Kaoru Ikeya
Kaoru Ikeya (born 14 October 1958) is a Japanese documentary film director. He directed the documentary The Ants (2006). His work addresses the topics of war and Japanese military history.
Kaoru Ikeya
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- Born
- 1958 · Tokyo.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- film director
- Education
- Doshisha University
- Languages
- Japanese
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Kaoru Ikeya (born 14 October 1958) is a Japanese documentary film director. He directed the documentary The Ants (2006). His work addresses the topics of war and Japanese military history.
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His film Runta (2015) deals with the political situation in Tibet. While Senzo Ni Naru (2013), about the aftermath of March, 11 2011 earthquake, was screened at the Berlin Festival.
"Director Ikeya Kaoru covers (the) controversial territory (of Japan's military past) from a deeply human perspective, that of 80-year-old veteran Mr. Okumura, who once fought beside fellow Imperial soldiers in China, and who is now confronting the spectre of his war crimes. In a passionate campaign, Okumura joins with fellow veterans to expose the secret military orders that kept his company in China years after Japan had ostensibly surrendered. His macabre journey takes him from Japan’s Yasukuni shrine, where he pities youth celebrating the monument "in ignorance", back to China, where he tries to come to terms, face-to-face, with victims of the atrocities. Ants is a sweeping documentary that vividly and articulately relates the present to the past, and the personal to the political. Kaoru's direction and Okumura's project become fused in meaning, and together they weave a crucial historical filament that is binding and also damning." Brett Hendrie.
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- 1.長島一由. フィルムコミッションガイド: 映画・映像によるまちづくり. WAVE出版. 2007. 978-4-87290-319-5.
- 2.蟻の兵隊 : 作品情報. 映画.com.
- 3.戦争とは……映画通じ考える 「蟻の兵隊」「野火」上映：朝日新聞デジタル. 朝日新聞デジタル. 2022-08-14.
- 4.薫, 池谷. On "The Ants Soldier" by Ikeya Kaoru. 埼玉大学紀要. 教養学部. 55. 1. 157–178. 2019. 10.24561/00018740.
- 5.池谷薫さんの記録映画を手作りスクリーンに 知多市で野外上映会：中日新聞Web. 中日新聞Web.
- 6.「ルンタ」池谷薫監督、「チベット人の非暴力の姿勢に現代を生き抜くヒント」 : 映画ニュース. 映画.com.
- 7.チベットを舞台にした池谷薫監督によるドキュメンタリー『ルンタ』｜MOVIE. Web Magazine OPENERS(ウェブマガジン オウプナーズ).
- 8.監督｜池谷薫監督最新作『先祖になる』 オフィシャルサイト. senzoninaru.com.
- 9.Film documents human tenacity after Japan disaster. Gulf Times. 2013-02-14.
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