Susumu Hani

A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.

A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.

A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.

Two college buddies try to understand a young woman's suicide through her Super-8 films and clips from their summer trips together.

Two college buddies try to understand a young woman's suicide through her Super-8 films and clips from their summer trips together.

Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to create a "frantic, non-stop pop newsreel". Mixing cutout animation with color and black & white...

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...

An educative film about the water supply and watersystems in small towns and villages in Japan. It captures the unsanitary and inconvenient...

An educative film about the water supply and watersystems in small towns and villages in Japan. It captures the unsanitary and inconvenient...

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...

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...

Children Who Draw explores the delicate chemistry of school children interacting in an art class through a constant juxtaposition of observational...

A teaching film for social studies, which was developed as a new educational subject in 1947. At an elementary school in Hokkaido, children have...

A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students.

Aido is a beautiful woman cursed with an insatiable appetite for sex. After an affair with a young student, she engages in several other affairs in...

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.

A pilot crash-lands in the African wilds, and loses his memory. He finds an old man living in the jungle with his grand-daughter. He falls in love...

One of the most popular forms of entertainment in contemporary japan is the "manga". The work is usually translated as "comics" in English, but...

A little Japanese girl of six is transferred to a school in Sardinia where she slowly finds friends and a place before going off again.

Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction...

Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction...

A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students.

A little Japanese girl of six is transferred to a school in Sardinia where she slowly finds friends and a place before going off again.

This rare documentary is one of the very last efforts from preeminent documentarist/activist Susumu Hani best known for his feature films. This one...

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...

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...

Children Who Draw explores the delicate chemistry of school children interacting in an art class through a constant juxtaposition of observational...

A young Japanese woman comes to Peru to marry a man she has never seen in this somber drama highlighted by cultural differences. Her husband is a...

Aido is a beautiful woman cursed with an insatiable appetite for sex. After an affair with a young student, she engages in several other affairs in...

Aido is a beautiful woman cursed with an insatiable appetite for sex. After an affair with a young student, she engages in several other affairs in...

A musical comedy.

10-Feet Movement anti-nuclear documentary film

10-Feet Movement anti-nuclear documentary film

The clear record of a zoo's daily workings and the hardships of zookeepers.

The clear record of a zoo's daily workings and the hardships of zookeepers.

Marine biological documentary

Marine biological documentary

An examination of a specialist school for twin siblings and the theme of heredity and environment on human development

An examination of a specialist school for twin siblings and the theme of heredity and environment on human development

A young Japanese woman comes to Peru to marry a man she has never seen in this somber drama highlighted by cultural differences. Her husband is a...

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.

A musical comedy.

Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to create a "frantic, non-stop pop newsreel". Mixing cutout animation with color and black & white...

Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to create a "frantic, non-stop pop newsreel". Mixing cutout animation with color and black & white...

Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to create a "frantic, non-stop pop newsreel". Mixing cutout animation with color and black & white...

Two college buddies try to understand a young woman's suicide through her Super-8 films and clips from their summer trips together.

The story of the Japanese woman who with a sense of pagan fatalism has been able to sacrifice herself to mechanize her spirit in a sort of absurd...