Jakucho Setouchi

Mishima: The Last Debate

Restored footage of a famous debate between Yukio Mishima and students at Tokyo University in 1969, just one year before the author's death.

The Choice Is Ours: What Is the Future of the Japanese Constitution?

An examination of the Constitution of Japan and the possibility of its revision.

A Dedicated Life

A profile of the controversial novelist Mitsuharu Inoue, filmed during the last years of his life.

A Ilha de Moraes

This film, made as a "twin" of A ilha dos amores, was planned as a poetic documentary on the enigmatic life of Wenceslau de Moraes (1855-1929), the great Portuguese writer who lived in the Far East. Verbal testimony, photographs, manuscripts, images of Lisbon, Macao, Kobe and Tokushima in Moraes' time are set side by side with A ilha dos amores and with de Moraes' writings. The director, Paulo Rocha, visited places where Moraes was still remembered, interviewed the writers descendants, consulted archives, rummaged through memories, appointment books, postcards, diaries and calendars from the private life of the 19th century. And above all he set out on a new journey, from Lisbon to Macao to Kobe until he reached Tokushima, where Moraes lived through the final ruin of his life and where Rocha tracks down, between the city and the cemetery, the living presence of places and the memories of individuals.