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Minamata Mandala (2020)
- Director
- HARA Kazuo
- Cast
Documentary shot over a two-decade period by The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On director Hara Kazuo. Documents multilayered lives and stories of Minamata, where debilitating disease continues to cast a long shadow. On October 15, 2004, the Supreme...
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Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions (2019)
- Director
- KOMORI Haruka, SEO Natsumi
- Cast
- KODA Haruka, YONEKAWA Ko Leon, SAKAI Haruka
Documentary that emerged from a project from the artist unit Komori Haruka + Seo Natsumi, whose collaboration began through volunteer activities after the Great East Japan Earthquake. In 2018, four travelers gathered for a workshop based in Rikuzent...
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Olympiad Tokyo Kasumigaoka Public Apartments (2020)
- Director
- AOYAMA Shinya
- Cast
Documentary about the lives of Kasumigaoka Public Apartments residents leading up to their eviction. Depicts the history of exclusion that unfolds under the specter of "Olympics First." Directed, shot and edited by filmmaker Aoyama Shinya. The city-...
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OKINAWA/SANTOS (2020)
- Director
- MATSUBAYASHI Yoju
- Cast
The dark, hidden immigrant history between Okinawa and Brazil is the subject of this documentary. Matsubayashi Yoju, the director known for The Horses of Fukushima, brings to light the truth about cases of Japanese immigrants being forcibly deported....
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Now is the Past ~My Father, Java & the Phantom Films~ (2021)
- Director
- ISE Shinichi
- Cast
- ISE Chonosuke, ISE Shinichi, ISE Kayo
Documentary filmmaker Ise Shinichi investigates the "phantom" films that his father Ise Chonosuke made in Indonesia during the war. Ise Chonosuke went to Indonesia to make propaganda films as a member of the cultural battlefront. His eldest son Shin...
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Whiplash of the Dead (2021)
- Director
- DAISHIMA Haruhiko
- Cast
Through interviews with people who knew the young man who lost his life in the First Haneda Struggle of 1967, this documentary sheds light on the "unusually fierce era". The director is Daishima Haruhiko of The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories and...
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fOUL (2021)
- Director
- OISHI Noriko
- Cast
- TANIGUCHI Ken, HIRAMATSU Manabu, OCHI Daisuke
The subject of this documentary is the Japanese hardcore punk band fOUL which formed in 1994, announced they were taking a "break" in 2005, but have been on hiatus ever since. It is directed by Oishi Noriko, who has worked on numerous television musi...
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HOSONO HARUOMI SAYONARA AMERICA (2021)
- Director
- SADO Taketoshi
- Cast
- HOSONO Haruomi
Documentary film about the 2019 concerts held in the US celebrating the life's work of musician Hosono Haruomi. Director Sado Taketoshi also helmed the Hosono documentary NO SMOKING. Hosono has continually created fresh yet universal music in his ge...
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RAMEN FEVER (2021)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Mari
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Shigetoshi, NAKAMURA Hiroto, TAKEI Kazuyuki
Documentary delving into the essence of ramen, the fascinating Japanese comfort food that elicits worldwide enthusiasm. Focuses on the passion and intense lifestyles of Nakamura Hiroto, CEO of the hugely popular AFURI chain, and his brother Nakamura ...
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The Pursuit of Perfection (2021)
- Director
- SAITO Toshimichi
- Cast
Focusing on four of the leading chefs in Japan today, this documentary explores the truth behind Japan's unique and sophisticated food culture. Each takes meticulous care of their own dishes in pursuit of perfection, but their approaches are quite di...
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To Die Ordinary - Independent Life (2020)
- Director
- SADASUE Mayako
- Cast
- SAKAGUCHI Emiko, SHIMIZU Akihiko, RI KUNIMOTO Syuji
This is a sequel to the film Living an Ordinary Life which documented for five years the parents who created a social welfare facility in Shizuoka Prefecture's Fuji City under the ideal living normally in the region even with severe disabilities". T...
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THE UNNAMEABLE DANCE (2021)
- Director
- INUDO Isshin
- Cast
- TANAKA Min, ISHIHARA Rin, NAKAMURA Tatsuya
Documentary about world-class dancer Tanaka Min. Director Inudo Isshin got to know Tanaka after inviting him to appear in La Maison de Himiko, and he interweaves animation by {Mt. Head} director Yamamura Koji for this exploration of Tanaka's approach...
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Ura Zokki (2021)
- Director
- SHINOHARA Rie
- Cast
- Citizens of Gamagori City, TAKENAKA Naoto, YAMADA Takayuki
"ZOKKI" is a unique film directed by Naoto Takenaka, Takayuki Yamada, and Takumi Saitoh. It is a live-action adaptation of a short story collection by manga artist, Hiroyuki Ohashi. The people of Gamagori City, Aichi, where the film will be shot, wer...
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PLANETIST (2020)
- Director
- TOYODA Toshiaki
- Cast
- MIYAGAWA Noritsugu, GOMA, KUBOZUKA Yosuke
Documentary selected for the Special Screenings program at the 19th TOKYO FILMeX. Director Toyoda Toshiaki fell in love with the natural splendor of the World Heritage Ogasawara Islands after visiting in 2014, and he moved to the islands and spent fo...
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Battle of Okinawa: Unknown Sad Memories (2019)
- Director
- OTA Takafumi
- Cast
Documentary that delves into memories of the horrific combat in Okinawa, the site of Japan's only land warfare during World War II. Ota Takafumi helmed the feature film The House of Rising Suns about a tragic nuclear power plant accident. A third of...
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RESONANCE (2020)
- Director
- TANAKA Toshinori
- Cast
- AOYAGI Takuji
Tokyo-born Takuji was raised by his mother and guitarist grandfather. He becomes a musician himself and father of two daughters. He leaves the ever-changing modern metropolis where people are divorced from nature and relocates to Okinawa. There, an i...
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Tank Sit-In Protest:Japanese Citizen VS.U.S. Military (2020)
- Director
- TSUJI Toyofumi
- Cast
In 1972 toward the final stages of the Vietnam War, a protest movement arose against the U.S. military's repair of tanks at the Sagami General Supply Depot in Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture and their transport to the Yokohama north docks. This ...
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I quit, being "friends" (2020)
- Director
- IMAMURA Ayako
- Cast
Film director Imamura Ayako who filmed herself wrestling with communication barriers in Start Line points the camera at her relationship with her friend in this documentary. Full of discontent "me" (Imamura), the film director, and my friend "Ma-cha...
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)
- Director
- SHINDO Kaneto
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, KYO Machiko, YAMADA Isuzu
This is a documentary on the life and films of Kenji Mizoguchi, the great Japanese film director who died in 1956, directed by the now well-known creator of films who was once assistant director to Mizoguchi. Beginning in the hospital where Mizoguch...
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AKIRA Shimada (2021)
- Director
- SAKO Tadahiko
- Cast
Feature-length documentary that sheds light on the overlooked wartime history of Okinawa, helmed by Sako Tadahiko of Kamejiro: The U.S. Military's Most Feared Man. Draws on newly uncovered materials to piece together the full picture of the epic Okin...
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Songs of Triumph (2020)
- Director
- SAKAGUCHI Katsumi
- Cast
- YAMAUCHI Kimie, YAMAUCHI Sadamu, NAKAMURA Kenichi
Documentary capturing nine years in the lives of ex-Hansen's disease patients. Sakaguchi Katsumi has helmed seven feature films to date including Walking with My Mother, which won the 2015 Agency for Cultural Affairs Film Award. Yamauchi Kimie was p...
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epok's Atelier (2020)
- Director
- NAMBU Michitoshi
- Cast
- SUGAYA Shinichi, THE CRO-MAGNONS, OKAMOTO'S
Documentary delving into the production process of designer Sugaya Shinichi, who creates record jackets for famous Japanese musicians. Sugaya's quirky resume includes studying architecture in college and working at a family-run factory after graduat...
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SUMODO ~The Successors of Samurai~ (2020)
- Director
- SAKATA Eiji
- Cast
- SAKAIGAWA Hideaki, TAKADAGAWA Katsumi, GOEIDO Gotaro
This documentary puts on display the allure of Japan's national sport of sumo wrestling. Closely shadowing for nearly half a year the training halls of the Sakaigawa and Takadagawa dojos, the film describes the unknown world of sumo wrestling which h...
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A DownTown Doctor (2020)
- Director
- MORI Yasunori
- Cast
- NAGAO Kazuhiro
Documentary about the everyday experiences of town physician Nagao Kazuhiro, who provided the inspiration for Peaceful Death (dir. Takahashi Banmei). In 1995 Dr. Nagao Kazuhiro opened his clinic in Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture, and he sees patie...
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Indelible (2019)
- Director
- TSUNODA Ryuichi
- Cast
Documentary woven together as the universal story of father and son, focusing on the ethnic Chinese Koreans who live outside the Korean Peninsula. A boy who was born in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China moves to Japan at age 10. Now ...
