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Hooked on the Jomon (2018)
- Director
- YAMAOKA Nobutaka
- Cast
- ITO Seiko, KOBAYASHI Tatsuo, SATO Taku
Documentary on the Jomon period that flourished on the Japanese archipelago after the Paleolithic era, about 15,000 years ago to 2,300 years ago. During this era people started making earthenware, and mysterious alien-like clay figurines have been un...
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Kumanokara into the Shingu (2017)
- Director
- TANAKA Chiseko
- Cast
- KAIBE Tsuyoshi, URAN Sakiko, SUZUKI Yayoi
Final film in the trilogy set in the Kumano region of Wakayama Prefecture from critic and documentary filmmaker Tanaka Chiseko. Uses a semi-documentary approach to depict the culture and climate born from the history of the land, set in Shingu City, ...
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Kokoro no kokyo Aru wansho no ayundekita michi (2018)
- Director
- HAYASHI Masayuki
- Cast
Documentary about the lives of 'wansei' Japanese who were born and raised in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation prior to World War Two. Directed by Hayashi Masayuki, whose numerous documentaries about Taiwan include Ryohei banka Ikyo ni ikiru. The...
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MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI (2016)
- Director
- Steven OKAZAKI
- Cast
- KAGAWA Kyoko, TSUKASA Yoko, TSUCHIYA Yoshio
ocumentary about the life of the legendary actor Mifune Toshiro, who created Japans' Golden Era of cinema. Directed by Steven Okazaki, who won an Academy Award for Best Documentary (short subject) for Days of Waiting. Mifune starred in films includin...
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Heart to Heart (2018)
- Director
- UI Takashi, MATSUMOTO Koji
- Cast
- KIJIMA Rin, KOBAYASHI Hiromi, FUJIMOTO Akinori
Kijima, actress, starts to interview NPO activities of Happy Science groups with students studying film production at Happy Science University. Interviewees are: Children and Young Adults with Disabilities Support Group "You Are An Angel" ,School for...
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Inland Sea (2018)
- Director
- SODA Kazuhiro
- Cast
The everyday lives of people living in a harbor town in Okayama Prefecture is the focus of this intimate documentary. The film was an official selection to the 2018 Berlin International film Festival. Loneliness and kindness hover over a small seasi...
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father (2018)
- Director
- WATANABE Ko
- Cast
- GOTO Fumio
Documentary about the travels that mark the crowning achievement for a 86-year-old priest who has devoted his life to supporting refugees and building schools in Cambodia. Goto Fumio, nicknamed Gocchan, was born into a Pureland Buddhist family temp...
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Magic town (2018)
- Director
- IKEDA Chihiro
- Cast
- IKEDA Chihiro
Documentary about a director Ikeda Chihiro running a filmmaking workshop for children in her hometown of Fukuroi City in Shizuoka Prefecture. Portrays the brutal purity of the children with a sympathetic gaze. Film director Ikeda Chihiro finds herse...
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LIVING THE GAME (2016)
- Director
- GOTSU Takao
- Cast
- Momochi, UMEHARA Daigo, Chocoblanka
Documentary that goes behind the scenes to show the high-stakes competition as professional video-gamers go for victory. Intimately portrays the highs and lows for international gamers who are alternately seen as darlings of our era and social outcas...
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Life Goes On (2017)
- Director
- YOON Mia
- Cast
Documentary shedding light on the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake. The camera focuses on Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima Prefectures six years after the 2011 disaster to depict ordinary people who grope their way forward, including a couple...
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Danchi Woman (2017)
- Director
- SUGIMOTO Akiko
- Cast
- UCHIKOSHI Shizu, HIRAYAMA Reiko, TERADA Keiko
A documentary by Sugimoto Akiko who shot the independent film Seaside Road Danchi Story about a public housing complex on the verge of demolition. The camera is once again turned on the same public housing apartments as new construction begins and ca...
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MABUIGUMI (2017)
- Director
- HONGO Yoshiaki
- Cast
- Jean-Pierre Zengoro, Kana Obry, TAMAKI Katsuo
Documentary based on journalist and commentator Miki Takeshi's "Kuhaku no iminshi - New Caledonia to Okinawa." Miki serves as the navigator and explores the themes of family, war and ethnic groups from multiple perspectives. On his first visit to Ne...
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I Want to Run for Office (2016)
- Director
- XING Fei
- Cast
A documentary closely chronicling the process of running for the Shinjuku Ward Legislative Assembly by Lee Komaki, a man who worked over 20 years as a customer solicitor for restaurants and brothels in Shinjuku's red light district of Kabukicho. Lee...
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”Children of the Hakkyo School Project”, Work-in-progress 2017 (2017)
- Director
- SHIOZAKI Toshiko
- Cast
Documentary about kids growing up as they attend the Korean school in Edakawa in Tokyo's Koto district. Footage covering first-graders in 2010 through graduation was edited as a work-in-progress and given a special screening at the Yamagata Internati...
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The Road Home (2017)
- Director
- OURA Miran
- Cast
Oura Miran was a university student when she shot this documentary about her family in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The Oura family are forced to leave their hometown of Namie because of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster....
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Tenryu-ku Okuryoke Osawa: Bessho Tea Factory (2014)
- Director
- HORI Teiichi
- Cast
A documentary directed by Hori Teiichi who was a production assistant on the 1994 documentary Otentousama ga Hoshii and has worked in a wide variety of genres from pink films to ordinary theatrical releases. The lifestyle and scenery of Osawa, a vil...
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Tremorings of Hope (2017)
- Director
- AGATSUMA Kazuki
- Cast
Depicts the aftermath to disaster as a sequel to The People Living in Hadenya, which followed daily life in the Hadenya fishing village in Miyagi Prefecture's Sanriku Town during the three years prior to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Depicts the...
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The Power of Expression: The Minamata Producer Speaks (2016)
- Director
- INOUE Minoru, KATAOKA Nozomi
- Cast
- TAKAGI Ryutaro, NISHIGUCHI Seiji, HIGASHI Yoichi
Feature-length documentary by directors Kataoka Nozomi and Inoue Minoru of Kiraigo - Town Where Ogres and Buddha Live. Interweaves interviews and film excerpts to create a contemporary rendition of the filmmaking methods of Takagi Ryutaro, who produc...
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Nishijin (1961)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Toshio
- Cast
Short film directed by Matsumoto Toshio, a pioneer of avant-garde documentary films. A documentary film appreciation group in Kyoto self-produced the film as part of their cultural activities. The film is not about Nishijin as the origin of the luxur...
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Sennan Asbestos Disaster (2017)
- Director
- HARA Kazuo
- Cast
A documentary in which Hara Kazuo, director of The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, covers the eight-year-long court proceedings of a lawsuit against the national government demanding restitutions for wrongful injury from asbestos in the Sennen disct...
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THE IDOL CANNONBALL RUN 2017 (2018)
- Director
- Company MATSUO
- Cast
- BiS, BiSH, GANG PARADE
The fourth in the "BiS Cannon Ball" documentary series which capitalizes on the setup of The Sex Cannon Ball Run 2013, THE MOVIE that achieved cult popularity. At the end of March in 2017, a 5 night/6 day audition seeking new members for the idol gro...
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RAMEN HEADS (2017)
- Director
- SHIGENO Koki
- Cast
- TOMITA Osamu, IIDA Shota, ONISHI Yuki
This documentary gives an intimate look at enthusiastic fans of ramen and the chefs who make it. Over a 15 month long shoot, Chukasoba Tomita proprietor Tomita Osamu and his customers are interviewed revealing the history of ramen's evolution while a...
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KAGURA Troupe on the beat (2017)
- Director
- ENDO Kano, OSAWA Mirai
- Cast
- Kuromori Kagura Hozonkai
The Kuromori Kagura which has continued to this day on the Sanriku coast of Iwate Prefecture is the focus of this documentary. It captures both the kagura troupe who for over 340 years have continued performing the ritual dance at home after home no ...
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Eiga Senko issenri (2017)
- Director
- MUKOYAMA Masahiro
- Cast
- Subenja PONGKORN, TOMITA Katsuya, AIZAWA Toranosuke
A making-of documentary about BANGKOK NITES, the film written and directed by Tomita Katsuya of the production team Kuzoku, put together from over 100 hours of behind-the-scenes footage of the filming. Mukoyama Masahiro, a member of the cinematograph...
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LOVE AND WOLBACHIA (2017)
- Director
- ONO Sayaka
- Cast
- Ouji, Ayu, Jurian
Having made her debut with the autobiographical documentary The Duckling, Ono Sayaka directs, shoots, and edits this documentary focusing on Japan's sexual minorities. After a man starts to wear women's clothing simply hoping to be stylish, he finds...
