukushima Prefecture's Sukagawa City in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident and a family struggling to keep their farm in operation. Directed by Inou...
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TSUKIJI WONDERLAND (2016)
- Director
- ENDO Naotaro
- Cast
A documentary filmed over 16 months closely chronicling, including areas never before filmed, the Tsukiji Market which is due to be moved to Toyosu in November of 2016. Endo Naotaro, who has been involved in wide ranging works from advertisements to ...
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HIGH HEELS REVOLUTION (2016)
- Director
- KOHATSU Yo
- Cast
- MAJIKINA Natsuki, HAMADA Tatsuomi, FUJITA Tomoko
Documentary covering the experiences of transsexual Majikina Natsuki from teenage years to the present. Vivid depiction of how Majikina made her choice to live as a woman, interspersed with drama sequences. Directed by Kohatsu Yo of Raise the Castle!...
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Start Line (2016)
- Director
- IMAMURA Ayako
- Cast
- IMAMURA Ayako
Film director Imamura Ayako, who was born deaf, turns the camera on herself and documents her bicycle journey traversing the length of Japan from Okinawa to Hokkaido. The film's theme is "communication" and depicts her interactions with the people me...
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Watanabe Mamoru jidenteki documentary dai 2 bu tsuwamono domo ga asobi no ato Watanabe Mamoru ga kataru pink eigashi zenpen (2012)
- Director
- IKAWA Koichiro
- Cast
- WATANABE Mamoru
Watanabe Mamoru has shot over 200 pink films, dedicating the entirety of his directing career to the genre. In this third installment of a four-part documentary series, Watanabe talks about his own life. The director, Ikawa Koichiro, served as the sc...
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The Rainbow Over The River Kwai (2016)
- Director
- MITSUDA Yasuhiro
- Cast
- NAGASE Takashi
Documentary about the so-called Death Railway built by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Pacific War. In-depth coverage of Nagase Takashi, who was stationed in Thailand as an army interpreter and spent his life atoning for the many lives taken du...
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Time to Dance (2015)
- Director
- NONAKA Mariko
- Cast
- MURATA Kaori
Film directed by Nonaka Mariko of {Children's Time} and Bing Bang Zing Zang Art Class. Documentary about people who have no dance experience or knowledge, showing those same people liberate their bodies and minds through dance. Dancer Murata Kaori c...
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KEN SAN (2016)
- Director
- HIBI Yuichi
- Cast
- TAKAKURA Ken, Michael DOUGLAS, Martin SCORSESE
Interviews with over 20 people from Japan and abroad relate the unseen side of actor Takakura Ken, who passed away in 2014. The documentary is directed by New York based photographer Hibi Yuichi and was awarded the Best Documentary in the Documentari...
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Watanabe Mamoru jidenteki documentary Dai 1 bu ito no kireta tako Watanabe Mamoru ga kataru Watanabe Mamoru zenpen (2012)
- Director
- IKAWA Koichiro
- Cast
- WATANABE Mamoru
Watanabe Mamoru has shot over 200 pink films, dedicating the entirety of his directing career to the genre. In this first installment of a four-part documentary series, Watanabe talks about his own life. The director, Ikawa Koichiro, served as the sc...
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Tora-san in Goto (2016)
- Director
- OURA Masaru
- Cast
- INUZUKA Torao
A documentary shot from 1993 and over 22 years chronicled a large family who make their living as udon noodle makers on the Goto Archipelago in Nagasaki Prefecture. It was awarded the Magnolia Award for Best Documentary at the 22nd Shanghai TV Festiv...
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Distance (2016)
- Director
- OKAMOTO Mana
- Cast
Okamoto Mana makes her directorial debut with this personal documentary about her family. Selected for the New Asian Currents program at the 2015 Yamagata International Film Festival. The director's parents divorced when she was little, and currentl...
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Ishibumi (2016)
- Director
- KORE-EDA Hirokazu
- Cast
- AYASE Haruka, IKEGAMI Akira
A re-edit of an atomic bomb documentary aired in 2015 to commemorate the 70th year after the end of World War II. Based on "Ishibumi", which aired in 1969, readings of family memoirs give prominence to the lives of 321 Hiroshima Prefectural Middle Sc...
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KAMPAI! FOR THE LOVE OF SAKE (2015)
- Director
- KONISHI Mirai
- Cast
- John GAUNTNER, Phillip HARPER, KUJI Kosuke
Documentary conveying the profundity of Japanese sake through three outsiders involved in the world of sake. Directed by Konishi Mirai of Blind and Close to You. Philip Harper is the first foreigner to become a sake brewer and spends his days in Kyo...
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Sonzaisuru riyu Documentary of AKB48 (2016)
- Director
- ISHIHARA Makoto
- Cast
- AKB48
The fifth documentary about idol group AKB48. It is directed by former NHK producer, Ishihara Shin, who has continued to follow the group since before they became popular. 2015 should have been the year commemorating the 10th anniversary of the grou...
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while we kiss the sky (2015)
- Director
- MOGI Ayako, Werner PENZEL
- Cast
A documentary shining a spotlight on Shobu Gakuen, an institution for people with developmental disabilities in Kagoshima City. "Silent Color Silent Voice" director Mogi Ayako co-directs with German filmmaker Werner Penzel who directed Step Across th...
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Live Fashionably or Die (2016)
- Director
- TANAKA Yukio
- Cast
Documentary with an uplifting message about elderly society featuring a fashion show with senior citizens walking the runway. Director Tanaka Yukio has dealt with numerous minority issues in films including ITECHO and Mapping the Future, Nishinari. ...
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Atoms for Peace (2015)
- Director
- NITTA Yoshitaka
- Cast
- MATSUNAGA Ruiko, SUZUKI Tatsujiro, ISHIHARA Yoshinori
Road movie featuring Matsunaga Ruiko, whose grandmother survived the Nagasaki atomic bomb. Directed by Nitta Yoshitaka of Utae machigwa. The Fukushima nuclear power plant accident on March 11, 2011 prompts Ruiko to go on a journey to Nagasaki, Fukus...
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Come on home to SATO (2015)
- Director
- SHIGEE Yoshiki
- Cast
Documentary about Kodomo no Sato, a safe haven for children in the day labor district of Nishinari, Osaka. The facility assists children of all nationalities, irrespective of disabilities, from preschool through twenty years of age. Shigee Yoshiki ma...
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FAKE (2016)
- Director
- MORI Tatsuya
- Cast
- SAMURAGOCHI Mamoru
This film marks the return to the director's chair for the first time in fifteen years for Mori Tatsuya, who has stirred up controversy with challenging films like A about the cult Aum Shinrikyo. He lays bare a malady of our times with footage shot a...
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MOSHPIT (2016)
- Director
- IWABUCHI Hiroki
- Cast
- Have a Nice Day!, OYASUMI HOLOGRAM, NATURE DANGER GANG
Documentary shot with 17 cameras covering a gigantic free party featuring two bands and an idol unit. Produced by HMJM of the unorthodox hit The Sex Cannon Ball Run 2013, The Movie, with Iwabuchi Hiroki as director. November 18, 2015. Throngs of peo...
