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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...
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Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B (2022)
- Director
- KAWASE Naomi
- Cast
Official documentary film for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. This two-part project weaves together the "truth" of the Games that were delayed a year and faced numerous COVID-19 related issues, including the unprecedented step of holding competitions withou...
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Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A (2022)
- Director
- KAWASE Naomi
- Cast
Documentary produced as the official film for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which were held a year later due to COVID-19. This two-part project uses a massive 5,000 hours of footage shot over 750 days to weave together the "truth" of the Olympics from two...
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Only I Can Hear (2022)
- Director
- MATSUI Itaru
- Cast
- Nyla, Jessica, MJ
The first feature-length documentary about CODA, or Children of Deaf Adults. Director Matsui Itaru earned acclaim for "Tokyo Little Nero", which was aired on NHK, and spent three years documenting Children of Deaf Adults at the sensitive age of 15. ...
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Arthouse vs.COVID-19 (2022)
- Director
- SUGAWARA Ryuta
- Cast
- KIMATA Junji, TSUBOI Atsushi
A documentary following Kimata Junji, the manager of the arthouse Cinema Skhole in Nagoya. Re-edited into movie from the Nagoya TV program "Me-Tele Documentary Theater reborn: Cinema and Covid-19", which was broadcast in March 2021. Founded in 1983 ...
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Chronicle in the Ruins - Our Own Ethnographic Film (2022)
- Director
- HARA Maori
- Cast
- HARA Masato, HARA Kobo, HARA Mamiya
A documentary that shows the love and bond within a family as they face the consequences of a fire that destroyed their home by making a film. Hara Masato made his debut as a high school student in the 1960s and was praised as a genius film director...
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Shiver (2021)
- Director
- TOYODA Toshiaki
- Cast
- SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko
First film featuring Kodo, the taiko drum group based in Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture. In 2021 they celebrated four decades of sharing traditional performing arts from Japan with the world. The project began when one of Kodo's members emailed mus...
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AKAI (2022)
- Director
- AKAI Eigoro
- Cast
- AKAI Hidekazu
A documentary that unravels the charm of Akai Hidekazu, a highly talented boxer who caused a frenzy throughout Japan, through his fight footage and interviews at the time. Director Sakamoto Junji, who directed Akai's acting debut, Knockout, fully coo...
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Kids Konference (2022)
- Director
- GODA Tomo
- Cast
Documentary covering a year at a nursery school where kids hold "conferences." The film explores the essence of dialogue through the lives of children and reunites Goda Tomo with the main staff from the Being Born series about life and family. "Kids...
