Ogawa Shinsuke’s Connections with Hong Kong’s Social Movement Documentary Culture –An Interview Series
Interviewer: LI Tiecheng Abstract This is a compilation of interviews between Li Tiecheng and seven Hong Kong independent film workers, […]
Document(ing), Creativity, and the Future of Chinese Independent Cinema: An Interview with Directors Huang Ji and Otsuka Ryuji
Document compiler: YOSHIKAWA Tatsuo Abstract This is an interview transcript of Chinese director Huang Ji and Japanese director Otsuka Ryuji […]
Chinese Independent Documentary’s Hidden History With Japan: An In-Depth Conversation With Producer, Journalist NONAKA Akihiro
Interviewer: Tsuchiya Masaaki Abstract Nonaka Akihiro is the founder of Asia Press International. As Japanese television started to adopt camcorder […]
Inter-Asia Referencing And Minor Transnationalism: The Dissemination Of Chinese Independent Queer Films In Japan
YU Ning Abstract Situated in the context of Queer Asia Studies, this article examines the production of independent queer films […]
The Liberty Coerced By Limitation: On Subtitling Fengming: A Chinese Memoir
AKIYAMA Tamako Translator: MA Ran Abstract This essay steps into the long history of translation theory, which is replete with […]
Encounters (Japan, Documentary, Those People And Those Events)
FENG Yan Abstract In her moving account, Feng Yan has shared with us how her documentary career has intricately intersected […]
Kunming, Yunnan: The Land Where Documentaries Begin To Dawn
TSUCHIMOTO Noriaki Translator: Michael TSANG Abstract In this series of interconnected four essays translated by Michael Tsang, documentary director Tsuchimoto […]
Time Traveling Through Asian Documentary’s Pasts And Futures
Markus NORNES Abstract This essay examines a very special event that took place immediately following the 2009 Yamagata International Documentary […]
The Spark That Lit The Fuse: Chinese Documentary Directors’ Encounter With Frederick Wiseman
AKIYAMA Tamako Abstract While many people note the influence of direct cinema on Chinese independent documentaries, few know that the […]
The Road To Yamagata
WU Wenguang Abstract In this ten-thousand-word piece of autobiographical writing, Wu Wenguang explores the close ties between himself and Japan […]