My Town, My Youth is an inspiring film shot twenty years after the official recognition of the disease and focuses on a group of young people (many...

This documentary compiles a series of Noam Chomsky's interviews and lectures that address the events of 9/11.

1980 Japanese film distributed by Shochiku.

In 1968, Ogawa decided to form Ogawa Productions and locate it at the newly announced construction site of Narita International Airport in a...

Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while...

Film distributed by ATG.

The first in a series of independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made of the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata, Japan.

A documentary portrait of Miho Shimao, widow of renowned Japanese writer Toshio Shimao.

Documentary filmmaker Makoto Sato offers this reflection on the life and career of Edward Said, the deeply influential literary and cultural critic...

The Silence narrates the struggle of fifteen "comfort women"—former sex slaves by the Imperial Japanese Army during WWII—for recognition and...

This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by...

A galvanising documentary about the organised resistance of a group of students barricaded at the Takasaki City University of Economics. The...

This odd three-parter purports to map the metaphysics of the interpersonal universe, dividing its trio of tales into three, different-toned “planets.”

Documentary filmed by young directors in Japan that was shaken by the US-Japan security pact struggles and student disputes. An illusionary image...

The sea around Minamata was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. This highly...

Before World War II, Ikego village was an idyllic agriculture community. The Imperial Navy took over the village and the hills to build the largest...

38 years after the Pacific War, 84 victims of a mass suicide ordered by the Japanese military were uncovered in a cave in Yomitan village. This...

A medical perspective of Minamata disease in three parts - 1) Progress of Research; 2) Pathology and Symptoms; 3) Clinical Field Trials