NDU
Known For: Directing
Biography
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
2005
1981
- Public Order Project: Martial Law at Noon ... (Director)
1974
- Notes on the Pacific War ... (Director)
1973
- Asia is One ... (Director)
1971
- To the Japs: South Korean A-Bomb Survivors Speak Out ... (Director)
- Motoshinkakarannu ... (Director)
1969
- Onikko—A Record of the Struggle of Youth Laborers ... (Director)
- Tokyo ’69 – one day blue crayons... ... (Director)