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Goodbye Cp (2007)

aka: Sayonara Cp

Director

Kazuo Hara

Subject

Social Studies; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 82 minutes), $29.95

Maverick documentary filmmaker Kazuo Hara once again criticizes the mores and customs of Japanese society in this unsentimental portrait of adults with cerebral palsy. Focusing on how the CP victims are...

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Japanese Archaeology: Life in the Jomon Period (198 Film)

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses what life must have been like for people of the prehistoric Jomon period. Concentrates on the artifacts with a section explaining radio-carbon and uranium dating. A chronology follows, supported by...

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Hirohito Documentaries (2007)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 120 minutes), $9.99

Three documentaries on Emperor Hirohito who ruled Japan from December 25, 1926 until his death in 1989. His reign was the longest of any historical Japanese emperor, and he oversaw many significant changes...

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Introduction to the Video Letters from Japan, An (1990 Video)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25? min.

Introductory programme to the TDK Video Letter Project, based on video programmes exploring the structure and values of contemporary Japanese society as seen through the eyes of Japanese people. The series...

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Video Letter II: Japan into the Nineties (1990 Video)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 x 30 min., 1997 sale: £5.00 each (+VAT inc. p&p)

Series exploring the structure and values of contemporary Japanese society through the eyes of people experiencing each aspect of life. 1: Looks at the education systems and discusses examination pressures...

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Two Versions of Hell (2008)

Director

James T Hong

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 27 minutes), $295.00

This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan’s secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during...

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Music Making the Japanese Way (1992 Video)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 1992 sale: £25 inc p&p

Aims to foster interest in our approaches to composition by means of an insight into Japanesemusic-making, to widen cultural awareness and to encourage people to work together collaboratively. The...

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Borderless World (1992 Video)

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

Examines the new global marketplace, showing that the way people do business is changing as barriers between nations crumble. Kenichi Ohmae, a Japanese businessman, has identified five stages a company...

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Michael Nyman’s Man with a Movie Camera (2002)

Subject

Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 min), £15.99 (inc)

A montage of Moscow life showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. Dziga Vertov used all the cinematic techniques at his disposal - dissolves, split...

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Report from China (1966 Film)

Director

Toshie Tokieda

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Filmed by a Japanese team on location in north-east China, one of the country’s major industrial regions, between August 1966 and January 1967. Covers people’s communes, the industrial cities and their...

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