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- DirectorTakeshi FukunagaStarsKanto ShimokuraDebo AkibeEmi ShimokuraA coming of age tale about Kanto, a 14 year old boy, and a descendant of Japan's indigenous Ainu people, who struggles to come to terms with the recent loss of his father. One day, he learns about the small hole in the cliff in nearby forest that Ainu people considered a path to the other side of the world - where dead people live. Kanto decides to visit the hole, hoping to see his deceased father.
- DirectorNaomi MizoguchiThe Ainu are an indigenous people living in the northern part of Japan, especially on the island of Hokkaido. Being relatively autonomous until the 19th century, they suffered a strong pressure to "modernize" and to assimilate to the Japanese "national culture", starting with the era of the Meiji Restoration. Today, most younger Ainu have no relation to their ancestors' culture, and knowledge of the Ainu language is rare even among members of the elder generation. In her documentary, Naomi MIZOGUCHI depicts the manifold attempts of the Ainu today to regain and pass on their cultural identity.
- DirectorLaura LiveraniNeo SoraValy ThorsteinsdottirThe Ainu people are an indigenous people of Japan who primarily live in Hokkaido. During the Meiji era, the Japanese government colonized the Ainu people, banning the language, cultural practices, and taking their land. There are now very few, if any, people who are purely Ainu, with only a handful of individuals diligently working to pass along the culture.
- DirectorM. CentenoStarsPhillippe DallaisDietmar GrundmannYoshihiro IkemuraAinu. Paths to Memory is a discovery documentary of the Ainu people in Japan. While they have historically been represented as an exotic tribe and isolated from the world, the reality of the Ainu community entailed processes of cultural assimilation, discrimination, dispossession of land, unfair laws banning their old lifestyles and adaptation to modern life. On a trip through the recovery of their identity, we will find a people erased from the history of their homeland, whose origins and language are still a mystery. The tour along the paths to memory reveals a renewed interest for cultural preservation. The repeated sentence "I am Ainu" shows a willingness to overcome the harsh conditions of the past and recover their pride. The awakening of the Ainu people in the global world poses an unavoidable question, what does being Ainu mean today?
- DirectorHiroshi Moriya
- DirectorRintarôStarsHiroyuki SanadaMami KoyamaTarô IshidaAn orphan named Taro killed who Tein-Hei told her was the killer of his family. Taro found out, years later that Tein-Hei is the true killer and the man he killed was his father. Taro's revenge attempts start off a trail of assassinations and ninja swords fights spanning from Hokaido, Alaska to California where Tien-Hei's secrets gradually unfold. The revenge road leads to a climactic battle with Tien-Hei on the fall of Japan's Shogun-era.
- StarsChikahiro KobayashiHaruka ShiraishiFumihiko TachikiIn the early 20th century in Hokkaido, Japan, a treasure hunt between various parties takes place for a hidden stash of gold.
- DirectorYôichi SaiStarsKen'ichi MatsuyamaKoyukiKaoru KobayashiThe adventurous story of a fugitive ninja.
- StarsKôji NakataThe adventurous story of a fugitive ninja.
- DirectorTetsuo ImazawaStarsShinobu AdachiMikiko OtonashiTsutomu SasakiFoxes Ken and Chin become the proud parents of cubs, Koro and Kan, who enjoy a carefree life on the northern Japanese island of Chironup. They befriend a fisherman and his wife but are forced to run for their lives when soldiers on a military exercise decide to take home some fox pelts as souvenirs.
- DirectorIkuo Nakamura
- DirectorBuichi SaitôStarsAkira KobayashiJô ShishidoRuriko Asaoka
- DirectorTomoaki FujinoIn 1931, Scholars at Hokkaido university have desecrated Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, graves in Kineusu Kotan and brought the human remains to their laboratories. In 2012, two old Ainus from Kineusu requested meeting and talking about the repatriation with the president of the university, but the university ignored them completely. This movie describes how the Ainus got the forefather's remains back from the university and laid them to sleep at home in 85 years.