DOCUMENTARY DREAM SHOW: YAMAGATA in Tokyo 2018
Best of YIDFF Returns to Tokyo
Venue(s): Shinjuku K's cinemaOctober 6 (Sat), 2018 to October 26 (Fri), 2018
Language: Japanese with English subtitles or no dialogue
Official website: cinematrix.jp/dds2018/
Theater website: www.ks-cinema.com/
Tariff: ¥1,500
Advance tickets: ¥1,300
Talk event: Many — visit the official site for details
Title: ドキュメンタリー ドリームショー 山形 in Tokyo 2018 (DOCUMENTARY DREAM SHOW: YAMATAGA IN TOKYO 2018)
The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival takes the best of show on the road every other year, bringing to Tokyo the winning and buzzed-about titles of the previous year’s festival. This works out perfectly for those who can’t make the biennial trip to the mountains of Nagano for the festival itself, the first and still largest Asian showcase devoted to documentary work.
YIDFF 2017 featured titles from over 120 countries/regions, and many of those can be savored during the run of the Documentary Dream Show (without English subs). But as always, our focus is the English-subtitled Japaneselineup — and there are highlights to savor on two days: October 6 and 26, including the YIDFF 2017 Closing film, The Power of Expression: The Minamata Producer Speaks, by directors Minoru Inoue and Nozomi Kataoka.
As the title hints, the film illuminates on the essential work of producer Ryutaro Takagi, who was behind many documentaries, including the landmark Minamata series by Noriaki Tsuchimoto in the 1960s.
The Okinawa-set A Woman of the Butcher Shop by Chikako Yamashiro builds on an earlier short work, telling the story of a woman who runs a meat shop in a black market on the fringes of one of the island's many US military bases.
A Woman of the Butcher Shop, 肉屋の女
Japan / 2017 / 27 min
Director: Yamashiro Chikako, 山城知佳子
Mud man (Film Version), 土の人（劇場版）
Japan / 2017 / 26 min
Director: Yamashiro Chikako, 山城知佳子
The Beginning of Creation: Abduction/A Child, also by Chikako Yamashiro, recreates a landmark performance by the late, great Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno.
On to the Next Step: Lives After 3.11 by Yoko Tashiro follows food-industry workers in northern Japan — farmers, fisherman, bakers — who are all anxious about a nuclear power plant under construction nearby.
On to the Next Step: Lives After 3.11, 風のたより
Japan / 2015 / 180 min, Director: Tashiro Yoko, 田代陽子
On a steep mountain slope in Shizuoka Prefecture, a family continues to grow tea the traditional way (with the help of a few modern machines), and we watch, transfixed, as they pick leaves, sort, dry and process it at a local factory. Added plus: the stunning views of the mountains and the river that flows down below.
Tenryu-ku Okuryoke Osawa: Bessho Tea Factory
天竜区奥領家大沢 別所製茶工場
Japan / 2014 / 64 min
Director: Teiichi Hori
A special YIDFF section continues to focus on short work born from the triple disaster of 2011, with a program that poses questions about the role that documentary can play in the “recovery” process. Here are the Japanese films included:
Look Behind!, 後ろに振り向け！
JAPAN / 2017 / 8mm / 45 min
Director: Kenji Murakami
Almost Ghost, 幽霊 REEL-1～6 総集編
JAPAN / 2017 / 8mm / 80 min
Director: Kenji Onishi
The Road Home, かえりみち
JAPAN / 2016 / 48 min
Director: Miran Oura
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Omnibus 2011/2016
JAPAN / 2017 / 43 min, Planning: Maeda Shinjiro
Director: Suzuki Hikaru, Oki Hiroyuki, Ikeda Yasunori, Takashi Toshiko
Shinjuku K's cinema
The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival takes the best of show on the road every other year, bringing to Tokyo the winning and buzzed-about titles of the previous year’s festival. This works out perfectly for those who can’t make the biennial trip to the mountains of Nagano for the festival itself, the first and still largest Asian showcase devoted to documentary work.
YIDFF 2017 featured titles from over 120 countries/regions, and many of those can be savored during the run of the Documentary Dream Show (without English subs). But as always, our focus is the English-subtitled Japaneselineup — and there are highlights to savor on two days: October 6 and 26, including the YIDFF 2017 Closing film, The Power of Expression: The Minamata Producer Speaks, by directors Minoru Inoue and Nozomi Kataoka.
As the title hints, the film illuminates on the essential work of producer Ryutaro Takagi, who was behind many documentaries, including the landmark Minamata series by Noriaki Tsuchimoto in the 1960s.
The Okinawa-set A Woman of the Butcher Shop by Chikako Yamashiro builds on an earlier short work, telling the story of a woman who runs a meat shop in a black market on the fringes of one of the island's many US military bases.
A Woman of the Butcher Shop, 肉屋の女
Japan / 2017 / 27 min
Director: Yamashiro Chikako, 山城知佳子
Mud man (Film Version), 土の人（劇場版）
Japan / 2017 / 26 min
Director: Yamashiro Chikako, 山城知佳子
The Beginning of Creation: Abduction/A Child, also by Chikako Yamashiro, recreates a landmark performance by the late, great Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno.
On to the Next Step: Lives After 3.11 by Yoko Tashiro follows food-industry workers in northern Japan — farmers, fisherman, bakers — who are all anxious about a nuclear power plant under construction nearby.
On to the Next Step: Lives After 3.11, 風のたより
Japan / 2015 / 180 min, Director: Tashiro Yoko, 田代陽子
On a steep mountain slope in Shizuoka Prefecture, a family continues to grow tea the traditional way (with the help of a few modern machines), and we watch, transfixed, as they pick leaves, sort, dry and process it at a local factory. Added plus: the stunning views of the mountains and the river that flows down below.
Tenryu-ku Okuryoke Osawa: Bessho Tea Factory
天竜区奥領家大沢 別所製茶工場
Japan / 2014 / 64 min
Director: Teiichi Hori
A special YIDFF section continues to focus on short work born from the triple disaster of 2011, with a program that poses questions about the role that documentary can play in the “recovery” process. Here are the Japanese films included:
Look Behind!, 後ろに振り向け！
JAPAN / 2017 / 8mm / 45 min
Director: Kenji Murakami
Almost Ghost, 幽霊 REEL-1～6 総集編
JAPAN / 2017 / 8mm / 80 min
Director: Kenji Onishi
The Road Home, かえりみち
JAPAN / 2016 / 48 min
Director: Miran Oura
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Omnibus 2011/2016
JAPAN / 2017 / 43 min, Planning: Maeda Shinjiro
Director: Suzuki Hikaru, Oki Hiroyuki, Ikeda Yasunori, Takashi Toshiko
Shinjuku K's cinema
Please be sure to check with the theater before going.