Atsushi Funahashi

A woman working as a hotel receptionist was harassed by her superior. This docu-fiction depicts sexual harassment affects not only the victim and the perpetrator, but everyone around them.

A woman working as a hotel receptionist was harassed by her superior. This docu-fiction depicts sexual harassment affects not only the victim and the perpetrator, but everyone around them.

A woman working as a hotel receptionist was harassed by her superior. This docu-fiction depicts sexual harassment affects not only the victim and the perpetrator, but everyone around them.

A woman working as a hotel receptionist was harassed by her superior. This docu-fiction depicts sexual harassment affects not only the victim and the perpetrator, but everyone around them.

A woman working as a hotel receptionist was harassed by her superior. This docu-fiction depicts sexual harassment affects not only the victim and the perpetrator, but everyone around them.

자연이 풍족한 가고시마현의 나가시마마치. 섬의 특산물인 방어의 양식업을 부부로 하는 히노 사츠키(야마다 마호)는 생후부터 길러왔던 7세의 토요카즈와 특별 입양 신청을 앞두고 있어 드디어 토요카즈와 진짜 가족이 될 수 있다는 것에 감회가 새로웠다. 한편 섬에는 1년 전에 나타나 식당에서 일하게 된 사토오 아카네(칸지야 시호리)라는 여성이 있었다. 어느 날, 발걸음을 잡을 수 없었던 토요카즈를 낳은 부모의 소재를 알게 된다.

Double revenge in two separate stories. Set in both a near future and the historical past, revenge is served not by violence, but by love.

Double revenge in two separate stories. Set in both a near future and the historical past, revenge is served not by violence, but by love.

Double revenge in two separate stories. Set in both a near future and the historical past, revenge is served not by violence, but by love.

Launched in 2011 as a sister group to girl band behemoth AKB48, the Osaka-based NMB48 has become a musical force itself. With a string of No.1 hit singles and albums, not to mention sell-out performances, NMB48 continues Japan’s pop-music phenomena. Director Funahashi Atsushi, whose documentary work has previously chronicled such harrowing events as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, pulls back the curtain on the life and struggles of the band members and the workings of the idol-making industry.

Many people have forgotten what happened in Fukushima.

Many people have forgotten what happened in Fukushima.

Documentary celebrating the life and work of Yasujiro Ozu, fifty years after his death.

After the 11 March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, residents of Futaba, a town in Fukushima Prefecture, are relocated to an abandoned high school in a suburb of Tokyo, 150 miles south. With a clear and compassionate eye, filmmaker Atsushi Funahashi follows the displaced people as they struggle to adapt to their new environment. Among the vivid personalities who emerge are the town mayor, a Moses without a Promised Land; and a farmer who would rather defy the government than abandon his cows to certain starvation.

Industrial Hitachi City is the location for this post-3.11 drama. Still recovering from the tsunami, Shiori receives news of her husband’s accidental death, which marks the start of a personal recovery that mirrors the town’s for Shiori as well as forgiveness of surviving coworker Takumi.

Industrial Hitachi City is the location for this post-3.11 drama. Still recovering from the tsunami, Shiori receives news of her husband’s accidental death, which marks the start of a personal recovery that mirrors the town’s for Shiori as well as forgiveness of surviving coworker Takumi.

Industrial Hitachi City is the location for this post-3.11 drama. Still recovering from the tsunami, Shiori receives news of her husband’s accidental death, which marks the start of a personal recovery that mirrors the town’s for Shiori as well as forgiveness of surviving coworker Takumi.

Deep in the Valley interlaces a story of young romance set in Yanaka (part of old downtown Tokyo) with a Japanese period drama based on Five-Story Pagoda, a classic literary work by Rohan Koda. In the contemporary story, Kaori, a young woman working for a non-profit organization that restores home movies, learns that there used to be a five-story pagoda in the middle of Yanaka Cemetery. It burned down in 1957, and rumor has it that someone has an 8mm film of the fire.

Deep in the Valley interlaces a story of young romance set in Yanaka (part of old downtown Tokyo) with a Japanese period drama based on Five-Story Pagoda, a classic literary work by Rohan Koda. In the contemporary story, Kaori, a young woman working for a non-profit organization that restores home movies, learns that there used to be a five-story pagoda in the middle of Yanaka Cemetery. It burned down in 1957, and rumor has it that someone has an 8mm film of the fire.

Deep in the Valley interlaces a story of young romance set in Yanaka (part of old downtown Tokyo) with a Japanese period drama based on Five-Story Pagoda, a classic literary work by Rohan Koda. In the contemporary story, Kaori, a young woman working for a non-profit organization that restores home movies, learns that there used to be a five-story pagoda in the middle of Yanaka Cemetery. It burned down in 1957, and rumor has it that someone has an 8mm film of the fire.

그들의 마음은 붉은 사막의 먼지처럼 덧없이 흩날리고 있었다! 인간의 존재 따위는 아주 작은 먼지처럼 느껴지게 하는 미국 아리조나주의 광활한 사막. 목적없는 여행을 계속하는 일본인 히치하이커 텟페이는 고장난 차에서 생활하는 파키스탄인 알리와 만난다. 사라진 아내를 찾기 위해 미국에 온 알리는 차의 수리를 도와준 답례로 텟페이를 태워주지만, 곧 차는 완전히 부숴져 버리고, 걸어가던 두 사람은 우연히 위험에 빠진 미국인 여성 사라를 구해주게 되는데…. 나도 당신처럼 자유롭게 여행하고 싶어! 알코올중독 아버지와 트레일러촌에서 살고있는 사라의 삶도 행복하진 않다. 마음 편히 머물 곳을 찾지 못하고 있다는 공통점을 가진 세 사람의 사이에는 기묘한 우정이 움트고, 그렇게 세 사람의 여행이 시작된다. 여행이 계속될수록 사라의 마음은 텟페이에게 이끌리고 결국, 함께 여행을 계속하고 싶다는 말을 꺼내는데….

그들의 마음은 붉은 사막의 먼지처럼 덧없이 흩날리고 있었다! 인간의 존재 따위는 아주 작은 먼지처럼 느껴지게 하는 미국 아리조나주의 광활한 사막. 목적없는 여행을 계속하는 일본인 히치하이커 텟페이는 고장난 차에서 생활하는 파키스탄인 알리와 만난다. 사라진 아내를 찾기 위해 미국에 온 알리는 차의 수리를 도와준 답례로 텟페이를 태워주지만, 곧 차는 완전히 부숴져 버리고, 걸어가던 두 사람은 우연히 위험에 빠진 미국인 여성 사라를 구해주게 되는데…. 나도 당신처럼 자유롭게 여행하고 싶어! 알코올중독 아버지와 트레일러촌에서 살고있는 사라의 삶도 행복하진 않다. 마음 편히 머물 곳을 찾지 못하고 있다는 공통점을 가진 세 사람의 사이에는 기묘한 우정이 움트고, 그렇게 세 사람의 여행이 시작된다. 여행이 계속될수록 사라의 마음은 텟페이에게 이끌리고 결국, 함께 여행을 계속하고 싶다는 말을 꺼내는데….

A young woman living on the fringe in Manhattan's Lower East Side moves in and out of empty relationships until one night she steals a purse which contains the clue to her unknown past.

A young woman living on the fringe in Manhattan's Lower East Side moves in and out of empty relationships until one night she steals a purse which contains the clue to her unknown past.

A young woman living on the fringe in Manhattan's Lower East Side moves in and out of empty relationships until one night she steals a purse which contains the clue to her unknown past.

A young woman living on the fringe in Manhattan's Lower East Side moves in and out of empty relationships until one night she steals a purse which contains the clue to her unknown past.