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TOKYO JOE -THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN THE CHICAGO MOB (2008)
- Director
- OGURI Kenichi
- Cast
- Elaine Corbitt SMITH, Steven ETO, Jeremy MARGOLIS
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JUN SKY WALKER(S) "MY GENERATION" (2008)
- Director
- TAGAWA Kiichi
- Cast
- MIYATA Kazuya, MORI Junta, TERAOKA Yohito
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THE NAKED SUMMER (2007)
- Director
- OKABE Kenji
- Cast
- MARO Akaji
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The Duckling (2005)
- Director
- ONO Sayaka
- Cast
- ONO Sayaka
Born in 1984, director Ono Sayaka has created this autobiographical documentary as her graduation project at the Japan Academy of Moving Images. Ono was sent away for a year when she was young to the Kofukukai Yamagishikai (Yamagishi Association), a ...
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Shadow (2004)
- Director
- KAWASE Naomi
- Cast
- HAKO, YAMAZAKI Yutaka
Kawase Naomi, whose work has consistently featured an absent father figure, meets "him" through the body of an actress. A critique on the genre of personal film, as the staged situation reveals real emotions and subjectivity. Seen through the camera ...
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Summer Vacation in North Korea (2005)
- Director
- REN Shujian
- Cast
- REN Shujian
In the summer of 2004, Ren Shujian entered North Korea via the Yanbian area as a Chinese tourist. During his overnight trip, he boldly took up the challenge of filming the current situation of North Korea and attempted to interact with many North Kor...
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Yesterday Today Tomorrow (2005)
- Director
- NAOI Riyo
- Cast
Two HIV-positive families from a village in Northern Thailand look ahead to their future, with feet planted in the ground. Anna, who contracted HIV through her ex-husband, lives a peaceful life with her new husband while peddling fish and farming to ...
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After All, I'm 70 Years Old (2005)
- Director
- SUZUKI Shirouyasu
- Cast
- SUZUKI Shirouyasu, SUZUKI Mari
Going on seventy years old, the filmmaker begins daily exercises to combat aging. Appreciating the flowers in his garden each day, he starts to feel invigorated. With a sometimes cynical, sometimes intimate first-person voice-over, this poet and pion...
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Fort of the Fabrications (2004)
- Director
- TAKI Kentaro
- Cast
One morning in October, my eyes came to rest upon a small article in the local section of the newspaper. Early the day before, the dead body of a man in his twenties or thirties had been found. As if in complete contradiction, right across the river ...
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Tibet Tibet (2005)
- Director
- KIM Seung-yong
- Cast
- The 14th Dalai Lama, Central Tibetan Administration
This film began when a young third-generation zainichi Korean first learned about Tibetan exiles during travels in India. Setting out on an unplanned world trip with video camera in hand, he encountered large numbers of Tibetans in exile in northern ...
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Road to Somewhere (2007)
- Director
- SHIBATA Sei
- Cast
- MIZUTANI Yoichi, MIZUTANI Kotaro
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CARNATION/ ROCK LOVE (2007)
- Director
- MAKINO Koichi
- Cast
- NAOE Masahiro, OTA Yuzuru, YABE Hiroshi
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Kaze wo Kiku (Hearing The Wind) ~Story of Jeofen, Taiwan~ (2007)
- Director
- HAYASHI Masayuki
- Cast
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My New Life, My Brother (2007)
- Director
- WARASHINA Naoyasu
- Cast
- INOSE Tsuyoshi, INOSE Yasuo
Inose Tsuyoshi, 30, decides to start a new life. He has muscular dystrophy and needs constant care, but he wants to leave the welfare facilities for the disabled and launch his own support group. He invites his younger brother Yasuo, 24, who also has...
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GAIA SYMPHONY Ⅵ (2006)
- Director
- TATSUMURA Jin
- Cast
- Ravi SHANKAR, Kelly YOST, Roger PAYNE
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The Sky and Khomroy (2008)
- Director
- MIURA Junko
- Cast
- Alberto PENSA, Svaraporn YINDEENGARM
In this humanistic documentary filmed over a period of seven years, filmmaker Miura Junko travels to a facility in northern Thailand where women and children of the Akha mountain tribe live together and discovers a contentment that industrialized soc...
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AGENT ORANGE -A PERSONAL REQUIEM- (2007)
- Director
- SAKATA Masako
- Cast
- Greg DAVIS, Philip Jones GRIFFITHS, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong, M.D
Director Sakata Masako's photo journalist husband Greg Davis died in 2003 of liver cancer. His disease was suspected to be brought on by his exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange while he served in the U.S. army during the Vietnam War. To deal with ...
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The Little Sea of Life "Takahata, the home of organic farming" (2006)
- Director
- HARAMURA Masaki
- Cast
- HOSHI Kanji, WATANABE Tsutomu, WATANABE Misako
In the agricultural community of Takahata, in Yamagata Prefecture, farmers have been practicing organic farming for over 30 years. Concerns about overdependence on pesticides and chemical fertilizer started a movement which was supported by many city...
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Against Coercion -- Refusing to Stand for "Kimigayo" (2006)
- Director
- MATSUBARA Akira, SASAKI Yumi
- Cast
Since the 1999 law instituting the Hinomaru as Japan's national flag and the Kimigayo ("His Majesty's Reign") as the national anthem, debate has grown over schools' coercion of flag hoisting and anthem singing at official functions. The school board ...
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FENCE (2008)
- Director
- FUJIWARA Toshi
- Cast
15 percent of the City of Zushi's territory is occupied by a facility for the U.S. Navy where 5,000 American military personnel live, when the population of the city itself is less than 50,000. From outside the fence enclosing the Ikego naval housing...
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Palestine 1948 NAKBA (2008)
- Director
- HIROKAWA Ryuichi
- Cast
"Nakba" means catastrophe. For Palestinians the term refers to the creation of Israel in 1948 followed by the displacement of a large number of Palestinians as refugees. This documentary is based on the vast amount of footage accumulated by a journal...
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Half Empty or Half Full (2007)
- Director
- TAKEFUJI Kayo
- Cast
- YAMAGISHI Tatsuji, NISHIJIMA Hideo, NISHIMIYA Yuki
Legendary filmmaker Yamagishi Tatsuji is left half paralyzed by a stroke. As Chief Director of the official documentaries of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and 1970 Japan Expo, his work had recorded the country's march through years of post-war economic boo...
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YASUKUNI (2007)
- Director
- LI Ying
- Cast
Chinese director, Li Ying , takes on the challenging complicated reality of Yasukuni shrine. ‘Chrysanthemum' (seal of the Emperor's family) and ‘sword' (spiritual symbol of the Yasukuni shrine) are used as hidden motifs. The film was highly acclaimed...
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A Movie Capital Again (2007)
- Director
- IIZUKA Toshio
- Cast
Film festivals in Japan are being forced to cut back or fold. In 2006 the operation of Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, celebrating almost two decades of history, was transferred from the city government to an incorporated non-profit...
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Fragments of depopulation (2007)
- Director
- Robo-Kobo
- Cast
- People of Ishinomaki
An experimental short filmed on a remote island. An old lady sings, beckoning from an island full of cats and elderly people that floats in blue monochrome light. A comfortable sensation like being at the bottom of a sea, capturing at a walking pace ...
