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Lonely Swallows – Living as the Children of Migrant Workers (2011)
- Director
- TSUMURA Kimihiro, NAKAMURA Mayu
- Cast
- SATAKE Eduardo, SUZUKI Yury, SATO Ayumi Paula
This documentary shot over two and a half years follows children of Japanese Brazilian workers struggling to find a place where they fit in. It captures their resilience after returning to Brazil, despite being separated from their friends and sweeth...
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Puccini and Japanese (2012)
- Director
- IIZUKA Toshio
- Cast
- OKAMURA Takao, OKAMURA Kazuko, NINOMIYA Sakiko
In 2011, eighty-one-year-old international opera singer Okamura Takao brought his revised version of "Madama Butterfly" to Italy. This tearful and moving documentary captures the process from preparation to performance, with narration by actress Bais...
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Ressha daikoshin the movie shinkansen tokkyu daishugo (2012)
- Director
- Cast
- TOKUNAGA Reiko, NONAKA Ai, NAGAFUCHI Yukitoshi
Feature film from the popular Trains of Japan on Parade video series, which started in 1992. The fourth feature film version of this series, which follows various trains throughout the Japanese archipelago. This movie features the popular Shinkansen ...
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Never let me go (2011)
- Director
- TACHIKAWA Kazuya
- Cast
Invited film to the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Documentary by freelance journalist Tachikawa Kazuya that captures everyday scenes in a rural foster home over an eightyear period. Children of Light is a foster home with the slo...
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Laugh It Away and Say Goodbye (2011)
- Director
- NIASHIDA Yukihiro
- Cast
- KOBAYAKAWA Hiroe, SHIBUYA Natsuko, YAMADA Keiko
Documentary produced by the Nagoya TV station CBC. Documents the harsh realities facing small local factories that underpin manufacturing in Japan. Won the Golden Nymph Award (top prize) for Best News Documentary at the Monte-Carlo Television Festiva...
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To vibrate the strings with elegance Juro Aoki, 96 years old violoncellist (2012)
- Director
- FUJIWARA Michio
- Cast
- AOKI Juro, MORI Yuko, HORIE Makio
Documentary following cellist Aoki Juro, who was past 80 when he recorded Bach's Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, for six years from the age of 90. The artist's insatiable inquisitiveness and reunions with associates are moving. Aoki has always been u...
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KISETSU, MEGURI ～The Seasons Rotate, a place for everyone (2012)
- Director
- OMIYA Koichi
- Cast
A documentary that carefully observes the current state of nursing care for elderly people at facilities around Japan. It is devised, produced, and directed by Omiya Koichi, who won the Documentary Grand Prize at the Bunka-Cho (Agency for Cultural Af...
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The DRIFTER Seigetsu,the Haiku Poet of Ina (2011)
- Director
- KITAMURA Minao
- Cast
- TANAKA Min
Nomadic poet Inoue Seigetsu, highly acclaimed by Japan's foremost writers including Akutagawa Ryunosuke and Taneda Santoka. Sheds light on the mysteries surrounding Seigetsu's circumstances using documentary and fiction techniques. For thirty years f...
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Chronicles From the Heartland : Fukushima 2011 (2012)
- Director
- INAZUKA Hidetaka
- Cast
- NODA Shozo, SAKURAI Katsunobu, KATO Tokiko
Up-close look at people striving to overcome the triple hardships of the huge earthquake and tsunami, and the nuclear power plant accident. Inazuka Hidetaka, director of {Twice Bombed: The Legacy of Yamaguchi Tsutomu}, did a high-octane shoot over a ...
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Shiawasenaｊikan (2011)
- Director
- YOKOYAMA Zenta
- Cast
- MARUYAMA Chugo, MARUYAMA Sachiko
A documentary that captures the daily lives of an elderly couple who have been married for 50 years, and their relatives. The film is compiled by prolific short film director Yokoyama Zenta from footage taken by the couple's granddaughter, Takei Ayan...
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Coffee and a Pencil (2011)
- Director
- IMAMURA Ayako
- Cast
- OTA Tatsuro, IMAMURA Ayako
A documentary that questions the nature of communication, as seen in the way of life of a deaf man who enjoys conversing with people who can hear, regardless of whether they can use sign language or not. Director Imamura Ayako, who is also deaf, spen...
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311 (2011)
- Director
- MORI Tatsuya, WATAI Takeharu, MATSUBAYASHI Yoju
- Cast
Four filmmakers including director Mori Tatsuya, known for his string of documentaries and books about cult groups, visit Fukushima in the aftermath of the nuclear power plant accident and document the disaster area. They turn the camera on themselve...
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Harmonious Community : Prodigy of Minami's Cooperative Medical Care. (2011)
- Director
- KOIKE Masato
- Cast
- TAKESHITA Keiko
The concluding installment in a documentary "trilogy of life" on medical and welfare care from director Koike Masato. The Minami Medical Health Cooperative in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture started out as a medical clinic in the wake of Typhoon Vera, ...
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Ultimate land - a year of IWASAKI ONIKENBAI（sword dance） (2008)
- Director
- MIYAKE Nagaru
- Cast
The folk performing art "oni kenbai," or devil's sword dance, which has been handed down over 1,300 years in the rural areas of Iwate Prefecture's Kitakami City. Documentary about this dance, which is a national Important Intangible Folk Property, an...
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Ushiyama Junichi：Our Wonderful Television (2011)
- Director
- HATAKEYAMA Yohei
- Cast
His best-known work is "Wonderful World Travel," a travelogue TV program that continued for 24 years. Documentary film about the famed producer Ushiyama Junichi, who forged a new era and produced some 2,400 documentaries from the early years of TV. ...
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An Artisan's Legacy: Tsunekazu Nishioka (2011)
- Director
- YAMAZAKI Yuji
- Cast
- NISHIOKA Tsunekazu
In-depth look at the twilight years, spent training apprentices, of temple builder Nishioka Tsunekazu, who was called the "devil" as he devoted his life to temple architecture. His insistence on the gargantuan timescale of linking life to the next mi...
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JAPAN'S WILDLIFE (2012)
- Director
- IZUTA Keizo
- Cast
- AIBA Masaki, NAGASAWA Masami, Gori
Hardcore nature documentary covering the ecology of Japan's wildlife. Thirty top wildlife photographers scattered throughout Japan and captured the "family love" of creatures over two-and-a-half years of photography. Over thirty animals appear in the...
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Dyslexic days In case of Bin-chan (2011)
- Director
- TANIMITSU Akira
- Cast
Dyslexia is a learning disability that causes significant difficulties in reading and writing, even for people without intellectual or sensory problems. This documentary follows Hiroko Sunanaga, an ordinary woman afflicted with this handicap that is ...
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Documentary of AKB48 show must go on shojotachi wa kizutsukinagara yume o miru (2011)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Eiki
- Cast
- AKB48
AKB48, the girl band that enjoys widespread popularity. Second documentary delving into the activities of these girls who made their big break as "idols who you can see in person," rather than being inaccessible icons. In-depth coverage over 365 days...
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Musicthon the movie audrey no bakusho 24jikan sengen (2011)
- Director
- MUNEOKA Yoshiki
- Cast
- WAKABAYASHI Masayasu, KASUGA Toshiaki
Every year, Nippon Broadcasting runs a special radio campaign around Christmas for vision-impaired listeners called the Radio Charity Musicthon. This documentary follows the 2010 musicthon. Focusing on the true faces of comedy duo Audrey, who act a...
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Coming out story (2011)
- Director
- UMEZAWA Kei
- Cast
- DOHI Itsuki, YONEZAWA Izumi, AKUZAWA Mariko
Documentary film about a high school teacher struggling with gender identity disorder. Graduation work at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image and recipient of the Imamura Shohei Award, which goes to the best director each year at the school. Afte...
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Fukushima: Memories of the Lost Landscape (2011)
- Director
- MATSUBAYASHI Yoju
- Cast
- TANAKA Kyoko, SUENAGA Takeshi, SUENAGA Murai
Documentary focusing on the people of Minamisoma City, which lies within the 20-kilometer zone of Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant. Director Matsubayashi Yoju is gaining attention as an up-and-coming documentary filmmake...
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Memories of Origin Hiroshi Sugimoto (2012)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Yuko
- Cast
- SUGIMOTO Hiroshi, ANDO Tadao, LEE U-Fan
Documentary focusing on the contemporary artist Sugimoto Hiroshi, whose numerous awards within Japan and abroad include the Praemium Imperiale in 2009. In-depth coverage over an extended period of time of Sugimoto, who has broadened his range of acti...
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friends after 3.11 gekijoban (2011)
- Director
- IWAI Shunji
- Cast
- FUJINAMI Kokoro, MATSUDA Miyuki, YAMAMOTO Taro
This documentary film from Iwai Shunji, a director with an international following, was an official selection of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival's Forum section. The accident at the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant was yet another trage...
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Wu Yi, the smallest baby panda in the world (2012)
- Director
- SHIOHAMA Masayuki
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Jun, TOKUYAMA Cheg
A documentary that follows the growth of an extremely premature baby panda. It is compiled from a vast amount of footage that chronicles the efforts of its breeders and sheds light on the ecology of pandas, which are regarded as having a low fertilit...
