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ARAKI-Sakae no uta ga kikoeru (2008)
- Director
- MINATO Kenjiro
- Cast
- hizuki, DAIKU Tetsuhiro, Minehaha
This documentary that traces the footprints of singer-songwriter Araki Sakae, who participated in the Mitsui Miike Dispute, a large-scale strike in 1960 that had a major influence on postwar Japan. Sakae left behind a large number of worker songs. Th...
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LIVE TAPE (2009)
- Director
- MATSUE Tetsuaki
- Cast
- MAENO Kenta, NAGASAWA Tsugumi
In this offbeat documentary filmed in one single 74-minute take, Director Matsue Tetsuaki, who has won critical acclaim for works such as Annyong Yumika , follows around singer songwriter Maeno Kenta's guerrilla show. On New Year's Day in 2009, we tr...
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Foreign Filmmakers’ Guide to Hollywood (2008)
- Director
- NAKATA Hideo
- Cast
Director Nakata Hideo shot The Ring 2 at the invitation of Hollywood as the standard-bearer of Japanese horror films. In this unique documentary, he asks the many questions that emerged as he struggled with a whole new film production system to the H...
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JAP THE ROCK REVOLVER (2009)
- Director
- SHIMADA Kakuei
- Cast
- BRIGHT EYES
In this music documentary film director Shimada Kakuei, a devoted fan of rock and punk music, gets up close and personal with the members of the sign language rock band BRIGHT EYES. The band is composed of 4 members with hearing disorders who attend ...
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E. YAZAWA ROCK (2009)
- Director
- MASUDA Hisao
- Cast
- YAZAWA Eikichi
Still a dominant star at the age of 60, Yazawa Eikichi continues to lead the Japanese rock scene. Following his footsteps to the present, this documentary focuses on the rehearsal, staging and recording of his 100th Budoukan commemorative performance...
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Tsurugidake: Satsuei no ki (2009)
- Director
- OSAWA Yoshinori
- Cast
- KIMURA Daisaku, ASANO Tadanobu, KAGAWA Teruyuki
THE SUMMIT: A CHRONICLE OF STONES (Tsurugidake: Ten no ki) records the efforts of the army cadastral land surveyors as it attempts to climb and map the peak of Tsurugidake, which had never been reached before. The 'making of' documentary of this film...
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Breaking the Silence (2009)
- Director
- DOI Toshikuni
- Cast
- Yehuda SHAUL, Avichay SHARON, Dotan GREENVALD
In the spring of 2002, the Balata refugee camp was surrounded and attacked by the Israeli army. Director Doi Toshikuni, who has reported on the Palestine-Israel conflict as a journalist for the last 20 years, provides a graphic portrait of the lives ...
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Sarutahiko Dochu Jinja (2009)
- Director
- NAMIKI Kohshi
- Cast
- SUZUKI Toraji Hiroyuki, SUZUKI Kunie, KAMATA Toji
Suzuki Toraji Hiroyuki is an artist who has been chasing after the connection between heaven and earth, thus pursuing "dochu drawing" where Japanese washi papers with pictures drawn using special ink that are left in the ground for 100 days are dug u...
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ISAMU KATAYAMA = ARTISANAL LIFE (2009)
- Director
- MAKINO Koichi
- Cast
- KATAYAMA Isamu, THE ANONYMOUS, YANAKA Atsushi
An artistic documentary film which features the life of Katayama Isamu, a leather artist who obsessively distrusted the media. It is a work of art by Makino Koichi, who directed, filmed and edited this work by winning Katayama's trust through followi...
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Dogs, Cats & Humans (2009)
- Director
- IIDA Motoharu
- Cast
Director Iida Motoharu made this documentary following a request from an old lady who had been taking care of abandoned cats for many years. On the one hand, Japan is known to be a country that loves pets and that treats animals like members of the f...
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Chikyu Stage (2008)
- Director
- SATO Iichiro
- Cast
- KUWAYAMA Norihiko
A documentary film on the journey of Kuwayama Norihiko, a psychiatrist engaging in awareness raising activities through live music, image, and narrative events entitled "Chikyu no Stage" alongside his medical activities providing mental health care t...
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Ame ga mau Kinkaseki zansho (2009)
- Director
- HAYASHI Masayuki
- Cast
- CHANG A-hui, LAI Weng-chang
The follow up of his last documentary on a Taiwanese gold town Kaze wo Kiku (Hearing The Wind) ~Story of Jeofen, Taiwan~ (Kaze o Kiku Taiwan Kowloon Monogatari), director Hayashi Masayuki returns and crosses to the opposite side of the mountains to f...
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Noh mask carver (2006)
- Director
- MIYAKE Nagaru
- Cast
- ARAI Tatsuya, NAKASYO Nobuo, TSUMURA Reijiro
A documentary portrait of Arai Tatsuya, a prodigiously talented craftsman who began carving Noh masks at the age of 6, and later became the youngest person ever to receive the Incentive Award of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and...
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Documentary Kosanji (2009)
- Director
- KAN Ujon
- Cast
- YANAGIYA Kosanji, IRIFUNETEI Senkyou, YANAGIYA Sanza
Yanagiya Kosanji is a rakugo comic storyteller who is skilled at telling humorous stories in a detached tone. This is a documentary film following the days of this modern day rakugo master, whose motto is "in search of oneself throughout one's life,"...
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Tsuma no Kao (2008)
- Director
- KAWAMOTO Akito
- Cast
- IWASAKI Toru, TANI Nobuko, KAWAMOTO Akito
A husband acquires an 8mm on the birth of his eldest son, and in the following 50 years continues to record images of his family. The 82 year old film creator Kawamoto Akito, who lives in Hiroshima, documents the day to day life of his wife Kiyoko. S...
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Yamakoshi : The Village of Thousand Years History (2009)
- Director
- HASHIMOTO Shinichi
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Hatsunori
Yamakoshi Village in Niigata Prefecture suffered devastating damage from the Great Chuetsu Earthquake of October 23, 2004. This is a documentary film on the continued efforts of the residents for the restoration of their village, where all the reside...
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Children of the Woods (2008)
- Director
- HARAMURA Masaki
- Cast
As the title suggests, this documentary focuses on the relaxed, spontaneous approach to childcare adopted by the Kisarazu Shakaikan Nursery in Chiba Prefecture. Making good use of what satoyama (hilly countryside) landscapes remain in the city, the n...
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Little Challengers -chiisana chousensha tachi (2008)
- Director
- HARAMURA Masaki
- Cast
Second part of a documentary about the Kisarazu Shakaikan Nursery in Kisarazu that has become well-known for its satoyama educational philosophy based on spontaneous human interactions with nature. Here, children are left to their own devices and all...
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Mapping the Future, Nishinari (2006)
- Director
- TANAKA Yukio, YAMADA Tetsuo
- Cast
A documentary film shot in Nishinari Ward, Osaka with around 20,000 daily workers and many street sleepers. The work features activities to develop the region with the help of the local community, in order to free itself from the dark image it is bei...
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Chokora! (2008)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Shigeru
- Cast
Children living on the streets in the Republic of Kenya in East Africa collect garbage for a living. This documentary film features children who survive their severe conditions by helping each other out. A small city named Thika which is roughly an h...
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Aru Ongaku - A Music (2009)
- Director
- TOMOHISA Takeshi
- Cast
- TAKAGI Masakatsu, TAGUCHI Haruka, MATSUDAIRA Takashi
Up-and-coming artist Takagi Masakatsu has traveled the world collecting images, arranging them with digital processing, and then setting them to music, particularly the piano. His work has been commanding global attention and he was chosen as one of ...
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KIKOE (2009)
- Director
- IWAI Chikara
- Cast
- OTOMO Yoshihide, KIKUCHI Naruyoshi, OOTANI Yoshio
The first documentary film featuring the musician Otomo Yoshihide, focusing on his activities between the 1990s and 2007. The film is based on 500 hours of recorded footage and interviews with a total of 100 people including Otomo himself and the mus...
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A Thousand Year Song of Baobab (2009)
- Director
- MOTOHASHI Seiichi
- Cast
- HASHIZUME Isao, Modou DIOUF, Mbaye DIOUF
A documentary film taking up the long-living giant Baobab trees as its theme. It is shot by photographer Motohashi Seiichi, known as the director of Alexei and the Spring (Alexei to Izumi) and others. Set in Senegal in West Africa, where modernizatio...
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THEE MOVIE-LAST HEAVEN 031011- (2009)
- Director
- BANBA Syuichi
- Cast
- CHIBA Yusuke, ABE Futoshi, UENO Koji
Rock band, thee michelle gun elephant, who's solid and a powerful sound garnered them enormous popular support, disbanded in 2003. This documentary uses a treasure trove of images to track the outpouring of emotion at their farewell concert. On Octob...
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The Right to Philosophy: Traces of the International College of Philosophy (2009)
- Director
- NISHIYAMA Yuji
- Cast
- Michel DEGUY, François NOUDELMANN, Bruno CLÉMENT
This is the first documentary film on the semi-private research and education institution, the International College of Philosophy (College International de Philosophie), founded by, among others, Jacques Derrida and Francois Chatelet in 1983 in Par...
