Movies: Iwanami Productions
- 1963
She and He (1963)
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As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrinks in scope and intimacy. She finds new interests, new love, and a greater sense of her place in the ...
- 1950
A town without flies (1950)
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A teaching film for social studies, which was developed as a new educational subject in 1947. At an elementary school in Hokkaido, children have started a fly extermination campaign to improve school hygiene. In order to eliminate the causes of flies...
- 1954
Children in the Classroom (1954)
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A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students....
- 1962
Story of Iron (1962)
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One day, Kandume's can boy, who lived happily with his friends in the kitchen, becomes an empty can and is thrown away. Eventually, the can boy has a dream about the history of iron and humanity. Iron that melted and flowed out in a forest fire was d...
- 1961
The Seas Are Full of Sheep in Love (1961)
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- 1971
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple (1971)
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- 1961
Bad Boys (1961)
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A young delinquent takes part in a robbery and is sentenced to a juvenile detention center, where he clashes with other youths and reflects on his life experiences....
- 1962
Hokkaido, My Love (1962)
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A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido...
- 1976
Ima genshiryoku hatsuden wa (1976)
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TV documentary about the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and its safety concerns in 1976....
- 1959
The Sea Wall (1959)
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From the opening sequence, combining underwater and aerial footage, this masterpiece about the construction of a steam-power plant in Kurihama (south of Tokyo) far surpasses the limitations of the promotional film genre, and emerges as one of the mos...
- 1956
Children Who Draw (1956)
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Children Who Draw explores the delicate chemistry of school children interacting in an art class through a constant juxtaposition of observational black-and-white portraits of the young children with lyrical passages shot in vivid color exploring the...
- 1957
Diary of the Zoological Garden (1957)
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The clear record of a zoo's daily workings and the hardships of zookeepers....
- 1958
Hōryū-ji (1958)
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This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese temples. Horyu-ji, in the small town of Ikaruga outside Japan’s ancient capital of Nara, was one of the first Buddhist places of worship established in Japa...
- 1952
Our Life and Water (1952)
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An educative film about the water supply and watersystems in small towns and villages in Japan. It captures the unsanitary and inconvenient lifestyles without water supply through examples from various places, and shows how life can be brighter if a ...
- 1957
School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village (1957)
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Haneda’s debut as full director, made after four years spent as an assistant, is set in a farming village in Shiga Prefecture (east of Kyoto). The film depicts the traditional architecture, lifestyles and customs of the village, its agricultural and ...
- 1958
Beauty of the Ancients (1958)
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Commissioned by the Tokyo National Museum, this film, regarded in some quarters as the masterpiece of Haneda’s Iwanami period, is one of several in which she documented Japan’s ancient and classical artistic treasures. Here she focuses on the Tokyo N...
- 1956
Twin Class (1956)
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An examination of a specialist school for twin siblings and the theme of heredity and environment on human development...
- 1958
The Living Sea (1958)
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Marine biological documentary...
- 1965
Shinshu no matsuri (1965)
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A film documenting the Matsuri and the life of the farmers in Nagano Prefecture. In the bosom of the mountain, people cultivate wasabi, rice, practice sericulture, forestry, mulberry picking. Some even cultivate barley in fields with a slope of 40 de...
- 1973
Kaso chitai (1973)
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The outflow of population, mainly young people, from agricultural, mountain and fishing villages in Japan to urban areas became remarkable from around 1960, but the actual situation of Japan's depopulation, which is rapidly progressing in the shadow ...