Tatsuya MORI 森達也
i -Documentary Of The Journalist-
i-新聞記者ドキュメント-
Nippon Docs ¾
In Japan, there is an informal agreement between mainstream media and the government that is hardly ever questioned: Journalists are not too persistent in their criticism, in turn representatives of the government grant direct access to select information through press conferences. Isoko MOCHIZUKI, reporter for the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper, has established herself as a spoilsport in this system. Her work has already been the basis for the multi-award-winning 2019 feature film THE JOURNALIST (available in this year’s NIPPON CINEMA section). For its equally gripping documentary counterpart, Tatsuya MORI has accompanied MOCHIZUKI with his camera for several months.
i-新聞記者ドキュメント-
i -Shimbunkisha dokyumento-
Japan 2019
111 minutes
Director
Tatsuya MORI
Cinematography
Tatsuya MORI, Shigeyuki KOMATSUBARA
Production
Star Sands
World sales
My Theater D.D.
About Tatsuya MORI
森達也
Tatsuya MORI was born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1956 and studied law at Rikkyo University. He began his film career as an actor. In 1987, he began working for a TV production company and then became a freelance director, shooting the internationally acclaimed documentaries A (1998) and A2 (2001 / NC ’02) about the Aum Shinrikyo cult. In the following years, he continued making documentary films, including I -DOCUMENTARY OF THE JOURNALIST- (2019 / NC ’20), while also working as an author and as a professor at Meiji University.