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- Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
- Revolves around Futaba, a girl who was in love with a boy named Ko Tanaka in middle school. However, it did not work because he transferred but in high school, her world is turned around once again when she meets him again.
- Three years after the failure of the last BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students is sent to an island with one objective: kill international terrorist Shuya Nanahara.
- A mining engineer investigates the deaths of his colleagues, discovering prehistoric nymphs and a creature capable of flying - and wrecking havoc - at supersonic speeds.
- After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.
- Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.
- Futaba lost her first love, Kou, in middle school when he suddenly moved. In high school, she met a guy who resembled Kou, but has a different last name. She needs to know if he is the same guy, and why he moved without letting her know.
- A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8.
- The Hiyama brothers work for a racing team. Naozumi's reckless driving causes friction with his brother Atsuhiro. An amnesiac man named Endo suddenly believes he is Naozumi, leading to more friction.
- The story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for a while, the relationship between the three protagonists is strange, at the very least.
- Mothra's twin nymphs and children from the city find a lost city, as well as a giant monster that is attracted to environmental calamities.
- Homo Sapiens shows stunning images of forgotten places, buildings we constructed and then left.
- The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.
- Were people's lives changed by having known Yonosuke?
- The true story of Dr. Takashi Nagai, scientific pioneer, war hero, Christian convert and survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, who worked tirelessly in his efforts to heal the wounds of a country utterly devastated by war.
- A lady called Mako has done well for herself and her business. A lady called Yukie is a devout housewife who has done what she needs to do and been good to everyone. Other than the obvious, they do not share much in common, but advanced cancer has given them a shared fate. They are about to die, but do not want to leave this mortal coil on that note. They decide to go for it when they come across a bucket list, which itemizes deeds they should undertake before dying.
- Every student is encouraged to join an extracurricular club and this one joins the university's Mystery Club.The club has a couple of veterans, but the real thing - an actual detective - is also in their midst.The club goes on an outing in the wilds of nature and on a mountain. They feel they have done the right things and taken the correct precaution, but when daylight comes they are confronted with the reality that a murder has occurred.
- An exploration of the global power and impact of the music of John Coltrane where the passions, experiences and forces that shaped his life and revolutionary sounds are revealed.
- Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.
- Kaede and Hisano form a club. When Hisano vanishes, Kaede throws himself into bringing change to the club.
- A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea.
- Hashima Island was once the most densely populated island but has been a ghost island since 1974. A group of teenagers will now step foot on this island to capture paranormal encounters on tape. On the island, the teenagers are thrilled as they explore. However, their excitement is short-lived. They realize something ominous is creeping up on them and the hair-raising truth unveils through the lens of the camera.
- The story of Dr. Koichiro, who moves from Japan to Kenya to volunteer as a doctor for child soldiers.
- Takayuki (Takao Osawa) is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet's syndrome, and will gradually lose his sight. He resigns from his job and leaves his girlfriend, Yoko (Yuriko Ishida) to return to his hometown, Nagasaki, where his mother lives. Takayuki spends his days strolling around Nagasaki, to imprint familiar scenes on his memory. Yoko visits him and insists on staying. Takayuki has major concerns for her future, and his own life. He drives her away, for her own good. After days of affliction, the two reunite. The story leads to an emotive conclusion, the end of his spiritual journey.
- Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named Noriko. But Françoise Fabre, a French journalist and Pierre's former lover, contacts him while visiting the Land of the Rising Sun. They meet again, find out their love might not be dead. Meanwhile, Pierre gradually becomes estranged from sweet, humble Noriko. One day, a typhoon strikes Nagasaki...
- Naoko and Yusuke happen about one another while she is receiving treatment at an isolated location. He is good looking and athletic and she desires him, but it is not to be when his father is killed in an incident involving her. Their paths cross again at an athletic event several years later and they opt to help one another emotionally and physically.
- The journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. It is based on a book of the same name by Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue.
- In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.
- The first film about the Doomsday Clock and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that created it in 1947 - to warn and inspire action on the greatest threats to mankind: nuclear war, climate change and digital disinformation.
- Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with a young waitress.
- A woman who's been missing for twenty years suddenly turns up alive, and looking not a day older than when she vanished. When her daughter sees a painting of a woman identical to her mother, her reporter boyfriend helps her track down the owner.
- Three years after his first two documentaries on these soldiers who did not return, Imamura invites one of the interviewees, settled in Thailand, to return to Japan.
- This movie is a documentary film by Peter Townsend's daughter, Isabelle, who visited Nagasaki to discover her father and Taniguchi's relationship.
- Fun made by US military showing the severe injury, and mortality caused by the first nuclear weapons every used militarily. At the time this film was made, there was no factual material about what the outcome could be. This filn (kept classified for decades, due to the horrific nature of the bombing's aftermath) provided material necessary how to deal with, and - if possible - triage want victims.
- After being converted to Catholicism, Julião Nakaura is forced to prove his faith as the Shogun Court forces him to apostatize.
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- A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.
- A young man awakes in a hotel room, in the little city of Obama-Onsen, near Nagasaki. Then will begin a travel between dream and reality.
- Challenging assumptions, nuclear proliferation of today is seen through the devastating yet inspirational life of Nagasaki survivor Sakue Shimohira - joined by college students - dedicated to making sure the truth about the last atomic bomb deliberately used on human beings will never be forgotten. There are other documentaries about the atomic bomb, but none include what is in this one, for the first time: * It challenges the widely held U.S. assumption that dropping the bomb on Nagasaki was essential to end World War II. The provocative arguments about that decision have never been part of a U.S. documentary. * It presents information about an almost unknown part of post World War II history: the Press Code imposed by the U.S. occupation government on Japan's media. Prohibiting media reports on the bomb or its health effects, the Code had a significant effect on how survivors were mistreated in their own country and how their health problems were misunderstood. * It presents information about the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, a U.S. agency that gathered data from thousands of survivors, sent that data to the U.S.-not Japan-and did not attempt to ameliorate the health problems of the survivors. * It also is innovative in crossing generations, by showing a 70-year old bomb survivor accompanied by college students who have taken up her cause. In one of the film's most powerful moments Sakue describes her sister's suicide ten years after the war ended as "the courage to die." Ms. Shimohira, the survivor, found "the courage to live" and dedicate her life to abolishing nuclear weapons. The film follows the tiny, tireless and dedicated survivor and two college students to Paris, London, Washington, DC and New York as they present letters to the British Prime Minister, French President and President Bush, inviting them to come to Nagasaki and to lead efforts to make sure what happened there will never again happen anywhere. In Paris Mrs. Shimohira shares memories in a moving encounter with an Auschwitz survivor. She stirs high school students in London and New York City with her presence and description of the bomb and its effects. At the film's life affirming conclusion it is clear that student Haruka has become motivated to carry on Mrs. Shimohira's nuclear abolition message to young people around the world. "It's impossible to remain detached...Deeply affecting..." -New York Times "***(3 stars) A worthwhile effort to understand an event that should never be repeated. Recommended." -Video Librarian "****(4 stars) Impossible not to be moved" -Time Out Magazine "Shedding light on the dark corners of history... fascinating...alarming...the simple, earnest truth." -The Villager
- Five Pioneer Members of the Soka Gakkai tell their inspirational stories. Surviving the atrocities of WWII and facing post-war anti-Japanese sentiment as Japanese-Americans, they respond with a message of peace and tolerance.
- The water stinks of death, buildings stand burnt and broken. Years have passed since the unknown conflict ravaged the land, few survivors remain. In a derelict gondola, a girl distracts her younger brother by telling a story with shadows.
- Prize winning Japanese novelist, in his first adaptation from one of his own novels, 'Water' brilliantly and delicately portrays the lives of two teenagers in director's own hometown of Nagasaki, Japan.
- Free My Way introduces the public to the fast growing world of freerunning. More than just a sport, freerunning is a philosophy, combining physical skill with psychological strength, all based on the idea of "freedom through movement." Still a young discipline, the movement is still defining itself. Anan Anwar, a former Thai pop star and current freerunning sensation, is taking an active role in defining the nascent free running culture. He wants to bring together free runners from around the world to help him achieve a life long dream - an epic free running session in a mystery location that won't be revealed until the end of the series. As Anan travels the globe assembling his dream team, we will meet some of the world's best free runners and learn about each of their lives, their environment and culture, the challenges they face, and what free running means to them. We will watch them as they practice their art, a dangerous endeavor with the risk of serious injury lurking behind every jump, every flip, and every flying leap. But the risk is worth it to them, because for these athletes, free running is more than a sport - it is a lifestyle. Anan's journey around the world will help him, and the audience, reveal and identify exactly what it means to be a free runner.