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Public Blue (2007)

Director: Anke HAARMANN

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Homeless people in the Kansai region hold demonstrations with supporters after the government forcibly removes them from the parks of Osaka in 2006. In this video essay, German filmmaker Anke Haarmann draws on statements made by Fukuzawa Yukichi and ...

People Crossing the River (2007)

Director: KIM Duk-chul

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In Kawasaki, where factories in which Koreans were forced to work during the war still stand, four Japanese and Koreans confront Korean-Japanese history and struggle toward building a cultural bridge that crosses the generations. Third-year high-scho...

Back Drop Kurdistan (2007)

Director: NOMOTO Masaru

Cast: Ahmet KAZANKIRAN and others

The Kurdish Kazankiran family, who came from Turkey to Japan claiming refugee status, sleep in front of the United Nations University as part of a demonstration and start petitioning in a desperate move to obtain official refugee status. Although the...

A Permanent Part-timer in Distress (2007)

Director: IWABUCHI Hiroki

Cast: IWABUCHI Hiroki

The director, twenty-three-year-old Iwabuchi Hiroki, is a permanent part-timer who on weekdays does menial work at a factory for 1,250 yen an hour, and on weekends takes on casual temporary work in Tokyo, a city he is fascinated with. He joins a demo...

THE Virgin wildsides Vol. 1&2 (2007)

Director: MATSUE Tetsuaki

Cast: KAGA Kenzo, UMEZAWA Yoshiro

The Village Submerged (2007)

Director: ONISHI Nobuo

Cast: TOKUDA Jo, HIROSE Tsukasa, HIROSE Yukie

Furandon Nogakko no Ozaki-san (2007)

Director: TAKAHASHI Ichiro

Cast: OZAKI Rei

Traveling with Yoshitomo Nara (2006)

Director: SAKABE Koji

Cast: NARA Yoshitomo, graf

The Women the War Left Behind (2007)

Director: AZUMA Shizu

Cast: YO Kimiko

belief (2007)

Director: DOI Tetsuma

Cast: DOI Sachiko, DOI Kenichi, DOI Rieko

Pride In Blue (2007)

Director: NAKAMURA Kazuhiko

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sadistic mica band (2007)

Director: TAKIMOTO Kengo

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birth/mother (2007)

Director: KAWASE Naomi

Cast: KAWASE Uno, Mitsuki, KAWASE Naomi

Campaign (2007)

Director: SODA Kazuhiro

Cast: YAMAUCHI Kazuhiko, YAMAUCHI Sayuri, KOIZUMI Junichiro

A documentary that closely follows the Kawasaki city assembly by-election in 2005. Yamauchi Kazuhiko, a local stamp and coin merchant, ends up standing in the city assembly election as the official candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The...

Himeyuri (2006)

Director: SHIBATA Shohei

Cast: 22 Himeyuri survivors

In 1945 towards the end of the Second World War. Okinawa suffered a ground war, involving the local residents. 222 female students, aged between 15 and 22, were mobilized at very short notice as nursing personnel and assigned to the front. These were...

Theatrical -Kara Juro to Gekidan Karagumi no Kiroku (2007)

Director: OSHIMA Arata

Cast: KARA Juro

Directed by TV documentary director, Oshima Arata, the second son of Director Oshima Nagisa. A documentary that follows the theatrical work of Kara Juro, a playwright who has been working in the theatrical world in Japan for 40 years. The film shows ...

Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters (2007)

Director: BAN Zhongyi

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All's Well that Ends Well (2006)

Director: HANEDA Sumiko

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A documentary by Haneda Sumiko of Getting Old without Anxiety (Anshin Shite Oiru Tameni) andThe Takanosu-machi Thereafter (Ano Takanosu-machi no Sonogo), who has been tackling issues of welfare and aging. The film follows people in search of ideal te...

Cinema is about Documenting Lives:The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto (2006)

Director: FUJIWARA Toshi

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Tsuchimoto Noriaki has been documenting Minamata disease for 30 years since 1965. He has produced 17 films on the subject to date, including Minamata: The Victims and Their World (Minamata, Kanja san to Sono Sekai) and MINAMATA-A Trilogy (Igaku to Sh...

KAZUO OHNO BUTOH DANCER (2005)

Director: OTSU Koshiro

Cast: OHNO Kazuo, OHNO Yoshito, MIZOHATA Toshio

Ohno Kazuo is a dancer who shaped the pioneering period of Butoh (Dance of utter darkness), along with the late Hijikata Tatsumi. In 2000, Kazuo became unable to walk after an injury to his lower back, but resumed dancing at his dance studio as soon ...