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Coming and Going with the Wind Tokyo Trial Part 3: The Attack on Pearl Harbor Coal Mine The Mt. Fuji Observatory Living on the Sea A Mine in Hida Young Village My Hometown Hokuriku - A New Natural History Art of the Muromachi Era Over Hill and Dale Somewhere It's Spring A Little Tale about a Little Town Rodin Toray Pylen Children Before the Dawn Night and Morning Inside Myself		Young Village 1948 / B&W / 16mm / 16 min Production Company: Nippon Eigasha Planning: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Director: Yanagisawa Hisao This film depicts a collective project to provide electricity to a farming village and to increase the mechanization of farmwork. My Hometown 1952 / B&W / 16mm / 29 min Production Company: Nichiei Kagaku Eiga Seisakusho Director: Yanagisawa Hisao Script: Nakagawa Norio  Photography: Nakazawa Hanjiro  Cast: Yamaoka Hisano, Wada Takashi, Watanabe Misako Set in a charming river town, this fiction film portrays the efforts of a community nurse to popularize the National Health Insurance Program. Hokuriku - A New Natural History 953 / B&W / 16mm / 26 min Production Company: Iwanami Productions Planning: Hokuriku Electric Power Company Director: Yanagisawa Hisao, Takeuchi Shinji Script: Iwasa Ujitoshi Photography: Kato Kimihiko, Irisawa Kichigoro The film captures Hokuriku, a region wedged between the peaks of the North Japan Alps and the blustery Sea of Japan. In particular, the piece highlights the industry and culture of the region as it braves the forces of nature and geography. Art of the Muromachi Era 1954 / B&W / 16mm / 21 min Production Company: Iwanami Productions Planning: Tokyo National Museum Director: Yanagisawa Hisao Script: Nakamura Hideo  Photography: Fujise Suehiko This film introduces the arts of the Muromachi Period, including Sesshu and the Kano School styles of painting, Noh and Kyogen, as well as gardens and architecture of the period that ingeniously incorporated the natural world into their design. Over Hill and Dale 1955 / B&W / 16mm / 23 min Production Company: Iwanami Productions Planning: The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. Director: Yanagisawa Hisao Script: Iwasa Ujitoshi Photography: Fujise Suehiko In a manner highly suggestive of fiction film, this piece weaves the passage of the seasons into the story, seen through the eyes of the daughter of a man whose job it is to protect the high-power cables at an electric power plant.   beforenext Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committe