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Our passion is to bring the best of Japanese cinema to the English-speaking world, from anime to groundbreaking documentaries on today’s hotbed issues. Check out our current releases, see what filmmakers themselves are selling in our Filmmakers’ Market, or search our catalog in the easy search bar upper right.
A new documentary from Osaka just joined the Filmmakers’ Market!
MAPPING THE FUTURE, NISHINARI Directors: Yukio Tanaka, Tetsuo Yamada Nishinari in Osaka is home to one of Japan’s largest concentrations of day laborers, with much of the population being composed of homeless persons, buraku (a discriminated community of descendants of outcast groups), former yakuza, and Korean-Japanese. This documentary presents the people of Nishinari, not from [...]
“Rokkasho Rhapsody,” one of Hitomi Kamanaka’s trilogy of films on nuclear energy, is now available!
ROKKASHO RHAPSODY Director: Hitomi Kamanaka In 2004 the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant was completed in Rokkasho village as a facility for reprocessing spent fuel from Japan’s nuclear reactors into plutonium. The film spotlights the people of the village, who hold diverse opinions regarding this huge, nearly operational national project.
Our new site
Welcome to our new site!
We’ve been tinkering under the hood to make finding the films you want easier than ever, and we’ve dramatically improved the ordering process. We’ve added features and background on the directors showcased in our catalog, dynamically tied to the films you can buy from Zakka. You can now search by director, genre, or any text string. And more…
Recent Releases
- Mapping the Future, Nishinari (Tetsuo Yamada, Yukio Tanaka)
- Rokkasho Rhapsody (Hitomi Kamanaka)
- Minamata: The Victims and Their World (Noriaki Tsuchimoto)
- Bingai (Feng Yan)
- On the Road: A Document (Noriaki Tsuchimoto)
Filmmakers
- Feng Yan
- Hiroko Kumagai
- Hitomi Kamanaka
- Kenzo Masaoka
- Kiyoji Nishikura
- Makoto Sato
- Mitsuyo Seo
- Noburo Ofuji
- Noriaki Tsuchimoto
- Tetsuo Yamada
- Toshikuni Doi
- Yasuji Murata
- Yoshitaro Kataoka
- Yukio Tanaka
Genres
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STAFF
Director: Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Production: Higashi Productions
Producer: Ryutaro Takagi
Camera: Koshiro Otsu
Editor: Noriaki Tsuchimoto, Takako Sekizawa