Sound Recordist
原一男監督が、平成4年5月にガンで亡くなった小説家・井上光晴の晩年の5年間を追ったドキュメンタリー。映画は、彼が文学を教える生徒や、埴谷雄高、瀬戸内寂聴らの証言を通して、井上光晴の文学活動を捉えるとともに、撮影開始直後に発覚したガンと闘う姿を生々しく撮り続ける。
Sound
神戸市で妻とバッテリー商を営む奥崎謙三は、自らを「神軍平等兵」と名乗り、「神軍」の旗たなびく車に乗って日本列島を疾駆する。ある日、自身がかつて所属していた独立工兵第36連隊で、終戦後23日も経ってから敵前逃亡の罪で2人の兵士が処刑されていたことを知った奥崎は、その遺族らとともに真相究明に乗り出す。時には暴力も辞さない奥崎の執拗な追及により、元兵士たちの口から事件の驚くべき真実と戦争の実態が明かされていく。
Music
“I have three tasks in my life: to dance, to teach dance, and to create dance,” says the pioneering Japanese performer Akiko Kanda in this intimate portrait of creativity and individuality, After seeing a Martha Graham performance in college, Kanda left her family behind in Japan and arrived in New York City, where she studied under the legendary Graham and became a principal dancer with the troupe. Following the wiry artist as she moves from practice floor to performance hall, and from the cramped single-room apartment she lives in to a trip home to see her aging mother, director Sumiko Haneda reveals a woman who has rebelled against traditional ideals of marriage and motherhood, and who nearly single-handedly brought modern dance to Japan-and kept it alive. “When I die,” Kanda tells the director, “I will be content if I can just say, ‘I danced.'”
Sound Assistant
After the waning of the protests in Sanrizuka, Ogawa Pro started questioning the future of the collective and looking for other subjects to film. Following the method developed in the previous films, the filmmakers moved to the slum of Kotobuchi in the port city of Yokohama, where more than 6000 people were struggling to get by without any means of survival, exposed to industrial accidents and diseases. The result is one of the most moving films produced by the collective, a series of beautifully filmed portraits, voicing the silenced stories and songs of a group of people living in this community. Credit: ICA London