Men Are All Brothers

"Buraku" or "Buraku-min" are the terms used for ethnic Japanese people who are believed to descend from the pre-Meiji castes. Today, neither "Buraku" nor "Burakumin" exist anymore in terms of laws and social systems. However, many Japanese people still have a deep-rooted sense of discrimination towards people who descend from those families. Why does something that should not exist continue to exist? How did this discrimination begin in the first place? This film takes a variety of approaches to unravel the history of accumulated discrimination and its intricately intertwined context, from its origins and evolution, vividly depicting the structure of discrimination that often remains hidden from the public eye.

Interviews with Burakumin in Osaka, victims of discrimination

Brothers Koji and Seitaro Hatana, belong to the "outcast" caste. Despite their personal qualities—intelligence and fairness—they encounter numerous obstacles due to their caste affiliation. Together with other "outcasts," the brothers take up the fight for their human rights.

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class “untouchables,” leaving his hometown to serve as an elementary school teacher where he excels and is loved by his students. But he constantly struggles with the secret of his low-birth status and is disturbed by all of the discrimination levelled upon his class. It prevents him from pursuing a romance with Shiho, whom he meets at the temple where he resides, but who descends from a samurai family.

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.

A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are continuously harassed by their teachers and classmates through their childhood as a result of their Buraku heritage. In the midst of the 1918 Great Rice Riots in Osaka, Seitaro meets with Asako, the daughter of a rice shop owner, and falls in love with her. She too is of Buraku descent. At the same period, Hideaki, an old friend of the brothers returns to Komori, and he along with Koji and the townspeople create "Zenkoku Suiheisha", the National Levelers Association, an organization pledged to build a bridge over the river of discrimination, making all people equal in every way.

Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Natureza

Inspired by an unconventional teacher, a group of teenagers in upstate New York in the early 1990s make a student film and uncover a vast conspiracy that is poisoning their community. Thirty years later, they revisit their film and confront the legacy of this transformative experience.

Twenty-four images of a camera running in the woods, a moonlight and a cemetery through improvised gestures, mechanical abstraction and saturated colors

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Tuna are among the top predators in the oceans. But the hunter is also the hunted: many species are overfished. Can we use the riches of the oceans without destroying them?

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Winsor McCay was the first master of animation. This movie features every surviving film by this cinema pioneer with lovely piano score by famed composer Gabriel Thibaudeau. Highlights in this collection include: Little Nemo (1911), Gertie the Dinosaur (1914), How A Mosquito Operates (1912), The Sinking Of The Lusitania (1918), The Centaurs (1918-21), Gertie On Tour (1918-21), Flip’s Circus (1918-21), Bug Vaudeville (1921), The Pet (1921) and The Flying House (1921). DVD features a commentary by film historian John Canemaker and his charming documentary Remembering Winsor McCay.

In 1999, for the 30th anniversary of the original Woodstock festival, organizers planned the three-day Woodstock '99 music festival in an abandoned air force base in Rome, New York. Thousands of people came to the festival. Performers such as Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit performed at the festival. However, all was not peace and love. Bad conditions and inflating prices for water led to riots and looting on the last night of the festival.

Highlights from the 1996-97 NHL season. Narrated by Don Cherry. 1.2 million and counting. ROCK' EM SOCK' EM 9 is the newest edition to the best selling sports video series in the world. Blue and I have sat down and watched over 200 hours of highlights to bring you the best action you've seen. You're gonna love all the hits, saves, goals, great plays and, or course, the odd tussle. Naturally, we have Coach's Corner highlights and the best bloopers. AS A BONUS, I'm going to answer all the questions you hockey parents have asked me over the years. Blue says, 'ROCK' EM SOCK' EM 9 is the best hockey video yet!' I say you're going to love it.

Here we have it folks, my tape of the BEST HITS, BEST GOALS, BEST SAVES, BEST BLOOPERS and all the rest of the action from last year in the NHL. Hey, what would my tape be without the odd disagreement. For a bonus, I'm going to pick my favourite goals, saves, hits, and my favourite disagreement of the past 10 years in the NHL. Blue and I know you're going to love this one!

Highlights from the 1998-99 NHL season. Narrated by Don Cherry. Here it is folks, the greatest hockey tape of this millennium. Blue and I have picked the best hits, goals, saves, bloopers and more. Plus, all the best highlights from the NHL last season. Everything from overtime goals, to crunches behind the net, and of course Coach's Corner. As a bonus I'm going to give you parents some advise on getting your budding NHL'ers to the next level in minor hockey. Almost one hour of non-stop action. Blue says 'you're going to love it!'

Here it is folks, Don Cherry 12, and Blue and I think this one is the best. This year I'm going to answer some of the mail I get from you the fans. Of course we have the best hits, saves, goals, and more from last year's regular season and playoffs. As a special bonus, we'll take a look back at some of my old Grapevine shows. Hey, my hockey tapes are the best tapes in the world, over 2,000,000 hockey fans can't be wrong.