Campaign
7.2
“A cinema-verite documentary which closely follows a heated election campaign in Japan, revealing the true nature of”
Can a candidate with no political experience and no charisma win an election if he is backed by the political giant Prime Minister Koizumi and his Liberal Democratic Party? This cinema-verite documentary closely follows a heated election campaign in Kawasaki, Japan, revealing the true nature of "democracy."
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2 films
Cast
14 people
Kazuhiko Yamauchi
Himself
Junichiro Koizumi
Himself
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Kazuhiro Soda
Mette Hoffman Meyer
Seiko Hashimoto
Self
Nobuteru Ishihara
Self
Yoriko Kawaguchi
Self
Jun'ichirô Koizumi
Jun'ichirô Koizumi
Fumio Mochida
Self
Daishiro Yamagiwa
Self
Ronette van der Walt
Anders Bruus
Kazuhiro Soda Director
United States release March 10, 2007 · Produced in Japan, United States · Original title 選挙
Production
Laboratory X
Production
Japan · United States
Produced in
Languages
Original title
選挙
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Germany · February 14, 2007
Berlin International Film Festival
United States · March 10, 2007
South by Southwest Film Festival
Japan · October 6, 2007
Theatrical
Denmark
November 13, 2007 · CPH:DOX
France
November 20, 2007 · 3 Continental Film Festival
Hong Kong SAR China
April 2, 2007 · Hong Kong International Film Festival
Italy
October 11, 2007 · Asian Film Festival
Morocco
March 29, 2008 · Festival International du Cinéma Méditerranéen de Tétouan
New Zealand
December 2, 2011 · Japanese Film Festival
Poland
December 8, 2007 · International Film Festival Watch Docs. Human Rights in Film. Warsaw.
Portugal
December 5, 2007 · Nippon Koma Film Festival
South Korea
July 21, 2007 · Cinema Digital Seoul Festival
Taiwan
October 26, 2007 · Kaohsiung Film Festival
United Kingdom
November 10, 2007 · Leeds International Film Festival
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