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Women of Fukushima

Posted on June 14, 2013September 3, 2025 by Dharma Documentaries

A film looking at some of the women who have become radicalised following the events at Fukushima and are now fighting for an end to nuclear power in Japan

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Children of the Tsunami

Posted on May 31, 2013February 18, 2016 by Dharma Documentaries

This is a moving film from the BBC following the thoughts and reflections of a group of children affected by the tsunami that hit north-east Japan in 2011.

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The Cove – Atrocities against Dolphins

Posted on March 1, 2013May 18, 2023 by Dharma Documentaries

Academy Award winning film about a group of activists led by Ric O’Barry, filming the capture and slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan.

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Man on Cloud Mountain

Posted on December 2, 2011October 22, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

This is an hour long documentary with Harada Roshi giving many interviews on his visit to America in 1991

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Dogen, the Zen Master

Posted on November 25, 2011January 25, 2021 by Dharma Documentaries

This is a dramatic reconstruction of the Life of the great Japanese monk Dogen who flourished in Japan in the 13th century.

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The Land of the Disappearing Buddha – Japan

Posted on November 11, 2011January 10, 2023 by Dharma Documentaries

In this episode of The Long Search Ronald Eyre goes in search of the Buddha in Japan, and finds himself increasingly farther away from his subject the nearer he gets.

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ZEN – A Fabian Enzinger Film

Posted on July 22, 2011March 20, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

This is one of the finest non-verbal films I’ve come across so even better that it is also connected with Buddhism, being taken at a remote Zen temple in the Japanese Alps.

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The Great Compassion Mantra Of Avalokitesvara

Posted on July 2, 2011November 4, 2020 by Dharma Documentaries

This is a wonderful rendition of the third Great Compassion Mantra as found in the Chinese tradition with some beautiful images uploaded with the victims of the Japanese Tsunami in mind.

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Kitaro: Theme from The Silk Road

Posted on December 29, 2010October 20, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

The silk road featured some beautiful music by someone who was barely known at the time, and who was brought to prominence by writing the haunting theme music for the series, the Japanese musician Kitaro.

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