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...

Nippon Rayon has produced clothing of assorted colors, designs, and materials. Their nylon products are not limited to fashion but extend to all...

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

A documentary about the iconoclastic painter Yamashita Kikuji that depicts the 1969 Tomurai-ten (Funeral Exhibition) of then-recent work by Yamashita...

This film presents a contemporary Tokaido completely transformed from the scenery famously portrayed by Utagawa Hiroshige in the Edo Period: a...

Documentary directed by Noda Shinkichi

In Yamakita, a town in the Ashigarakami District of Kanagawa Prefecture, there is a nenbutsu chanting practice associated with the Noanji Soto Zen...

Documentary by Noda Shinkichi

The farming villages that exist throughout Tohoku are known for their rice production but struggle with cold-weather crop damage. Many who rely on...

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...

Second film in the festival trilogy

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

Documentary by Noda Shinkichi

The Yokohama and Kawasaki factory district, industrial heart of Japan. In 1953, a Kanagawa Prefecture May Day (International Workers’ Day)...

For four hundred years, the Honmoku Shrine in Yokohama’s Naka Ward has hosted the Oumanagashi Horse Running Festival to ward off evil. The...

This film documents the Sagicho Fire Festival, which takes place in the eight communities constituting Oiso, a town located in the warm climate...

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...

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