Film Director Nobuhiko Obayashi: His Promise

7.0

For director Nobuhiko Obayashi, a late-stage cancer diagnosis has not stopped him from making movies. We follow him as he pursues a war film, inspired by his mentor, the legend Akira Kurosawa. (Source: NHK World-Japan)

Wake Up in America

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9.5

Our Youth in Taiwan

A star of the Taiwanese student movement, a celebrity Chinese student who loves Taiwan, and a Taiwanese documentary filmmaker passionate about politics. Each of them shared dreams of rebellion and building a better…

A Decision

It tells two different stories featuring ventilator-dependent patients in Taiwan and the people around them. Along with nearly 4,000 such cases on our island, these bedridden and mostly unconscious individuals are…

Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue

8.0

A Japanese-American director digs deep into the controversial 'comfort women' issue to settle the debate on whether the women were paid prostitutes or sex slaves, and reveals the motivations and intentions of the main…

Homie Kei: Chika no Natta Nihonjin

The documentary follows Kei, a Japanese man who, after leading a turbulent life as a yakuza, was imprisoned in the United States. There, he came into contact with Chicano gangs and was notably inducted into one, a…

Kampai! Sake Sisters

Sequel to the documentary Kampai! For the Love of Sake! about Japanese sake. Konishi Mirai helms once again and focuses on women in the world of sake, which was once off-limits to females. Women contribute to all aspects…

Takayuki Yamada Documentary 「No Pain, No Gain」

A documentary that has about five years of footage of Takayuki Yamada at work. It starts in 2013, when he reached 30 years old, and takes in a number of film and stage projects such as Ushijima the Loan Shark. (Source:…

Goodbye My Love, North Korea

8.0

This film looks back on the lives of 8 young North Koreans who went to study at the Moscow Film School in Russia right after the Korean War. In Moscow, they named themselves as ‘8 Squad’ and formed a deep friendship.…