Movies: Nobuko Shibuya

This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive events. Highlights include an epic pole-vaulting match between West Germany and America, and the fin...

Kanami (Satomi Kobayashi) is a TV director. Her pet Natsu recently died due to a disease. Kanami begins to shoot a film about dogs after her movie director friend suggests the idea. For her movie, she visits an animal shelter and a shelter for dogs r...

Nobuko Shibuya's Japanese volleyball documentary...

A movie documenting the daily life of director Yuka Sakaguchi after her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer's and dementia....

Biography of Kaneko Yanagi, alto singer, 1892-1984...

A documentary on children's song composer Megumi Ohnaka...

Biography of Yuri Saito, who was blinded after contracting measles at the age of three and became a social activist for the blind...