Nihon Eiga Shinsha

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost.

A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the years. It picks one such person from the list, someone who had seemed to disappear from the face of the earth due to embezzlement from his company, and the filmmakers begin an investigative documentary into the reasons behind and attempt at tracking him down.

After a young boy captures a rare butterfly in Nagasaki, a caterpillar begins a relay-trip toward the northern tip of Hokkaido, serving as a silent witness to a series of vignettes featuring people struggling with the psychological and social scars of post-war Japan.

Postwar Japan as it is described by Etsuko, the manager of a bar catering to foreigners in Yokosuka. The way of life of a woman brimming with vitality, who skipped the countryside right after the war and, with her womanhood as a weapon, lived through atomic bombings, black markets, prostitution aimed at American soldiers and the Korean War. Inserting newsreels, Shohei Imamura depicts the history of twenty-five years in the Japanese postwar by way of the female body. (doclisboa)

Documentary following the travels of the Waseda University Middle-Africa Expedition Team and their encounters with the beauty of the African continent and the life and customs of its people. Locations include Mombasa, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Nairobi, Kenya, Lake Victoria, the Congo River, and Leopoldville.

Early experimental PR "cine-poem" by Toshio Matsumoto. Commissioned by Kansai Electricity, the film paints an abstract, near-wordless retelling of the development of power stations in Japan, through to the presumed oncoming advent of nuclear power.

Pacific war documentary culled from approximately 40,000 feet of Nippon Eiga Shinsha wartime stock, as well from British and American sources. Film traces the war from the invasion and occupation of China to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Japanese defeat. Included if footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the capture of Hong Kong, B-29 bombings of Japan, and kamikaze sinking of American warships.

WW2 newsreel documentary film

Documentary short.

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

Documentary short.

Unaware that the war had ended, two Japanese soldiers who had been hiding in the jungles of Guam returned home. During their sixteen years on the southern island, Japan had gone through a whirlwind of history, from defeat to reconstruction.

Documentary which continues the story of the construction of what then was the second-largest dam in the world, and the gorge through the Japan Alps to enble the transport of men and equipment to the dam site.

Documentary about the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants baseball team.

Documentary on baseball player Shigeo Nagashima

Documentary about Japanese pearl fishers.