Movies
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Rakugo on screen Tatekawa Danshi the movie (2012)
- Director
- KATO Takeshi
- Cast
- TATEKAWA Danshi, MATSUOKA Yumiko, EMOTO Akira
Tatekawa Danshi, the one-of-a-kind genius rakugo performer who revolutionized the classic performing art of rakugo into entertaining and literary artistic works that also speak to contemporary society. Documentary created to memorialize the first ann...
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Love Okinawa at Henoko, Takae, Futenma (2012)
- Director
- FUJIMOTO Yukihisa, KAGEYAMA Asako
- Cast
A documentary that follows protest movements in Okinawa, from the maritime interception operation at Henoko in 2004 to the forced deployment of Osprey aircraft in October of 2012. Its directors are Fujimoto Yukihisa and Kageyama Asako, who focused on...
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Chasing Santa Claus (2012)
- Director
- IWABUCHI Hiroki
- Cast
A documentary from {A Permanent Part-time in Distress} director Iwabuchi Hiroki that presents a fantastical view of Christmas 2011 in Miyagi Prefecture's Sendai City, the first since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Through footage of Christmas event...
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Nippon no Misemonoyasan (2012)
- Director
- OKUTANI Yoichiro
- Cast
- Oo-tora freak show's people
Documentary focusing on the freak show, a type of popular culture in Japan dating from the Muromachi period. Director Okutani Yoichiro, who was honored with a Special Mention at the 2011 Yamagata Documentary International Film Festival's New Asian Cu...
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The Cat that Lived a Million Times (2012)
- Director
- KOTANI Tadasuke
- Cast
- SANO Yoko, WATANABE Makiko, FENG Yan
Sano Yoko, who was wrote extensively as a picture book author and essayist, and passed away in 2010 due to cancer. Without showing her face, this documentary records the final stage of her life after being told that she had little time remaining to l...
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A Pupa (2012)
- Director
- MIURA Junko
- Cast
- KINOSHITA Ai, KINOSHITA Yoko, KINOSHITA Miho
A documentary that follows fourteen years in the life of a young woman who has ceased to attend school. It offers an insight into the inner struggles of the estimated 120,000 children of elementary and junior high school age around Japan who have sto...
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MIS –Human Secret Weapon– (2012)
- Director
- SUZUKI Junichi
- Cast
- Harry AKUNE, Grant ICHIKAWA, Thomas SAKAMOTO
Directed by Suzuki Junichi, who has released a series of documentaries dealing with the little-known history of Japanese Americans. On the heels of Toyo's Camera -Japanese American History during WWⅡ- and 442 -Live with Honor, Die with Dignity-, this...
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61ha Kizuna (2011)
- Director
- NOZAWA Kazuyuki
- Cast
A documentary capturing the everyday lives of a couple who live at a sanatorium for leprosy sufferers. Through its depictions of the wife who cannot see and is physically disabled, and her husband who fusses over her, we gain glimpses of the life the...
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No Where To Go (2012)
- Director
- SHIMADA Ryuichi
- Cast
- YOSHIMURA Hisato
A documentary about a woman whose dream of becoming a singer was shattered. Its director is Shimada Ryuichi, a creator of numerous corporate videos who makes his feature directorial debut with this film. Yoshimura Hisato hitchhiked her way to Tokyo ...
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Nagaragawa dokonjo (2012)
- Director
- ABUNO Katsuhiko, KATAMOTO Takeshi
- Cast
Fourth theatrically released TV documentary produced by Tokai TV, creators of numerous outstanding social commentary documentaries. Co-directed by Abuno Katsuhiko, recipient of the Art Festival Excellence Award for {The Defender of Death-row Convicts...
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AIDA：a natural-born artist (2011)
- Director
- WATANABE Shogo
- Cast
- AIDA Makoto
Documentary focusing the spotlight on Aida Makoto, the contemporary artist known for his controversial and extreme style. A conceptual artist who delivers his message to society with paradoxical expressions, Aida has created numerous works with them...
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Drops of Heaven (2012)
- Director
- KAWAMURA Atsunori
- Cast
- TATSUMI Yoshiko
Documentary delving into the origins of the soup that chef-cum-essayist Tatsumi Yoshiko keeps on making. The soup that she ingeniously created and kept on making for her bed-ridden father came to be known as a soothing "soup of life." The beautiful ...
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Japan in a day (2012)
- Director
- Philip MARTIN, NARITA Gaku
- Cast
A documentary produced as a Japanese version of the 2011 film LIFE IN A DAY. Hollywood virtuoso Ridley Scott acted as supervising producer, and footage of Japan shot in the twelve months following the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11th 2011 wa...
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NAGARE the stream (2012)
- Director
- MURAKAMI Hiroyasu
- Cast
Documentary following two elderly people over a decade as they engage in surveying and preserving the living creatures in Nakatsu River, which flows through Kanagawa Prefecture. Won an award from MEXT at the 53rd Science and Technology Film/Video Fes...
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Reviving Recipes (2012)
- Director
- WATANABE Satoshi
- Cast
A documentary that shines a light on "heirloom vegetables" handed down through generations in Yamagata Prefecture. Its director is locally-bred Watanabe Satoshi, who also focused on Yamagata in his previous film Hijiori, Cure Resort. "Heirloom vege...
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MURASAKI (2011)
- Director
- KAWASE Mika
- Cast
A documentary about Yoshioka Sachio, the fifth-generation proprietor of Kyoto-based textile dyeing workshop Senshi Yoshioka that has been in business since the Edo Period. Director Kawase Mika, who previously helmed the documentary {BIG RETURNS} abou...
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Strains of Odyssey (2012)
- Director
- OGURI Kenichi
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Kenichiro, KOBAKEN and Friend's orchestra, IKEDA Riyoko
A documentary observing a year and a half in the life of conductor Kobayashi Kenichiro, who turned seventy in 2010. It presents a painstaking study of a moving concert put on by Kobayashi's orchestra which added 31 disabled performers to its ranks. ...
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Theatre 2 (2012)
- Director
- SODA Kazuhiro
- Cast
- HIRATA Oriza
Second half of the two-part documentary focusing on the creative site for the Seinendan Theater Company, headed by the world-renowned Japanese playwright Hirata Oriza. Directed by the hot documentary filmmaker Soda Kazuhiro, who has won awards at fil...
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Theatre 1 (2012)
- Director
- SODA Kazuhiro
- Cast
- HIRATA Oriza
First half of the two-part documentary focusing on the creative site for the Seinendan Theater Company, headed by the world-renowned Japanese playwright Hirata Oriza. Directed by the hot documentary filmmaker Soda Kazuhiro, who has won awards at film...
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Nuclear Nation (2012)
- Director
- FUNAHASHI Atsushi
- Cast
The town of Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture has grown in symbiosis with the Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant. This documentary is a record of nine months in the lives of its people, who faced a emergency situation that required the entire town to evacuate...
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Tough it out: One Year After the 2011 Great Sanriku Tsunami (2012)
- Director
- MORIOKA Norito
- Cast
Everyday life in the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake cannot be adequately conveyed by using words such as "bonds of friendship" and "hope." This documentary stays focused on that which television does not usually show us: a true pic...
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INORI Prayer ～Conversation with Something Great～ (2012)
- Director
- SHIRATORI Tetsu
- Cast
- MURAKAMI Kazuo, Deepak Chopra
A documentary that attempts to scientifically verify and clarify the effects of prayer on the human body. Tsukuba University professor emeritus Dr. Murakami Kazuo established the "Kokoro to Idenshi Kenkyukai" (mind and gene study group), and studies ...
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Sketches of Myahk (2011)
- Director
- ONISHI Koichi
- Cast
- KUBOTA Makoto, NAGASAKI Toyo, TAKARA Matsu
A documentary that focuses on a folk song tradition called "Kamiuta" that has been passed on for generations in the islands of the Miyako Archipelago in Okinawa Prefecture, and has developed separately from traditional Okinawan folk songs. Winner of ...
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X Year Later (2012)
- Director
- ITO Hideaki
- Cast
- YAMASHITA Masatoshi, NOGUCHI Kunikazu, TAKAHASHI Hiroko
Documentary produced by Nankai Broadcasting, the local TV station in Ehime Prefecture, and honored with numerous television awards, including the Grand Prix at the Age of Regionalism Video Festival. Depicts the truth about the damage sustained by Jap...
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Don't stop！ (2011)
- Director
- KOHASHI Kenji
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Ayumu, CAP
Documentary recording the 4,200 km journey across the American continent by a guy called "CAP," who lost use of his lower body and left arm in a traffic accident. Director Kohashi Kenji also joins the cast. CAP became confined to a wheelchair after ...
