Kazuhiro Soda (想田 和弘 Sōda, born 1970 in Tochigi Prefecture) is a Peabody Award winning filmmaker. He practices an observational method of documentary filmmaking based on his own "Ten Commandments" which prohibits him from doing pre-shoot research or writing a synopsis before filming. He imposes these rules on himself in order to minimize preconceptions and to be able to make unexpected discoveries while filming and editing.
Total trailers found: 17
22 June 2013
In response to the Fukushima disaster, Yama-san is running an election campaign with an anti-nuclear message.
21 November 2012
Oriza Hirata is Japan's leading playwright and director, who runs his own theatrical company, Seinendan.
18 January 2014
After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town.
11 September 2011
In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.
01 January 1995
A woman cares for a red rose in her studio apartment. Over time, we see how it grows alongside her rapidly changing life.
17 February 2018
Wai-chan is one of the last remaining fishermen in Ushimado, a small village in Seto Inland Sea, Japan.
05 January 2010
What is peace? What is coexistence? And what are the basis for them? PEACE is a visual-essay-like observational documentary, which contemplates these questions by observing the daily lives of people and cats in Okayama city, Japan, where life and death, acceptance and rejection are intermingled.
06 October 2007
Can a candidate with no political experience and no charisma win an election if he is backed by the political giant Prime Minister Koizumi and his Liberal Democratic Party? This cinema-verite documentary closely follows a heated election campaign in Kawasaki, Japan, revealing the true nature of "democracy.
19 October 2024
An ample community of cats has set up home around the Shinto shrine in Ushimado. Some local residents take care of them, others are disturbed by their mess.
06 August 2015
In the Japanese town of Ushimado, the shortage of labor is a serious problem due to its population’s rapid decline.
01 January 1995
Late at night, a Japanese businessman enters a pizza shop and observes strange but typical New Yorkers, eating their pizza in their own queer ways.
16 February 2018
Ann Arbor, Michigan is the prototypical college town—a small city with a massive research university, a tradition of political radicalism and Michigan Stadium, the largest in the United States and the home of University of Michigan football.
31 December 1997
James is a photographer and who takes pictures on the streets of New York City. One day, he encounters a blind man standing on a lonely street.
04 January 2023
Follows the retirement of the head physician at a mental health facility in Japan
31 December 1996
Jon and Jelena, a young couple, have recently begun co-habiting in a small apartment, deep in the heart of East Village.
13 June 2008
MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers, in cinema- verite style.
21 November 2012
Theatre 1 (Observational Film Series #3) is a feature length documentary, which closely depicts the world of Oriza Hirata, Japan's leading playwright and director, and his theatrical company, Seinendan.
