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YIDFF ’91 Screening List


| International Competition | Jurors’ Films | Special Invitation Films |
| The Asia Program | The Flourishing of Documentary Film in Japan |
| Media Wars: Then & Now | Japanese Films Panorama Theater |

*=Additional Screenings

- International Competition -
  • American Dream [Barbara Kopple / USA / 1990 / Runner-Up Prize]
  • Canticle of the Stones [Michel Khleifi / BELGIUM / 1990 / Special Prize]
  • Check the Changes [Marc Huraux / FRANCE / 1990]
  • Children of Mini-Japan [Chalam Bennurakar / INDIA / 1990 / Prize for Encouragement, Citizens’ Prize]
  • Eclipse of the Man-Made Sun [Nicolette Freeman, Amanda Stewart / AUSTRALIA / 1991]
  • The Good Woman of Bangkok [Denis O’Rourke / AUSTRALIA / 1991]
  • Hotel Chronicles [Lea Pool / CANADA / 1990]
  • How Nice to See You Alive [Lúcia Murat / BRAZIL / 1989]
  • Locked Up Time [Sybille Schönemann / GERMANY / 1990 / The Mayor’s Prize]
  • Mama Calle [Arjanne Laan / THE NETHERLANDS / 1990]
  • Once There Were Seven Simeons [Herz Frank, Vladimir Eisner / USSR / 1989 / Runner-Up Prize]
  • Privilege [Yvonne Rainer / USA / 1990]
  • Roots of Infinity [Oguri Kenichi / JAPAN / 1991]
  • Stubborn Dreams [Szobolits Béla / HUNGARY / 1989 / The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize]
  • Triangle of Death [Jerzy Sladkowski / SWEDEN / 1990]
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_ Jurors’ Films -
  • Fours du Jardin [Jean Douchet / FRANCE] *
  • Le maçon [Krzystof Kieslowski / POLAND / 1973]
  • “M” de Fritz Lang [Jean Douchet / FRANCE] *
  • Mizoguchi [Jean Douchet / FRANCE] *
  • Nuclear Gipsies [Morisaki Azuma / JAPAN / 1985]
  • Paris Sketch [Jean Douchet, others / FRANCE / 1966]
  • Personnel [Krzystof Kieslowski / POLAND / 1975]
  • Sept femmes d’âge différents [Krzystof Kieslowski / POLAND / 1978]
  • Shoot for the Contents [Trinh T. Minh-ha / USA / 1991]
  • The Terroriser [Edward Yang / TAIWAN / 1986]
  • Twenty Years Later [Eduardo Coutinho / BRAZIL / 1984]
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Special Invitation Films
  • Close Up [Abbas Klarostami / IRAN / 1990]
  • I am Furious Yellow . . . (’91 version) [Kidlat Tahimik / PHILIPPINES / 1991]
  • Model [Frederick Wiseman / USA / 1982]
  • A Movie Capital [Iizuka Toshio / JAPAN / 1991]
  • The Wind Blowing from Shigaraki [Nishiyama Masahiro / JAPAN / 1990]
  • Ynang Bayan: To be a Woman Is to Live in a Time of War [Nick Deocampo / PHILIPPINES / 1991]
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- The Asia Program -
  • Aborigines in Taiwan (“Orientations”) [UK / 1989, 90]
  • Big Brother in Hong Kong (“Orientations”) [UK / 1989, 90]
  • The Generation After Marital Law [TAIWAN]
  • How to Behave [Tran Van Thuy / VIETNAM / 1985]
  • Bumming in Beijing—The Last Dreamers [Wu Wenguang / CHINA / 1990]
  • A Legacy of Violence [PHILIPPINES]
  • Line of Battle [KOREA / 1991]
  • Moon Children [Wu Yii-feng / TAIWAN / 1991]
  • My Filipina [Stephen Teo / HONG KONG / 1984]
  • New Korean Cinema *
  • Night Before a Strike [Chansanco Me / KOREA / 1990]
  • Our Children [KOREA / 1990]
  • Paraing Marapu [Dudit Widodo / INDONESIA / 1990]
  • Penyao Village [Chen Zhen / CHINA / 1990]
  • Sanggye-dong Olympics [Kim Dong-won / KOREA / 1990]
  • Sleeping Buddha [Lee Yong-bae / KOREA / 1991]
  • Surname Viet, Given Name Nam [Trinh T. Minh-ha / USA / 1989]
  • Until Daybreak [KOREA]
  • Urban Poor Standing on the Edge [Kim Dong-won / KOREA / 1990]
  • Voice of the People [Lee Daw-ming / TAIWAN / 1990]
  • We Love Rice, But We Love Democracy More (“Orientations”) [UK]
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- The Post-War Flourishing of the Japanese Documentary (1945–1960) -
  • Ageha Butterfly [Ota Nikichi / 1949]
  • Ancient Farmers’ Lifestyles: Toro [Koyama Kokuo / 1948]
  • Bridge Plans [Yabe Masao / 1957]
  • Children Calling Spring [Matsumoto Toshio / 1959]
  • Children in the Classroom [Hani Susumu / 1954]
  • Children of Kujukurihama [Toyota Keita / 1956]
  • Children of the Base [Kamei Fumio / 1953]
  • Children’s Congress [Maruyama Shoji / 1947]
  • Country Life under Snow [Noda Shinkichi / 1956]
  • The Day the Air Disappears [Ito Sueo / 1949]
  • The Ecology of Tuberculosis [Okuyama Dairokuro / 1952]
  • History of the Valley [Kuwano Shigeru / 1954]
  • Hokusai [Teshigahara Hiroshi / 1953]
  • June 1960—Rage Against the Security Treaty [1960]
  • Korean Tragedy [Sunaga Goro, Kudo Haruo / 1953]
  • Kurobe Valley [Nishio Zensuke / 1957]
  • Life of Rice [Ota Nikichi / 1950]
  • Limitless View [kudo Tadayoshi / 1955]
  • Living Bread [Okuyama Dairokuro / 1948]
  • Living on the Sea [Yanagisawa Hisao, Kabashima Seiichi / 1949]
  • Marine Snow [Noda Shinkichi, Onuma Tetsuro / 1960]
  • May Day 1952 [Yoshimi Yutaka / 1952]
  • The Mt. Fuji Observatory [Yanagisawa Hisao / 1948]
  • The Nail and Sock’s Conversation [Hirano Katsumi, others / 1958]
  • The 197 Days’ Battle at Muroran [Kanke Nobuhiko / 1955]
  • Record of a Mother [Kyogoku Takahide / 1955]
  • Record of Blood: Sunagawa [Kamei Fumio / 1956]
  • Rushing Forward [Iwasa Ujitoshi / 1946]
  • Sakuma Dam—Part 1 [Takamura Takeji / 1954]
  • Sea Wall [Kuroki Kazuo / 1959]
  • Security Treaty [Matsumoto Toshio / 1959]
  • The Speech of the Girls [Kyogoku Takahide / 1948]
  • Symphony in Steel [Segawa Junichi / 1959]
  • Thread Worm [Atsumi Teruo / 1957]
  • Town Politics [Tokieda Toshie / 1957]
  • Tsuki-no-wa Tombs [Arai Hideo, others / 1954]
  • Village Women’s Classroom [Haneda Sumiko / 1957]
  • The Whistle Won’t Stop Blowing [Asano Tatsuo / 1949]
  • The Wisdom of the Orangutan [Fujiwara Tomoko / 1960]
  • The Wokers of Keihin [Noda Shinkichi / 1953]
  • The World of Microbes: In Quest of the Tubercle Bacilli [Onuma Tetsuro, Sugiyama Masami / 1958]
  • The World of the Vacuum [Nakamura Rinko / 1953]
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Media Wars: Then & Now
  • Air Attacks Over Hawaii [JAPAN / 1941]
  • “Atomic Bombing” Interviews with Crews of “Enola Gay” & “The Great Artiste” [USA / 1945]
  • Battle of China [Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak / USA / 1944]
  • China Incident [JAPAN]
  • Civilian Victims of Military Brutality [USA / 1942?]
  • Combat Film Report CF-722 [USA / 1944]
  • Dawn of Freedom [Abe Yutaka, Herald de Leon / JAPAN / 1944]
  • December 7 [John Ford / USA / 1942]
  • Diary of Boys Reclaiming the Land [JAPAN / 1941]
  • Divine Soldiers of the Sky [JAPAN]
  • The Educational System of Japan [USA / 1945]
  • Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki [JAPAN / 1946]
  • Fighting Children—Winter [JAPAN / 1944]
  • The Fleet That Came to Stay [USA / 1945]
  • Gulf Crisis TV Project—Manufacturing the Enemy [USA / 1991]
  • History and Memory [Rea Tajiri / USA / 1991]
  • Jap Zero [USA / 1943]
  • Japan in Time of Crisis [JAPAN / 1933]
  • Japanese Relocation [USA / 1943]
  • The Japanese Tragedy [Kamei Fumio / JAPAN / 1946]
  • Justice [USA / 1945]
  • Kill or Be Killed [USA / 1944?]
  • Let There Be Light [John Huston / USA / 1946]
  • Let’s Have a Drink [USA / 1945]
  • Lifeline of the Sea [JAPAN / 1933]
  • Make Video, Not War *
  • Momotaro vs. Mickey Mouse [JAPAN / 1934]
  • Momotaro’s Sea Eagle [Seo Mitsuyo / JAPAN / 1943]
  • Nippon Banzai [JAPAN / 1943]
  • Our Weapons Series [Goto Makoto / JAPAN / 1941]
  • Princess Iron Fan [CHINA / 1941]
  • Private Snafu: Censored [USA / 1944?]
  • Sending Off Our Students (Never to Return) [JAPAN / 1943]
  • Soldiers at the Front (Fighting Soldiers) [Kamei Fumio / JAPAN / 1939]
  • Storming the Media *
  • Superman: Japoteurs [USA / 1942]
  • Topaz 1942–1945 [USA / 1942-1945]
  • TV’s Gulf War *
  • Weapons of the Heart [JAPAN / 1941-42?]
  • We’re Working So So Hard [Mizuki Soya / JAPAN / 1945]
  • Women of Steel [USA / 1943]
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_ Japanese Films Panorama Theater -
  • Afternoon Breezes [Yazaki Hitoshi / 1980] *
  • Color Wind [Oki Hiroyuki / 1991] *
  • A Dandelion (Rosaceae) [Koguchi Utako / 1990] *
  • A Film of Matsumae-kun [Oki Hiroyuki / 1988-89] *
  • A Film for Matsumae-kun [Oki Hiroyuki / 1990] *
  • A Film to Be Matsumae-kun [Oki Hiroyuki / 1991] *
  • Geshinoko [Oki Hiroyuki / 1990] *
  • Heartless [Takahashi Gen / 1991] *
  • I Greeted Him before Everything Else [Keira Mio / 1991] *
  • Index Gun [Takahashi Gen / 1989] *
  • Living on the River Agano (rough cut version) [Sato Makoto] *
  • March Comes in Like a Lion [Yazaki Hitoshi / 1991] *
  • O-de-ka-ke Diary [Koguchi Utako / 1989] *
  • The Sleeping Flower [Koguchi Utako / 1991] *
  • Swimming Forbidden [Oki Hiroyuki / 1989] *
  • Swimming with Tears [Tashiro Hirotaka / 1991] *
  • Under the Erotic Tokyo Tower [Keira Mio / 1989] *