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The Heart of the Emergency Room (2023)
- Director
- ADACHI Takuro
- Cast
A documentary that closely follows the Emergency and Rescue Centre at the Nagoya Kaisaikai Hospital in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Produced by Abuno Katsuhiko and Hijikata Hiroshi (Yakuza and the Constitution & Goodbye TV), and directed by first time di...
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Dearest Viet (2024)
- Director
- KAWABATA Kohei
- Cast
Duc Nguyen was born conjoined to his twin brother Viet in 1981 as a result of the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. The separation surgery in 1988 was a monumental achievement for humankind that was broadcast across Vietnam and Japan. Despi...
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A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970)
- Director
- IMAMURA Shohei
- Cast
- AKAZA Tami, AKAZA Etsuko, AKAZA Akemi
Etsuko, the hostess of a Yokosuka drinking establishment catering to foreigners, reflects on her past for the camera. Encouraged by the results of his experimental pseudo-documentary A Man Vanishes (Ningen johatsu, 1967), Imamura was only too happy t...
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The World of Dementia (1985)
- Director
- HANEDA Sumiko
- Cast
Conceived with the purpose of conveying the everyday reality of elderly dementia patients, Haneda's film painstakingly documents the lives of residents in a care facility, turning the camera on their interactions and support for one another. The film...
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Into the Picture Scroll‐THE TALE OF YAMANAKA TOKIWA (2004)
- Director
- HANEDA Sumiko
- Cast
- KATAOKA Kyoko
An adaptation of the 12-volume, 150-meter-long picture scroll of the same name by early-Edo period painter IWASA Matabei, which was in turn based on a popular bunraku puppet play. Panning slowly sideways, the camera captures in rigorous detail the ac...
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Gifts from the kitchen (2024)
- Director
- KIKUCHI Hisashi
- Cast
Both parents of Fumi Sai are Taiwanese but she grew up in Japan. In 1971, she started a Chinese restrant "Fumin". With her excellent sense of taste and full of love that she got from her parents, she had run her restaurant for 45 years. The restauran...
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Life is Climbing (2023)
- Director
- NAKAHARA Sokichi
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Koichiro, SUZUKI Naoya, NISHIYAMA Kiyofumi
A documentary that follows Kobayashi Koichiro, a climber who lost his sight, and the challenges of his visual guide. Directed by Nakahara Sokichi, who interviewed Kobayashi closely for the TV program "The Nonfiction" in 2016. Kobayashi Koichiro, als...
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No election, no life (2023)
- Director
- MAEDA Aki
- Cast
- HATAKEYAMA Michiyoshi
Documentary about the ardor and anguish of freelance writer Hatakeyama Michiyoshi, who has covered elections for 25 years. Directed by Maeda Aki, producer of Why You Can't Be Prime Minister and Kagawa District 1. Hatakeyama throws himself into pursu...
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Alone Again in Fukushima (2023)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Mayu
- Cast
- MATSUMURA Naoto
Sequel to the 2015 documentary Alone in Fukushima about a man living in Tomioka, a town in Fukushima Prefecture rendered uninhabitable by the 2011 nuclear power accident. Nakamura Mayu returns as director, cinematographer and editor. Matsumura Naoto...
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"To Live" People Who Fought for the Okawa Elementary School Tsunami Trial (2022)
- Director
- TERADA Kazuhiro
- Cast
Documentary based on ten years of footage about the court case involving Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, where numerous people lost their lives in the Great East Japan Earthquake. Okawa Elementary School lost ten teach...
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With Each Passing Breath (2023)
- Director
- KAWAKAMI Atiqa
- Cast
- MINATOYA Kosome, MINATOYA Koryu
This documentary follows the development of Minatoya Kosome, who fell in love with and became an apprentice of Rōkyoku (traditional Japanese narrative singing) master Minatoya Koryu. Director Kawakami Atiqa, who directed the short film Minatoya Koryu...
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The Day of the State Funeral (2023)
- Director
- OSHIMA Arata
- Cast
A documentary that records the views of people in ten cities across Japan on the day of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo's state funeral. Directed by Oshima Arata of Why You Can't Be Prime Minister and Kagawa District 1 fame. On 27 September 2022, f...
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Raising Voices (2023)
- Director
- YAMAZAKI Yuji
- Cast
Documentary feature film about the 2019 "heckler removal" issue that expands on four years of investigative reporting by Hokkaido Broadcasting. On July 15, 2019, a man criticizing Abe's administration during a campaign rally was swarmed by police o...
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SHUNGA: THE LOST JAPANESE EROTICA (2023)
- Director
- HIRATA Junko
- Cast
- YOKOO Tadanori, AIDA Makoto, KIMURA Ryoko
Documentary that explores all aspects of the culture of Shunga, which flourished during the Edo period. The famous ukiyo-e artists of the Edo period, including Katsushika Hokusai and Kitagawa Utamaro, poured their extraordinary passion into shunga. ...
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Kadono Eiko's Colorful Life: Finding the Magic Within (2024)
- Director
- MIYAGAWA Marina
- Cast
- KADONO Eiko
A documentary that closely follows the daily life of Kadono Eiko, best known as the author of "Kiki's Delivery Service". Based on the NHK program of the same name that was broadcast from 2020 to 2022, directed by Miyagawa Marina, who also worked on t...
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Manzai Association THE MOVIE (2024)
- Director
- HANAWA Nobuyuki (a member of comedy duo "Knights")
- Cast
A documentary film about comedians in Tokyo who put their hearts on the stage. Why do Manzai performers continue to stand on the "stage"? Since June 2023, as a new and youngest ever chairman of Manzai association, Hanawa has been working to reform th...
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THE CHOCOLATE MAN (2022)
- Director
- SUZUKI Yuji
- Cast
Tokai TV's 14th documentary for theatrical release. Feature film version of the TV program that won the TV Category Grand Prize from the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association in 2021. The Quon Chocolate brand is located in Toyohashi City, Aichi ...
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hadaka no mura (2022)
- Director
- IOKIBE Yukio
- Cast
Haribote director Iokibe Yukio helms this documentary based on the Ishikawa TV programs "Hadaka no mura" and "Nihonkoku otokomura" that examine politics and society in staunchly conservative Ishikawa Prefecture. Governor Tanimoto Masanori held powe...
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Nihonbara Diary (2022)
- Director
- KUROBE Shunsuke
- Cast
Documentary about the Naito family, who live their dream of herding cattle in a mountain town that has a Self Defense Force training facility. The Japan Ground Self Defense Force Camp Nihonbara is located in Nagi, Okayama Prefecture, a town with 6,0...
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My Story,The Buraku Story (2022)
- Director
- MITSUWAKA Yusaku
- Cast
Mitsuwaka Yusaku's heartfelt documentary grabbed the top spot in Kinema Jumpo's Best Ten list for documentaries in 2022. Produced by Oshima Arata, who directed Why You Can't Be Prime Minister. The "burakumin" cast was legally abolished in 1871, but ...
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The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987)
- Director
- HARA Kazuo
- Cast
- OKUZAKI Kenzo
Electrifying documentary from world-renowned director Hara Kazuo about Okuzaki Kenzo, an anarchist who used radical means to doggedly confront the Emperor's wartime responsibility. Okuzaki Kenzo runs a battery and used car repair shop with his wife ...
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TOKYO POLTERGEIST (2023)
- Director
- GOTO Tsuyoshi
- Cast
- GOTO Tsuyoshi, SUMI Yukiko, TERADA Kokoro
Tsuyoshi, who produced the "Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan" series. A team of reporters goes undercover in a building in Sangenjaya, Tokyo, where psychic phenomena occur frequently. The film shows inexplicable psychic phenomena such a...
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Grandson of Yôkai (2023)
- Director
- UCHIYAMA Yuto
- Cast
Political documentary helmed by Uchiyama Yuto, who made his directorial debut with Tasting the Pancake for Poison, in collaboration with Star Sands, the production company behind biting social commentaries including The Journalist. The late Abe Shin...
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Alone Together (2023)
- Director
- MISHIMA Yukiko
- Cast
The first documentary film by Mishima Yukiko, known for her films Dear Etranger and Red. A "state of emergency" was declared on April 7, 2020 as a countermeasure against the new coronavirus, and life changed completely. At dawn on 22 April, Mishima'...
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THE FOOLS prison and babylon (2022)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Shinichi
- Cast
- ITO Ko, KAWADA Ryo, FUKUSHIMA Seiji
A spectacular documentary that closely examines "ten years" of the solitary rock band THE FOOLS. Directed by Takahashi Shinichi of Cu-Bop fame. Since its formation in 1980, THE FOOLS, led by vocalist Ito Ko and guitarist Kawada Ryo, has undergone se...
