Koji HIJIKATA 圡方宏史
Sayonara TV
さよならテレビ
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Starting as an investigation into the daily routine of the news channel Tokai TV, a camera team follows three employees for a look behind the scenes. As precarious work conditions, lack of ethos, and self-doubts are revealed, director Koji HIJIKATA spreads doubt about the credibility of his own project.
さよならテレビ
Sayonara terebi
Japan 2020
109 minutes
Production
Tokai Television Broadcasting
World sales
GETA FILMS / Green Light
About Koji HIJIKATA
圡方宏史
Koji HIJIKATA was born in Gifu Prefecture in 1976. After graduating in English literature at Sophia University in Tokyo, he has been working as a producer at the news channel Tokai TV since 1998. SAYONARA TV (2020 / NC ’21) expands the social focus of HIJIKATA’s former documentaries HOMELESS RIJICHO (2014) and YAKUZA AND THE CONSTITUTION (2016) by adding aspects of media critique to his oeuvre.