Ishiro Honda: Memoirs of a Film Director

An in-depth documentary exploring the life and cinema of Ishiro Honda, one of Japan's most prolific directors. The film traces Honda's filmography from both historical and personal angles, highlighting his contributions to the Japanese film industry and his firsthand wartime experiences, from which he barely escaped death. It also probes his deeply felt response to the atomic bomb—a topic that became an obsessive preoccupation and an enduring motif in his work. Through conversations with collaborators and leading scholars of Honda's oeuvre from Japan and the Western world, the documentary analyzes his body of work. Additionally, it reveals Honda's friendship and professional association with director Akira Kurosawa.