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Recorded live at Kichijoji Manda-La2, Tokyo on September 8, 2007. The Chamomile pool DVD documents concert footage from Ai Aso from 2007 in Tokyo. Hypnotically delicate, angelic and minimal in structure Ai, accompanied by her band, and with guest appearance by Wata and Kurihara for a portion, craft her unique blend of songwriting and psychedelic musicianship. Produced by Atsuo, of Boris, and edited and directed by Ryuta Murayama
The film begins with a number indicating that the number of volunteers for the army increased sharply from 1938 to 1940 (by 35 times) after the National Mobilization Law was promulgated in 1938. It shows scenes of the volunteers in a boot camp such as close-order drill, bayonet drill, and guerrilla training. The boot-camp scenes reveal the frantic urgency of the wartime system in the early days of the Pacific War that literally 'mobilized' all human and material resources. After the volunteers are summoned to boot camp in the morning, they all pay their respects toward the Japan's Ise Grand Shrine across the sea. It once again reminds us of the sorrow of losing one’s own country to invaders. Acquired in 1994.
Despite forming a natural part of the life of half the world’s population, menstruation is still a taboo in many countries. The film A Bloody Taboo shows just how stigmatized it is in Japan. The intimate testimonies of a large sample of women reveal that the unwillingness of the patriarchal society to lead an open dialogue about the monthly menstruation is just a symptom of a bigger problem that is gender discrimination.
When filmmaker/essayist Sasaki Yusuke accepted a job offer in the city of Tottori, the first thing he wanted to know was how many cinemas there were. The answer was depressing: just one. But when Sasaki started to explore his new home, gallivanting through its streets and alleys, he found traces of a plentiful culture of alternative screening venues. The founder of Tottori’s oldest cinema club is still organising projections; another elderly gentleman discovered the political importance of documentary films decades ago and has shared it ever since with his audiences; a curator at the city’s toy museum thought that showing animation films might deepen people’s appreciation of their exhibition. Where two or three gather in its name, there is cinema. In its emphasis on ordinary people and the social value of film screenings, Cinephilia Now is unlike any other current documentary on the love for cinema.
The virtual dinner series from Japan's K-Network aims to offer lonely guys lessons in dinner date etiquette in the privacy of their homes... or Mom's basement, as the case may be. Features a variety of everyday-type attractive women enjoying a meal and making small talk at the camera, er, at the viewer. The view is face-to-face, as if you were really sharing a tabletop with the sweet young thing. Fortunately you won't have to pick up the check later, but unfortunately she won't be inviting you up for coffee even more later. You win some, you lose some.
Documentary following a group of young Okinawans and their fight against American bases in the islands.
"An Introduction to the Actual Condition of Taiwan" is the first film ever made in Taiwan. It was commissioned by the Japanese authorities to director Toyojirō Takamatsu (1872–1952) in 1907, twelve years after Japan occupied Taiwan, as a propaganda movie showing the progress of Taiwan under Japanese rule. The film is lost, but it is known from reviews in local newspapers that it featured a long staged scene of Japanese military repressing a revolt by Taiwanese indigenous people. The aboriginal theme reportedly occupied the longer part of the film. Others were devoted to depicting scenic locations, and the production of "exotic" goods such as bananas and coconuts. The film was criticized for presenting a romantic, exotic, and colonial view of Taiwan, ignoring its more modern industrial products and social problems.
This single reel Super 8 film is my only evidence of a Doppelgänger-filmmaker, whose current whereabouts are completely unknown. Begun in the Tempelhofer Field, Berlin, in August 2013, shooting could finally be completed in August 2015, when the camera and film mysteriously re-surfaced at the Mauerpark Flohmarkt. Sound created optisonically in collaboration with Barcelona-based producer Jon Modular.
Ryuichi Sakamoto | async | International short film competition. This film is about the tomato ketchup manufacturing process.
If you have an alter ego, what do you think it would do at 3 this afternoon?
A personal documentary that considers the relationship between her boyfriend, herself and filmmaking through her grandmother's views & stories on marriage, life and women when she was young.
This is a film about Japanese traditional tea cup.
Documentary about Japanese subsidies for US Forces.
A documentary about the underground hip-hop culture in Japan as of 2003. It capture a thriving underground hip-hop scene, touching on a diverse range of artists including graffiti writers, rappers, beat-boxers, breakers.
An artist welcomes his friends to an exhibition of his work, but finds himself unable to leave when it closes.
Held every October in the city of Matsuyama, the Dogo Autumn Festival is one of the most violent religious festivals in Japan. Eight teams of men carry massive wooden shrines weighing up to a ton, making them collide in a holy battle that leaves many injured and exhausted.
A small Japanese fishing village is home of a unique community for people with schizophrenia and other long term psychological and developmental disabilities.
A documentary about the band Buck-Tick's history from 1986 to 1991, released on the third disc of boxset.
Get ready for a virtual tour of the exciting world of Okinawa. More than 40 islands in the ocean will show you their beauty, from the sky, land and underwater. A relaxing music will wrap you warm and help to distract from the daily bustle.
An short documentary by Kazuhiro Goshima.
A documentary film. A formerly salaried worker, now homeless, walks through Kyoto’s Sanjō Shopping Arcade and the area around Kobe’s Sannomiya Station preaching his own religion. Every day, he goes out into the city and speaks to people one by one. Will the city accept him, or reject him? His gaze remains fixed on the great flow of people moving through the streets.
A tiny life takes on a life or death challenge amid the majestic grandeur of the Tateyama mountain range. Can a swan muster the courage to survive if it is unable to fly? A story sure to deepen your appreciation of life’s power and wonder.
In October 2023, Tommaso visits Noto. After a 7.5 earthquake, he and a filmmaker friend return to document the aftermath. Joining Adriana's volunteer project, they face sleepless nights and devastation, profoundly changing them
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Liu-Ming's father died in 1995 in an accidental explosion of a bombshell left by the Japanese Imperial Army in WWII. The debt left by his father's unsuccessful medical treatments left the teenage Liu-Ming no choice but to drop out of high school to work. Li Quan was a victim of the Japanese military's poison gas when he touched a mysterious container while working on a ship at the age of 29. Blisters covered his body and his genitals and internal organs were injured. Still suffering from serious aftereffects, he has fallen to a life of extreme poverty and twice attempted suicide. New accidents keep occurring. Sixty years have passed since the end of the war, but many potent weapons remain buried deep in China.
Documentary about the painter Morio Matsui
An ethnographic documentary filmed among the Trobriand Islanders of the Western Pacific, directed by Yasuko Ichioka for Japanese television. The film documents the Kula exchange system, a ceremonial network of inter-island gift exchange that structures social relations, travel, and status among participating communities. Produced within the context of Japan’s Our Wonderful World ethnographic television series, the film presents sustained observational footage of ritual activity and daily life associated with the Kula cycle. (Note: Although produced for television within the Our Wonderful World series, the film is consistently cited in ethnographic filmographies, festival programs, and scholarly sources as a self-contained work with a distinct title, director credit, and runtime, supporting its treatment as a standalone film.)
In Tōei, a small mountain town in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, a sacred ritual called Hana Matsuri ("Flower Festival") has been passed down for over 700 years. Widely respected by folklorists and ritual enthusiasts both in Japan and abroad, Hana Matsuri is not only a spiritual tradition, but also the cultural core of the local community—an embodied memory of who they are. Like many rural areas in Japan, Tōei faces rapid population decline and shifting social structures. This film gently follows those who sustain the festival amid such changes.
TV Favorites Gather!! was a celebration of Japanese TV shows including tokusatsu.
This Summer, I took a solo trip to Tokyo. It was a blend of rush and silence. Mornings were quiet and soft, and evenings were quite chaotic. This is a compilation of what my eyes witnessed when I was there.
A rare video capturing the legendary human-faced fish craze that had everyone going wild. The video's highlight? A fleeting glimpse of the human-faced fish (just a koi carp) appearing on the water's surface
An elderly man tries to support a railway in the mountains of Japan that is facing closure due to huge deficits, using his own unconventional methods.
Fukushima experienced the earthquake, the nuclear power plant incident, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The lives of people who have been living in Fukushima since before the earthquake, people who moved to the area after the reconstruction project, and Chinese people who live in various parts of the prefecture. A story of people living in Fukushima, who, though buffeted by many hardships, live with strength and, at times, with humor.
The Sanya district of Tokyo is home to those pushed to the margins of society. For over 35 years, Shinpei and Hiroko Ishibashi ran a humble soup shop there. In 2020, large-scale redevelopment began in anticipation of the Tokyo Olympics. The elderly and unemployed were left behind, forgotten amid the city's transformation. Hoping to rebuildcommunity ties, Magokoro Yoshihira, a customer of the soup shop began cleaning the streets alongside the elderly. As Magokoro and the elders made a soup to serve, they begin to realise that what was truly passed down was not a recipe, but the time spent together—remembering, cooking, and reconnecting.
Japan's Vocaloid culture is currently experiencing a boom in popularity worldwide. We examine why people are drawn to the voice synthesis technology and the artists that emerged from this culture.
Record of refugee camps in Israeli-occupied Palestine and Lebanon between 2003 and 2012.
A vividly colourful video piece by Mai Endo and Aya Momose, in which the two artists knead clay while discussing the notion of 'ideal genitalia'
Live performance doc directed by UGICHIN showcasing MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS or more widely known in Japan as Masu Dore (マスドレ) performing かくいうもの (Kakuiumono), 青い、濃い、橙色の日 (Aoi, Koi, Daidaiiro No Hi), ハイライト(Highlight), ベアーズ (Bears), and delusionalism live at Koenji 20000V back in October 16, 2009. This performance was included as an extra DVD in the ひきずるビート / まで。(Hikizuru Beat / Made.) single CD released back in February 10, 2010.
Diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, Akiko Shirasaki signed a hospital document stating that she would possibly die within a week. She goes though a remission after a long hospitalization. Her husband Seiji worries about recurrence, but Akiko has started helping other patients in the hospital with anxiety.