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See how official Pokémon Shirts are made through new, stylish documentary【Video】

Ingrid Tsai
Oct 4, 2020
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New goodies also on the horizon with the debut of this insider look in Pokémon Shirts’ operations. Read More

Japan
(clothing • custom shirts • documentary • dress shirts • fashion • Newsed • Original Stitch • Pokemon • Pokémon Shirts • upcycle • video • video games)

Documentary about man with no limbs discusses what it’s like to be disabled in Japan

Dale Roll
Mar 2, 2019

Hirotada Otatake was born with no arms or legs, but it didn’t keep him from trying to do good things in this world.

Japan
(disabilities • documentary • Hirotada Ototake • inspiring • interview • moving • touching • video)

Documentary on North Korean schools in Tokyo sheds light on bizarre, hidden part of Japan【Video】

Scott Wilson
Nov 4, 2017

What do you do when a school praising a terrorist country is in your neighborhood?

Japan
(controversial • documentary • North Korea • schools • video)

Documentary on Hayao Miyazaki “The One Who Doesn’t End” goes on sale

Meg Murphy
Jul 2, 2017

The NHK special documentary follows Miyazaki as he comes out of retirement to work on his next projects.

Japan
(documentary • Hayao Miyazaki • movie • Studio Ghibli)

Japanese film “Behind THE COVE” defends whaling and dolphin-hunting, screens in the U.S.【Video】

Corey Gold
Dec 12, 2016

New Japanese film asks, “Who decides which animals are okay to eat and which animals aren’t?”

Japan
(animal welfare • controversy • culture • documentary • dolphins • The Cove • whales)

“Ordinary” foreigner tries to become famous in Japan in new documentary

Corey Gold
Nov 30, 2016

A “really ordinary person from Australia” attempts to become famous in Japan and is making a film about it.

Australia, Japan
(australian • becoming famous • big in japan • bob sapp • DIY • documentary • fame journey • film • film maker • foreigners • gaijin • lady beard • popular)

Japan: Guilty Until Proven Innocent documentary shines light on controversial legal system【Video】

Scott Wilson
Oct 15, 2016

Does Japan’s legal system force suspects to confess, even if they didn’t commit the crime?

Japan
(court • court failures • court ruling • documentary • illegal • Japanese legal system • legal)

New documentary reveals the world of Japanese denim【Video】

Andrew Kane
Aug 8, 2016

This movie shows why Japanese jeans are widely considered the best in the world.

Japan
(cool • denim • documentary • fashion)

Spectacular video footage from inside North Korea by travel vlogger【Video】

Corey Gold
Aug 7, 2016

This incredible new video was released by a Lithuanian-born entrepreneur documenting his mysterious 7-day trip to North Korea.

Lifestyle, North Korea
(adventure • amazing movie • documentary • footage • Korea • North Korea • Pyongyang • travel • video • viral)

Mini documentary discusses importance of Sailor Moon for 90s LGBTQ kids

Anime News Network
Apr 2, 2016

Anime & Manga, Global
(anime • documentary • LGBT • LGBTQ • Sailor Moon • video)

Queer Japan documentary Kickstarter reaches goal

Anime News Network
Mar 16, 2016

Documentary features interview with manga creator Gengoroh Tagame.

Japan
(documentary • gay • Kickstarter • LGBT • Queer Japan • video)

Sword enthusiasts, here’s the katana documentary you won’t want to miss! 【Video】

Meg Murphy
Mar 1, 2016

This ultra high-definition documentary is scheduled to come out this year. You can help support its production, and get some pretty cool things for doing so too!

Japan
(crowdfunding • culture • documentary • Japanese sword • Katana • swords • video)

Singapore appears to have had a special place in David Bowie’s heart

Jamie Koide
Jan 31, 2016

Singaporeans remember David Bowie fondly, as well as his 1980s documentary in which the Southeast Asian city-state appeared.

SE Asia
(1980s • David Bowie • documentary • film • Ricochet • Singapore • video)

Sailor Moon cosplay documentary shows the power and beauty of anime fan friendships 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Jan 28, 2016

Just like the Sailor Senshi are always there for each other, so too are the members of this documentary’s group of cosplay collaborators.

USA
(anime • cosplay • documentary • LaSoldier • Sailor Moon • video)

The life of Satoru Iwata, late Nintendo CEO, remembered in documentary

Anime News Network
Nov 27, 2015

Thousands paid their respect when Nintendo company president Satoru Iwata passed away in July, facing the brunt of typhoon at his service in Kyoto or leaving notes and letters at The Nintendo World Store in New York and the Nintendo headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

Global, Japan
(documentary • history • in memory • nintendo • Satoru Iwata • video • video games)

Japan’s pet kitties are reportedly spellbound by recent NHK wildlife documentary 【Photos】

Evie Nyan
Nov 28, 2014

Netizens on Twitter recently reported that a rather strange phenomenon was affecting their pet cats during the broadcast of NHK’s “Mitsuaki Iwago’s World Catwalk”, a documentary by prominent wildlife photographer and documentary filmmaker Mitsuaki Iwago.

Apparently, the scenes of furry felines in their natural habitat completely captured the attention of household moggies watching at home, to the extent that their owners felt compelled to tweet photographic evidence of the event. Join us after the jump for images of cute kitties viewing images of other cute kitties!

Internet, Japan
(cats • cute • documentary • pets • wildlife)

South Korean ferry disaster to be turned into low-budget documentary next year

Scott R Dixon
Jul 14, 2014

After a tragedy like the April 16 sinking of the South Korean ferry Sewol, many are left wondering how to appropriately commemorate the lives lost without forgetting the awful truth of the actual incident. Last week a South Korean newspaper revealed that a two-hour documentary about the accident is being planned to be released next year to coincide with the one-year anniversary. The film’s backers are relying solely on donations and are seeking just 400 million won (US$392,000) to finance the low-budget project. And with the entire country paying extremely close attention to every tragic detail to come out of the investigations surrounding the accident, this film is destined to be an instant hit in Korean movie theaters.

Korea
(accident • disaster • documentary • film • movie • Sewol ferry disaster • tragedy)

One filmmaker’s mission to show the world the real Fukushima, and how you can help

Philip Kendall
Apr 17, 2014

“Forget the reactor. Forget all the bull$#!^ Facebook posts about how radiation is melting the starfish and mutating our sushi. Forget about what it means to be a disaster, and discover what it means to be Fukushima.”

Filmmaker Cameron Anderson is on a mission to show the world the real Fukushima. Having spend months exploring the region, he – an outsider arriving long after Fukushima became known the world over as the centre of a tragic nuclear accident – has come to learn what Japan’s third-largest prefecture is really all about. Cameron has also seen how the news, careless comments shared via social networks, and a general fear of the unknown have caused people around the globe to label this land as a giant, black spot on the map of Japan, with stories popping up online every few weeks about tides of non-existent radioactive seawater and the prefecture’s potentially hazardous exports.

Hoping to obtain a special filmmaking grant, it is Cameron’s plan to put together a 10-minute documentary that explores this vast, rich part of Japan and introduce some of its genuinely remarkable residents–both Japanese and foreign. But he needs your help.

Global, Japan
(Cameron Anderson • documentary • film • Fukushima • Storyhive)

Alone in the Red Zone: Fukushima Town’s Sole Resident Speaks Out in Harrowing Documentary

Andrew Miller
Mar 18, 2013

After the great earthquake and tsunami that came with the calamities of March 11 2011, many residents to the Kanto region of Japan experienced turmoil on an unprecedented scale. If natural disaster wasn’t enough, there was also the explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant, spreading radioactive contamination even as far as Tokyo. Now after two years, Fukushima’s 20-kilometer radioactive exclusion zone still remains in place.

While most families fled the contaminated areas in the early stages following the explosion, one brave man remained undeterred by it all, staying put in his hometown. Naoto Matsura (53) is believed to be the sole inhabitant within the 20-kilometer red zone.

Matsumura’s determination to remain rooted in the same place and see through the nuclear catastrophe has caught the attention of many, with his accounts even being adapted into a documentary. The documentary tells of the events after the great earthquake and Mutsumura’s reasons for remaining at his home despite all those around him fleeing, never to return. Perhaps even more interestingly, it gives some rather candid accounts of this man’s feelings towards Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the company that operated the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.