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The Takanosu-machi Thereafter (2005)
- Director
- HANEDA Sumiko
- Cast
The third film by Haneda Sumiko of INTO THE PICTURE SCROLL-The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa- (Yamanaka Tokiwa) to record the politics and welfare at the town of Takanosu-machi, Akita Prefecture, following Town's Welfare that Residents Selected (Jumin ga S...
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The Takanosu-machi Thereafter - The Sequel (2006)
- Director
- HANEDA Sumiko
- Cast
The third film by Haneda Sumiko of INTO THE PICTURE SCROLL-The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa- (Yamanaka Tokiwa) to record the politics and welfare at the town of Takanosu-machi, Akita Prefecture, following Town's Welfare that Residents Selected (Jumin ga S...
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Thank you (2006)
- Director
- ISE Shinichi
- Cast
- NISHIMURA Nao, NISHIMURA Nobuko, NISHIMURA Hironori
A documentary by a documentary author, Ise Shinichi, who recorded his niece, Nao, who suffers from epilepsy as well as mental retardation, and her family. This is the third in the series, following Nao-chan and Piglet. Nao was only 8-years-old whe...
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The Ants (2006)
- Director
- IKEYA Kaoru
- Cast
- OKUMURA Waichi
Shanxi province in China at the end of the War. There was a group of Japanese soldiers who remained at arms despite the Potsdam Declaration. They joined an armed faction of the Chinese Nationalist Party and fought against the Communist Party for four...
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Eigakantoku tte Nanda! (2006)
- Director
- ITO Shunya
- Cast
- OSHIMA Nagisa, SUZUKI Seijun, SAKAMOTO Junji
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OUT OF PLACE -Memories of Edward Said (2005)
- Director
- SATO Makoto
- Cast
- Mariam C. SAID, Wadie E. SAID, Najla W. SAID
Edward Said, a world-class intellectual from Palestine, died in September 2003. He was buried neither in New York where he spent the second half of his life, nor in Jerusalem where he was born, but in Broummana in Lebanon. The film starts with the ep...
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GHADA Songs of Palestine (2005)
- Director
- FURUI Mizue
- Cast
Directed by Furui Mizue, who changed the course of her life from being an office worker to a journalist after suffering an intractable disease. Furui met Ghada in Palestine during the war, and interviewed her over 12 years to complete this film. Gh...
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The man who became a camera (2003)
- Director
- KOHARA Masashi
- Cast
- NAKAHIRA Takuma, TAKARA Ben, MORIYAMA Daido
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Every Japanese Woman Cooks Her Own Curry (2003)
- Director
- MATSUE Tetsuaki
- Cast
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cross the lens (2005)
- Director
- FUKUSHIMA Takuya
- Cast
- ASANO Tadanobu, TAKEUCHI Suguru, JISSOJI Akio
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Art of Samurai Body Manipulation (2006)
- Director
- FUJII Kenjiro
- Cast
- KONO Yoshinori, NAGOSHI Yasufumi, UEMATSU Naoya
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Thousands of Islands (2006)
- Director
- ITO Ken
- Cast
- YOSHIMASU Gozo, SHIMAO Miho, SATO Eikichi
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The Cheese & The Worms (2005)
- Director
- KATO Haruyo
- Cast
A documentary that records the daily life of a mother with a limited life expectancy and a grandmother, directed by the daughter, Kato Haruyo. The grandmother, mother and daughter live in a country town in Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo. The film...
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Her dear old house (2006)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Tatsuya
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Matsu, YAMAMOTO Kozo, YAMAMOTO Miyoko
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Singing with Nami (2006)
- Director
- MOTOHASHI Seiichi
- Cast
- ARASHIRO Nami, OTA Shizuo, KYO Nobuko
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HITO no ISHIBUMI (monument of human) ~age 90, still walking (2006)
- Director
- HAYASHI Masayuki
- Cast
- SUGIYAMA Chisako
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PUUJEE (2006)
- Director
- YAMADA Kazuya
- Cast
- SEKINO Yoshiharu, PuuJee
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I remember our island (2005)
- Director
- TADA Asami
- Cast
- KOMIYAMA Tomoi, IMANAKA Aya, HAMA Junichi
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Echoes from Miike Mine (2005)
- Director
- KUMAGAI Hiroko
- Cast
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CHAIN OF LIFE (2006)
- Director
- ISHII Kaori
- Cast
- FUJIMOTO Yoshikazu, FUJIMOTO Tetsuo
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Yama ni Ikiru (2004)
- Director
- HAGIHARA Yoshihiro
- Cast
- OZAWA Shoichi, ARAGAKI Sakae
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Yokohama Mary (2005)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Takayuki
- Cast
- NAGATO Ganjiro, GODAI Michiko, MORI Hideo
A documentary that pursues the traces of a woman in Yokohama who stood at a street corner as a prostitute for 50 years after the war. An old woman, dressed in an aristocratic dress with her face made up white, quietly stands at a street corner. Known...
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Rokkasho Rhapsody (2006)
- Director
- KAMANAKA Hitomi
- Cast
Many children in Iraq suffer from cancer and leukemia as a result of depleted uranium shells used during the Gulf War. Director Kamanaka Hitomi of Hibakusha 〜 END OF THE WORLD (Hibakusha-Sekai no Owarini), that reported the current status of nuclear ...
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Memories of Agano (2004)
- Director
- SATO Makoto
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Miyae, KATO Kimii, ENDO Miki
In the early 1990s, a documentary crew came to the River Aga in Niigata Prefecture and shot a film about the people who lived along the river. That film, Aga ni Ikiru (Living with the River Aga), took three years to complete and was released in 1992....
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Japan's Peace Constitution (2005)
- Director
- John JUNKERMAN
- Cast
- John DOWER, HIDAKA Rokuro, Noam CHOMSKY
The Japanese Constitution, known as the Peace Constitution, has been the subject of heated discussion since the Self Defense Forces were dispatched to Iraq. This documentary examines the Japanese Constitution in the international context. Focusing on...
