Title: Japan's Peace Constitution ( English language edition)

Directed by John Junkerman

(Film showing 78 min. followed by a discussion on 12/3 in fukushima and 12/10 in Tokyo)

Please check about the dates and who will be talking after the screenings at this URL:
http://www.cine.co.jp/kenpo/schedule.html
*If this scheduling does not appear in English at all and you want to know if it shows in particular areas, I'd be happy to check that and let you know.
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Details of the film from Siglo's website
(http://www.cine.co.jp/kenpo/english.html) is quoted below

***************** JAPAN'S PEACE CONSTITUTION **********************

Directed by John Junkerman
Produced by Yamagami Tetsujiro
Camera by Otsu Koshiro
Music by Soul Flower Union

In 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, the conservative
Japanese government is pressing ahead with plans to revise the nation's
constitution and jettison its famous no-war clause, Article 9. This
timely, hard-hitting documentary places the ongoing debate over the
constitution in an international context: What will revision mean to
Japan's neighbors, Korea and China? How has the US-Japan military
alliance warped the constitution and Japan's role in the world? How is
the unprecedented involvement of Japan's Self-Defense Force in the
occupation of Iraq perceived in the Middle East?

Through interviews conducted with leading thinkers around the world,
the film explores the origins of the Constitution in the ashes of war
and the significance of its peace clauses in the conflicted times of
the early 21st century. Key interviews include:

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Dower

Paris-based social theorist Hidaka Rokuro

Beate Sirota Gordon, drafter of the equal-rights clause of the Constitution

Political philosopher and activist Douglas Lummis

Political scientist Chalmers Johnson

Kang Man-Gil, president of Sangji University, South Korea

Shin Heisoo, co-representative, Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan

Korean historian Han Hong Koo

Chinese filmmaker and writer Ban Zhongyi

Syrian writer Michel Kilo

Lebanese journalist Josef Samaha

Linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky

Director John Junkerman is an American filmmaker, living in Tokyo. His
first film, Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima, was coproduced with
John Dower and nominated for an Academy Award. His 2002 film, Power and
Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times, also produced by Siglo, received
widespread theatrical distribution in Japan, the US, and Europe.