Shinkichi Noda Movies

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual...

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion...

A documentary depicting the the impoverished fishing village in Honshu's northernmost region as they struggle in the face of modernization.

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...

A folk festival with a three-hundred-year history held at Suwa Shrine in Toya in Sagamihara City’s Midori Ward, Kanagawa Prefecture. Within...

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...

Located on Kanagawa Prefecture’s Miura Peninsula, Kikuna bustles with beachgoers in the summer. In October, the Miura Shirayama Shrine holds...

A documentary focusing on the things and animals necessary for the Olympics in Tokyo in 1964.

Documentary by Noda Shinkichi

This film documents the surging mass movement against ratification of the new U.S.-Japan Security Treaty in June of 1960. The National Diet...

This film takes us into the microscopic world of the plankton that mass in the oceans. Their bodies ultimately turn to marine snow and accumulate...

Third film in the festival trilogy

A passenger train derailment occurred on August 17, 1949. In the aftermath, it was suspected that Communist sympathizers were responsible and...

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...

The film consists of fragmentary images, of water flowing in stone-paved gutters, narrow alleys and the rooftops of buildings, afternoon and night ...

The shimotsuki festival has been passed down over the centuries in the community of Shimoguri, located in Kamimura in Nagano Prefecture’s...

This film documents a large-scale event organized by the Utagoe (Singing Voice) working class choral and musical movement that took place over the...

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...

First film in the festival trilogy

Depiction of the harsh life in a rural town in Yamagata.