The 4th Innovator

6.0

Single mom Yeong Mi, who works at a trading company, is deep in thought about putting a stop to the poverty that's been going on for three generations in her family. She then reads in the paper about Japanese yen being…

Senkyo Fes!

This documentary follows the election campaign of musician Miyake Yohei, who announced his candidacy for the Japanese parliament's Upper House in July of 2013, and delves into his impassioned beliefs toward politics.…

In Between Mountains and Oceans

Held once every 20 years at the Ise Grand Shrine in Mie Prefecture, the Shikinen Sengu, a rite central to the relationship between Japanese and the natural world, is explored in this documentary by photographer Miyazawa…

Rohei Banka Ikyo ni Ikiru

Soldiers of the Chinese Nationalist Party, who fled to Taiwan after being defeated in the Chinese civil war in 1949, are the focus of this documentary which carefully captures the thoughts of the aging soldiers living…

Red Tomb

From the time of Korea's liberation from Japan until a ceasefire was called to the Korean War in 1953, more than 1,000,000 civilians were sacrificed. It became a back and forth slaughter between the left and the right,…

From What Is Before

8.5

The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand…

Stranger in the Mountains

During the Civil War between the KMT (Kuomintang) and the Communist Party, a group of guerrilla troops of the Republic of China who fled in exile on the Thai-Myanmar border partly withdrew back to Taiwan in 1961 and…

The Choice Is Ours: What Is the Future of the Japanese Constitution?

A documentary created with the aim of disseminating knowledge about the Japanese Constitution to the citizenry. Present-day Japan has been unsettled by revisions to Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution which states…

Tie Xue Jiang Jun

8.0

The drama tells the story of Fan Zhuxian’s pro-insurance and the Japanese army’s fierce street fighting. They were seriously injured in the battle, wounded and fought again, and finally because of the enemy’s…

EDSA

Three stories, one day in EDSA. An opportunistic entrepreneur develops a bond with a street kid trying to help him get to his business meeting in Makati, after losing his cellphone to a snatcher. A teacher from the…