Junichi Segawa

Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films ever made. With camera work as bold and sensual as the curves of his subject's organic structures, Teshigahara immortalizes Gaudí on film.

Iwate Prefecture, Ohasamacho. In the foothills of Mt. Hayachine, the kagura (devotional dance) offered to the mountain goddess by the mountain priests is still performed today nearly unchanged from mediaeval times. This dance, which has been handed down along several lines of succession in the villages of Take and Otsugunai, has its origins in prayer. Take's kagura and Otsugunai's kagura are said to be closely related. The film shows the people who lovingly continue to perform these two types of dance and the transition from ancient tradition to modern life. Even from the first moment that director Haneda was charmed by Hayachine's kagura, the mountain villages that were home to the gods had already begun to disappear.

After a handful of groundbreaking films detailing the tragedy and suffering of the mercury-poisoned Japanese town of Minamata, documentary master Noriaki Tsuchimoto revisits the subject of Minamata through the eyes of the celebrated husband-and-wife painting duo Iri and Toshi Maruki. Tsuchimoto follows the Marukis from their quaint homestead studio, where they paint slews of ghastly, psychotropic mural panels depicting the effects of Minamata disease, to the streets of Minamata, where they meet and paint portraits of several victims of mercury poisoning.

Since Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971), director Tsuchimoto Noriaki has made numerous works depicting people living in Minamata. This work for children is a visual fantasy poetically depicting the moon that governs the ocean’s tides, the fishermen and the various fish living there.

Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker in the northern part of Japan. The ferocious local class restrictions work to keep her husband in his place, as does his lack of education.

The poignant focal point for this film is a cherry tree that is over 1400 years old. Beginning with the tree, the director then explores the families and environment around the tree. The editing and music contribute to the sense of a haunting past contained within the solid structure of an ancient natural wonder.

A Day in TOKYO in 1968, Nostalgic bygone era. Planned by Japan National Tourism Organization. Produced by Koga Production. This film was produced to explain Tokyo for foreign tourists.

Documentary on Chua Swee­-Lin, a Malaysian exchange student who was threatened with deportation over his protest against the separation and inde­pendence of Singapore.

Рэйко Хёдо не похожа на других девушек, она дерзкая, свободолюбивая, независимая. Скорее всего это просто маска, потому что она ненавидит себя за то, что её левая рука сильно повреждена. Она выросла без матери и не умеет вести себя, как настоящая женщина. Встреча с семьей Кацураги открыла ей неизведанное: наслаждение, измену, долг, преданность, изысканную женскую красоту, родительскую любовь. Как распорядится она этим знанием? Хватит ли у неопытной девушки сил и мудрости переварить всё это.

A documentary about the life and art of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai.

Харуэ Ясукава потеряла во время воздушного налёта своего мужа, исчез куда-то и её десятилетний сын Синкити. Теперь она работает, имея на своих руках двух маленьких детей. По сосседству, в одном доме с Харуэ, живёт с сестрой Кэндзи Такасэ — учитель средней школы. Они всегда охотно помогают семье Харуэ. Жена Кэндзи ушла от него, когда он был на фронте. Ему нравится Харуэ, и он предлагает ей выйти за него замуж, но Харуэ колеблется, беспокоясь о своих детях. Однажды она встречает старшего сына Синкити, который стал беспризорником. Синкити возвращается к матери, но её дружба с Кэндзи вызывает в нём ревность, и сердце его никак не может оттаять.

In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.