Shinkichi Noda Movies
- 1987
Sarushima Island with a Fort: Ruins and Graffiti
Sarushima Island with a Fort: Ruins and Graffiti01987HD
Sarushima Island lies off the coast of Yokosuka Port. In the late Edo Period the island was outfitted with artillery and in the Meiji period a fort...
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- 1973
The Horse-running Ritual of Honmoku Shrine
The Horse-running Ritual of Honmoku Shrine01973HD
For four hundred years, the Honmoku Shrine in Yokohama’s Naka Ward has hosted the Oumanagashi Horse Running Festival to ward off evil. The...
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- 1955
The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Tone River
The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Tone River01955HD
The Tone River flows from the Mikuni Mountains through the Kanto Plain. The film follows its path from its source to Choshi and into the Pacific...
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- 1966
The Loneliness of Two Long Distance Runners
The Loneliness of Two Long Distance Runners01966HD
During the marathon event at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a surprise incident occurred when a man jumped onto the course from the side of the road and...
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- 1958
The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Tokaido, Yesterday and Today
The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Tokaido, Yesterday and Today01958HD
This film presents a contemporary Tokaido completely transformed from the scenery famously portrayed by Utagawa Hiroshige in the Edo Period: a...
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- 1954
Technique of Foundry: The Cupola Operation
Technique of Foundry: The Cupola Operation01954HD
Film by Noda Shinkichi
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- 1970
Festivals in Tohoku Part 2
Festivals in Tohoku Part 201970HD
Second film in the festival trilogy
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- 1984
Mizutani Isao’s Wanderings through Ten Spiritual Worlds
Mizutani Isao’s Wanderings through Ten Spiritual Worlds01984HD
This film documents painter Mizutani Isao’s creative process as he prepares for his solo exhibition “Between Ten Spiritual Worlds:Flies...
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- 1949
The Girl of the Valley
The Girl of the Valley01949HD
Documentary directed by Noda Shinkichi
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- 1951
Work in Retail
Work in Retail01951HD
Documentary by Noda Shinkichi
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- 1988
The Procession of Weird and Wonderful Masks
The Procession of Weird and Wonderful Masks01988HD
Noda’s team shot this film for Kanagawa News Film Association in 1972 as a document of annual rites practiced at Goryo Shrine in Kamakura. The...
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- 1956
Country Life under Snow
Country Life under Snow01956HD
Depiction of the harsh life in a rural town in Yamagata.
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- 1954
The Matsukawa Incident: Seeing the Truth Through the Wall
The Matsukawa Incident: Seeing the Truth Through the Wall01954HD
A passenger train derailment occurred on August 17, 1949. In the aftermath, it was suspected that Communist sympathizers were responsible and...
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- 1950
The Locomotive Kid
The Locomotive Kid01950HD
Documentary by Noda Shinkichi
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- 1956
Festivals in Tohoku Part 1
Festivals in Tohoku Part 101956HD
First film in the festival trilogy
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- 1958
Forgotten Land
Forgotten Land01958HD
A documentary depicting the the impoverished fishing village in Honshu's northernmost region as they struggle in the face of modernization.
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- 1960
June 1960: Rage Against the Security Treaty
June 1960: Rage Against the Security Treaty01960HD
This film documents the surging mass movement against ratification of the new U.S.-Japan Security Treaty in June of 1960. The National Diet...
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- 1953
The Workers of Keihin 1953
The Workers of Keihin 195301953HD
The Yokohama and Kawasaki factory district, industrial heart of Japan. In 1953, a Kanagawa Prefecture May Day (International Workers’ Day)...
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- 1960
Tying Land and Sea
Tying Land and Sea01960HD
This PR film for Nippon Express features location footage of modernized port facilities from Hokkaido and Honshu to Shikoku and Kyushu and of the...
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- 1954
The Unforgivable Atom Bomb: The Singing Voice of 1954 Japan
The Unforgivable Atom Bomb: The Singing Voice of 1954 Japan01954HD
This film documents a large-scale event organized by the Utagoe (Singing Voice) working class choral and musical movement that took place over the...
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