Motoo Ogasawara

A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.

Matsuki, a former war photojournalist, returns home and starts a modest life with his wife, Komiko. Driven by his passion for capturing the truth, he takes on daring assignments that impress many, though his risky work worries his wife. Through his lens, he experiences deeply moving moments that give him a new perspective on the meaning of his profession. As he struggles to balance his career and family life, new challenges force him to reconsider his priorities.

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)

A history of the Pacific War comprising of American combat footage with Japanese wartime newsreels

Documentary on baseball player Shigeo Nagashima

1962 Japanese documentary

The horrors of war and the devastating effects of the atomic bomb.

A documentary about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.