Yield

A documentary that offers an unsentimental glimpse of the lives of nine working-class children from across the Philippines. Some children live with the condition of hydrocephalus, while others risk their lives in labour…

Onigawara

Origami

Atsushi Suwa, a painter, is offered a contract to paint a portrait of a couple’s deceased son. In order to learn about him, he studies photos of him and draws the faces of his family and a friend, who talk about…

Chocolatena Hitobito

Since being started by Koji Natsume in 2003, Kyuon Chocolate has grown from a bakery in Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, to a chain of 52 stores spanning Japan. Over its 19 years of existence it has grown in size…

Nagasaki Tsuiso: Chichi Inoue Hisashi e no Tabi

A documentary about the work of writer and playwright Inoue Hisashi told via the journey of Inoue Maya. Upon his death, he had an unrealized idea for a play which was turned into a film called "Nagasaki: Memories of…

Nature of Mother

This is the end of the world, the end, and the beginning. Ten years ago, together with Liu Bai Yuan, Lin Yi Jie and Chen Yan Bo, I went to the North Pole and embarked on a polar expedition of more than 500 kilometers.…

Getore Yugure Dai Abare

-25℃ Simple Life

This documentary looks at the trend of people living in “Tiny Houses,” small houses that can be moved around. It was filmed in locations all around Asahikawa, Hokkaido, and even documents a Tiny House hotel that…

The Fools: Orokamono Tachi no Uta

A spectacular documentary that closely examines "ten years" of the solitary rock band THE FOOLS. Since its formation in 1980, THE FOOLS, led by vocalist Ito Ko and guitarist Kawada Ryo, has undergone several member…

Young People Aim the Mountain Village

This documentary captures the lives of young people who have moved to Higashi-Chichibu, a village in the northern mountains of Saitama Prefecture. The area is rural and full of nature and the village is listed as a…