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The film is for the 1st Moscow Biennale. The director's father, Cao Chongen, is a famous sculpture artist. Ever since his juvenile time, he has been engaged in producing the sculptures of those who were the exemplars in industry, agriculture and military, together with the political and cultural figures as well as the leaders of Communist Party. In order to celebrate the centenary anniversary of Deng Xiaoping, he was assigned by a former revolutionary base in Guangxi Province a full length sculpture of young Deng Xiaoping, particular the "A Journey of Deng Xiaoping's footprints" was put forward as a tourism brand of Red Classic. Following Father's sculpture, the director stepped on this Red Journey. With the giant sculpture stands erect, a relationship between Father's artist ideal and present reality was unfolded evidently to the furthest.

When the pandemic broke out, the filmmaker began to document the outside world from her window. A public space, Blue House, was finally realised but made empty for an indefinite time.

The Fukushima nuclear disaster is seen trough the eyes of the charismatic and commited doctor Hida. Essential witness of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, he has been the doctor of irradiated people for more than 60 years. At the age of 96, he keeps fighting for a fairer world, putting trust in the future, using humour and provocation to denounce the official attitude. His association, Hidankyo has been nominaded twice for the Nobel Peace Prize.

A MAKING OF 愛情物語/ Curtain Call, narrated by Harada Tomoyo.

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.

Park Sang Hak's (infamous N. Korean defector) group prepares to launch the balloons that contain leaflets that condemn the Kim Jong Un regime over to North Korea as the border town residents and liberals ready themselves for their most intense clash.

There are people who are treated as outcasts, repeatedly dismissed, and pushed to the margins just because they are temporary workers or union members. However, they do not get intimidated. Although capital may pass over their existence and permanent employees ignore them, they heal and overcome their difficulties over and over again. They choose a path with a dream to live as human beings. A story about people who are walking their paths with surefooted steps.

Debut of 5 young winners from the program "Project Alpha" who have the ability to sing, dance and become a new artist.

Ma Yanwei, a master of ecology, and his wife Li Bei, a returnee, two sons, and a dog rented several hundred acres of land on the edge of the desert, hoping to improve the soil through ecological agriculture, slow down desertification, and protect the ecology. The arrival of the seagulls is like a mirror, but also like a sharp blade that pierces the bright moon that Yanwei raised for Li Bei over the long field in the sand sea.

The film depicts sidely the social events from 1950s to the end of the twentieth century based on the two characters' story, let us look into the youth relics of the last generations. Starting from observing the aging problem of China, the director excavate the two characters based on the story of looking for bailment, trying to achieve the goal of touching audience's inside with universal emotions -- love. Cheng ZhengMing and Wang Lele, the retired empty nesters in Shanghai, met at the elderly university, soon became good friends because of their common traits and interest, most importantly, the same difficulty they have been encountering for many years- failure in VISA application. Wang Lele always wants to take a visit to her son who immigrated to Canada long time ago.

Ten years after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant following the 3.11 megaquake and megatsunami, the once beautiful ‘satoyama’ landscape is now replaced by haphazardly spreading wilderness. The most conspicuous change may be in the local ecosystem.

Kana Nishino’s second DVD featuring an unplugged live, a documentary and an interviews. This is meant to run as a film with the unplugged live, interviews, and documentary all playing together intertwining.

Clearly, the comfort woman controversy is far from resolved - and that explains why Zhongyi Ban has now completed his third documentary on the subject. "Give Me the Sun" introduces us to a group of seven aging Chinese women whose bodies and minds were irrevocably scarred by the unspeakable brutality inflicted on them during World War II, when they were being gang-raped for months until their families ransomed them. Some were lured into sexual slavery by locals working for the Japanese Army, who promised them work in factories or hospitals; others were simply abducted and enslaved in the nearest comfort stations. Chinese scholars have estimated that close to 100,000 women were forcibly taken from their homes during the war, although lack of official documentation has made it difficult for historians to reach an agreement on the exact figure.

A special documentary produced for the 30th anniversary of the Seoul Olympics, 88/18 looks back at South Korea in the 1980s as the nation raced toward the Games. Through archival footage and reflection, the film examines how the 1988 Seoul Olympics brought profound changes that extended far beyond sport, reshaping Korean society itself.

Korean pop culture has taken over, but another Korean export is also becoming very popular - the culinary delicacy of kimchi.

Shiragaki is renowned for its ceramics. This documentary follows people who must overcome physical disabilities to work in the town.

In the sound of the historic building, Port Opening Memorial Hall, the overlapping tone of the band formation with percussion Ryota Tanaka and guitar Gen Tanabe became a performance that felt a certain heat with the new wind. A new song "some site" written for this day is also included, and it will be released for the first time in this work. Following Kanata, Rinko Kawauchi is on the jacket. Beautiful photographs of the sun moving to the endless sea, shining a faint light and disappearing all the boundaries , gently snuggle up to this album.

Pan lives two lives. During the day he is the son of a traditional Hong Kong family. But at night he transforms into the unapologetic drag queen Pansze Diva entertaining the underground of the city. Ultimately looking for acceptance by their parents, what does a death in the family change?

A cultural film documenting Butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata as he is taken out of his stage space and dances in the streets. 16mm.

The 1999 game "Elancia" marks its 21st anniversary this year. Due to lack of management, various macros programs and cheats are rampant, but few users are still left in the game. Why can't they leave Elancia? "My Sister Jeon Ji-hyun," a user of Elancia for 16 years, stepped out of a stuffy room with a camera to answer questions about why others are still playing the game.

Ostensibly a documentary or a music video chronicling influential post-punk Chinese group P.K. 14’s first national tour, Li Hongqi’s latest provocation becomes a rumination on existential ennui that takes place on endless highways as band members sit in their tour bus and anonymous hotels.

Multiverse of Mekong is a semi-experimental documentary that uses diverse data sets including satellite images, information on the internet and television news footage. These data sets are generated through programming and AI image processing that gather clear evidence and reflect the multidimensional impacts and changes happening in the Mekong river, from the first dam built... from past, present to future.

Ten years after the introduction of the long-term care insurance system, some people question the uniformity of long-term care services and set up new long-term care facilities on their own. The film covers three welfare facilities and documents the young staff struggling to make ends meet.

Siblings Aru, age 3, and Kino, age 1, have 3 parents: father Fumino, who is transgender; mother Honoyo, Fumino's partner who gave birth to the children; and father Gon, a close gay friend who donated his sperm. The 3 are now raising their children together, struggling repeatedly to find their own way of being a family. This program covers their first 3 years of parenting. And it asks an important question: What does it take to be a family?

The secret of the Himalayas

Four young men who call themselves ‘the surplus people’, leave to Europe without money to support themselves. They plan to travel the whole Europe in a year by making promotional video clips and bartering them for free accommodation. Would this simple plan work?

Commissioned by the American Center Japan, Idemitsu made a video introducing her husband Sam Francis. She interviewed 5 people about their views of Sam Francis. Those who interviewed were Taeko Tomioka, Toru Takemitsu, Shuzo Takiguchi, Jiro Takamatsu, and Sazo Idemitsu.

Nobuko Shibuya's Japanese volleyball documentary

The story unfolds in "the realm of bears" that is the heart of the Yushan National Park. It is a place brimming with wildlife ecosystems and aboriginal culture. Fascinated by the area, one female ecologist started her journey searching for bears in 1998 while subsequently developing a close companionship with a Bunun hunter in the midst of this wilderness. Together with copious research, the secret of the Taiwan Black Bear is thus revealed.

He has tattoos. He writes poems. He paints. He has done a few dirty jobs. When he was in prison for the second time, he received a literary award. He always looks for work, friends, love, but gets lost again and again... He is Weiming, a pen name he adopted when he was in junior high school.

Song Hae 1927 is a documentary about the character all Koreans know. Song Hae is the oldest active celebrity at 94 and the longest-running host of the ‘National Singing Contest.’ He has been a singer, comedian, actor, and radio DJ, but never a star. Song Hae 1927 shows a backstage face we’ve never seen. His closed eyes and serious look seem like a good place to hide sadness and pain. Song Hae is a man of few words. To the death of his wife, he only said, ‘I wish I had had a chance to say goodbye to him.’

A Yangtze Landscape utilizes a non-narrative style, setting off from the Yangtze's marine port Shanghai, filming all the way to the Yangtze River's source, Qinghai/Tibet - filming a total distance of thousands of kilometers. Experimental music and noise recorded live on scene are used in post-production, painstakingly paired with relatively independent visuals, creating a magically realistic atmosphere contrasted with people seeming to be 'decorative figures' right out of traditional Chinese landscape scrolls.

When filmmaker Yoshifumi Tsubota learns about his slightly autistic uncle who lives alone, he decides to visit him. Drawn to his uncle’s unique personality, he begins to roll his camera as he visits him over the years. Tsubota himself had been diagnosed with a developmental disability and so understanding his uncle is also an act of understanding himself. Through intimate and personal footage, this charming film is gem of a documentary that also highlights contemporary social issues surrounding aging and social care for the disabled.

A documentary on the maker movement and its impact on society, culture and economy in the U.S.

8mm early film directed by Hiroyuki Oki.

Railroad of Hope consists of interviews and footage collected over three days by Ning Ying of migrant agricultural workers traveling from Sichuan in China's interior, to the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China's northwest frontier.[1] Through informal interviews aboard the cramped rail cars, Ning Ying explores the hopes and dreams of the workers, many of whom have never left their homes before.

My grandmother has been losing her memories. I visited her home where she has lived over 60 years.

Five years since he passed away, this documentary reveals some of his very last moments in this world. His bright smile, his stern voice, his warm hands, dignity, humor, innocence, honesty, confession… Discover the Stephen Kim Sou-hwan that you didn’t know about.

Using mostly footage from Nippon News newsreels, this film explains the history of Japanese aggression, from the Manchurian Incident to the Pacific War. The governing classes of Japanese capitalism planned and carried out the war project to acquire foreign markets. and while most people were forced into poverty, the capitalists became rich. The special political police detained Communists and those who opposed the war. With the rise of fascism, Japan’s tragedy begins.

Actor Takakura Ken visits Santa Cruz in Portugal and traces the footsteps of the writer Dan Kazuo, who spent his last years living there.

Working as a designer for a clothing company, Song-mi, feeling skeptical about her heavy workload and repetitive daily life, decides to quit her job and become a freediving underwater performer. As she went deeper into her sea, Songmi felt that her body and mind, which had been weary of her, were healed. In order to return this 'gift of healing' she received from her sea, she challenges a special underwater performance with installation artist Boseong and aqua aerobics instructor Doui. Youth campaigns in Jeju, Palau and Cebu. The silent cry of a mermaid trapped in a plastic forest in the middle of the Pacific Ocean now throws a strong warning to our oceans.

A documentary about the 8-day sit-in struggle by GANG Cheolmin, a 22 year-old private in the South Korean army who declared his objection to military service on November 21, 2003 in order to stop the South Korean government from sending troops to Iraq, and the peace groups supporting him.

Feature documentary debut of 29 year old director Kei Tanaka. In the Japanese town of Kawasaki, elderly residents who have lived hard lives are now facing their own death at a public housing complex called “Danchi“. The young director explores and depicts the ageing population in Japan by focusing on the personal lives of few individuals who live quietly on the outskirts of society. While some of the protagonists chose to interact and establish friendships with their fellow elderly residents, others prefer to spend the rest of their years in solitary.

Documenting a performance that makes use of the Han River cruise ship and turns the spotlight on resistance against memories fading because of speed as well as the relationship between humans and nature within the city. The cruise ship points floodlights on the performance by the banks of the Han River, making Seoul a kind of massive stage and turning it into a space that questions the glances of others.

The only Japan-produced installment of the Super Junk / Super Faces of Death / Japanese True Gore franchise Jun Hyodo, the popular director of TBS's "Gimme a Break," delivers the definitive "end-of-the-century video" with never-before-seen footage.

Zhou Lan-Ping, who wrote the renowned Mandarin pop song ‘Green Island Serenade’ and the score of the acclaimed Chinese musical film The Love Eterne, is one of the most celebrated Chinese composers in modern times. Through old friends and colleagues’ recollection, commentaries from experts in the fields and academic researches, together with historical photos and audio-visual materials, this documentary explores this musician’s life and music and pays tribute to his contribution to the Chinese film and pop industries.

A young woman goes on an anonymous journey to her late husband's hometown Leshan, a small city in Sichuan province. There, she meets an old friend, a local theatre actress preparing for an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan (Sichuan). In a home-place unfamiliar, the traveling woman meets the imaginary. Ghosted by Shen Te the protagonist of the play, the actress loses the self at the intersection between fiction and reality. Unprepared, the filmmaker loses control of her camera. Together, they drift into a polyrhythmic experience of stasis.

Mariko Miyagi is back documenting the activities of disabled children from her own school, Nemunoki. This time, the whole documentary focuses itself on the powers of creativity and drawing.

Sunk in chronic lethargy, "I" follow my mother on a walk along Namdaecheon stream and recall an old elementary school assignment: catch a planarian. I never found one back then; I just played on the trampoline ("bang-bang") nearby. An unsolved mystery remained: do planarians really live in Namdaecheon? This film is the story of a middle-aged woman with a new ADHD diagnosis who, in trying to find the answer, tumbles down a rabbit hole of planarian obsession.​

Taiwan Unsung "Hero" is not a hero with superpowers, but one who bravely transcends themselves and faces difficulties in life. They are not famous idol and maybe their life stories are different than you, but you might find some sparkling moment through the film and encourage you facing the difficulties.