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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...
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The Choice Is Ours: What Is the Future of the Japanese Constitution? (2016)
- Director
- MATSUI Hisako
- Cast
- SETOUCHI Jakucho, MAGOSAKI Ukeru, HASEBE Yasuo
A documentary created with the aim of disseminating knowledge about the Japanese Constitution to the citizenry. Present-day Japan has been unsettled by revisions to Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution which states "never to commit war" and "never...
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Listen (2016)
- Director
- MAKIHARA Eri, DAKEI
- Cast
- YONAIYAMA Akihiro, YOKOO Yumi, SAZAWA Shizue
Documentary without audio produced by deaf people. Music is depicted visually with the complete absence of musical instruments or voices. Directed by Makihara Eri and choreographer Dakei. With a diverse lineup including ordinary deaf people with zer...
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About My Liberty -SEALDs 2015- (2016)
- Director
- NISHIHARA Takashi
- Cast
A documentary about SEALDs, the student group which became the heart of protests opposing proposed measures related to national security, closely covering a span of six months from the group's beginnings of merely a few members to the unrest by a thr...
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An Eden For Two (2016)
- Director
- SASAKI Akira
- Cast
- TANAKA Torao, TANAKA Fusako, YADA Keiko
A television documentary series which has won many awards including the 2004 Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association Award in the entertainment category is adapted as a feature film. It portrays over twenty-five years a couple living a self-suffici...
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The Sion Sono (2016)
- Director
- OSHIMA Arata
- Cast
- SONO Sion, SOMETANI Shota, NIKAIDO Fumi
A documentary following maverick director Sono Sion, who is also active in literature, painting, and street performance among other fields. It covers a year in Sono's life starting from September of 2014, closely surveiling as well the filming of The...
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Ametsuchi no hibi (2015)
- Director
- KAWASE Mika
- Cast
- MATSUDA Yoneshi, OGYU Shinzo, YAMAUCHI Tokushin
Documentary about potter Matsuda Yoneshi's "Kitagama" pottery in Yomitan Village, Okinawa. He uses the island's soil as clay and creates shapes using a pottery wheel, and then fires the pieces in a shared 13-chamber climbing kiln. The documentary rec...
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Beyond the Tsunami - Onagawa,Hearts Connected - (2016)
- Director
- INUI Hiroaki
- Cast
- ABE Atsushi, ISHIMORI Yoetsu, ABE Yuri
Documentary about Onagawa Town in Miyagi Prefecture as it recovers from the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Depicts the young people who lead the recovery and the bonds between the town and Qatar, which gave aid immediately following the disaster. Nar...
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Beyond Manga! - Fujio Akatsuka (2016)
- Director
- TOMINAGA Masanori
- Cast
- AKATSUKA Fujio, AOKI Kozue, AKATSUKA Rieko
This documentary looks back on the unprecedented life of Akatsuka Fujio, the nationally beloved manga artist known for 'Osomatsu-kun', 'The Genius Bakabon', among others. Guiding the viewer is the character from what is said to be Akatsuka's crownin...
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A Voiceless Cry (2015)
- Director
- HARAMURA Masaki
- Cast
- KIMURA Michio, KIMURA Shigeko, INOUE Yukiko
Documentary that retraces the experiences of 79-year-old farmer-cum-poet Kimura Michio, who lives in Tohoku. Narrated by actress Muroi Shigeru, whose prolific work in TV and film includes The Little House. Poetry readings by internationally renowned ...
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Under the cherry tree (2015)
- Director
- TANAKA Kei
- Cast
A documentary set in the municipal apartment complex of Kawasaki City which has become host to elderly people living alone and depicts their indomitable existence in the face of loneliness. Director Tanaka Kei makes her commercial film debut with thi...
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6600 volt (2015)
- Director
- SHIMOHONJI Takashi
- Cast
- YAMABE Zenjiro
A documentary road movie following Hakata-based artist/musician Yamabe Zenjiro for the 3 years leading up to his 60th birthday. The film gets a close look at the hidden side of Yamabe, who has continued his robust activities despite the severe injuri...
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DOGLEGS (2015)
- Director
- Heath COZENS
- Cast
- SAMBO Shintaro, Antithesis KITAJIMA, NAKAJIMA Yuki
New Zealand-born director Heath Cozens' documentary covers Japan's professional wrestling organization for the disabled, "Doglegs". Centered around its star wrestler, Sambo Shintaro, the film shows the fluctuating joys and sorrows of their friends an...
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RAISE YOUR ARMS AND TWIST Documentary of NMB48 (2016)
- Director
- FUNAHASHI Atsushi
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Sayaka, OKITA Ayaka, SHIROMA Miru
Documentary following the trajectory of the idol group NMB48 from the Namba district of Osaka. Directed by Funahashi Atsushi from the Japan-US co-production Big River starring Odagiri Jo. Opened on the same day as Documentary of HKT48. NMB48 has ste...
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LE JAPON, L’EMPEREUR ET L’ARMÉE (2009)
- Director
- WATANABE Kenichi
- Cast
- DEN Hideo, John DOWER, HIGUCHI Yoichi
A documentary dealing with lingering controversies of Japan's post-war history directed by Watanabe Kenichi who won the 2006 Grenoble International Nature and Environmental Film Festival's Artistic Prize for CHERRY BLOSSOMS. This film competed in the...
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Dryads in a Snow Valley (2015)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Shigeru
- Cast
- KOGURE Shigeo
Documentary about people living in the snowbelt region of Niigata Prefecture near the Nagano Prefecture border. Director Kobayashi Shigeru and his crew spent five years to shoot and finish the film. Official selection for the 2015 Yamagata Internatio...
