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Here’s a list of some independent films that Our Planet-TV recommends.
White Light/Black Rain;
The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Director: Steven Okazaki
(2007/Color/America/86 min.)After researching for more than 25 years and having met more than 500 atomic bomb victims, enough information was collected to create this documentary. 14 atomic bomb victims give their own accounts as to what happened 62 years before, sharing vivid accounts of an unimaginable reality and how they have lived with the effects.
This documentary not only looks at the dark side of the bombing, but also the positive effects that have resulted from the incident.
The Japanese title is: “Hiroshima Nagasaki.”
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My soul is undefeated
~A story about a former comfort woman~
Director: Ahn-Haer Yong Producer: Yang Jingia
（2007/Color/95min）In 1922, Son Shindo lived in the battle-zone of what was Japanese controlled Korea. At only age 16, Shindo was forced to work for the Japanese Empire. However, the only way she was allowed to work work was through being a comfort woman stationed in China. Now, after 50 years, she is breaking her silence through this film. Now is her chance to recover from this atrocity by speaking about what happened.
Hana no Yume (Dreams of the flower)
Director: Shizu Azuma Producer: Shin-ichi Ise
(2007/Color/97 min.)In 1944, Miss Kurihara went to Manchukuo at the age of 18. She hoped to begin a trip to a far off land. However, immediately after Japan’s defeat in World War II, she hoped to return back to Japan. But she was unable to return to Japan, and she had no other option other than to live in China for 35 years. “Why were we tossed away and forgotten?” asks Gurihara, as she recounts the memories of her past.
Mizu ni Natta Mura;The Village That Turned Into Water
Director and Photography: Nobuo Onishi
Planning and Editing: Sei-ichi Motohashi
(2007/Color/Japan/92 min.)For the past 50 years, the village of Tokuyama, Gifu prefecture, has been under the process of removal and deconstruction so that a dam could be built. Once the dam is built, the village will be completely submerged, and the villagers who once lived there, would never be able to live the same life again.
15 years before the village was to be removed, the producer visited the villagers and became enamored with the life of the village. He went back and forth between Tokyo and Takuyama countless times, until, in the fall of 2006, he visited one last time as the water began to rise.
Marines Go Home -Henoko, Maehyang-ri,and Yausubetsu-
Director: Sachikyu Tohon
Planning: Hokkaido Asia, Africa, Latin America Solitary Committee Meeting
(2005/Color/DV/Japan/132 min.) The Self Defense Force’s maneuvering grounds located close to where citizens continue to live. But the new American military base being constructed in Henoko is causing quite a stir among Okinawa residents. For 20 years it has been closed off to fishermen since it has been used as a bombing range. This documentary is about the people who live around American military bases, and their true feelings regarding the presence of the American military.
