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Time Traveling through Asian Documentary’s Pasts and Futures
(2021-01)
This essay examines a very special event that took place immediately following the 2009 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. The director of that festival, Fujioka Asako, stayed in northern Japan and held back ...
“Sanrizuka no Kowakuteki Kûkan ni te Jikan o Shikakuka Suru”
(2007)
Focussing on the films of Ogawa Productions, this article analyzes the ways Ogawa's collective theorized time and history through documentary filmmaking practice.
“Adachi Masao e no 20 shitsumon e no kaitô—1"
(2001)
This is the first interview with filmmaker Adachi Masao since his disappearance in the mid-1970s and his long exile in Lebanon. It was conducted while he was in a Lebanese prison, with questions relayed through friends. ...
“The International Migration of Kinema Junpô: Page-by-Page, Issue-by-Issue, Year-by-Year"
(2009)
Short essay for Bunsei Shoin's reprint of 1930s era Kinema Junpo. In both English and Japanese.
"Ima Koso Mikaesu Imi ga Aru, Kessaku Dokyumentarii: Aga ni Ikiru"
(2012-11-30)
This was an interview on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Sato Makoto's "Living on the River Agano."
"The Theater of a Thousand Years"
(1997)
In the late 1980s, the documentary film collective Ogawa Productions exhibited their last major film in a highly unusual venue. A film about farming in village Japan, the collective teamed with Kansai area fans to build a ...
The Creation and Construction of Asian Cinema Redux
(2013)
This article looks back to the first book imagining an “Asian cinema,” which
was published in Japan on the eve of Pearl Harbor. It then works through a history of the
conception of Asian cinema, discovering fundamental ...