Film Showing

Canta! Timor at the Tokai University with students discussion with the Director Natusko Hirota.

"Canta! Timor" was filmed in East Timor, just after its independence. The story begins with a piece of music, and through a journey of a Japanese woman, it tells how the Timorese kept their music and forgave their enemies in order to obtain independence, in a cruel situation during 24 years of the military attack. Simple but beautiful songs are impressive, that leads the entire story. Including valuable interviews of the local people, guerrillas, and the first president Xanana Gusmao.

They say that the people of Nepal, who live in the Himalayas, know the “Secret of the Universe”. This is a documentary film of my journey through Nepal in 2016. The purpose of my trip was to meet Geeta, who had been my guide when I first visited the country back in 2005, and to reclaim the special feeling that I experi-enced then. I had been profoundly moved by the way of life of the Nepalese people and dreamed about re-visiting this special place. How can they accept me so warmly: a foreign woman, upon our first meeting?   -Director of the film, Katsuko Yamamoto-