When Chiaki Kasai set out to make a documentary about Iwao Hakamada, a Japanese man who was acquitted in a retrial of a 1966 ...

Inset: a scene from the documentary film. Credit: Andreas Hartmann and Arata Mori Every year in Japan, thousands of people disappear voluntarily to start a new life. 'Johatsu' means to evaporate ...

Black Box Diaries” directed by journalist Shiori Ito is up for Oscar consideration in the Documentary Feature Film category ...

A Japanese film crew has visited the island as part of a knitting documentary which includes the Guernsey jumper. Nippon Hoso Kyokai or NHK, which is Japan's publicly funded broadcaster, has brought ...

A documentary film that records the daily lives of children at a Japanese public elementary school has lessons for both domestic and overseas audiences.

The Oscar-nominated documentary Black Box Diaries, by Japanese journalist Shiori Itō, is a first-person account of her quest ...

Even for someone who lived the events she was documenting, filmmaker Shiori Itō could've constructed the Oscar-nominated ...

A Japanese film crew has visited the island as part of a knitting documentary which includes the Guernsey jumper. Nippon Hoso Kyokai or NHK, which is Japan's publicly funded broadcaster ...

This series features individuals involved in the makings of broadcast programs in the pioneering days of TV documentaries in Japan. The authors delve into their personalities and productions as ...

Visitors to the newly-opened Lounge may have spotted a slightly sullen Japanese film crew last month. In town to film a ...