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Documentary |
| Perhaps the best-known of the documentary directors is Shinsuke Ogawa (1935-1992), whose work inspired Japan’s all-important Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival held every two years. (...read more) |
| A Man Vanishes | |||
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Japanese Title | Ningen Johatsu | |
| English Title | A Man Vanishes | ||
| Director | Shohei Imamura | ||
| [1967 / Color / Standard / Stereo / 130 mins] | |||
| It's a documentary filmed by the Palm d'Or awarded director of Ballad of Narayama, Shohei Imamura, about Yoshie, the fiancé of a missing man who searched for him for 7 months with a reporter, played by Shigeru Tsuyuguchi. | |||
| Pride in Blue | |||
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Japanese Title | Pride in Blue | |
| English Title | Pride in Blue | ||
| Director | Kazuhiko Nakamura | ||
| [2007 / Color / Standard / Stereo / 84 mins] | |||
| Another World Cup with handicapped football players: A sport documentary of the Japan soccer team. | |||
| Toji-bito - Relaxing at Hot Springs | |||
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Japanese Title | Toji-bito | |
| English Title | Toji-bito - Relaxing at Hot Springs | ||
| Director | Kenji Matsui | ||
| [2008 / Color / Standard / Stereo / 480 minutes (4 series: 30mins x 4 episodes)] | |||
| Have a soak in the hot spring with viewing the noble sight for worthful refreshing experiences!! | |||
| Chokora! | |||
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Japanese Title | Chokora! | |
| English Title | Chokora! | ||
| Director | Shigeru Kobayashi | ||
| [2008 / Color / HDCAM, DVCAM / 94 mins] | |||
| A documentary that follows the lives of street children in the Kenyan provincial town of Thika. | |||
| GHADA -Songs of Palestine- | |||
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Japanese Title | GHADA -Paresuchina no Uta- | |
| English Title | GHADA -Songs of Palestine- | ||
| Director | Mizue Furui | ||
| [2005 / Color / Standard / Stereo / 106 mins] | |||
| Shot in Palestine, this is one woman's work of journalism now turned into a masterpiece of a documentary. | |||
| Little Birds -How Many Children Were Killed in Iraq?- | |||
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Japanese Title | Little Birds -Iraq Senka no Kazokutachi- | |
| English Title | Little Birds -How Many Children Were Killed in Iraq?- | ||
| Director | Takeharu Watai | ||
| [2005 / Color / Standard / Stereo / 102 mins] | |||
| What went down in Iraq? Do we really know what war is? | |||
| A2 | |||
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Japanese Title | A2 | |
| English Title | A2 | ||
| Director | Tatsuya Mori | ||
| [2001 / Color / Standard / Stereo / 126 minutes] | |||
| The follow-up to “A,” the controversial documentary that revealed the inside of Japan’s notorious religious group, Aum Shinrikyou… | |||
| A | |||
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Japanese Title | A | |
| English Title | A | ||
| Director | Tatsuya Mori | ||
| [2001 / Color / Standard / Stereo / 126 minutes] | |||
| The controversial documentary that revealed the inside of Japan’s notorious religious group, Aum Shinrikyou… | |||
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