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…

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…

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…

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

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…

Ikitai Tasuketai

March 11, 2011 The Great East Japan Earthquake: 446 people evacuated with nothing but the clothes on their backs. The earthquake caused a tsunami around 10 meters high which struck without mercy. 3 years later Interviews…

1000 Nengo no Mirai e: 3.11 Hokenshitachi no Shougen

A documentary that looks back on the Great East Japan Earthquake from the perspectives of public health nurses who support the wellbeing of people in the affected regions. In September of 2011, six months after the…

Talkback Chimmoku wo Yaburu Onnatachi

Documentary that faithfully depicts women who have survived hardship like abuse and prejudice as they face society by telling their stories through theater. The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women is a theater…

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Shiba Dreaming of Jomon Dogs

Documentary about Shiba dogs, the most illustrious Japanese dog breed. They have served as loyal hunting companions for humans since the Jomon Era long ago. The documentary features intense 3-year coverage of the Japan…