"Documentarists of Japan, No. 18: Kawaguchi Hajime." Interviewed by Aaron Gerow. Documentary Box 20 (2002): 2-12. access
Kawaguchi talks about the intersection between experimental filmmaking and personal documentary.
"Documentarists of Japan, No. 14: Kawase Naomi." Interviewed by Aaron Gerow. Documentary Box 16 (2000): 2-16. access
I discuss the documentaries of Kawase Naomi with the director of Suzaku and The Mourning Forest.
"Documentarists of Japan, No. 13: Tsuchiya Yutaka." Interviewed by Aaron Gerow. Documentary Box 15 (2000): 1-8. access
Tsuchiya talks about The New God, politics, and contemporary Japanese youth culture.
"Documentarists of Japan, No. 12: Koreeda Hirokazu." Interviewed by Tanaka Junko and Aaron Gerow. Documentary Box 13 (1999): 1-10. access
We talk about not only Koreeda's TV documentaries, but also the metaphors of documentary in After Life.
"Documentarists of Japan, No. 9: Matsumoto Toshio." Interviewed by A.A. Gerow. Documentary Box 9 (1996): 6-13. access
The leading practitioner and theorist of experimental documentary discusses especially his work in the 1960s.
"Documentarists of Japan, No. 7: Tsuchimoto Noriaki." Interviewed by Yasui Yoshio and A.A. Gerow. Documentary Box 8 (1995): 6-14. access
Tsuchimoto talks at length about the Minimata series and the ethics of documentary.
"Documentarists of Japan, No. 5: Prokino." Interviewed by Makino Mamoru and A.A. Gerow. Documentary Box 5 (1994): 6-13. access
We talk with Noto Setsuo and Komori Shizuo, two members of Prokino, the left-wing filmmaking group that was suppressed by the state in the early 1930s.