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Kurokawa Yoshimasa, Daidoji Masashi, Masunaga Toshiaki, and Arai Mariko, all members of the East Asian Anti-Japanese Armed Front " Scorpion, " were incarcerated for instigating the bombing of the Marunouchi offices of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. This film was conceived of and directed by Kurokawa whilst in prison. During the making of this film, he and his fellow members were under sentences of death or life imprisonment. As testimony to Kurokawa's idea that " the emperor system is not only an incarnation of the patriarchal principle but also the embodiment of the female principle, " the film aims " to critically examine the essence of the Japanese maternal image. "

Journalist and director Atsuko Sakai meets the japanese-speaking generation of Taiwan. Their testimonies reveal the history that weaves the mesh of their existence, as people who've known Taiwan at the time of the Japanese colonial empire, and who've experienced the White Terror, being part of the many demographic and historical layers that make up today's Taiwan. The sound of their voices echoes in an evermoving present to be convey history to young people in Taiwan and Japan.

Ahmed Alian, Ertuğrul Yunus, and Mamoru Hasegawa are three Muslim men living in Japan, in a journey of self-reflection. Their various perspective and differences in religious practices brings out important discussion about an everyone's specific experience of one single religion.

Here we meet a Japanese immigrant who traveled across the world at a young age and paved a unique path to success.

Motorcycle gang documentary

The central character is a 7 year old girl called Sachiko. She has just lost her immediate family in the firebombing of Tokyo and takes the train to her uncle’s family in Kumagaya in Saitama Prefecture. She is not out of danger yet, for the train gets shot at by a plane along the journey. Her uncle meets her at the station and he and his whole family welcome her with open arms. With her cousins, Sachiko explores the beauty of the natural landscape around Kumagaya. Sadly, these beautiful days of late summer are not to last. The final movement of the film depicts the final air raid of the war. The city descends into fear and chaos and Sachiko gets separated from her family with tragic results.

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.

Shiba Inu dogs have quite the personality and are now more popular than ever. Discover their unique traits by watching personal episodes with their owners and "digging" the latest scientific findings.

Tokyo Garage Scene 2003.05.10 - Shijuku Loft and other Tokyo Clubs in 2003

We look at the new horror that shook the whole world. [Verification] Shirane no Kohei [Shocking] Uncle Soup [Deleted] Ukraine 21 [Caution] Nasty Teddy Bear [Warning] Jukai no Otoshimono [Experiment] How to Go to Another World [Danger] Dream Diary [Fear] Dangerous Word Summary

An ethnographic film about the Shiraoi Ainu

Baywalk is one of Manila's most famous tourist attractions. Among the homeless who gather there at night is Takashi Akatsuka, a Japanese man who has become penniless after coming to the Philippines. Meanwhile, Masami Sekiya has recently moved into a high-rise apartment a few hundred meters away from Baywalk to start enjoying his life after retirement. However, no matter how much time passes, life does not seem to get any better for either of the two.

A film which focuses on "younger A-bomb survivors" who have no clear memories of the atomic bombings and their efforts, and frustrations, at passing on the A-bomb experience. The film follows them as they meet many people during a long voyage at sea, including victims of the Vietnam War and the sole survivor of a Nazi massacre of a Greek village, and start taking action to convey the bombings.

A film documenting the Matsuri and the life of the farmers in Nagano Prefecture. In the bosom of the mountain, people cultivate wasabi, rice, practice sericulture, forestry, mulberry picking. Some even cultivate barley in fields with a slope of 40 degrees. People have to live to the rythm of the seasons and to the pace of the water cycles. Whatever happens, their hearts are inextricably linked to the mountains.

After the release of "Synthetic Human" in 1993, director Yoichiro Serizawa waited 30 years for an opportunity to make a sequel. Both the previous work and this one aimed at an accurate objectification of human vision. When we see something we see it on our retina but the image in our mind is not the only thing we see. In this film both memory and delusion are "visible" at the same time while the point of view and perception of different individuals is presented.

Documentary following a group of Japanese street performers. Features both shots of their daily lives traveling between busking spots as well as their performances.

Hokkaido Prefecture's Shiretoko Peninsula is a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site. The area includes one of the world's densest concentrations of wild brown bears. 84-year-old fisherman Ose Hatsusaburo has forged a remarkable relationship with these creatures over a lifetime of working among them. Bears obey his commands without a fuss, and no fisherman has suffered a bear attack in 50 years. A rapidly shifting climate and recent UNESCO directives mean this unique way of life now faces an uncertain future.

Interview With Lead Actress Ami Tomite on Antiporno

The outflow of population, mainly young people, from agricultural, mountain and fishing villages in Japan to urban areas became remarkable from around 1960, but the actual situation of Japan's depopulation, which is rapidly progressing in the shadow of high economic growth, was interviewed after 1970. Pick up the voices of the residents. We interviewed mountain villages and remote islands in Hokkaido, Tohoku, China, and Kyushu. The aging of villages and the rapid decrease of households affect all the lives of residents such as school consolidation, agriculture and forestry, and living road management, and the decline in village (community) functions is further accelerating remote villages.

A young man sees something by the river. It's a shot of the girl he loves with another man. The young man has been dumped! He bites his lip and remembers those glorious days of love. And now, in order to express his anger, his frustration, his sadness and his regret, he comes up behind them... The word for "lost love" is "persistent". The story is about the youthfulness and innocence of a man who has lost his persistence. The frustration of youthful immaturity. The uncool and shameful part of the male sex, and the love for it. The melancholy and unhurried narrative suddenly comes to an unexpected end, and the audience realises that this is a very short and hilarious coming-of-age graffiti.

Karakami is a decorative Japanese paper used to ornament interior sliding doors during the Edo period. Woodblock-printed motifs, such as cherry blossoms and dragons, are said to have inspired several prominent European artists in the 19th century. This program examines the history of karakami through the work of a family in Kyoto that has preserved this traditional art form for nearly 400 years.

The Last Page documents the final days of a bookseller Polan Shobo, specialising in antiquarian books in the Tokyo suburbs. Kyosuke Ishida, the owner, decided to close down his shop after 35 years due to the recession brought on by the pandemic. In the week before the closing day, the shop saw an unexpected surge in visitors.

A short documentary about kissaten — Showa-era (1926-1989) Japanese cafe — culture. Būgen is a small kissa in a suburb south of Tokyo. It was featured in the book Kissa by Kissa. Proprietor Yamane-san has survived four bouts of cancer and has run his cafe for close to forty-five years. He makes a mean pizza toast with a unique cutting style. Pizza toast is a staple of kissa culinary culture.

Portraying the fifty-year history of zainichi (long-term residents in Japan) Koreans after the liberation of Korea, traces of zainichi evoked in this film question the concepts of 'post-war democracy' and 'pacifism' in Japan. With copious stock footage and testimony, the first half of the film, "History," chronologically traces the various experiences of zainichi from Japan's defeat (Korean liberation) through 1990. The latter half, "People," focuses on first, second and third-generation zainichi respectively, vividly depicting how they live.

A film that documents the actual story regarding the inheritance of the Battle of Okinawa, as filmed by filmmaker Jun Kawada. Kawada met a man who has been collecting the remains of the war dead and other artifacts in Okinawa Prefecture for over fifty years, and he begins to help him with the process. One day, the man shows Kawada a piece of property left behind that has the names engraved on it and asks him to find this person's family with the names on it.

Yu Iwasaki's short film.

Light, time, and landscape in Porto, August 2016. Filmed during the massive forest fires in Northern Portugal, a thick pall of smoke has gathered ominously over the Douro river. Kevin Dong: “As a medium capable of representing time in different ways, cinema is a vital tool which allows us to perceive the Anthropocene differently.

Short film of an infant's first bath based on amateur footage found in an antiques gallery in Japan. The photographer is unknown, but the material is thought to date to the early-to-mid Showa era, a period marked by the disastrous consequences of militarism. Music by Tomoko Sauvage.

A four-square-metre box with a screen and computer. This is what Japanese cyber-cafes offer, around the clock. Most customers just spend an hour or two here. But there are thousands who spend their lives in them. The Manboo in Tokyo has its own permanent residents: Masata and Hitomi. It is a home for them, even though they sleep on the floor.

The filmmaker's mother relays her experience of getting her tubes tied after giving birth in Los Angeles in the '90s. An intergenerational story around birth control unfolds.

On the making of Studio Trigger's "Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade" (2015).

Memories of a village sunk in a dam.

This film is about Japanese traditional bamboo craft.

Short by UMMMI.

A documentary that explores the life history of an 84 year old woman.

An analog feast for the senses that first shows how safflower is grown, harvested and processed, before applying its seeds and dye directly on the Super 8 material with results that aspire to a yellow-tinted version of a David Gatten film-nature meditation. - Christoph Huber for CInemascope, 2016

Immigrant children in Japan must find alternative ways to stay in touch with their mother tongue as the country becomes home to approximately 3.41 million foreign residents. Teachers of all kinds run language classes operated on necessity as families learn to navigate children with varying levels of skill with what should come naturally to them. Visa issues and status of residence loom over it all.

The Tokiwadaira Housing Complex was constructed in the 1950s boom for housing complexes. Now, its residents are aging, leaving and diminishing, with the buildings following in their wake. While the structures that housed these people are being rebuilt and demolished across the country, what are the lives of the people that live there now?

Toru Kurihara, who is said to be the creator of the unprecedented ruins boom that covered the whole of Japan, supervised and introduced the unknown charm of the ruins. From hotels, closed schools, abandoned hospitals, and even ghost towns, it covers spots that are unbearable for abandoned fans. You can enjoy each decaying state.

Documentary on the film Punk Samurai