Shinkichi Noda Movies
- 1987
Sarushima Island with a Fort: Ruins and Graffiti
Sarushima Island with a Fort: Ruins and Graffiti01987HD
Sarushima Island lies off the coast of Yokosuka Port. In the late Edo Period the island was outfitted with artillery and in the Meiji period a fort...
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- 1957
Festivals in Tohoku Part 3
Festivals in Tohoku Part 301957HD
Third film in the festival trilogy
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- 1970
Festivals in Tohoku Part 2
Festivals in Tohoku Part 201970HD
Second film in the festival trilogy
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- 1984
Mizutani Isao’s Wanderings through Ten Spiritual Worlds
Mizutani Isao’s Wanderings through Ten Spiritual Worlds01984HD
This film documents painter Mizutani Isao’s creative process as he prepares for his solo exhibition “Between Ten Spiritual Worlds:Flies...
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- 1954
The Matsukawa Incident: Seeing the Truth Through the Wall
The Matsukawa Incident: Seeing the Truth Through the Wall01954HD
A passenger train derailment occurred on August 17, 1949. In the aftermath, it was suspected that Communist sympathizers were responsible and...
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- 1970
The Feast of the Gods on a Winter’s Night: Toyama’s Shimotsuki Festival
The Feast of the Gods on a Winter’s Night: Toyama’s Shimotsuki Festival01970HD
The shimotsuki festival has been passed down over the centuries in the community of Shimoguri, located in Kamimura in Nagano Prefecture’s...
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- 1971
Yoshihama’s Kashima Dance, Ashigara’s Sasara Dance
Yoshihama’s Kashima Dance, Ashigara’s Sasara Dance01971HD
The Kashima Dance is performed in the area of Kanagawa Prefecture extending from Odawara City along the western shore of Sagami Bay. This film...
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- 1959
The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Villages of the Northeast
The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Villages of the Northeast01959HD
The farming villages that exist throughout Tohoku are known for their rice production but struggle with cold-weather crop damage. Many who rely on...
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- 1960
June 1960: Rage Against the Security Treaty
June 1960: Rage Against the Security Treaty01960HD
This film documents the surging mass movement against ratification of the new U.S.-Japan Security Treaty in June of 1960. The National Diet...
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- 1972
Miura Kikuna’s Ameya Dance
Miura Kikuna’s Ameya Dance01972HD
Located on Kanagawa Prefecture’s Miura Peninsula, Kikuna bustles with beachgoers in the summer. In October, the Miura Shirayama Shrine holds...
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- 1991
Good Road for the Living and the Dead: Niino Bon Odori, Festival to Send Off the Gods
Good Road for the Living and the Dead: Niino Bon Odori, Festival to Send Off the Gods101991HD
On the nights of the 14th, 15th, and 16th of August, the obon festival takes over the streets of the Niino community of Nagano Prefecture. At its...
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- 1953
The Workers of Keihin 1953
The Workers of Keihin 195301953HD
The Yokohama and Kawasaki factory district, industrial heart of Japan. In 1953, a Kanagawa Prefecture May Day (International Workers’ Day)...
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- 1951
Work in Retail
Work in Retail01951HD
Documentary by Noda Shinkichi
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- 1976
Collapsed Swamp, or Painter Yamashita Kikuji
Collapsed Swamp, or Painter Yamashita Kikuji01976HD
A documentary about the iconoclastic painter Yamashita Kikuji that depicts the 1969 Tomurai-ten (Funeral Exhibition) of then-recent work by Yamashita...
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- 1941
農村住宅改善 Renovating Farm Houses
農村住宅改善 Renovating Farm Houses01941HD
Film directed by Noda Shinkichi
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- 1988
The Procession of Weird and Wonderful Masks
The Procession of Weird and Wonderful Masks01988HD
Noda’s team shot this film for Kanagawa News Film Association in 1972 as a document of annual rites practiced at Goryo Shrine in Kamakura. The...
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- 1954
Technique of Foundry: The Cupola Operation
Technique of Foundry: The Cupola Operation01954HD
Film by Noda Shinkichi
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- 1980
Snow as Flowers: Niino’s Snow Festival
Snow as Flowers: Niino’s Snow Festival01980HD
This film documents a snow festival with a history dating to the 13th century held at Izu Shrine in the Niino community of Anan-cho, a small town...
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- 1953
生れかわる客車
生れかわる客車01953HD
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- 1954
The Unforgivable Atom Bomb: The Singing Voice of 1954 Japan
The Unforgivable Atom Bomb: The Singing Voice of 1954 Japan01954HD
This film documents a large-scale event organized by the Utagoe (Singing Voice) working class choral and musical movement that took place over the...
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