The Songs of Rice

In Thailand, a hymn to rice need not always be sung. A dance, or spectacular homemade fireworks can say the same thing. As can a film, as is convincingly demonstrated by this lyrical, beautifully filmed homage to this…

My Place

The director’s little sister comes home pregnant, deciding to be an un-wed single mom. Her mother defends her while her father becomes sour. The little sister decides to raise the child in Canada as she never felt…

Go! U-KISS

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Mnet America presents the first Headliner of this year, U-KISS! Join U-KISS as they embark on a journey to make their very first U.S tour. This very exclusive behind the scenes story will show the amazing week that…

Bitter, Sweet, Seoul

Over 98 days from August 20th to November 25th 2013, 2821 people from around the world sent 11,852 video featuring many different faces of Seoul. 154 were selected, edited, and made into a movie. (Source: Letterboxd)

The Promise: Prenatal Memories of Children

A documentary directed by Norio Ogikubo about children who speak of their experiences in their mother’s womb, the so called intrauterine memory.

Funky Kato My Voice Funmon kara Aratana Mirai E

The Funky Monkey Babys disbanded last year and one of their members, Funky Kato, had a documentary made about his final performance with the group and his new life playing solo stuff.

Fukushima, Rokkasho and Message to the Future

Photographer Megumi Shimada takes her camera and documents the continued struggle of people living with the aftereffects of the March 11th earthquake and tsunami. More specifically, some families in Fukushima and Rokkasho…

Henshin

Jun Hori is a former NHK announce and founder of the 8bit News organisation and director of this documentary which draws links between nuclear accidents in Japan and the US. He interviews people about topics like radiation…

Homuresu Riji-cho Taigaku Kyuji Saisei Keikaku

Go Yamada sees to be a guy who once owned a business but lost everything, including his house, but worked hard to maintain a baseball team made up of boys who dropped out of high school. The film crew follow him as…

Murakami Kazuo Dokyumento `SWITCH’ Idenshi ga Mezameru Shunkan

The award-winning geneticist Kazuo Murakami had this film about him made back in 2011. He is a man who travelled to the US and launched a meteoric career in the field which culminated in him decoding the human enzyme…