Hiroko KUMAGAI

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Hiroko KUMAGAI was born in Tokyo and studied at Waseda University. In 1975, she began shooting TV documentaries and in 1985, she became an independent filmmaker. Together with Noriaki TSUCHIMOTO, she directed the documentary AFGHAN SPRING in 1989. She is especially dedicated to social issues and history, as demonstrated by her films ECHOES FROM THE MIIKE MINE (2005) and THE WOMEN WHO EMBRACE MIIKE (2013), for which she has won several awards.