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FENCE (FENCE) - 2008 - Japan - Doc
director: Toshi Fujiwara
- Sinopse
- Before World War II, Ikego village was an idyllic agriculture community. The Imperial Navy took over the village and the hills to build the largest ammunition preserve in Asia. When Japan lost, these facilities were taken over by the US Navy, and have now become housings for the American soldiers and their families. Through the personal histories of the original inhabitants of the village, now in their eighties and nineties, the contradictions of the history of modern Japan emerge.
- Créditos
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- director
- Toshi Fujiwara
- screenplay
- Toshi Fujiwara
- cinematographer
- Koshiro Otsu
- edition
- Toshi Fujiwara
- producer
- Takaharu Yasuoka, Toshi Fujiwara
- production company
- Yasuoka Films, ltd., Compass Films
- 167 minutes
- color, digital
- Diretor
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Toshi Fujiwara
Director and editor, Toshi Fujiwara was educated in film studies in Tokyo and Los Angeles. He is also film critic since 1994. In 2001, he directed the documentary Independence: Around the Film Kedma by Amos Gitai (2002), a personal request by Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai, during the making-of of his film Kedma (2002). After making a few documentaries focusing on filmmakers for television, he completed We Can`t Go Home Again (2006), his first fiction feature, screened at Berlin Film Festival 2006. In 2007, Fujiwara completed the doc Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: the Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto, on the Japanese documentary director Noriaki Tsuchimoto.