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What is peace? What is coexistence? And what are the basis for them? PEACE is a visual-essay-like observational documentary, which contemplates these...

Release : 2010.01.05
Popularity : 1.184

An ample community of cats has set up home around the Shinto shrine in Ushimado. Some local residents take care of them, others are disturbed by...

Release : 2024.12.05
Popularity : 1.293

Can a candidate with no political experience and no charisma win an election if he is backed by the political giant Prime Minister Koizumi and his...

Release : 2007.10.06
Popularity : 0.617

In the Japanese town of Ushimado, the shortage of labor is a serious problem due to its population’s rapid decline. Traditionally, oyster...

Release : 2015.08.06
Popularity : 0.989

Theatre 1 (Observational Film Series #3) is a feature length documentary, which closely depicts the world of Oriza Hirata, Japan's leading playwright...

Release : 2012.11.21
Popularity : 1.005

MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients,...

Release : 2008.06.13
Popularity : 0.409

Oriza Hirata is Japan's leading playwright and director, who runs his own theatrical company, Seinendan. Theatre 2 (Observational Film Series #4)...

Release : 2012.11.21
Popularity : 0.878

Wai-chan is one of the last remaining fishermen in Ushimado, a small village in Seto Inland Sea, Japan. At the age of 86, he still fishes alone on a...

Release : 2018.02.17
Popularity : 0.869

Follow up to the director's previous two films called Mental, follows the retirement of the head physician at a mental health facility in Japan

Release : 2023.01.04
Popularity : 0.635

Late at night, a Japanese businessman enters a pizza shop and observes strange but typical New Yorkers, eating their pizza in their own queer ways....

Release : 1995.01.01
Popularity : 0.289

In response to the Fukushima disaster, Yama-san is running an election campaign with an anti-nuclear message. But unlike last time, he has no money,...

Release : 2013.06.22
Popularity : 0.145