About
Formed in 1968 at Waseda University, the Nihon Documentarist Union (NDU) was once one of the most influential collectives of Japanese nonfiction filmmaking. Emerging from the student movements of the late 1960s, the politically active NDU produced guerilla-style 16mm documentaries shot with asynchronous sound, and wrote extensively in leftist film journals, magazines and other publications. The group posited an activist cinema of anonymity—rejecting auteurism and opting to exclude individual names from their credits (Japan Society).
Filmography
Headhunter's Song: The Cry of the Aboriginal People of Taiwan2005 · Director
Public Order Project: Martial Law at Noon1981 · Director
Notes on the Pacific War1974 · Director
Asia is One1973 · Director
Motoshinkakarannu1971 · Director
To the Japs: South Korean A-Bomb Survivors Speak Out1971 · Director
Tokyo ’69 – one day blue crayons...1969 · Director
Onikko—A Record of the Struggle of Youth Laborers1969 · Director