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FILMMAKER

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 18, 2020
French-Japanese director Noemie Nakai finds strength in vulnerability
The French-Japanese filmmaker hopes to make a difference in the world by embracing the areas outside our comfort zones and making films about vulnerability.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Aug 25, 2018
Making the cut in Japan's film industry
Film producer Yukie Kito talks about making movies, her favorite actor and how the entertainment industry in Japan differs to that in the U.S.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
May 5, 2018
From Chiba to LA, and acting to filmmaking
Director/scriptwriter Atsuko Hirayanagi's film "Oh Lucy!" reflects some of her own opinions on cultural divide.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Feb 24, 2018
Filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda doesn't underestimate the power of observation
In late 1992, Kazuhiro Soda was attending a "company information session" in Tokyo, where young students about to graduate from university were introduced to various companies as prospective recruits.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Feb 19, 2018
Japanese director's pro-whaling documentary wins award at London film festival
A 2015 documentary on local supporters of Japanu2019s traditions of whaling and dolphin-hunting won an international film festival award Saturday in London.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2013
Israeli moviemaker tracks down Japanese woman featured in '50s picture book
A three-year search by an Israeli filmmaker locates a Japanese woman who, as a girl, featured in a 1956 picture book that has enchanted Israel for half a century.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Aug 16, 2013
Akiko Kuraoka's documentaries find fresh relevancy amid Fukushima crisis
For Akiko Kuraoka, filmmaker, lecturer and freelance French translator, films have always been her passion. Over a span of nearly four decades, Kuraoka has made three documentaries and is now deep into her fourth. Her films have dealt with chromium pollution, nuclear radiation, war, and the displacement and suffering of people living intimately with those dangers.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Aug 9, 2013
Film helps heal A-bombing, and family, wounds
In a poignant scene in the award-winning 2010 documentary "Atomic Mom," filmmaker M.T. Silvia tells the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Hiroshima atomic bombing victim, as she presents 1,000 paper cranes to Silvia's mother, Pauline, a former U.S. Navy biologist involved in radiation testing on animals in the 1950s.

Longform

A statue of "Dragon Ball" character Goku stands outside the offices of Bandai Namco in Tokyo. The figure is now as recognizable as such characters as Mickey Mouse and Spider-Man.
Akira Toriyama's gift to the world