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JAKUCHO: An Extraordinary Life of a Japanese Nun (TBC) (2022)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Yu
- Cast
- SETOUCHI Jakucho
Chronicle of the life of a Japanese Buddhist Jakucho Setouchi also known as award winning novelist, and activist, who passed away in 2021 with 99 years old. Full of touching moments with her treasured words shot and kept for 17 years by her closed TV...
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How We Work, How We Live (2021)
- Director
- MORIGAKI Yukihiro
- Cast
- ARIMURA Kasumi, SHISON Jun
Two actors cover the stories of various workers such as caregivers, farmers, and more, especially during the pandemic. They re-recognize the kinds of work that cannot be done remotely and the value of those work....
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I'll never forget Cowra (2021)
- Director
- MITSUDA Yasuhiro
- Cast
The Rainbow Over The River Kwai director Mitsuda Yasuhiro uncovers the truth about the group of Japanese war prisoners who tried to escape from a POW camp in Australia. During World War II the Cowra 12th Prisoner of War Camp granted the POWs a certa...
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Minamata Mandala (2020)
- Director
- HARA Kazuo
- Cast
Documentary shot over a two-decade period by The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On director Hara Kazuo. Documents multilayered lives and stories of Minamata, where debilitating disease continues to cast a long shadow. On October 15, 2004, the Supreme...
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Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions (2019)
- Director
- KOMORI Haruka, SEO Natsumi
- Cast
- KODA Haruka, YONEKAWA Ko Leon, SAKAI Haruka
Documentary that emerged from a project from the artist unit Komori Haruka + Seo Natsumi, whose collaboration began through volunteer activities after the Great East Japan Earthquake. In 2018, four travelers gathered for a workshop based in Rikuzent...
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Olympiad Tokyo Kasumigaoka Public Apartments (2020)
- Director
- AOYAMA Shinya
- Cast
Documentary about the lives of Kasumigaoka Public Apartments residents leading up to their eviction. Depicts the history of exclusion that unfolds under the specter of "Olympics First." Directed, shot and edited by filmmaker Aoyama Shinya. The city-...
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OKINAWA/SANTOS (2020)
- Director
- MATSUBAYASHI Yoju
- Cast
The dark, hidden immigrant history between Okinawa and Brazil is the subject of this documentary. Matsubayashi Yoju, the director known for The Horses of Fukushima, brings to light the truth about cases of Japanese immigrants being forcibly deported....
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Now is the Past ~My Father, Java & the Phantom Films~ (2021)
- Director
- ISE Shinichi
- Cast
- ISE Chonosuke, ISE Shinichi, ISE Kayo
Documentary filmmaker Ise Shinichi investigates the "phantom" films that his father Ise Chonosuke made in Indonesia during the war. Ise Chonosuke went to Indonesia to make propaganda films as a member of the cultural battlefront. His eldest son Shin...
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Whiplash of the Dead (2021)
- Director
- DAISHIMA Haruhiko
- Cast
Through interviews with people who knew the young man who lost his life in the First Haneda Struggle of 1967, this documentary sheds light on the "unusually fierce era". The director is Daishima Haruhiko of The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories and...
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fOUL (2021)
- Director
- OISHI Noriko
- Cast
- TANIGUCHI Ken, HIRAMATSU Manabu, OCHI Daisuke
Burning guitar, rousing bass and fierce drums... A band called fOUL, which has a sound and appearance that cannot be found anywhere. This is the documentary of the band and their performances. A documentary of the band called "fOUL", which has a ...
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HOSONO HARUOMI SAYONARA AMERICA (2021)
- Director
- SADO Taketoshi
- Cast
- HOSONO Haruomi
Music is fun, Music is free, because it doesn't need a mask! Two years have passed since the release of "NO SMOKING" (2019), a documentary film commemorating the 50th anniversary of Haruomi Hosono's debut. The world has changed drastically due to th...
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RAMEN FEVER (2021)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Mari
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Shigetoshi, NAKAMURA Hiroto, TAKEI Kazuyuki
Ramen rules the world. "Food" is a universal topic and a concern for people. In recent years, Japanese food has become popular, and its delicacy and its aspect as a healthy food have been widely accepted throughout the world. Ramen, in particular, h...
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The Pursuit of Perfection (2021)
- Director
- SAITO Toshimichi
- Cast
Focusing on four of the leading chefs in Japan today, this documentary explores the truth behind Japan's unique and sophisticated food culture. Each takes meticulous care of their own dishes in pursuit of perfection, but their approaches are quite di...
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To Die Ordinary - Independent Life (2020)
- Director
- SADASUE Mayako
- Cast
- SAKAGUCHI Emiko, SHIMIZU Akihiko, RI KUNIMOTO Syuji
This is a sequel to the film Living an Ordinary Life which documented for five years the parents who created a social welfare facility in Shizuoka Prefecture's Fuji City under the ideal living normally in the region even with severe disabilities". T...
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THE UNNAMEABLE DANCE (2021)
- Director
- INUDO Isshin
- Cast
- TANAKA Min, ISHIHARA Rin, NAKAMURA Tatsuya
--No Genre-- Most dance belongs to a genre of some kind: ballet, jazz dance, social dance, hip-hop, or contemporary. There is also a "dark" kind of butoh dance whose founder was the brilliant Tatsumi Hijikata, a style of dance now recognized all ove...
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Ura Zokki (2021)
- Director
- SHINOHARA Rie
- Cast
- Citizens of Gamagori City, TAKENAKA Naoto, YAMADA Takayuki
"ZOKKI" is a unique film directed by Naoto Takenaka, Takayuki Yamada, and Takumi Saitoh. It is a live-action adaptation of a short story collection by manga artist, Hiroyuki Ohashi. The people of Gamagori City, Aichi, where the film will be shot, wer...
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PLANETIST (2020)
- Director
- TOYODA Toshiaki
- Cast
- MIYAGAWA Noritsugu, GOMA, KUBOZUKA Yosuke
Documentary selected for the Special Screenings program at the 19th TOKYO FILMeX. Director Toyoda Toshiaki fell in love with the natural splendor of the World Heritage Ogasawara Islands after visiting in 2014, and he moved to the islands and spent fo...
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Battle of Okinawa: Unknown Sad Memories (2019)
- Director
- OTA Takafumi
- Cast
Documentary that delves into memories of the horrific combat in Okinawa, the site of Japan's only land warfare during World War II. Ota Takafumi helmed the feature film The House of Rising Suns about a tragic nuclear power plant accident. A third of...
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RESONANCE (2020)
- Director
- TANAKA Toshinori
- Cast
- AOYAGI Takuji
Tokyo-born Takuji was raised by his mother and guitarist grandfather. He becomes a musician himself and father of two daughters. He leaves the ever-changing modern metropolis where people are divorced from nature and relocates to Okinawa. There, an i...
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Tank Sit-In Protest:Japanese Citizen VS.U.S. Military (2020)
- Director
- TSUJI Toyofumi
- Cast
In 1972 toward the final stages of the Vietnam War, a protest movement arose against the U.S. military's repair of tanks at the Sagami General Supply Depot in Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture and their transport to the Yokohama north docks. This ...
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I quit, being "friends" (2020)
- Director
- IMAMURA Ayako
- Cast
Film director Imamura Ayako who filmed herself wrestling with communication barriers in Start Line points the camera at her relationship with her friend in this documentary. Full of discontent "me" (Imamura), the film director, and my friend "Ma-cha...
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)
- Director
- SHINDO Kaneto
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, KYO Machiko, YAMADA Isuzu
This is a documentary on the life and films of Kenji Mizoguchi, the great Japanese film director who died in 1956, directed by the now well-known creator of films who was once assistant director to Mizoguchi. Beginning in the hospital where Mizoguch...
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AKIRA Shimada (2021)
- Director
- SAKO Tadahiko
- Cast
Feature-length documentary that sheds light on the overlooked wartime history of Okinawa, helmed by Sako Tadahiko of Kamejiro: The U.S. Military's Most Feared Man. Draws on newly uncovered materials to piece together the full picture of the epic Okin...
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Songs of Triumph (2020)
- Director
- SAKAGUCHI Katsumi
- Cast
- YAMAUCHI Kimie, YAMAUCHI Sadamu, NAKAMURA Kenichi
Documentary capturing nine years in the lives of ex-Hansen's disease patients. Sakaguchi Katsumi has helmed seven feature films to date including Walking with My Mother, which won the 2015 Agency for Cultural Affairs Film Award. Yamauchi Kimie was p...
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epok's Atelier (2020)
- Director
- NAMBU Michitoshi
- Cast
- SUGAYA Shinichi, THE CRO-MAGNONS, OKAMOTO'S
Documentary delving into the production process of designer Sugaya Shinichi, who creates record jackets for famous Japanese musicians. Sugaya's quirky resume includes studying architecture in college and working at a family-run factory after graduat...
