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)

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

What We Can Learn When We Look At How We Eat

This 2012 documentary will make audiences “re-examine” their relationship with food by presenting them with the stories of four experts like Michiyo Mori who wrote Green Juice for Life: Eating Light and went on…

Machiya Shinshiroku

This is a documentary about a city named Yame in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan which is famous for tea, paper lanterns, woodworking and traditional crafts and buildings. The documentary which seeks to record the history…

The Empire of Shame

The Empire of Shame challenges the “Samsung Legend” by tracing the tough and strenuous struggles of female workers employed at Samsung Electronics Semiconductor factories. Although Samsung has consolidated its…

Cinema Travel: Eigakan de Miru Sekaiisan no Tabi ~ Machupichu, Nazka, Angkor Iseki Hen