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Kazuo Hara’s empathetic documentary follows suffers and researchers of Minamata Disease as they battle continued governmental indifference
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Kazuo Hara attempts to understand enigmatic author Mitsuharu Inoue as he follows him through the final months of his life
Mathematical Goodbye / 笑わない数学者
Mathematical Goodbye is a strange book. It’s different from the previous books in the S&M series (standing for the protagonists’ names, Sa...
Baby Assassins (ベイビーわるきゅーれ, Yugo Sakamoto, 2021)
A pair of mismatched high school girls raised as elite assassins get swept into gangland conflict while forced to live together to learn how integrate into society in…
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Our House わたしたちの家 (2018) Dir: Yui Kiyohara
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Goodbye CP さようならCP Director: Kazuo Hara, Producer: Sachiko Kobayashi (1972)
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Special - Cinema as Struggle: A Retrospective on the Films of Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi
Hello everyone, In this special episode of Heroic Purgatory, John and Jason take a brake from 90s Asian cinema to discuss a retrospective on the cinema of documentarians Kazuo…
A Dedicated Life 全身小説家 (1994) Director: Kazuo Hara, Producer: Sachiko Kobayashi
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Life’s Extremes: Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi’s Shifting Documentary Practices and Trilogy of “Living Dissent”
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Haruka’s Pottery ハルカの陶 Dir: Naruhito Suetsugu (2019)
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Drunken Angel (酔いどれ天使, Akira Kurosawa, 1948)
A gruff yet well intentioned doctor does his best to cure the ills of post-war Japan in a rundown slum on the edge of a fetid swamp in…
Reiwa No Di Gi Charat
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Family of Strangers (閉鎖病棟 それぞれの朝, Hideyuki Hirayama, 2019)
A collection of patients at a psychiatric clinic eventually find new strength to accept themselves through mutual solidarity Hirayama’s empathetic social drama
Under Your Bed アンダー・ユア・ベッド (2019) Dir: Mari Asato
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From the author of Lonely Castle in the Mirror, this horror novel, uses its text to slowly create, build, and eventually not quite resolve its creeping sense of…
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