Advance booking discount: 1000 yen per work

1200 yen per work Same-day

800 yen per work for those under 18 and those with a handicap

3-ticket 2700 yen

10/11 (Sat), 12 (Sun) 19:00 @Coconeri 3F Nerima Ward Civic and Industrial Plaza Seminar Room 1
“Katsu-chan - Okinawa after the war” 2024
Guest: Kageyama Asako (Director)
A documentary depicting the post-war history of the common people of Okinawa through the life of “Katsu-chan,” an active fisherman born in 1944.

10/13 (Monday holiday) 18:00 @Nerima Ward Office Basement Multipurpose Meeting Room
10/25 (Sat) 19:00 @Coconeri 3F Nerima Ward Civic and Industrial Plaza Seminar Room 1
“SANSHIN ~SANSHIN~” 2021
Guest: Honma Akiko (Director)
A 2-year record showing the valuable skills of Sanshin (Three-string guitar) craftsmen, their thoughts as creators, and various scenes where the sound of Sanshin lives on.

10/26 (Sun) 19:00 @Coconeri 3F Nerima Ward Civic and Industrial Plaza Seminar Room 1 “The World of NDU”
“Asia Is One” 1972
Guest: Nakamura Yoko (Visiting Researcher, Osaka Public University)
“NDU (Japan Documentalists Union)” is a film group looking at violence caused by modern Japanese colonialism. A documentary documenting people in East Asia, such as coal miners on Iriomote Island, Koreans who lived during the Japanese colonial period, and Taiwanese who were left without being able to return home after the war.

10/31 (Friday) 18:30 @Coconeri3F Nerima Ward Civic and Industrial Plaza Seminar Room 1
“Far Away” 2022
Guest: Masaaki Kudo (Director)
A drama depicting a girl who lived in Koza and became a mother at age 17, struggling to resist a chain of poverty and violence.

11/2 (Sun) @Nerima Ward Office Basement Multipurpose Meeting Room “80 Years of the Battle of Okinawa: Looking at Okinawa's History and Present”
10:00/13:00 “Man Digging for Bones” 2024
A documentary that follows the activities of Gushiken Takamatsu called “Gamafuya,” which has been collecting the remains of those who died in the Battle of Okinawa for over 40 years.
16:00 “Himeyuri Battle History Now Questioned, Nation and Education” 1979
A documentary where survivors of the “Himeyuri Gakudai,” who were mobilized on the battlefield as nursing personnel during the Battle of Okinawa, testified for the first time about the harshness of the battlefield and the criminal acts of Japanese soldiers.
17:00 Talk Session Performers: Katsuya Okuma (Film Director)/Akira Moriguchi (Journalist)/Kozo Nagata (Journalist)
*Those who watched any of the films screened on the day can enter the talk session

11/16 (Sun) 18:00 @Nerima Ward Office Basement Multipurpose Meeting Room “Ishikawa Masao Continuing to Photograph Okinawa”
“From Okinawa with Love” 2023
A documentary starkly depicting the half-life of Ishikawa Masao, a photographer who has continued to photograph Okinawan people.
Guest: Hiroshi Sunairi (Director)

11/23 (Sun) 19:00 @Nerima-ku Lifelong Learning Center Hall “NDU World”
“Okinawa Eros Gaiden: Motoshinka Karannu” 1971
“Motoshinkakaranu” means “business that does not require principal” in Okinawan language, that is, prostitutes, yakuza, thieves, etc. A documentary about NDU members who smuggled into Okinawa under US military occupation and recorded such people.
Guest: Toshihiko Onozawa (film producer, director, screenwriter, critic)

11/24 (Monday holiday) 19:00 @Nerima-ku Lifelong Learning Center Hall “Ishikawa Masao Continuing to Photograph Okinawa”
“When the Theater Ends” 2024
Okinawa's oldest wooden movie theater “Shuri Gekijo (Movie Theater),” which was built in 1950, was dismantled in 2022 due to the sudden death of the director. A documentary that follows the days that photographer Ishikawa Masao took photographs of the final scenes.
Guest: MAKIYA Tsutomu (Director)

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