Director

NDU

Directing

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 0All crew credits: 3

TMDB ID: 2149825

Known for: Directing

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Career span: 1971 - 2005

Years active: 35

Also known as

Nihon Documentarist Union

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Director (3)

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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).

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