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Each and Every Battlefield (2015)
- Director
- KUSUYAMA Tadayuki
- Cast
- HARADA Kaname, SHIGETA Joji, Richard JIROKKO
Through interviews with various people who personally experienced the battlefront including former American soldiers and the last Zero Fighter pilot, Harada Kaname, this documentary delves into the dark side of war. In the director's chair is Kusuyam...
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Children's Tears ~Searching for Japanese Fathers~ (2014)
- Director
- SUNADA Yuki
- Cast
- Nippy NOYA, Mary DEHNE, Ron MAYER
An ongoing postwar issue unknown to even Japanese is examined by this documentary. During the Second World War, mixed-blood children were born to Eurasian women and Japanese soldiers or civilian personnel. The fathers repatriated back to Japan at war...
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Cu-Bop: Cuba-New York Music Documentary (2015)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Shinichi
- Cast
- Cesar LOPEZ, Axel TOSCA, Rolando LUNA
Documentary about Cuban musicians who persevere in the face of tough political circumstances. Directorial debut for photographer-cum-writer Takahashi Shinichi, who established a record label featuring Cuban music. Kamita Label is run by a Japanese t...
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Living with “Memories” (2015)
- Director
- DOI Toshikuni
- Cast
- KIM Sun-deok, KANG Deok-yeong
Documentary by Doi Toshikuni, whose numerous films include The Town of Iitate: Radiation and the Return Home. "Part One: House of Sharing" brings together the voices of former military sex slaves, and "Part Two: Kang Duk-Kyung" presents in-depth cove...
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Campaign Fest ! (2014)
- Director
- SUGIOKA Taiki
- Cast
- MIYAKE Yohei
This documentary follows the election campaign of musician Miyake Yohei, who announced his candidacy for the Japanese parliament's Upper House in July of 2013, and delves into his impassioned beliefs toward politics. Naturally lacking political expe...
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Beauty of Tradition -Under the sky of YANGON- (2015)
- Director
- KAWABATA Jun
- Cast
- Daw Shunn Le Aung, U Pho La Pyae, U Myo Min Than
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a traditional Myanmar music themed CD is provided in this documentary directed by Kawabata Jun, a photographer, composer, and film producer involved in film music and production. The CD production staff ha...
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Traveling by Leaps and Bounds: Portrait of Noh Actor Reijiro Tsumura (2015)
- Director
- MIYAKE Nagaru
- Cast
- TSUMURA Reijiro, KOJIRI Kenta, SAKAI Hana
A documentary film about Noh actor of the Kanze school, Reijiro Tsumura. The camera followed for five years the energetic Noh actor in his 70s who collaborates with performers from various different genres. The director Nagaru Miyake is known for his...
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What For？ (2014)
- Director
- SUZUKI Naoki, ANNOURA Toyoto
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Fumiaki, HIGASHINO Akihiko, HIKAWA Mariko
Documentary about five people whose lives were transformed through meeting Nakamura Fumiaki, who crisscrosses Japan giving lectures. A passionate teacher struggles with the transformation of education and tries to figure out what it really means to b...
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Okinawa: The Afterburn (2015)
- Director
- John JUNKERMAN
- Cast
- ISHIKAWA Mao, OTA Masahide, TAMAKI Yoko
Documentary about Okinawa, which saw vicious fighting during the Pacific War, by Japan's Peace Constitution director John Junkerman. Okinawa was the stage for the ground offensive that killed a quarter of the civilian population, and after the war sh...
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The Dalai Lama, the 14th - The Wolrd Champion Of Peace (2014)
- Director
- MITSUISHI Fujiro
- Cast
- The 14th Dalai Lama
This documentary follows 1989 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and supreme head of Tibetan Buddhism, the 14th Dalai Lama. Through this film, he delivers a message of encouragement to Japan which marked the 70th year since the end of World War 2. The camer...
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Akahama rock'n roll (2014)
- Director
- KONISHI Haruko
- Cast
- ABE Tsutomu, KAWAGUCHI Hiromi
Set in the Akahama neighborhood in Iwate Prefecture's Otsuchi-cho, an abundant seaside town nurtured by the mountains, rivers and an underground water vein. The story is about the power of citizens who protested a giant 14.5-meter seawall. The film p...
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Take your time - Arayashiki (2015)
- Director
- MOTOHASHI Seiichi
- Cast
- MIYAJIMA Makoto
Documentary capturing the lifestyle of people living on the Kyodo Gakusha Maki Farm in Nagano Prefecture. Directed by Motohashi Seiichi, who won the Don Quixote Special Mention and Reader Jury Award at the Berliner Zeitung at the 52nd Berlin Internat...
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Umi Yama Aida -In Between Mountains and Oceans- (2014)
- Director
- MIYAZAWA Masaaki
- Cast
- OGAWA Mitsuo, ONO Genmyo, KUMA Kengo
Held once every 20 years at the Ise Grand Shrine in Mie Prefecture, the Shikinen Sengu, a rite central to the relationship between Japanese and the natural world, is explored in this documentary by photographer Miyazawa Masaaki. It is the first ever ...
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Alone in Fukushima (2014)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Mayu
- Cast
- MATSUMURA Naoto, MATSUMURA Daisuke, HANGAI Shinichi
The true state-of-affairs of Tomioka, a town in Fukushima Prefecture, now a no-man's-land after its complete evacuation during the Fukushima #1 Nuclear Power Plant accident, are described in this documentary. It follows the life of Matsumura Naoto, t...
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MIYAKOJIMA TRIATHLON (2014)
- Director
- TAKANO Hiroki
- Cast
- TSUNODA Naoko, ISHII Asami, ISHIKAWA Tomonori
The Miyakojima All-Japan Triathlon Competition is the subject of this documentary which follows the behind-the-scenes ongoings at the 2014 competition of this, the oldest and exceedingly popular event among the numerous competitions in the nation. T...
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We are REDS! THE MOVIE minna minna minna (2014)
- Director
- ITO Shuto
- Cast
The conclusion to the two-part documentary about J-League soccer club, the Urawa Red Diamonds. Players, staff, and fans who were covered for a year throughout the 2014 season offer their thoughts on the team and deliberate on what is "giving support,...
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Sakanakun kenkyujo sakana no sekai e let's gyo tobu tatakau odoru hen (2015)
- Director
- FUKUHARA Tetsuya
- Cast
- Sakana-kun, NAKAYAMA Sara, TATSUTA Naoki
Nature documentary introducing the ecology of fish using high-quality footage from NHK Enterprises. Quizzes interspersed throughout the film add an element of audience participation. Sakana-kun is a celebrity-cum-faculty member at Tokyo University o...
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Lung Ta (2015)
- Director
- IKEYA Kaoru
- Cast
- NAKAHARA Kazuhiro
Documentary delving into the problems confronting Tibet using as its motif the concept of the Lung Ta, wind horses said to run up to the heavens bringing wishes from humans to the gods. Director Ikeya Kaoru has received numerous awards at internation...
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Trace the Future: Photographer Naoya Hatakeyama (2015)
- Director
- HATAKEYAMA Yohei
- Cast
- HATAKEYAMA Naoya
Documentary about Hatakeyama Naoya, the photographer who represented Japan at the 2001 Venice Biennale and is known for works that meticulously construct the relationship between people and nature. Follows Hatakeyama as he photographs the landscape o...
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BRAHMAN THE MOVIE (2015)
- Director
- YANAI Michihiko
- Cast
- TOSHI-LOW, KOHKI, MAKOTO
A documentary of the 4-man, hard rock band, BRAHMAN, as they celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2015. It is also the film directing debut of Yanai Michihiko, a creative director who has been involved with numerous commercials. Rooted in "stillness ...
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MAZE OF FEAR (2015)
- Director
- WAKABAYASHI Yusuke
- Cast
- SUGIMOTO Yusa, ITO Maki, FUKUYAMA Kana
Recreates the experience of Fuji-Q Highland amusement park's Senritsu Meikyu, reputed to be the world's greatest haunted house. The film recreates the sheer terror of the actual haunted house using theater-quality audio and footage from 10 cameras in...
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Sakanakun kenkyujo suggyoi osakana daishugou jump kakureru sekai saidai hen (2015)
- Director
- FUKUHARA Tetsuya
- Cast
- Sakana-kun, NAKAYAMA Sara, TATSUTA Naoki
Second film in the "Sakana-kun Laboratory" series that introduces the ecology of fish using high-quality footage from NHK Enterprises. Commentary by Sakana-kun, the celebrity-cum-faculty member at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. S...
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The Genealogy of Sake (2015)
- Director
- ISHII Kaori
- Cast
- SANBAI Koichi, NOGUCHI Naohiko, HASE Shokichi
The film focuses on the toji of Noto Peninsula, where is certified as a GIAHS, who pour their beautiful souls into Japanese Sake brewing. And the film shows the environment that the rice is grown in, and the holy ceremonies of the harvest. Toji act...
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The People Living in HADENYA (2014)
- Director
- AGATSUMA Kazuki
- Cast
Documentary intimately depicting the fishing village Hadenya in Miyagi Prefecture's Minamisanriku Town from March 2008 through the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. Agatsuma Kazuki makes his directorial debut with this film, which won th...
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Navy Tsukuba Air Corps - KAMIKAZE (2015)
- Director
- WAKATSUKI Osamu
- Cast
- KINASE Nobuya, YANAI Yoshiomi, HASHIMOTO Yoshio
Documentary exploring what really happened to the young men trained in Kasama City, Ibaraki Prefecture and dispatched as kamikaze pilots at the close of the Pacific War. This labor of love by prolific TV documentary director Wakatsuki Osamu painstaki...
