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As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life...

One day, Kandume's can boy, who lived happily with his friends in the kitchen, becomes an empty can and is thrown away. Eventually, the can boy has a...

Children Who Draw explores the delicate chemistry of school children interacting in an art class through a constant juxtaposition of observational...

A young delinquent takes part in a robbery and is sentenced to a juvenile detention center, where he clashes with other youths and reflects on his...

A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido

A teaching film for social studies, which was developed as a new educational subject in 1947. At an elementary school in Hokkaido, children have...

A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students.

This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese temples. Horyu-ji, in the small town of Ikaruga outside...

The clear record of a zoo's daily workings and the hardships of zookeepers.

From the opening sequence, combining underwater and aerial footage, this masterpiece about the construction of a steam-power plant in Kurihama (south...

An educative film about the water supply and watersystems in small towns and villages in Japan. It captures the unsanitary and inconvenient...

An examination of a specialist school for twin siblings and the theme of heredity and environment on human development

Marine biological documentary

A film documenting the Matsuri and the life of the farmers in Nagano Prefecture. In the bosom of the mountain, people cultivate wasabi, rice,...

The outflow of population, mainly young people, from agricultural, mountain and fishing villages in Japan to urban areas became remarkable from...

Commissioned by the Tokyo National Museum, this film, regarded in some quarters as the masterpiece of Haneda’s Iwanami period, is one of...

This engaging documentary focuses on a group of ‘studying mothers’ who decide to involve themselves in the civic politics of a provincial...

Haneda’s debut as full director, made after four years spent as an assistant, is set in a farming village in Shiga Prefecture (east of Kyoto)....