Person
NDU
Directing
Biography
Formed in 1968 at Waseda University, the Nihon Documentarist Union (NDU) was once one of the most influential collectives of Japanese nonfiction filmmaking. Emerging from the student movements of the late 1960s, the politically active NDU produced guerilla-style 16mm documentaries shot with asynchronous sound, and wrote extensively in leftist film journals, magazines and other publications. The group posited an activist cinema of anonymity—rejecting auteurism and opting to exclude individual names from their credits (Japan Society).
Known for

Headhunter's Song: The Cry of the Aboriginal People of Taiwan
Director

Asia is One
Director
To the Japs: South Korean A-Bomb Survivors Speak Out
Director
Tokyo ’69 – one day blue crayons...
Director
Onikko—A Record of the Struggle of Youth Laborers
Director

Motoshinkakarannu
Director
Notes on the Pacific War
Director
Public Order Project: Martial Law at Noon
Director
Filmography
- 2005Headhunter's Song: The Cry of the Aboriginal People of TaiwanDirector
- 1981Public Order Project: Martial Law at NoonDirector
- 1974Notes on the Pacific WarDirector
- 1973Asia is OneDirector
- 1971MotoshinkakarannuDirector
- 1971To the Japs: South Korean A-Bomb Survivors Speak OutDirector
- 1969Tokyo ’69 – one day blue crayons...Director
- 1969Onikko—A Record of the Struggle of Youth LaborersDirector
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