Sayaka Hanamura

JAPAN, Our Homeland (2007)

The 31st year of the Showa Era (1956) marked the tenth year since Japan's defeat in World War II. It was when Japan took its first step out of post-war poverty to rejoin the international community. In old downtown Tokyo, a teacher and her students try to pass down ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Akio Nishizawa
CAST:  Subaru Kimura  •  Naoya Sekine  •  Eri Osonoe  •  Maika Kawaguchi

The 31st year of the Showa Era (1956) marked the tenth year since Japan's defeat in World War II. It was when Japan took its first step out of post-war poverty to rejoin the international community. In old downtown Tokyo, a teacher and her students try to pass down ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Akio Nishizawa
CAST:  Subaru Kimura  •  Naoya Sekine  •  Eri Osonoe  •  Maika Kawaguchi

Chieri and Cherry (2015)

Chieri is a sixth grade girl whose only friend is a stuffed toy named Cherry, which she found while hiding in the cellar during her father's funeral. Chieri and Cherry undertake a journey on the border between fantasy and reality.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Makoto Nakamura
CAST:  Natsumi Takamori  •  Gen Hoshino  •  Machiko Ono  •  Kanichi Kurita

Chieri is a sixth grade girl whose only friend is a stuffed toy named Cherry, which she found while hiding in the cellar during her father's funeral. Chieri and Cherry undertake a journey on the border between fantasy and reality.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Makoto Nakamura
CAST:  Natsumi Takamori  •  Gen Hoshino  •  Machiko Ono  •  Kanichi Kurita