Peng Xiaolian at YIDFF 1991. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Wu Wenguang at an Ainu event at the YIDFF 1993’s First Nations Film Festival. Credit: Markus Nornes
Wu Wenguang at a YIDFF 1993 party. R to L: Akiyama Tamako, Wu, Wong Ainling, Chao Hsiunping. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Akiyama Tamako and Wu Wenguang at the 1993 YIDFF. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Wu Wenguang greeting a group of filmmakers at 1993 YIDFF. To the left are interpreter Akiyama Tamako and Duan Jinchuan; on the right edge is Japanese documentary filmmaker Sato Makoto. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Arriving at Yamagata train station at the 1993 YIDFF: Akiyama Tamako, Korean director Byong Young-ju, Wu Wenguang and Chiao Hsiungping. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Wu Wenguang at a press conference at the 1993 YIDFF, with interpretation by Akiyama Tamako. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Wu Wenguang at a press conference at the 1993 YIDFF, with Japanese director Sato Makoto. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Award winners at the closing ceremony of the 1993 YIDFF. L to R: Bob Connelly, Robin Anderson, Frederick Wiseman, Sato Makoto, Ulrich Seidl, Alexander Sokurov Wu Wenguang and Anand Patwardhan. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Wu Wenguang accepting the Ogawa Shinsuke award at the 1993 YIDFF. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Closing ceremony at the 1993 YIDFF. L to R: Wu Wenguang, Akiyama Tamako, Joan Landers, and Puhipau. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
For a Japanese television documentary, Asian filmmakers were taken to Furuyashiki Village, where Ogawa Productions shot one of their last films. L to R: Wu Wenguang, Anand Patwardhan, Akiyama Tamako, Sato Makoto, Duan Jinchuan. This is a video framegrab.
For a Japanese television documentary, Asian filmmakers were taken to Magino Village, where Ogawa Productions lived for over a decade and shot one of their last films. This is in the living room of the Ogawa Pro house. L to R: Anand Patwardhan, Sato Makoto, Duan Jinchuan, Ogawa’s wife Shiraishi Yoko, Akiyama Tamako, with Wu Wenguang with his back to the camera. This is a video framegrab.
Filmmakers arrive for the4 1995 YIDFF. L to R: Fujioka Asako, Wu Wenguang, Zhang Yuan, and Akiyama Tamako. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Interview at the 1995 YIDFF, with Akiyama Tamako and Zhang Yuan. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Waiting for a screening to begin at the 1995 YIDFF. L to R: Wu Wenguang, Akiyama Tamako, Jiang Yue? [If you don’t know this guy, you should ask Tamako-san. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Post film Q and A at the 1995 YIDFF, with Wu Wenguang, Akiyama Tamako, and Maya Todeschini. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Chatting at the 1995 YIDFF, with Ogawa Pro’s Shiraishi Yoko, Akiyama Tamako and Wu Wenguang. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Chatting at the 1995 YIDFF, with Zhang Yuan, Akiyama Tamako, and Barbara Hammer. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Late night party at Asia House, where many Asian filmmakers stayed. L to R: Asia Program co-coordinator Fujioka Asako, director Sato Makoto, Asia Program co-coordinator Aaron Gerow, Ogawa Pro producer Fuseya Hiro, Fukuoka Asia Film Festival director Maeda Shu, and Wu Wenguang. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
1995 YIDFF, with Akiyama Tamako, Ogawa Pro’s Shiraishi Yoko, and Wu Wenguang. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Post-screenings drinking at the 1997 YIDFF’s Komian Club, with Feng Yan, Taiwanese director Wu Yii-feng, and Ogawa Pro producer Fuseya Hiro. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Discussion at thee 1999 YIDFF. L to R: Catherine Cadou, Marcelene Loridan, unknown director, Japanese director Tsuchimoto Noriaki and Wu Wenguang. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Post-screenings drinking at the 1999 YIDFF’s Komian Club, with Wu Wenguang (L), Li Ying and Akiyama Tamako (middle) and Markus Nornes (R). Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Welcome party at Reischauer House for a Harvard University symposium on Chinese documentary. L to R: J. P. Sniadecki, Zhu Rikun, Xu Xin, Markus Nornes, Wang Wo, Ying Qian, and Jie Li. Credit: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Kawaguchi Hajime teaching how to hand-develop film at Fujioka Asako’s Nitchu Eiga Dojo in Furuyashiki Village. L to R: Cong Feng, Omori Hiroki, Akiyama Tamako, Kawabe Ryota and Kawaguchi Hajime. Credit: Markus Nornes
Legendary cinematographer Otsu Koshiro lectures at Niche Eiga Dogo in Furuyashiki Village. On the left are Ji Dan and Akiyama Tamako. Credit: Markus Nornes
First day of Fujioka Asako’s Nitchu Eiga Dojo, Cong Feng meets Ogawa Pro AD Iizuka Toshio and farmer poet Kimura Michio, who lent his silk worm barn in Magino Village to Ogawa Pro to use as their home base. Credit: Markus Nornes
Chinese filmmakers drying their newly developed films at Fujioka Asako’s Nitchu Eiga Dojo. L to R: Mao Chenyu, Cong Feng, Huang Weikai and Ji Dan. Credit: Markus Nornes
Group picture of the artists, staff and teachers of Fujioka Asako’s (center) Nitchu Eiga Dojo in Furuyashiki, immediately after the 2009 YIDFF. Credit: Markus Nornes
Wu Wenguang appearing at the Tokyo Cinema Juku held in 2014 by Hara Kazuo, interpretation by Akiyama Tamako. Credit: Markus Nornes
The language barrier on display at Wu Wenguang’s birthday dinner following the 2014 Cinema Juku event. L to R: Fujioka Asako, Akiyama Tamako and Wu Wenguang. Credit: Markus Nornes
Wong Hongwei event at Meiji Gakuin University in 2015. L to R: Nakayama Hiroki, Wong Hongwei, and Akiyama Tamako. Credit: Markus Nornes
Wong Hongwei event at Meiji Gakuin University in 2015. L to R: Nakayama Hiroki, Wong Hongwei, Akiyama Tamako, Nakajima Seio, and Markus Nornes. Credit: Markus Nornes
Hu Jie and his wife attend a private study group led by Nakajima Seio and Akiyama Tamako at Rikkyo University (other attendees included Fujioka Asako and Ma Ran). L to R: Hu’s wife, Hu Jie, Akiyama Tamako. Credit: Markus Nornes
Zhang Menqi takes an usher’s flashlight and turns her Q and A at the 2017 YIDFF into a performance. Credit: Markus Nornes
Zhang Menqi finishing her Q and A at the 2017 YIDFF, with Akiyama Takamako. Credit: Markus Nornes
Akiyama Tamako leading a discussion on the state of independent documentary in China at the 2017 YIIDFF. L to R: Akiyama Tamako, Wang Wo, Xu Xin, and Mina (with Su Qing off to the right). Credit: Markus Nornes
Zhang Menqi conducts an extended Q and A at the 2019 YIDFF, with Akiyama Tamako. Credit: Markus Nornes
Wang Bing did not attend the 2019 YIDFF, so he accepted the Flaherty Prize for Lost Souls by FaceTime. Credit: Markus Nornes
