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Documentary concerning the Yasukuni Shrine.

Takashi Murakami takes us through what led him to cancel work on Jellyfish Eyes 2

After being told that her husband Greg Davis, a Vietnam veteran and photographer, died unexpectedly in 2003 from defoliant during the Vietnam War, Director Sakata began to travel to Vietnam to learn what had happened to him. There, she witnessed children born with severe disabilities due to the effects of Agent Orange, even 30 years after the war, and the families who nurtured and cared for them. Although Vietnam has achieved remarkable economic development since then, the victims and their families have been left behind. The film depicts these people, the doctors who continue their support activities, and the former journalists who filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government and the company that produced the defoliant, as they continue to face the scars of the war.

This film centers on the construction of a traditional style house, their houses being not only very distinctive but also figuring prominently in religious ritual. The houses were rectangular and pole-framed, thatched with Miscanthus or bamboo-leaf; the doorway was protected by a skin or woven hanging and various parts of the house, such as the hearth and a window on the eastern side, would serve ceremonial purposes.

Tokyo Night Cruise on the Yurikamome Line The "Yurikamome" line, connecting Shimbashi and Toyosu, is popular for its scenic route past commercial facilities and high-rise buildings. Departing Shimbashi at dusk, the train curves right to Shiodome, then passes Takeshiba, Hinode, and Shibaura-futo stations before crossing the Rainbow Bridge. After the bridge, it enters Odaiba, where Mount Fuji’s silhouette is visible. This once-vacant area is now densely developed. The train passes Toyosu Market before reaching Toyosu. On the return journey, as darkness falls, the lights of Odaiba create a captivating glow. The vibrant nightscape, captured in high-definition 4K 10-bit HDR, provides a stunningly detailed experience.

Concert film performed at Tokyo International Forum for her ANSWER tour.

A filmmaker with three names—Hinatsu Eitaro in Japan, Huh Young in Korea, and Huyung in Indonesia—is known as the director of the lost film You and I (1941). Presented here is a retrospective look at a filmmaker who was a victim of his time.

3,824 kilometers in 57 days: in the summer of 2015, filmmaker Ayako IMAMURA, who was born deaf, started a bicycle journey through Japan. For her this was a physical challenge and an experiment in communication. Having felt frustrated when communicating with hearing people, she decided to confront the problem head on, exploring not only her country, but also herself in this documentary road movie.

The first segment of Pure Girl’s Document 14 embraces a raw and spontaneous approach, carried by the presence of Maria Kurosawa. Between simple moments at the beach and much more directly filmed sex scenes, the film develops an intimate, almost documentary-like atmosphere. The grainy DV texture, the silences, and certain everyday moments give the segment a strange sense of closeness, as if the camera were trying to capture a presence as much as mere eroticism.

A cinematic poem created from the travel diary of the multidisciplinary collective Acoustic Heritage Collective, following the pilgrimage through villages and monasteries of the poet Matsuo Basho in 18th-century feudal Japan. A sensory journey from memory to the heart of Japan, where some of the most representative haikus were created.

“Brazil is good for having fun; Japan is good for making money” states Mr. Narimatsu, one of 312,000 Brazilian Nikkeijin (immigrants of Japanese ancestry) living and working in Japan. He and his wife run an obento-ya (lunch box service) and restaurant that caters to Brazilians working in Shiga prefecture, Japan.

In the coastal town of Shakotan, Hokkaido, Nozuka Elementary School prepares to close after 134 years as the region's population declines. Taiyo, a quiet second grader, is one of the final four students to pass through its halls before the school shuts its doors.

A reedited version of the ride seen in Tokyo Vein with a new soundtrack

Bluegrass 45, from Kobe, Japan was one of the most prolific bluegrass bands in the 1960s. Fifty years later, they reunite to retrace their 1971 tour deep in the American South. With infectious joy and humor, CALLED TO THE MOUNTAINS explores their unique musical world, as we get to know the individuals who make up the band and their connection to the music and culture that called them, accepted them, and forever changed their identities––from 5,000 miles away.

The history of the construction of the Kurobe Dam in Japan.

This film is about gazes and goodbyes. An attempt to weave images with words and to weave a poem with images. I realize that living is suffering to see that Nemu, the one of my daughters, squirms with the struggle and sunflowers squirm to try to bloom. Poem “The Eyeball Person” : https://beachwind-lib.net/?p=36165

After a lifetime of physical challenges and adversity, the world’s tallest woman is ready to fulfil her dream and travel to California, USA. Her mission: to spread awareness for those with visible differences. On her journey, she’ll encounter some of the world's most extraordinary women.

Mr. Tetsuo Yamaori, Professor (Religious History), National Museum of History and Folklore: It is now possible to see history from above. The Japanese archipelago, seen from 3,000 meters above the ground, stretches from Okinawa through the mainland to Hokkaido. It seems the beautiful coral reefs of the South Island clearly depict the sea route, and the huge mountain massif and wilderness in the northernmost part reflect the depth of climate and culture since the Jomon period in a panoramic view. The mountain surfaces of Takachiho, which forms the home of Japanese mythology, burns red, and Hidemine Fuji is expanding its base with a wild sense of volume. The illusion of a vast ancient city rises, and the old battlefields of the Sengoku period and castle towns of the early modern period pass through a time tunnel and come back to life one after another. Even so, what about the development of precise urban spaces that correspond to the miniaturization of rural areas?

Film festivals in Japan are being forced to cut back or fold. In 2006 the operation of Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, celebrating almost two decades of history, was transferred from the city government to an incorporated non-profit organization. Focusing on volunteer members of the YIDFF Network, who left their mark during the inaugural festival, director Iizuka Toshio films the festival staff who are caught in the dilemma of servicing the local community and maintaining the standards of an international film festival.

After running an antiquarian bookshop for 35 years, Kyosuke and Chiseko decide to close down their shop due to the pandemic-induced recession. The elderly couple continues their daily routine even as they prepare for the closure. Kyosuke continues filling in the shelves with a new selection of old books stored in a rented warehouse. Chiseko starts managing an online shop, while Yuki, a staff member, decides to open her own bookshop. POLAN portrays how all three relate to the customers through the books they sell.

In 2011, pets and livestock left behind in the restricted area within 20km radius of the Fukushima Faiichi Nuclear Power Station accident were buried in the dark by the Japanese government. In this documentary I inflitrate this forbidden Zone.

A documentary Ichikawa made for the 1970 Osaka Expo, originally made for projection on eight split panels.

Entombed in a single frame of each second of Super 8 film is the corpse of an ant, illuminated by a small burned-out hole, much like the tunnels within an anthill. A haunting miniature tragedy.

Toe's first DVD released in 2006.

Every time I travel, I end up with hundreds of train videos, it was time to finally make something with them - a short video exercise for a short film I am writing.

Children living on the streets in the Republic of Kenya in East Africa collect garbage for a living. This documentary film features children who survive their severe conditions by helping each other out. A small city named Thika which is roughly an hour's drive from Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. The children referred to as "chokora" (meaning "to pick up" in Swahili), who make their living by picking up steel scraps and plastic pieces on the streets, sniff inhalant to escape from hunger and cold nights.

After 7 years since “Tokyo-Morava”, Moku and Bekim were filming at Brčko. Based on “Tvoj sin Huckleberry Finn”.

Homeless people in the Kansai region hold demonstrations with supporters after the government forcibly removes them from the parks of Osaka in 2006.

LaserDisc released in 1984 that features cute kittens and puppies.

Japanese musicians reconstruct the lost folk music genre of Minyo.

The scratched and faded – and at times almost abstracted – home movies that pass through the projector in Tetsuya Maruyama's "Shashin no Ma" simultaneously welcome and resist nostalgia, in what is both a meditation on the physical nature of the analogue film strip and the ghosts that reside within it as well as a poignant tribute by an artist-filmmaker son to his amateur-filmmaker father.

This is the story of a deaf photographer who has always chosen to see rather than hear. He encounters “song”, and explores it, marries his deaf partner and fathers a hearing child. One day, a lullaby slips through his lips and his life is changed forever.

Black kites soar on thermals along the Kamo river in Kyoto. Flags billow. Cacti spin. Plum trees blossom. Pigeons make love atop a clock. Friends chat by the riverside. Filmed February/March 2019 on a single 40 year old cartridge of Kodachrome Super 8 and hand-developed in Caffenol. The film was heavily fogged, but there are some (real) images.

Emerging from a period of withdrawal, a social recluse or ‘hikikomori’ relates her inner experiences against the backdrop of an illuminated and restless urban environment that never sleeps.

We contained full of scenes of the cockpit of the only flyable aircraft in the world "Zero Fighter 52 original". High definition shooting of taking – off, flying and landing scenes from the view of the pilot. We explain the mechanic of Zero from engine start, take off and landing. Zero Fighter fans must see this documentary.

This work is a confession of the genre of video-through horror docs and its terminal situation. In a bleak location, the film expresses the resignation and apathy of young people

We’re back for round two! Much like “AKB48+1”, this documentary goes through the English alphabet talking about a different aspect of the group for each letter. While still featuring tons of behind the scenes footage, it focuses more on member relations and the events of the past year (2012). Again, this documentary is a brilliant look into the diversity of the AKB48 experience. There’s so much about this group to learn, and the two bonus “AKB48+1” and “AKB48+1+10” documentaries provide a detailed look in a fun way.

A documentary chronicling a concert tour of Japan by the rock group the Ventures.

Benjamin Brodsky takes a 5800 mile trip through Japan in 1918, filming people and places.

Journey to the tropical islands of Palawan with luscious Japanese pin-up girls Naomi Ishikawa and Risa Hashimoto! They last made a splash in the critically acclaimed film Les Gamins, and it's underneath the searing seaside sun and between the sheets that they make their gravure debut! It's evident why these two girls have an international fan following... beside the waves of the South China Sea and in the leafy green jungle nothing is left to imagination as Naomi and Risa bring your wildest fantasies to life!

'Make Do With Now' sheds light on an emerging generation of architects and urban practitioners in Japan. Largely entering professional practicefollowing the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear di-saster, this generation is developing a range of critical, ecological, and social approaches that creatively 'make do' – with limited resources, found materials, and existing spaces – while seeking appropriate responses to the urgent problems of the present. Turning their backs on the traditional image of the architect-author, these practitioners are articulating a new architectural agency in working from the periphery, exploiting gaps in the system, and occupying new roles in the process that have previously been overlooked.

A decade on from its triple core meltdown, we take stock of the mammoth task of decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, an undertaking fraught with both technical and social challenges. The Japanese government maintains the process will take up to 40 years, but the schedule has already been revised 5 times, with pivotal elements postponed. Meanwhile, as people return to their homes in surrounding areas, disposal of unprecedented volumes of radioactive waste has become a point of contention between residents and the government. We look back on the 10 years since the nuclear disaster and explore the choices that will shape Fukushima's future.

A documentary film about the coming out story of Katsuki Mama, the owner of the gay bar "Kyushu Otoko" in Shinjuku 2-chome.

Relationships with mothers who live together and fathers and siblings who live apart. During a period of dizzying changes, such as finding a job and moving to Tokyo, she confronts the world as she sees it now, with her own camera. We want to cheer her on as she heads into the future beyond. Goodbye!

Song for Flower is a self-documentary in which she explores her own existence by pointing her camera at her family and friends. It is a film that will change the landscape of the venue after you leave the screening.

The holy grail of TV AKB documentaries. Today, AKB48 is a cultural phenomenon and is known to almost every Japanese person in one way or another. They’ve held concerts in Japan’s largest domes, won the most prestigious music awards, and have broken many records in their time with a truly dedicated fanbase. However, reaching such heights was filled with much more struggle than one would expect. This 2-hour documentary shows the story of AKB48 from their turbulent foundations in 2005 to their truly miraculous rise to fame.

2011 / Japan / 65min / HD / color / 16:9 / stereo

A documentary of Palestinian children that lived through the Israeli military's intervention in the Gaza Strip in late 2008. The film depicts how the children of the Samuni family, that lost 29 members in the conflict, have accepted the deaths of their loved ones and how they try to overcome.

Dancesport has been big in Cebu since the year 2000, and especially for kids from unprivileged families, becoming dancesport athletes means opening doors to their future. This documentary features kids training to win at world-class dance competitions, sharing tears and laughter while learning about survival, defeat and victory.