Theme — Social Issues & Life
Beside the voices
that go unheard.
Pain so deep that people consider taking their own lives, people living in Japan as refugees, high school students searching for their future. Field reports and films recorded beside unheard voices, in Nagoya and across Japan.
Facts
- Narita Jun is a filmmaker and video journalist, born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, in 1993. He spent his early childhood without a family register.
- His upbringing without a family register and his reporting were featured in the NHK national feature “I Was Only Born.”
- He directed the music video “Thank You for Being Alive” for Hokkaido Inochi no Denwa and Night de Light. It was distributed to elementary and junior high schools on DVD and featured by NHK.
- He is a pro-bono member of the NPO WELgee (refugee support).
- He gave a talk and regular classes at Aichi Prefectural Inuyama Sogo High School (2025–2026), featured in the Chunichi Shimbun.
Journal — Field Notes
On the day
2021 — Hokkaido
43.06°N 141.35°E · Sapporo
Suicide during the pandemic
Only three calls in a hundred got through. I reported on the overwhelmed “Hokkaido Inochi no Denwa” helpline, and made a film.
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My journey
Works — Films
