NDU
Directing
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).
Known for
Behind the camera8
- 2005Headhunter's Song: The Cry of the Aboriginal People of Taiwan Director
- 1981Public Order Project: Martial Law at Noon Director
- 1974Notes on the Pacific War Director
- 1973Asia is One Director
- 1971Motoshinkakarannu Director
- 1971To the Japs: South Korean A-Bomb Survivors Speak Out Director
- 1969Tokyo ’69 – one day blue crayons... Director
- 1969Onikko—A Record of the Struggle of Youth Laborers Director