“What is Ainu Indigenous Rights? Rapolo Ainu Nation's Challenge (Tentative)
camera & edit Tomoaki Fujino & Yumiko Asano Produced by Yumiko Asano Directed by Tomoaki Fujino
The Urahoro Ainu Association, which has recovered ancestral remains from Hokkaido University, Sapporo Medical University, and the University of Tokyo in a court of law, turns its attention to the government's prohibited right to catch salmon.
They deepened their understanding through interaction with the Native Americans, known as the "Salmon People," and sued the Japanese government for confirmation of their native rights.
A challenge has begun to governments that continue to refuse to recognize the rights of indigenous peoples. Filming now.
“What should we have done?"
2023 / 102 minutes
camera & edit Tomoaki Fujino & Yumiko Asano Produced by Yumiko Asano Directed by Tomoaki Fujino
Around 1983, my elder sister began showing symptoms of schizophrenia.But neither she nor her parents admit this, so she did not see a psychiatrist. Her younger brother, who is 8 years younger than her, has doubts about his parents' judgment, but he can't resolve this and leaves home to find a job.After graduating, his older sister became a recluse, and her parents set up a research lab in their home. From 2001, the younger brother started video recording his family when he returned home and continued conversations with his older sister and parents.The parents then locked the front door with a chain and padlock, locking their daughter inside. A record of a chaotic family spanning 20 years.
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Perspectives Japan
Feature Documentary "Ainu Style Burial, 2019, Toepets-kotan"
2021 / 64 minutes
camera & edit Tomoaki Fujino & Yumiko Asano Produced by Yumiko Asano Directed by Tomoaki Fujino
Tsugio Kuzuno returned his compatriot Tanayo to the heavens in a traditional Ainu burial in kotan soil.
Tokyo Documentary Film Festival 2021 Department of Folklore and Anthropology
Semi-Grand Prix
Feature Documentary "Kamuycep Salmon Fishing and Indigenous Rights"
2020 / 93 minutes
camera and edit Tomoaki Fujino & Yumiko Asano Produced by Yumiko Asano Directed by Tomoaki Fujino
Satoshi Hatakeyama, the head of the Monbetsu Ainu Association, has taken action, arguing that Ainu people has the rights to catch salmon in the Mobetsu River without permission from the governor on the grounds of his indigenous rights.
Tokyo Documentary Film Festival 2020 Selected in Ethnographic Film category
Feature documentary "Get Back"
2019 / 100 minutes
camera Tomoaki Fujino & Yumiko Asano & Hirokazu Oi and others Produced by Yumiko Asano Directed by Tomoaki Fujino
The Ainu people of Urakawa, Monbetsu and Urahoro who had their ancestors' remains taken away from the cemetery by a researcher filed a lawsuit. Why did researchers dig up Ainu cemeteries?
Tokyo Documentary Film Festival 2019 Selected Feature Competition
Short Documentary "Return after 85 Years: Ainu Remains to Kinusu Kotan"
2017/25 minutes
Produced by Kotan no Kai/Hokkaido University Disclosure Document Study Group Filmed by Tomoaki Fujino Yumiko Asano Hirokazu Oi Director/Tomoaki Fujino2017年/25分
The trajectory of ancestral remains removed from the cemetery by researchers until descendants of the Ainu people retrieve them and bury them in their homelands.
Sapporo International Short Film Festival 2018 Hokkaido Selection
MV『JENAGURU LIVE IN JAPAN @ SAPPORO』
2015 / 58 minutes
copyright Jenagule Art Center camera Tomoaki Fujino & Yumiko Asano & Takahiro Biwamoto & Shiro Ishida Directed byTomoaki Fujino
Tomoko Takahashi, who immigrated to Zimbabwe 34 years before, creates opportunities for children to learn traditional music, and makes an annual concert tour in Japan. Let's enjoy Jenaguru's hot dance that makes you feel the possibilities of Africa!
MV『JENAGURU HOSO』
2014 / 7 minutes
copyright Jenagule Art Center camera Tomoaki Fujino & Yumiko Asano & Takahiro Himoto Directed Tomoaki Fujino
Coffee shop in the afternoon. Bored customer. Then came the Jenaguru… Jenaguru is a Zimbabwean song and dance team. Hoso is a dance that expresses the movement of a horse.