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VESSEL (2017)
- Director
- INO Hidetaka
- Cast
A documentary combining footage of the collaborative process between choreographer Damien Jalet and sculptor Nawa Kohei and the resulting performance art piece. Jalet takes the representation of myth, indigenous beliefs, and rituals from each part o...
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Vietnam in Turmoil (1965)
- Director
- AKASA Masaharu
- Cast
- OZAWA Eitaro
A documentary about Vietnam, its history and the present war. Here are scenes of the countryside, of Saigon, and many details of actual battles. The on-the-spot scenes show not only the actual fighting, but also incidents of alleged torture. The brut...
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It’s a Woman’s World (1964)
- Director
- KURATA Takeo, AKUTAGAWA Kazutoshi
- Cast
This is the sequel to Women...Oh, Women!...... - and like its predecessor it is a documentary film devoted to women, what they are like, who they are, what they do. In the maternity ward another baby girl is born - and what will her life be like? The...
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Women… Oh, Women! (1963)
- Director
- TAKECHI Tetsuji
- Cast
This is an epoch-making feature length documentary, of Japan at night...with a sharp focus on women, whose beauty, charm, energy, sadness and mysterious eroticism are vividly portrayed. The colorful scenes photographed with a highly polished touch i...
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Two Journalists: One Century (2017)
- Director
- KAWAMURA Atsunori
- Cast
- SASAMOTO Tsuneko, MUNO Takeji
Documentary about the lives of Japan's first female photojournalist and a legendary newspaper reporter who still are on the job at age 101. Directed by Kawamura Atsunori, who has won numerous awards as a director of NHK programs including "The Tibeta...
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Trace of Breath (2016)
- Director
- KOMORI Haruka
- Cast
- SATO Teiichi, SATO Kinue
Documentary about Sato Teiichi's daily life spent doing everything by hand at his seed shop in Rikuzentakata City, which was devastated by the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami. Filmmaker Komori Haruka handles directing, camera and editing in h...
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CHOCOLATE CAKE AND HORYUJI TEMPLE (2016)
- Director
- MUKAI Keita
- Cast
- Seiya, Yusuke, Tomomi
Autobiographical documentary by director Mukai Keita, who was raised in an orphanage after his mother died when he was a child. The director's interior life comes into view through his interviews of friends from the orphanage, his rebellion against h...
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Nihonto The Movie (2016)
- Director
- OUCHI Tatsuo
- Cast
- GASSAN Sadatoshi, HONAMI Koshu
A documentary revealing episodes of famous swords and the high-ranking samurai or swordsmen who bore them while shining a spotlight on the techniques of master sword smiths and sword polishers who carry on the skill in the present day. This is the di...
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As it is like a flower (2015)
- Director
- MINATO Kenjiro
- Cast
- Ewha Bae
A documentary following second generation "Zainichi" Korean resident living in Japan, Ewha Bae, who is active as a dance performer in the heart of Kyoto. Directed by Minato Kenjiro of ARAKI-Sakae no Uta ga Kikoeru, the film draws in on Bae who follow...
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Freedom Moon (2016)
- Director
- KIM Sung Woong
- Cast
- HAKAMADA Iwao, HAKAMADA Hideko
A documentary closely observing the daily life of Hakamada Iwao who was released forty-eight years after being tried as the murderer in the Hakamada case. The director is Kim Sung-woong who won the Mainichi Film Award for best documentary with INVISI...
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The Ondekoza Digitally Remastered Version (1981)
- Director
- KATO Tai
- Cast
- KAWAUCHI Toshio, HAYASHI Eitetsu, OI Yoshiaki
Kato Tai's posthumous documentary The Ondekoza is remastered in 2K from a 4K scan of the 35mm film negative. It depicts young members of the performance troupe, The Ondekoza, which continues to perform taiko drumming on Sado Island. Young people tra...
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The Story of Yanagawa Waterways (1987)
- Director
- TAKAHATA Isao
- Cast
- KAGAMI Sachiko, KUNII Masahiko
Feature-length documentary by "Grave of the Fireflies" director Takahata Isao. The film's eleven chapters interweave actual footage with animation of the canals that crisscross Yanagawa City in Fukuoka Prefecture, showing how they work, the history, ...
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WHO KiLLED IDOL? poetry of SiS annihilation (2017)
- Director
- Elizabeth MIYAJI
- Cast
- BiS, SiS, GANG PARADE
In-depth documentary that goes behind the scenes to show the dissolution of SiS, which was expected to be the rival to the idol group BiS. Serves as a sequel to The BiS Cannon Ball Run 2014, The Movie, which turned the camera on BiS. Directed by Eliz...
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GARAGE ROCKIN' CRAZE (2016)
- Director
- Mario Cuzic
- Cast
- The 5.6.7.8's, 20 Hits, Theee Bat
A documentary chronicling the event known as "Back From The Grave" which started in the latter half of the 1980s and continues to this day. Croatian director, Mario Cuzic, who became enamored by the event, closely examines its history and appeal. "B...
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Cinema hawaiians (2016)
- Director
- SUGIYAMA Taro, TOSHIKURA Akira
- Cast
- Moana Rie, Roselani Sachie, Makalea Mai
Documentary about the dance group at Spa Resort Hawaiians, one of Japan's premiere spa resort facilities, located in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture. The dancers throw themselves into rehearsals for a special show in celebration of the resort's foun...
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Resistance: The Old Writer Hayashi Eidai (2016)
- Director
- NISHIJIMA Shinji
- Cast
- HAYASHI Eidai, KANZAKI Azusa, KURACHI Mitsuko
Documentary about the documentary filmmaker Hayashi Eidai, who has covered Korean forced laborers and wartime tragedies from his base in Chikuho in Fukuoka Prefecture. Directed by Nishijima Shinji, who has been making documentaries about war. Hayash...
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Learning at a Correspondence Course Junior High School After 60 Years (2016)
- Director
- OTA Naoko
- Cast
Documentary about elderly people who couldn't finish junior high school after the war taking classes for correspondence school. Director Ota Naoko earned acclaim for Tsukiakari no shita de Aru teijisei koko no kioku. Kanda Hitotsubashi Junior High S...
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TSUTAKANTOKU (2016)
- Director
- TSUTA Tetsuichiro
- Cast
- TSUTA Fumiya, TSUTA Kimiko, HATAKEYAMA Hitoshi
Documentary about the famed high school baseball coach Tsuta Fumiya. Commentary from his contemporaries reveal the true persona of Tsuta, who led a prefectural high school baseball team in Tokushima to over ten appearances and three victories at the ...
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Chambara：The Art of Japanese Swordplay (2015)
- Director
- NAKAJIMA Sadao
- Cast
- NAKAJIMA Sadao, YAMAMOTO Chihiro, KUMURA Shogo
Focusing on the historical transition of period films, this documentary closely examines the appeal and essence of period films produced in Kyoto. Through interviews with film industry professionals, the distinctly Japanese views of life and death po...
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Katana –Respecting tradition, creating something new- (2016)
- Director
- SATO Toshihiro
- Cast
- YOSHIHARA Yoshikazu, YOSHIHARA Yoshindo, NAKAJIMA Yoshio
Documentary shot in 4K resolution that follows the creation of a Japanese sword from start to finish. Japanese swords are mesmerizing works of art, and this documentary shows the master sword maker, sword polisher, and sword mount craftsman as they b...
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Beyond the Landscape of Japan (2016)
- Director
- INDO Maki
- Cast
- MATSUI Tomie, SAISHO Iori, MORIYA Kouichi
A feature-length documentary by Tokyo based video production company, augment5 Inc., which shows the brand new appeal of time-honored Japan through the work and statements of a river fisherman, a sake brewer, a cattleman, and a cook. It was screened ...
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A Lullaby Under the Nuclear Sky (2014)
- Director
- KANA Tomoko
- Cast
Personal documentary from director Kana Tomoko, who has covered environmental issues and people suffering misfortune in films like Beautiful Islands. This film documents the pregnancy she discovered immediately after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and...
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DDT: Dramatic Dream Team!! -We are Japanese Wrestlers!- (2016)
- Director
- Muscle SAKAI, MATSUE Tetsuaki
- Cast
- OHKA Ken, HARASHIMA, DANSHOKU DIENO
Documentary about the DTT professional wrestling federation that advocates "cultural pro wrestling." Directed by wrestler Muscle Sakai of Gekijoban Proresu Kyanonboru 2014 and Matsue Tetsuaki of Flashback Memories 3D. Fall 2015. Matches are held bet...
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Zen and Bones (2016)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Takayuki
- Cast
- Henry MITTWER, WENTZ Eiji, YO Kimiko
Documentar y about the tumul tuous li fe of Japanese-American zen monk Henry Mittwer. Delves into Henry Mittwer as a person using documentary footage along with varied techniques including animation and drama vignettes. Directed by Nakamura Takayuki ...
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Watanabe Mamoru jidenteki documentary Dai 2 bu tsuwamono domo ga asobi no ato Watanabe Mamoru ga kataru pink eigashi kohen (2012)
- Director
- IKAWA Koichiro
- Cast
- WATANABE Mamoru
Watanabe Mamoru has shot over 200 pink films, dedicating the entirety of his directing career to the genre. In this final installment of a four-part documentary series, Watanabe talks about his own life. The director, Ikawa Koichiro, served as the sc...
