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YIDFF ’93 Screening List


| International Competition | Jurors’ Films | Special Invitation Films |
| Asia Program | Japanese Documentaries of the 1960s |
| Ogawa Shinsuke Retrospective |
| In Our Own Eyes / First Nations’ Moving Images |
| Japanese Films Panorama Theater |
| YIDFF Network Special Screenings | Japanese Classic Films |

*=Additional Screenings

- International Competition -
  • Africa, I Am Going to Fleece You [Jean Marie Teno / CAMEROON / 1992]
  • Black Harvest [Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson / AUSTRALIA / 1992 / The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize]
  • Brother’s Keeper [Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky / USA / 1992]
  • Dreams of Ice [Ignacio Agüero / CHILE / 1992]
  • Elegy from Russia [Alexander Sokurov / RUSSIA / 1993 / Special Prize]
  • In the Land of the Deaf [Nicholas Philibert / FRANCE / 1992]
  • In the Name of God [Anand Patwardhan / INDIA / 1992 / Citizens’ Prize]
  • Intimate Stranger [Alan Berliner / USA / 1992]
  • Living on the River Agano [Sato Makoto / JAPAN / 1992 / Runner-Up Prize]
  • Losses to Be Expected [Ulrich Seidl / AUSTRIA / 1992 / Runner-Up Prize]
  • Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media [Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick / 1992 / CANADA]
  • Part Time God [Paul Cohen / THE NETHERLANDS / 1992]
  • Texas Tenor: The Illinois Jacquet Story [Arthur Elgort / USA / 1992]
  • Timisoara–December 1989 [Ovidju Bose Pastina / ROMANIA / 1993]
  • Zoo [Frederick Wiseman / USA / 1993 / The Mayor’s Prize]
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- Jurors’ Films -
  • The Bread and Alley [Abbas Kiarostami / IRAN / 1970]
  • Brief History of Time [Errol Morris / USA / 1991]
  • The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On [Hara Kazuo / JAPAN / 1987]
  • Good-Bye [Kanai Katsu / JAPAN / 1971]
  • The Long Farewell [Kira Muratova / USSR / 1971] *
  • Mauri [Merata Mita / NEW ZEALAND / 1987]
  • Night and Morning Inside Myself [Yanagisawa Hisao / JAPAN / 1971]
  • On the Hunting Ground [Tian Zhuangzhuang / CHINA / 1985]
  • The Traveller [Abbas Kiarostami / IRAN / 1974]
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Special Invitation Films
  • Allemagne 90 neuf-zéro [Jean-Luc Godard / FRANCE / 1991]
  • The First Emperor [Hara Masato / JAPAN / 1973-1993]
  • I Am Furious Yellow . . . ’93 [Kidlat Tahimik / PHILIPPINES / 1981-93]
  • Imagining Indians [Victor Masayesva, Jr. / USA / 1992]
  • Serge Daney: Itinéraires d’un cinéfils [Pierre-André Boutang, Dominique Rabourdin / FRANCE / 1992]
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- Asia Program -
  • Big Tree County [Hao Zhiqiang / CHINA / 1993]
  • Can Fish See the Same Face Twice [Comyn Mo / HONG KONG / 1992]
  • Carcass [Eric Khoo / SINGAPORE / 1992]
  • Catholicism in Tibet [Jiang Yue / CHINA / 1992]
  • Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama [Mickey Lemle / USA / 1992]
  • 8 1/2 [Jamba Solongo / MONGOLIA / 1990]
  • The Fair of Love [Tran Van Thuy / VIETNAM / 1992]
  • From Goddess to Vagabond [Cheah Boon Ee / SINGAPORE / 1992]
  • Genesis Genesis [Gotot Prakosa / INDONESIA / 1981]
  • Harajuku [Rox Lee / PHILIPPINES / 1992]
  • I Have Graduated [CHINA / 1992]
  • Jalur [Gotot Prakosa / INDONESIA / 1977]
  • Letter to My Son: “ORBIT 50” [Kidlat Tahimik / PHILIPPINES / 1992]
  • Little King Kong [Hsu Ling Yao / TAIWAN / 1992]
  • Meta Ekologi [Gotot Prakosa / INDONESIA / 1979]
  • Meta-Meta [Gotot Prakosa / INDONESIA / 1977]
  • (ngo5) [Comyn Mo / HONG KONG / 1993]
  • Non KB (On Family Planning) [Gotot Prakosa / INDONESIA / 1979]
  • 1966, My Time in the Red Guards [Wu Wenguang / CHINA / 1993 / Ogawa Shinsuke Prize]
  • One Day in Taiga [Drajab Sumkhuu / MONGOLIA / 1993]
  • Recall to the Past [L. Balkhaajav / MONGOLIA / 1993]
  • The Sacred Site of Asceticism [Wen Pu-lin, Duan Jinchuan / CHINA / 1992]
  • A Song for Tibet [Anne Henderson / CANADA / 1991]
  • Symphony 92.4 FM [Eric Khoo / SINGAPORE / 1993]
  • Tibetan Opera Troupe in the Khams [Fu Hongxing / CHINA / 1993]
  • Tissue Paper Culture [Cheah Boon Ee / SINGAPORE / 1992]
  • Transmission [Watanabe Yoshimitsu / JAPAN / 1992]
  • A Woman Being in Asia [Byun Young-joo / KOREA / 1993]
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- Japanese Documentaries of the 1960s -
  • The Cabbage Butterfly [Haneda Sumiko / 1968]
  • Children Before the Dawn [Yanagisawa Hisao / 1968]
  • Chua Swee Lin, Exchange Student [Tsuchimoto Noriaki / 1965]
  • Chun Ri Ma [Miyajima Yoshio / 1964]
  • Dead, Come and Cut Off My Retreat [Kitamura Takako / 1969]
  • The Diary of Yunbogi [Oshima Nagisa / 1965]
  • Document: On the Road [Tsuchimoto Noriaki / 1964]
  • A Document of a Marathon Runner [Kuroki Kazuo / 1964]
  • An Engineer’s Assistant [Tsuchimoto Noriaki / 1963]
  • Film Makers [Iimura Takahiko / 1968-70]
  • Flames 1960–1970 [Yamagiwa Eizo, others / 1968]
  • For My Crushed Right Eye [Matsumoto Toshio / 1968]
  • Gewaltopia [Jonouchi Motoharu / 1969]
  • Ghost World [Kasu Sanpei / 1967]
  • Head Games [Oe Masanori, Marvin Fishman / 1967]
  • High Red Center—Shelter Plan [Jonouchi Motoharu / 1964]
  • The Horse of Kaberu [Kitamura Minao / 1969]
  • The Isolation of Two Long-Distance Runners [Noda Shinkichi / 1966]
  • Jose Torres [Teshigahara Hiroshi / 1960]
  • Land of the Dawn [Tokieda Toshie / 1967]
  • The Mammoth Tanker “Naess Sovereign” [Kusunoki Tokuo / 1961]
  • The Matsuyama Incident [Ouchida Keiya / 1964]
  • The May Day Trial [Takizawa Rinzo / 1969]
  • Mothers [Matsumoto Toshio / 1967]
  • My Love Hokkaido [Kuroki Kazuo / 1962]
  • Nishijin [Matsumoto Toshio / 1961]
  • No Game [Oe Masanori, Marvin Fishman / 1968]
  • Okinawa [Mamiya Norio / 1960]
  • People of the Okinawa Islands [Higashi Yoichi / 1969]
  • Pre-Partisan [Tsuchimoto Noriaki / 1969]
  • A Report from Haneda [Ogawa Shinsuke / 1967]
  • The Satirical Animal Scrolls [Matsukawa Yasuo / 1966]
  • Secret in the Hive [Higuchi Genichiro / 1962]
  • The Song of Stones [Matsumoto Toshio / 1963]
  • Spring-Powered Cinema: Am I an Actress? [Iwasa Hisaya / 1968]
  • Summer Happenings U.S.A. [Iimura Takahiko / 1967-8]
  • A Town Not Yet Seen [Noda Shinkichi / 1963]
  • Underground Square [Ouchida Keiya / 1969]
  • The World of a Siberian [Tsuchimoto Noriaki / 1968]
  • A Young Shipyard Worker [Jinba Isao / 1969]
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In Memory of Ogawa Shinsuke
  • Hare To Ke [Regina Ulwer / WEST GERMANY / 1988]
  • A Japanese Village—Furuyashikimura [1982]
  • Magino Village—A Tale [1986]
  • Narita: Heta Village [1973]
  • Narita: Peasants of the Second Fortress [1971]
  • Narita: The Building of the Iwayama Tower [1972]
  • The Oppressed Students [1967]
  • Sea of Youth [1966]
  • A Song of the Bottom [1975]
  • Summer in Narita [1968]
  • A Visit to Ogawa Productions [Oshige Junichiro / JAPAN / 1981]
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In Our Own Eyes / First Nations’ Moving Images
  • Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation [Puhipau / USA / 1993]
  • La Beau Sha Shoo [Maria Campbell / CANADA / 1993]
  • Bingo [Margorie Beaucage / CANADA / 1993]
  • Blackout Series 5—Episode 1 [Susan Moylan-Coombs, Paul Fenech / AUSTRALIA / 1993]
  • Chisenomi [JAPAN / 1934, 1993]
  • Everything Has Spirit [Ava Hamilton / USA / 1992]
  • It Starts with a Whisper [Shelly Niro / CANADA / 1993]
  • Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance [Alanis Obomsawin / CANADA / 1993]
  • Kids & Culture [David Sandy / AUSTRALIA / 1993]
  • The Learning Path [Loretta Todd / CANADA / 1991]
  • Malangi [Michael Riley / AUSTRALIA / 1993]
  • Mana Waka [Merata Mita / AOTEAROA-NEW ZEALAND / 1990]
  • Ngati [Barry Barclay / AOTEAROA-NEW ZEALAND / 1987]
  • Poison [Michael Riley / AUSTRALIA / 1993]
  • Por la Allpamanda Causaimanda Jatarishun [Alberto Muenala / ECUADOR / 1992]
  • A Record of the Shiraoi Ainu [JAPAN / 1925]
  • Rider with a Guitar in the Plains [Saito Takeichi / JAPAN / 1960]
  • Ritual Clowns [Victor Masayesva, Jr. / USA / 1989]
  • The Seventh Fire [USA / 1993]
  • Ship of Outlaws [Mori Kazuo / JAPAN / 1950]
  • Tent Embassy [David Sandy / AUSTRALIA / 1993]
  • Uepotara—A Traditional Exorcism Rite of the Nibutani Ainu [JAPAN / 1933, 1992]
  • Words: The Symbol of a People [Kayano Shiro / JAPAN / 1993]
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- Japanese Films Panorama Theater -
  • An Eternal Traveller (rough cut version) [Hara Masato / 1993] *
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YIDFF Network Special Screenings
  • The Sound of Tiny Wings [Iizuka Toshio / JAPAN / 1992] *
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Japanese Classic Films
  • High and Low [Kurosawa Akira / 1963]
  • The Human Bullet [Okamoto Kihachi / 1968]
  • The Ivory Tower [Yamamoto Satsuo / 1966]
  • Like a Wanderer [Yamada Yoji / 1968]
  • The Striates of Hunger [Uchida Tomu / 1964]
  • An Autumn Afternoon [Ozu Yasujiro / 1962]