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Kyojin-gun monogatari: Susume eikô e 1977

Secret Record: Complete History of the Pacific War 1975
A history of the Pacific War comprising of American combat footage with Japanese wartime newsreels

Moeru otoko Nagashima Shigeo: eikō no se-bangō 3 1974
Documentary on baseball player Shigeo Nagashima

Strange Affinity 1970

History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess 1970 star_border 6
Postwar Japan as it is described by Etsuko, the manager of a bar catering to foreigners in Yokosuka. The way of life of a woman brimming with vitality, who skipped the countryside right after the war and, with her womanhood as a weapon, lived through atomic bombings, black markets, prostitution aimed at American soldiers and the Korean War. Inserting newsreels, Shohei Imamura depicts the history of twenty-five years in the Japanese postwar by way of the female body. (doclisboa)

Hiroshima: A Document of the Atomic Bombing 1970 star_border 6
A documentary about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

Kuroneko 1968 star_border 7.4
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.

Niitaka yamanobore: Nihon teikoku no hōkai 1968
WW2 newsreel documentary film

A Man Vanishes 1967 star_border 6.8
A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the years. It picks one such person from the list, someone who had seemed to disappear from the face of the earth due to embezzlement from his company, and the filmmakers begin an investigative documentary into the reasons behind and attempt at tracking him down.

Silence Has No Wings 1966 star_border 7
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.

Chikûho no kodomotachi 1960
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines

The Pearl Fishers 1960
Documentary about Japanese pearl fishers.

Record of A Long White Line 1960
Early experimental PR "cine-poem" by Toshio Matsumoto. Commissioned by Kansai Electricity, the film paints an abstract, near-wordless retelling of the development of power stations in Japan, through to the presumed oncoming advent of nuclear power.

Kurobe Gorge 1957
Educational film commissioned by Kansai Electric Power Company

Karakoram 1956
Karakorumu documentary film

The Japanese Fishermen 1954 star_border 5.5
A 1954 documentary about Japanese fishermen aboard the "Lucky Dragon" who were irradiated by the American Castle Bravo nuclear test in the Pacific.