Becoming (A) Reality: documentary filmmaking in Asia

in chronological order & continually updated whenever possible

titles below are not yet listed in mubi:

1920s
Chinese Competitors at the 6th Far East Sports Games in Japan (1923, Lai Man-wai)

1930s
New Clothing (1936, Sazane Tazuko)
Shanghai (1937, Kamei Fumio)
The Battle of Shanghai (1937, Lai Man-wai)
Nanking (1937, Kamei Fumio)
Peking (1938, Kamei Fumio)

1940s
A Page of History (1941, Lai Man-wai)
Fellow Citizens in North (1941, Sakane Tazuko)
We Are Working So Hard (1945, Mizuki Soya)
A Woman’s Life (1949, Kamei Fumio)

1950s