Takanobu Kato Movies

Following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, hundreds of thousands refugees took the perilous escape route across South China Sea to find freedom....

A Japanese businessman has recurring dreams about being a samurai and travels to a remote island for answers, and the healing power of the banaba...

A mysterious stranger comes into a lawless town run by a kingpin and starts shooting up the place.

On April 1, 1945, the United States military launched its invasion of the main island of Okinawa, the start of a battle that was to last 12 weeks and...

Arata Furuta plays a disgruntled saleryman fed up with being stepped on at home and at work, decides to get revenge on those who do bad things by...

Four crooks rob a jewelery shop, then head for an abandoned factory where they plan to fence the goods to the Yakuza. Unfortunately, their chosen...

A companion piece to The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories, which dealt with the protests against the construction of Narita Airport. Depicts the...

This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by...

Confronting half of her mother’s life—her mother who had survived the Jeju April 3 Incident—the director tries to scoop out...

The documentary on Yamazaki Hiroaki, the student died in the First Haneda Incident of 8 October 1967.

This documentary follows the daily lives of blind and deaf people: deaf-blind people living alone on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture; a man in...

A documentary about the end of the student movement in 1972 and the lynching of Daizaburo Kawaguchi, a student at Waseda University. The documentary...

On March 11, 2011, a tsunami struck the coast of Fukushima causing the meltdown of a nearby power plant. Within 24 hours the population within a...

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Duc H. Nguyen follows the stories of Vietnamese refugees who have been living in a condition of statelessness in the...

Sayaka has been married to Shuji for seven years. One day, she happens to meet Takashi, who she dated before they were married. Since then, Sayaka...

Ishikawa Bunyo was born in Okinawa in 1938, reported on the Vietnam War from 1964, and continued to document Okinawa after his return to Japan. This...

Documentary about the great Japanese documentary maker Tsuchimoto Noriaki made a couple of years before his death.