冲绳国际电影节　Saturday March 24, 2012 to Saturday March 31, 2012

Nowadays due to the advanced technologies of cameras and audio recording equipments, everyone can casually work on the filmmaking.
As a result, a lot of documentary films have been created and many of them are excellent.

The newly established category “Documentaries” introduces three documentary films.

The films from wide range of themes including the records of disaster-stricken areas in Great East Japan Earthquake, the film of a mountaineer Nobukazu Kuriki who is aspiring for reaching the summit of Mt.

Everest without using oxygen tanks and so on are in the lineup.
Enjoy the deep world of documentaries that gives you a glimpse into the various aspects of the world.

Screening Films

©2012 Pray for Japan Film LLC

Pray for Japan

Director	Stu Levy
CAST	Tsukasa Kurosawa　Hiroyuki Abe Shuki Ito　Manabu Endo　other
PoetryReading	Kyoka Suzuki

Real heroes faced the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami tragedy.
The battle to rebuild Japan continues and the world must not forget their story.

©YOSHIMOTO KOGYO

Comedians and the Great East Japan Earthquake ～Yoshimoto Aozora Kagetsu～

Director	Hisaya Shiraiwa

Yoshimoto Aozora Kagetsu by entertainment company Yoshimoto Kogyo CO.,LTD.
is a support initiative in the wake of an unprecedented natural disaster, the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Comedians visit the affected area to make people laugh. Comedians’ emotional conflict, interaction with local victims,
and follow-up interviews about the meaning of the activity—this is a documentary of those comedians who kept questioning what comedy can do.

©TV TOKYO Corporation

Beyond The Summit

Director	You Umezaki
CAST	Nobukazu Kuriki
Narration	Noriko Nakagoshi

Climb Mount Everest alone without oxygen tanks and stream the moment live on the Internet! To be the first to accomplish it,
Nobukazu Kuriki challenges the “death zone” where oxygen is much thinner.
Though socially withdrawn in youth, he now found a way to be heard by the world and risk his life for it.
This huge documentary depicts his desire to share the adventure.

©Chikako Shimamori

The meaning of life

Director	Chikako Shimamori
CAST	Yasutomo Shimamori,People of Daimaru People of De-mer, People of Marutake

On March 11, 2011, I felt the earth shake harder then I had never experienced before.
After the earthquake, I felt that I was alive, however, I found my father’s company’s building wiped away by the tsunami.
While I could not accept the reality, my father faced reality. He taught me to appreciate life.