Filmography of the Ainu explained

This is a filmography of films and videos that portray the life and culture of the Ainu people of what is now northern Japan and the fringe of the Russian Far East. Representations of the Ainu can vary from the strictly documentary to the fictional and, as with representations of Native Americans in Hollywood cinema, may suffer from distortions and stereotypes.^{[1] [2]}

The list is divided between documentaries and fiction films.

Documentaries

• A Record of the Shiraoi Ainu (1925)^[3]
• The Ainu Bear Ceremony (1931)
• Uepotara—A Traditional Exorcism Rite of the Nibutani Ainu (1933)
• Chisenomi (1934)
• (Riken Kagaku, 1941)
• Kotan no hitotachi (1959), NHK documentary^[4]
• Words: The Symbol of a People (1993), directed by Shiro Kayano
• Kyōsei e no michi: Nihon no senjū minzoku Ainu (1993)^[5]
• The Despised Ainu People (October 1994)
• Shin kyōsei e no michi: Nihon no senjū minzoku Ainu (2000)
• TOKYO Ainu (2010)
• Kamui to ikiru (2011), directed by Hideki Komatsu^[6]
• Ainu. Pathways to Memory (2013), directed by Marcos Centeno^[7]

Fiction films

• (Shochiku, 1947), directed by Kenkichi Hara
• (Toho, 1949), directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
• (Daiei Film, 1950), directed by Kazuo Mori
• (Shochiku, 1953–54), directed by Hideo Ōba
• (Toho, 1957), directed by Mikio Naruse
• (Nikkatsu, 1960), directed by Buichi Saitō
• (Daiei Film, 1961), directed by Kunio Watanabe
• (1993), directed by Haruki Kadokawa
• (2004), directed by Isao Yukisada^[8]
• Ainu Mosir (2020)

Notes and References

1. Ōishi. Kazuhisa. 'Indian' to shite no Ainu. Hokkai Gakuen Daigaku Jinbun Ronshū. July 2011. 49. 172–185.
2. Web site: Chupuchisekoru. Ainu bunka to media. The Foundation for Research and Promotion of Ainu Culture. 3 June 2012.
3. Web site: YIDFF '93 Screening List. Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. 30 May 2012.
4. Web site: Kotan no hitotachi. NHK Kuronikuru. 30 May 2012.
5. Web site: Jinken, dōwa mondai DVD, 16mm firumu kashidashi risuto. Niigata Prefecture.
6. Web site: Kamui to ikiru. 30 May 2012.
7. Web site: ainumemoryfilm.
8. Web site: 北の零年. Cinema Topics. 14 December 2013.