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  • 2008
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    The Spell of the Poincare Conjecture

    The Spell of the Poincare Conjecture

    1 2008 HD

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  • 2018
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    NHK Image File: I Want To Meet This Person - Isao Takahata, Animation Film Director

    NHK Image File: I Want To Meet This Person - Isao Takahata, Animation Film Director

    1 2018 HD

    A short documentary dedicated to |sao Takahata, composed of archive images, released following his death in April 2018.

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  • 1998
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    Chihuly Over Venice

    Chihuly Over Venice

    1 1998 HD

    Spotlights the work of glassblower Dale Chihuly in Venice, Italy. Chihuly and his team of glassblowers travel to Finland, Ireland, Mexico and Italy...

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  • 2005
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    1000 Years of Karakami Art

    1000 Years of Karakami Art

    1 2005 HD

    Karakami is a decorative Japanese paper used to ornament interior sliding doors during the Edo period. Woodblock-printed motifs, such as cherry...

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  • 1993
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    Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

    Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

    1 1993 HD

    Wagner's erotic opera in a production by the German Opera of Berlin under the direction of Gotz Friedrich, with music conducted by Jiri Kout....

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  • 2022
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    Fluffy Hour: PuiPui & MuuMuu 'Selfish GyuGyu'

    Fluffy Hour: PuiPui & MuuMuu 'Selfish GyuGyu'

    1 2022 HD

    Fairies PuiPui and MuuMuu live together in a fluffy forest. They meet a trio of GyuGyu and must help them find a place to live.

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  • 2020
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    Konigiri-Kun Concert

    Konigiri-Kun Concert

    1 2020 HD

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  • 2014
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    北朝鮮 権力とカネの謎

    北朝鮮 権力とカネの謎

    8.00 2014 HD

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  • 2025
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    Mrs. GREEN APPLE 10 YEARS SPECIAL

    Mrs. GREEN APPLE 10 YEARS SPECIAL

    1 2025 HD

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  • 1970
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    A・A・B・C

    A・A・B・C

    1 1970 HD

    Music video for the song A A B C by Mieko Hirota and Vocal Shop that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

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  • 2024
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    Chasing Perfection: Four Seasons with Japan's Master Gardeners

    Chasing Perfection: Four Seasons with Japan's Master Gardeners

    1 2024 HD

    Japanese gardens have long captivated people around the world. This program follows the master gardeners chasing perfection at the Adachi Museum of...

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  • 2022
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    Der fliegende Holländer

    Der fliegende Holländer

    1 2022 HD

    This is a performance of Wagner's three-act opera Der fliegende Holländer ("The flying Dutchman"), performed by Bayreuther Festpiele, directed...

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  • 2021
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    The Pride of Yokozuna: Hakuho's Lone Battle

    The Pride of Yokozuna: Hakuho's Lone Battle

    1 2021 HD

    A documentary following the Yokozuna Hakuho in the wake of his retirement.

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  • 2015
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    The Unknown World of Comiket

    The Unknown World of Comiket

    1 2015 HD

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  • 2014
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    100 Million People Adrift The Ripples of China's Urban Upheaval

    100 Million People Adrift The Ripples of China's Urban Upheaval

    1 2014 HD

    In 2014, under the "new type of urbanization" plan, a nationwide urban village renovation program was rolled out, affecting about 100 million people....

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  • 2025
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    Piano Girl

    Piano Girl

    1 2025 HD

    Okinawa, Japan. Momoko loved the piano and attended a school that had one. Then the war arrived and she was drafted to work in an army hospital....

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  • 2022
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    Not Yet There

    Not Yet There

    10.00 2022 HD

    This documentary follows Ishihara Hitoshi, a Japanese kaiseki chef whose highly acclaimed restaurant in Kyoto has three Michelin stars. This is one...

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  • 2018
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    Discovery of the Century — The Great Dinosaur of Japan

    Discovery of the Century — The Great Dinosaur of Japan

    1 2018 HD

    It's considered the discovery of the century in Japan -- the unearthing of a complete fossilized skeleton of an 8-meter long dinosaur. It was dubbed...

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  • 2022
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    8000 Stolen Futures: The Children at the Center of the A-Bomb

    8000 Stolen Futures: The Children at the Center of the A-Bomb

    1 2022 HD

    On August 6, 1945, the first-ever nuclear bomb deployed in war was dropped on the city of Hiroshima Prefecture, leaving an estimated 140,000 dead in...

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  • 2018
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    Unit 731: Elite Doctors and Human Experimentation

    Unit 731: Elite Doctors and Human Experimentation

    1 2018 HD

    Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army secretly developed and tested bacteriological weapons on human subjects in Manchuria during the Sino-Japanese...

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