Japan Movies

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 am...

Thirty years ago, idol Okada Yukiko jumped off the Sun Music agency building in a desperate attempt to take her own life. Unfortunately, she was succe...

In Idemitsu's seminal women's liberationist video, the image of a tampon swirling in a toilet bowl slowly appears, as the artist speaks about the trou...

For centuries the Japanese warred among themselves and their neighbors, creating a colorful, rich and sometimes brutal legacy. Intriguing to outsiders...

Documentary about a stay in Japan.

The first DVD release of two Okada Yukiko videos, "Okada Yukiko in Switzerland" and "Okada Yukiko Memories of Switzerland", both released in 1985, on...

The world continues to look to Japan as a highly industrialized, future-oriented country that has retained much of its ancient tradition. This series...

2011. Fukushima. Keiko's life changes when her friends are swallowed up by the tsunami. Two years later, unable to mourn, the former trawler captain e...

Nagaremono zukan is a documentary video, release from V&R Planning (AV). "Flower Picture Book" is the second work in the bicycle trilogy after Yumika....

On this special night at a coin laundry, people of different characters meet to influence, inspire or change each other's lives.

Midori is a struggling wedding photographer in Kona, Hawaii. Her small world in thrown off balance when Seiko, her judgmental sister comes to visit fr...

In this tape, Ko Nakajima and Video Earth Tokyo interview a homeless man. The subject is initially angry and frustrated, but gradually opens up and sh...

An unusual documentary exploring sound. Unique elements of Japanese culture are revealed through ancient rituals and extraordinary musical spectacles....

The documentary shows the types of the four seasons, when the story returns to the capital of Kyoto in 1200, where the traditions breathe beauty. Many...

Short documentary about the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

A look inside the underground punk rock scene in Osaka, Japan. With live concert footage from SK8NIKS, Flat Sucks, PiPi, By-Pass, Low Card de la morte...

On March 11 2011, after a magnitude 9 earthquake, a giant tsunami destroyed most of the north eastern japanese coast, killing almost 20,000 people.

A documentary film telling the story of true friendship and commitment to Japan’s recovery by the international community following the Great East Ja...

Katsuhiro Yamaguchi and Hakudo Kobayashi presented the video performance Eat at Video Hiroba's first exhibition, Video Communication DO IT YOURSELF KI...