Oro

7.2

When nature becomes an excuse for violence, everything that is gold turns into blood. A secluded community dependent on mining is disrupted by an armed group who claims to be a representative of the government which…

Protectors of Firefly River

About half a century ago, the project of constructing a dam came up in the Koubaru district at Kawatana town in Nagasaki prefecture where the traditional countryside foresty environment, so-called Satoyama, remains.…

Kou Jin

7.5

A boy is attacked by a giant monster and gets injured. The injured boy runs to a nearby village where Akane lives and warns them about the monster. The residents are frightened. Akane, Sakakida Soei and Kikuchi Enshu…

Cross Road Season 3 ~ Gunshu no Seigi

6.0

Serial murders occur in the Ota ward. Ozeki Tatsuro, who works for the Omo Rinko Police Precinct’s Police Affairs Division, is preoccupied with handling phone complaints from residents of the ward. Meanwhile, freelance…

Bon Uta

7.2

2015. Even after 5 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake, the residents of Futabamachi in Fukushima Prefecture are unable to return home and have been living in temporary housing. What gives the people of Futabamachi…

Listening to the Air

The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami destroyed large parts of the small town of Rikuzentakata. Here, Hiromi ABE hosts a radio show in which she reports on local events and interviews the residents. She focuses not…

Goodbye UFO

Wah Fu Estate in Aberdeen is the home of many urban legends, but few were as outlandish as the one that happened in the 1980s: One night, residents turned their heads to the sky and saw a giant UFO hovering above them…

Jokyoki

The combination of a detailed screenplay, vivid acting and sincerity ushers in a breath of fresh air into what may otherwise be seen as a banal story. Produced as part of the Community Cinema School Project aimed at…

Samashoal Testament Chapter 6

Photojournalists Naomi Toyoda and Masaya Noda have recorded the situation of Fukushima prefecture ever since it was hit by the nuclear meltdown following the Great East Japan Earthquake. This is “Chapter 6” in…

Not One Less

The Municipal Party Committee decided to relocate a severely poverty-stricken Yanzhi village as a whole and merge it into Danxia Village, the richest village in the county. It is difficult to leave one’s home, the…