Boston Japan Film Festival 2025
Date: Sunday, November 30th
Location: MIT Stata Center Room 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
6 minutes walk from Kendall/MIT Station, MBTA Red line
Admission: Free
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Quoth The Raven, “Nevermore”
Dir. Ari Beser, Regis Hirwa | 2024 | 6:58 | Documentary
Ari Beser, the Grandson of Jacob Beser, the only man to fly aboard both planes that dropped the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflects on the justification of his grandfather's mission as he begins to write his latest piece for the Japanese Asahi Shimbun (A NY Times affiliate).
What does he really think about the mission many say ended the war? Produced and Edited by Ari Beser and Regis Hirwa, Filmed by Regis Hirwa and Cedrick Ishimwe with US Archives provided footage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What does he really think about the mission many say ended the war? Produced and Edited by Ari Beser and Regis Hirwa, Filmed by Regis Hirwa and Cedrick Ishimwe with US Archives provided footage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
誰か記者はいないのか？烏賀陽がいる
Dir. Hiroyuki Akiyama | 2024 | 36:00 | Documentary | Japan
The protagonist is freelance journalist Hiromichi Ugaya, who has been covering the Fukushima nuclear accident continuously since immediately after it occurred. His theory is that "a nuclear accident is a nuclear crisis second only to nuclear war."
This film follows Ugaya's activities in the disaster-stricken areas, depicting a state where recovery is still far from being achieved, even more than 10 years after the accident.
Ugaya also visits experts to verify the bold hypothesis that "the meltdown could have been prevented."
It depicts the tenacity of one reporter.
Japan Lies - The Photojournalism of Kikujiro Fukushima, Age 90 -
Dir. Saburo Hasegawa | 2012 | 114:00 | Documentary | Japan
Kikujiro Fukushima, the photojournalist revered as a "legend" in the world of journalism.
From postwar Hiroshima, the Sanrizuka Struggle, the Anpo protests, the University of Tokyo Yasuda Auditorium incident, Minamata, the Women’s Liberation Movement, to Iwaishima — he turned his lens on a Japan in turmoil after the war.
Through over 250,000 overwhelming images of truth, we come to see the Japan hidden behind the lies of power — a nation of "lies built upon lies."
With a calm and unwavering gaze, he continued to question this country. And as he began to pass those questions down to us, the Japanese people of today, as a kind of “final testament,” the Great East Japan Earthquake struck.
In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Kikujiro set out once more — in search of the truth, toward what would be his final scene.
Dir. Saburo Hasegawa | 2012 | 114:00 | Documentary | Japan
Kikujiro Fukushima, the photojournalist revered as a "legend" in the world of journalism.
From postwar Hiroshima, the Sanrizuka Struggle, the Anpo protests, the University of Tokyo Yasuda Auditorium incident, Minamata, the Women’s Liberation Movement, to Iwaishima — he turned his lens on a Japan in turmoil after the war.
Through over 250,000 overwhelming images of truth, we come to see the Japan hidden behind the lies of power — a nation of "lies built upon lies."
With a calm and unwavering gaze, he continued to question this country. And as he began to pass those questions down to us, the Japanese people of today, as a kind of “final testament,” the Great East Japan Earthquake struck.
In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Kikujiro set out once more — in search of the truth, toward what would be his final scene.
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