The anatomy of neo-nationalist misogyny
JAPAN: Miki Dezaki set out to understand why a network of powerful people find it so important to shut up the women who demand justice for the sexual labour they were coerced into during WWII.
Japan
The Day the Sun Fell on Hiroshima
The Day the Sun Fell describes the consequences of the nuclear bomb in Japan, as told through the film maker’s own family history. A national trauma which remains connected with stigmatising and lack of knowledge in the Land of the Rising Sun.
A warning letter: The pyramids of our time
Japan’s recent earthquake and tsunami, leading to the nuclear accidents at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, have accelerated the immediacy of Michael Madsen’s newest documentary, Into Eternity. The scientists simply do not know how to answer.
Where pleasure meets pain
Two films explore the boundaries between art and porn, sexual spectacle and exploitation.
SODA KAZUHIRO: Soda Kazuhiro on Not Being to the Point
The Japanese doc “Campaign” premiered in Berlin and is now on a tightly-booked festival tour round the world. DOX met the director Soda Kazuhiro at SXSW in Austin, Texas.
Bearing witness to the younger generations
Whereas Nazi cruelties during W.W.II have received and still receive extensive coverage in German documentaries, silence has embraced the atrocities committed in Asia by the Japanese Imperial Army from 1931 to the end of WWII.