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An Ishiro Honda short film.

A documentary feature film about an anarchic political activist, Kunio Suzuki. He is close to both right and left wings, and ex-Aum cult members.

This unusual documentary follows director Hideki Kojitani as he follows Tetsuro Shoji, a man who claims to be able to summon UFOs, and depicts the events that led to his attempt to film a UFO. While he seeks the opinions of various UFO researchers to determine the authenticity of UFOs, the sudden disappearance of Shoji leads to an unexpected turn of events.

Suzuka Ito, the japanese original gravure idol. New Label CURE Start! It is extremely popular "Ito cool down summer chan" Exhibition so much! There is no doubt that you will be healed by a cute smile and slender body. This work was shot in Thailand.

Taro Okamoto (1911-1996), one of Japan's most famous artists, traveled to Okinawa in 1959 and 1966. The reason for these trips was his journey to rediscover Japan, in search of his identity as a Japanese person. More than 60 years ago, Okamoto captured the "poignant tenderness of life" of the people, and concluded: "It is in Okinawa that we can find the lost. In Okinawa, I rediscovered myself for the first time." This documentary goes on a journey through Okinawa led by Okamoto himself, 50 years after Okinawa's reversion to Japan.

This film records the Japanese military's efforts to capture the Burma Road,one of the major supply lines to China, from the British beginning in December 1941. The film ends with the fall of Mandalay in May 1942.

MTV Unplugged Presents: Love Live! Superstar!!! Liella! Live performance of the popular fictional band Liella!!!, a performance in the hand of MTV tradition that has been inherited with the iconic title "MTV Unplugged". Apparently, a special edition in celebration of the band's accompanying anime series and with a different arrangement of songs.

A look at the creation of the original Japanese poster for Cold Fish. This segment is also conducted by filmmaker Norman England.

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "I Live in Fear" (1955).

Can a life size doll, an avatar or an artificial intelligence truly love you? Through unilateral love stories between humans and non-humans, the film explores different attempts to be in the world and draws a picture of Japan’s future.

Documentary about famous chef Alain Ducasse.

A savage journey into the heart of underground Tokyo rock and roll, a look at the people who make it thrive, and stories of their dedication to keeping DIY culture alive.

A man and a woman meet. She is French, he's Japanese. The couple separate and, ten years later, the woman goes to Japan in search of one last image of her lost love. In a temple buried under the snow, the man and woman share a daily life filled with their past history.

FIlm directed by famous actress Mochizuki Yuko as part of the protest movement that was going on against the closure of several coal mines in Kyushu, in this case Chikubo coal mine.

This is the second installment of the self-documentary series. In the summer of 2013, it depicts a 17-day “diary drama” spent abroad while being constantly thrown off balance by a free-spirited wife (Tania). The editing style and use of on-screen text follow the same approach as “Solo Trip to Bali,” clearly designed as a continuation of that work. The travel drama begins with a retro 8mm home-movie-style title sequence.

A documentary film that closely follows the approximately three-month recording and production process of Tobira, an album by the rock band The Elephant Kashimashi.

Documentary about the idol group Aqours, depicting the nine members' feelings and experiences over their whole 10-year run, through historical footages and exclusive three-month close-up coverage leading up to their final live concert.

In the final hours of the Pacific War, Okinawa was the destination for Korean men conscripted as “military laborers” and Korean women taken as “comfort women.” Little is known about the number of casualties or their experiences. In 1989, Park Soonam started to track down the survivors of the Battle of Okinawa to record their testimonies. In 1990, Park visits Korea in search of former “military laborers” who had survived Okinawa and repatriated to Korea. The survivors vividly recount their experiences of their compatriots’ murder and about the “comfort women” to the Zainichi Korean female director. The film zeroes in on the murder of Korean “military laborers” and the presence of “comfort women” in Okinawa via testimonies of former Japanese soldiers.

Amira Hass, a leading journalist covering the occupation of Palestine visited Japan in the fall of 2017. Amira is an Israeli who has lived in the occupied territories for more than 20 years, covering the occupation from both the Palestinian and Israeli sides. During her stay in Japan, Amira Hass talks about the Israeli occupation, and through her coverage of Okinawa, makes incisive comparisons between Palestine and Okinawa.

AGENT ORANGE is one woman's personal journey through Vietnam to try to understand the ravages caused by chemicals in the Vietnam War, and to come to terms with her husband's premature death. Her observation of the way in which Vietnamese families and health organisations are coping with ongoing deformities in children, even after all these years, is an extraordinary revelation, deeply moving and deeply disturbing.

This film was touted as its country's first full-length "nature documentary." Following the tradition established by Disney's "True-Life Adventures," the film transports the viewers to the loftiest heights of Japan's mountain ranges. Here, the hardy residents struggle for survival against the elements, and do a pretty good job of it (after all, they've been there longer than the audience has!) Especially well handled are the sequences involving the animal denizens of the snow-capped regions.

This documentary compiles a series of Noam Chomsky's interviews and lectures that address the events of 9/11.

This piece was produced for screening during the intermission of the theatrical release of “Memory Loss” at Aeon Hall inside Aeon Lake Town in 2010. Proper location scouting was carried out, and filming took place over a total of three days in Chichibu. The work was created with the intention of evoking the kind of imagery that used to be broadcast on television in the early morning, just before official programming began.

This documentary records a South Vietnamese Marine battalion conducting village-to-village search-and-destroy missions during the Vietnam War. Originally produced in three parts by Japanese television producer Junichi Ushiyama, the footage documents interactions with villagers and includes scenes of interrogations and executions that provoked official controversy.

On the Pacific front, towards the end of World War II, Japan's imperial armed forces launched 'kamikaze' attacks - suicide missions by aircraft laden with bombs. It was a mad operation with no hope of returning alive, but the nation went wild, and the attacks continued for ten months, literally until the very last day of the war. Close to 4,000 Japanese airmen died, and nearly 7,000 Allied military personnel were killed, and thousands more were injured by the attacks. How could this happen? Utilising 15 years' worth of extensive interviews with US and Japanese World War II veterans, Takayuki Oshima’s film delves into the mechanism of how a crazed madness swept through an entire nation.

About a woman who has lived a nomadic life playing sanshin music since the age of 9, and made her CD debut at the age of 85.

Shot in Japan, the film brings together the voices of today’s women with the lives and texts of Fumiko Hayashi and Yuriko Miyamoto, focusing on gender, politics and love.

A behind-the-scenes documentary following the creation of Anaru's Suicide Dolls.

1980s TV doc following left-field new wave icon Jun Togawa on a tour of New York subcultures you'd never see on American TV.

10-Feet Movement anti-nuclear documentary film

Documentary on end-of-life care in Japan

The Odaiba parking lot was cleared off as the 500hp drift machines replaced the wandering shopping carts for the 2005 D1 Grand Prix round 2. It's that time of yeah when the grandstands rise above the scenery and ten thousand JDM fans fight their way through the gates to experience the infamous D1 night battle session. It's ALIVE!! Kumakubo's 500hp FR Impreza produced by JUN Auto received its first breath of life. How will JUN's extensive tuning knowledge affect it's first attempt at a drift machine? Orido's remastered RS8R Supra also makes its appearance after mending it's wounds from the first battle!

Have you or your partner ever had an experience where you missed your period or been “late”?

The horrors of war and the devastating effects of the atomic bomb.

This documentary follows a public housing complex set to be demolished in 2017 to make way for the reconstruction of the National Stadium in preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Primarily a housing complex for the elderly, the residents average 65 years of age or older. Many live alone, and for decades they had lived together in harmony, helping one another through daily life.

Japanese gardens have long captivated people around the world. This program follows the master gardeners chasing perfection at the Adachi Museum of Art and the Katsura Imperial Villa.

Documentary footage of indigenous Pacific islanders.

This film documents student preparations for the final phases of the 1969 protests against the renewal of the security treaty.

ANPO: Art X War tells the story of Japan's historic resistance to U.S. military bases in Japan through an electrifying array of artwork created by Japan's foremost artists. The film articulates the insidious, lasting impact that the U.S. military presence has had on Japanese lives, and the creative processes that artists have devised to transmit the spirit of resistance.

My Town, My Youth is an inspiring film shot twenty years after the official recognition of the disease and focuses on a group of young people (many born with the disease) as they mobilise to keep their cause visible by organising a concert by the popular enka singer Ishikawa Sayuri.

Documentary on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Shindo personally interviews survivors and attempts to interview the commander of the B-29 that dropped the bomb.

An interview with cinematographer Junichiro Hayashi speaking about his work with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Wine Road of The Samurai is a feature film based on a true story about a delegation of 34 samurai to Europe in 1863, known as the Second Japanese Embassy to Europe (1863). It was first aired in Japan on March 21, 2006.

8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima. Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi. For 40 years, Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt. Buko and is striving to protect the natural environment and cultural ground that inhabit the local area. Idomu’s Testament - Sequel or IDOMU II. In Saitama prefecture Chichibu city there’s a mountain which was most loved by Tokugawa Ieyasu (founder of Tokugawa shogunate). It is Mount Buko, which rose 2 hundred million years ago when the pacific plate moved the underwater volcanoes around Hawaii. It is like the giant turtle shell where Myouken bodhisattva stood. A gentle mountain which heals people’s hearts and gives them the blessings of green and water.

About the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. We get an unique look at the creative process before a solo exhibition in Tokyo during 2024.

The stair of steps appear checkerboard room. Conflict between a young man tries to fit the situation and the stickman ridicules him.

The late 1960s saw Japan in a fever pitch of political agitation where student protests were a frequent occurrence. A somewhat timely insight into radical protest and mass meetings from almost half a century ago, the film reveals the aftermath of protests and shares extremely rare footage of mass meetings that were held at universities.

8mm FILM Documentary 1979-2021 final version. Directing and script by Minoru Shinojima. Filmed and edited by Kenji Onishi. Cherishing the sadness of Mt. Buko, whose destruction still continues even today...

North Cormorant Island begins as an observational documentary, following the everyday life of a remote Japanese fishing village on Sado island, observing the rituals, customs and work of the people who live there. But as the filmmaker spends more time in the village, people begin to talk about their lives, and he begins to reflect on his own childhood in his father’s village in Wales and to think about time, place, mortality and human relationships with the land and the sea.

Documentary of nursing care event "Love & Peace & Care 2010 in Hiroshima"

Short by Motoharu Jonouchi.

An intimate look into snowboarder Kimmy Fasani's transformative journey into motherhood. Supported by expert voices, she navigates life's storms, while maintaining her place in snowboarding and evolving as a woman.

Biography of Yuri Saito, who was blinded after contracting measles at the age of three and became a social activist for the blind