By HARUTO HIRAOKA/ Staff Writer
August 11, 2025 at 07:00 JST
Director Kazuhiro Soda, second from right, who serves as an instructor for the Yamagata Documentary Dojo residency program, watches footage shot by a participant in 2018. (Provided by Yamagata Documentary Dojo)
While Yamagata Prefecture is famed for its snow-deep spa resorts, Asian filmmakers head to the mountains there to hone their documentary skills at a “dojo.” [Read More]
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