documentary
April 01, 2013
Last November, economist and amateur filmmaker Rene Duignan was simply trying to get people to watch his documentary about suicide in Japan.
March 19, 2013
AOMORI--Audiences in this northern city might initially have been puzzled at a documentary that was shown here recently.
March 10, 2013
An upcoming documentary explores Japan's nuclear crisis through the eyes of an artist who exposes photographic paper to polluted soil and finds it stained with radiation.
March 06, 2013
WINTERTHUR, Switzerland--A documentary about a man walking from northern Hokkaido to the most southern point of Honshu and his encounters with ordinary Japanese after the Great ...
March 04, 2013
In February 2012, documentary filmmaker Kenji Aoike released a film with first-person accounts from elementary schoolchildren in Miyagi Prefecture who survived the Great East...
February 19, 2013
An upcoming documentary film depicts the ongoing burden for evacuees from a village situated close to the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
February 12, 2013
YANAI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--A documentary about a Japanese photojournalist who shed light on the plight of atomic bomb victims and the oppressed during his nearly seven-decade ...
December 20, 2012
Japan's high suicide rate is the focus of a new documentary movie made by a European Union economist who became alarmed by the everyday nature of it.
November 11, 2012
Megumi Sasaki, a filmmaker, shares cramped conditions on the second floor of a multitenant building in Manhattan with more than 20 other artistic people, many of them designers.
September 25, 2012
A documentary about the triumphs and everyday struggles of people with disabilities at a daycare center has been making the rounds at theaters across the country, opening the...
September 23, 2012
A giant, multinational agribusiness is using its market share and patent system to spread genetically modified crops throughout the world. A movie documenting this problem...
June 29, 2012
Tokyo curry shop owner Kuku Minami is more used to dishing out his spicy creations than being behind the camera of a serious documentary film.
May 20, 2012
SEOUL--Japanese film director Shunji Iwai holds a special place in the hearts of young audiences in South Korea.
May 08, 2012
A headline posted by a British media outlet in January to convey the state of Japanese television programming proclaimed: "Japan: the sleeping documentary giant."
April 12, 2012
Carrying a camcorder she borrowed from her professor, Yuka Kanno returned last summer to her tsunami-ravaged hometown of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, in an emotional...
March 15, 2012
TV director Takemitsu Sato felt an inner voice calling him, “Why don’t you come?" when he heard that the people of his hometown of Futaba had evacuated to the Saitama Super ...
February 27, 2012
Takemitsu Sato has filmed a powerful documentary about the lives of evacuees from the no-entry zone around the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
February 24, 2012
Japan’s cherry blossoms were never more poignant than last spring, when stunning canopies of pink and white spread across the Tohoku coast just weeks after the March 11...
November 30, 2011
Higashi Nippon Broadcasting Co., which is based in Miyagi Prefecture, has produced a documentary on the March 11 earthquake and killer tsunami.
November 26, 2011
Higashi Nippon Broadcasting Co., which is based in Miyagi Prefecture, has produced a documentary on the March 11 earthquake and killer tsunami.