A filmmaker corners shrine visitors about Japan's most radioactive dinner-table topic. Chaos ensues.
Third film of W-TV (Without Television) shareware series. Director Tsuchiya asks visitors at Yasukuni Shrine about Emperor Hirohito's complicity in the Second World War.
Direction
Tsuchiya's ambush tactics turn tourists into accidental actors.
Editing
Ruthless cuts expose the gap between patriotic performance and actual thought.
Director
Yutaka Tsuchiya
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yasukuni remains ground zero for Japan's unresolved war memory; visiting it as a foreigner still draws stares.
Tsuchiya distributed this through 'shareware'—pay what you want—because no distributor would touch it. The year was 1997 and independent documentary was basically samizdat.
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