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GAIA SYMPHONY Ⅶ (2010)
- Director
- TATSUMURA Jin
- Cast
- Andrew WEIL, TAKANO Takako, Greg LEMOND
Based on the concept of "in order for all life to continue living gracefully and healthily," this is the seventh work in director Tatsumura Jin's ongoing series of nature documentaries. The theme throughout this seventh work is to offer up a prayer t...
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SLbiyori: Oigawa tetsudo monogatari/ Yamaguchisen monogatari (2010)
- Director
- IWAO Koji
- Cast
This documentary is directed by Iwao Koji, the creator of "Kintetsu Rail Report" and several other railway-related DVDs. He uses a number of techniques to make us really feel we are present at the scene, such as filming from the side of the driving w...
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Beautiful Islands~Memoirs of Sinking Islands~ (2009)
- Director
- KANA Tomoko
- Cast
A feature length documentary with captivating imagery of three islands at the mercy of global warming. Nobody Knows (Daremo Shiranai) director Kore-eda Hirokazu serves as executive producer. The film documents the endangered culture and livelihoods i...
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Are you Abandoning me? ~People with Scars~ (2010)
- Director
- HAYASHI Masayuki
- Cast
- 17 people with scars of war
A documentary film about "civilian war victims" who were injured or lost their limbs during World War II. Directed by Hayashi Masayuki, who has been creating serious documentary films to address the unheard voice of the civilian casualties whose liv...
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Hiroshima Pyongyang (2009)
- Director
- ITOH Takashi
- Cast
- LEE Kye-son, SHINYA Eiko
A documentary tracing the lives of atomic bomb survivors living in North Korea, with a focus on women who were exposed to radiation through the bombing in Hiroshima and currently live in North Korea. Director Itoh Takashi, a veteran photo journalist,...
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FURUSATO WORLD HERITAGE SITES VIEWED FROM SPACE (2010)
- Director
- KUSAKA Hiromi
- Cast
- UCHIDA Kyara, Youssif WAEL, Matt RAYWARD
A documentary featuring satellite images and 3D images of world and cultural heritage sites captured by high-performance cameras based on an original story. Multiple world heritage sites in the world are discussed from the viewpoint of local children...
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HOLY ISLAND (2010)
- Director
- HANABUSA Aya
- Cast
- Everybody in IWAISHIMA
A documentary produced by Motohashi Seiichi, director of Alexei and the Spring (Alexei to Izumi) and directed by up-and-comer Hanabusa Aya. The film quietly depicts how locals live their daily lives in Iwaishima, Kaminoseki-cho of Yamaguchi Prefectur...
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SOUND to MUSIC (2010)
- Director
- HATTORI Tomoyuki
- Cast
- Otoasobi no Kai, ISHIMURA Maki, EZAKI Masafumi
The Otoasobi Project was started in 2005 by students who studied improvised musical performances with people with intellectual disabilities. This film is a music documentary tracking their activities. The whole initiative was started to create new mu...
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LINE (2008)
- Director
- Cast
- KOTANI Yasunori, KOTANI Tadasuke
A documentary that has been the center of much attention in international film festivals, and was also selected in the CULT Award Competition in the 27th Torino Film Festival. In constant conflict with his father, director Kotani Tadasuke goes to Oki...
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DIR EN GREY UROBOROS movie project -10- (2010)
- Director
- IWAKI Yuichiro
- Cast
- DIR EN GREY
Since their debut in 1997, rock band DIR EN GREY has had many followers in the West too, with their message-heavy lyrics and extreme performances. Following the release of their "UROBOROS" album in November 2008, the band launched world tour spanning...
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DIR EN GREY UROBOROS movie project -09- (2010)
- Director
- IWAKI Yuichiro
- Cast
- DIR EN GREY
A music documentary covering one the first night of the electrifying performance on tour by DIR EN GREY, the Kansai born rock band who are also widely known in the West. Following the release of their 7th album "UROBOROS" in November 2008, the band l...
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Chandmani (2009)
- Director
- KAMEI Takeshi
- Cast
- Davaasuren, Davaajav, Zaya
A road movie about two young men on their way to the village of Chandmani, birthplace of "Khoomii," a traditonal Mongolian singing technique. Enthralled by traditional Mongolian music and Khoomii, director Kamei Takeshi ventures into Mongolia to crea...
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Pink Jeanne d'Arc (2009)
- Director
- UKAI Kunihiko
- Cast
- MASUYAMA Rena, SAKAGUCHI Hirotoshi, KATO Yoshihiro
The artist Masuyama Rena is a representative of the anti-war art group "Pink Guerrilla" and this is a social awareness documentary that introduces her activities as well as recreates her dramas in her childhood and school years. The Pink Guerrillas o...
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ONE SHOT ONE KILL (2010)
- Director
- FUJIMOTO Yukihisa
- Cast
Known for his poignant take on issues, social documentarian Fujimoto Yukihisa this time documents soldiers in America. Who decides to become a soldier? And how are these boys and girls converted into killers on the field? Fujimoto closely covers 12 w...
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God Help America (2010)
- Director
- FUJIMOTO Yukihisa
- Cast
- Publo PAREDES, Darrell ANDERSON, Cindy SHEEHAN
Documenting ex-soldiers and their families, fallen soldiers and their bereaved families, soldiers exposed to depleted uranium, the homeless, the army base victims, and soldiers against war, this extensive documentary reveals the truth of war and the ...
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Living with Mother Teresa (2009)
- Director
- CHIBA Shigeki
- Cast
Chiba Shigeki was the first Japanese director permitted to document Mother Teresa. He made the documentary Mother Teresa and Her World (Mother Teresa to Sono Sekai), which earned eight domestic and international awards. This time, he documents those ...
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September,11 (2010)
- Director
- OMIYA Koichi
- Cast
- FUJIBUCHI Yasuo, HORIKAWA Teppei, TAKEI Keiko
A film documenting "Love & Peace & Care 2010 In Hiroshima," a live event organized by young nursing home founders. Director Omiya Koichi has also depicted nursing care in his previous film TADAIMA-I'm home a place for everyone (Tadaima Sorezore no Ib...
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Shikashi Sore Dake Dewanai Kato Shuichi Yurei to Kataru (2010)
- Director
- KAMAKURA Hideya
- Cast
The critic Kato Shuichi was one of the intellectuals representative of Japan after the war and was also known as a pacifist who called for the Article Nine Association along with Oe Kenzaburo and others. This is a documentary filmed over the three ye...
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Genpin (2010)
- Director
- KAWASE Naomi
- Cast
- YOSHIMURA Tadashi,
A documentary about a maternity clinic in Aichi prefecture, shot over a year with a handheld 16mm camera by director Kawase Naomi, winner of the Camera d'or for Suzaku (Moe no Suzaku) and the Grand prix for The Mourning Forest (Mogari no Mori) at th...
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Arrietty (2010)
- Director
- YONEBAYASHI Hiromasa
- Cast
- SHIDA Mirai, KAMIKI Ryunosuke, MIURA Tomokazu
A Studio Ghibli animation based on Mary Norton's children's novels, "The Borrowers," set in modern day Japan. A story of a budding love between a boy and a tiny girl who must not let her existence be known by humans. 14-year-old Arrietty (voice: Shid...
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Kotsunagi--Iriai, the Commons in Japan (2009)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Kazuo
- Cast
This documentary was the winner of a Bunka-cho Film Award in 2010. In the mountains of Kotsunagi in the northern region of Iwate prefecture, a long legal battle was fought over the right of commons (the right to enter the mountains to collect firewoo...
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TADAIMA ～I'm home, a place for everyone (2010)
- Director
- OMIYA Koichi
- Cast
- OKAWA Takuya, TAKIMOTO Shinkichi, ISHII Hidetoshi
Beginning with a young man who becomes disillusioned with the standardized nursing care system and starts a service in an ordinary home, this documentary features four independent welfare facilities and their unique attempts to help those that have f...
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Okoru Saigyo (2009)
- Director
- OKISHIMA Isao
- Cast
- OKISHIMA Isao, ISHIYAMA Tomomi
Having worked in a wide range of fields from children's TV animation scripts to 'pink' films, independent auteur Okishima Isao directs and stars in this documentary. Upon hearing that the walkway along the Tamagawa Aqueduct, one of his favorite spots...
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442 -Live with Honor, Die with Dignity- (2010)
- Director
- SUZUKI Junichi
- Cast
- Daniel INOUE (U.S. Senator), George TAKEI, Steve SHIMIZU
A documentary screened in the section "Japanese Eyes" at the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival. The director Suzuki Junichi, who currently resides in the United States and focuses his efforts on co-productions between Japanese and US filmmakers,...
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Taiwanjinsei (2008)
- Director
- SAKAI Atsuko
- Cast
- Yang ZU-MEI, Taligu PULJALJUYAN, Chen CHING-SHIANG
Taiwan was ruled as a Japanese colony for as long as 51 years, from 1895 to 1945. Under the forced assimilation policy imposed by the government at the time, education in Taiwanese schools was carried out entirely in Japanese, producing an entire gen...
