Shinobu Ôtake Movies

The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.

This is the second in a series of documentaries following the lives of Japanese citizens based off Michael Apted’s Up series.

Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on...

A mother and son are eating sushi at a conveyer belt sushi bar in Tokyo. This film depicts their conversation using cutout animation.

This is the first in a series of documentaries following the lives of Japanese citizens based off Michael Apted's Up series.