Kazuhiko yamauchi biography for kids
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Kazuhiko yamauchi biography for kids
Kazuhiro Soda
After many years in New York as correspondent for Japan's national broadcaster NHK, documentary filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda returned to Japan to film his former classmate Kazuhiko Yamauchi as he ran for a seat on the Kawasaki city council.
The resulting film, Campaign (Senkyo), paints a riotously funny, but also disturbing portrait of the mechanisms behind party politics in Japan, and particularly the workings of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which ruled Japan for decades almost without interruption.
You're currently on tour with Campaign, having shown it at festivals in Berlin, Hong Kong, Paris, Austin, and Buenos Aires.
And I'm going to Toronto this weekend for the Hot Docs festival, followed by Barcelona and Sydney.
Do you feel any similarities between being a filmmaker on the fest circuit and a politician on the campaign trail?
Totally.
It is a campaign for Campaign. I feel like I'm Yama-san now.
You keep repeating the film's name over and over.
Exactly!