מערסט וויוד פון Nihon Eiga Shinsha

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...

Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by...

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

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...

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...

Documentary about Japanese pearl fishers.

A history of the Pacific War comprising of American combat footage with Japanese wartime newsreels

Early experimental PR "cine-poem" by Toshio Matsumoto. Commissioned by Kansai Electricity, the film paints an abstract, near-wordless retelling of...

A documentary about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

Documentary on baseball player Shigeo Nagashima

Educational film commissioned by Kansai Electric Power Company

Karakorumu documentary film

WW2 newsreel documentary film

In September 1942, the film company Nipponeigasha released Sora no Shinpei, a 55-minute documentary on the training of the Japanese army’s...

A 1954 documentary about Japanese fishermen aboard the "Lucky Dragon" who were irradiated by the American Castle Bravo nuclear test in the Pacific.