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The Seas Are Full of Sheep in Love
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 town without flies
The clear record of a zoo's daily workings and the hardships of zookeepers.
Diary of the Zoological Garden
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...
She and He
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...
Bad Boys
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...
Story of Iron
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido
Hokkaido, My Love
A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students.
Children in the Classroom
Children Who Draw explores the delicate chemistry of school children interacting in an art class through a constant juxtaposition of observational...
Children Who Draw
TV documentary about the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and its safety concerns in 1976.
Ima genshiryoku hatsuden wa
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...
Hōryū-ji
From the opening sequence, combining underwater and aerial footage, this masterpiece about the construction of a steam-power plant in Kurihama (south...
The Sea Wall
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)....
School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village
Commissioned by the Tokyo National Museum, this film, regarded in some quarters as the masterpiece of Haneda’s Iwanami period, is one of...
Beauty of the Ancients
An educative film about the water supply and watersystems in small towns and villages in Japan. It captures the unsanitary and inconvenient...
Our Life and Water
An examination of a specialist school for twin siblings and the theme of heredity and environment on human development
Twin Class
Marine biological documentary
The Living Sea
A film documenting the Matsuri and the life of the farmers in Nagano Prefecture. In the bosom of the mountain, people cultivate wasabi, rice,...
Shinshu no matsuri
The outflow of population, mainly young people, from agricultural, mountain and fishing villages in Japan to urban areas became remarkable from...
Kaso chitai