Nippon Retro

Visual Resistance: Protest culture in Japanese documentary film

Many people in the Western world were startled by the absence of mass demonstrations in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. The subservience and harmony-orientation of the Japanese people were regarded as reasons for the apparent lack of a protest culture and the weakness of Japanese civil society. The films of this year’s retrospective give ample proof of the existence of popular protest in Japan. (Dr. Roland Domenig, Vienna)

 

Each NIPPON RETRO screening of will be introduced by Dr. Roland Domenig.

Gewaltopia: Motoharu JONOUCHI’s Images of Protest

  • Document 6.15
  • Japan 1961, 16mm, 19 min, Japanese with English, German premiere
  • Gewaltopia Trailer

  • Japan 1968, 16mm, 12 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  • Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan

  • Japan 1964, 16mm, 19 min,
  • Shinjuku Station

  • Japan 1961, 16mm, 19 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  • Director: Motoharu JONOUCHI
  • Friday, May 4, 6 p.m. Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum
  • with an introduction by Julian Ross (University of Leeds)

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The Oppressed Students

  • (Assatsu no mori: Takasaki keizai daigaku toso no kiroku)
    圧殺の森－高崎経済大学闘争の記録
  • Director: Shinsuke OGAWA
  • Japan 1967, DigiBeta, 105 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  • Friday May 4, 8.30 p.m. Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum

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Summer in Narita

  • (Nihon Kaiho sensen: Sanrizuka no natsu)
 三里塚 第二砦の人々
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Director: Shinsuke OGAWA

  • Japan 1968, 16 mm, 108 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  • Friday, May 4. p.m. Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum

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Prehistory of the Partisans

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(Paruchizan zenshi) パルチザン前史

  • Director: Noriaki TSUCHIMOTO


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Japan 1969, 16mm, 120 min, Japanese with English subtiltles
  • Saturday, May 5, 6 p.m. Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum

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Underground Square

  • (Chika hiroba)
 地下広場


  • Director: Keiya OUCHIDA



  • Japan 1969, 16mm, 90 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  • Saturday, May 5, 8.30 p.m. Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum

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Minamata-The Victims and Their World

ⓒ Shiota TAKESHI
  • (Minamata: Kanja-san to sono sekai) 
水俣ー患者さんとその世界


  • Director: Noriaki TSUCHIMOTO


  • Japan 1971, 16mm, 120 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  • Sunday, May 6, 8.30 p.m. Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum

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Amateur Riot

  • (Shiroto no ran) 素人の乱
  • Director: Yuki NAKAMURA
  • Japan 2010, 35mm, 143 min, Japanese with English subtitltles
  • Saturday, May 5, 4 p.m. Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum
  • European premiere

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Yasukuni

  • Director: Ying LI


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Japan / China 2007, 35mm, 123 min, Japanese with German subtitles
  • Sunday, May 6, 6 p.m., Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum

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