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In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai...
Kuroneko
Documentary short.
Burn! Olympic Torch
Unaware that the war had ended, two Japanese soldiers who had been hiding in the jungles of Guam returned home. During their sixteen years on the...
The Lost 16 Years
WW2 newsreel documentary film
Niitaka yamanobore: Nihon teikoku no hōkai
Documentary which continues the story of the construction of what then was the second-largest dam in the world, and the gorge through the Japan Alps...
Kurobe Gorge Part II
Postwar Japan as it is described by Etsuko, the manager of a bar catering to foreigners in Yokosuka. The way of life of a woman brimming with...
History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
Nihon Nankyoku chiiki kansoku-tai no kiroku: Nankyoku tairiku
Yume wa toki o koete
Early experimental PR "cine-poem" by Toshio Matsumoto. Commissioned by Kansai Electricity, the film paints an abstract, near-wordless retelling of...
Record of A Long White Line
After a young boy captures a rare butterfly in Nagasaki, a caterpillar begins a relay-trip toward the northern tip of Hokkaido, serving as a silent...
Silence Has No Wings
A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the years. It picks one such person from the...
A Man Vanishes
Kyojin-gun monogatari: Susume eikô e
Documentary following the travels of the Waseda University Middle-Africa Expedition Team and their encounters with the beauty of the African...
The Dark Continent
Documentary short about orangutans.
Orangutan
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
Strange Affinity
Documentary about the Tokyo Universiade Sports Competition.
Tokyo Universiade
The Crown Prince and Princess' American Tour
A documentary about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.
Hiroshima: A Document of the Atomic Bombing
Pacific war documentary culled from approximately 40,000 feet of Nippon Eiga Shinsha wartime stock, as well from British and American sources. Film...
The Pacific War