Raise Your Arms and Twist! Documentary of NMB48 (2016)
Launched in 2011 as a sister group to girl band behemoth AKB48, the Osaka-based NMB48 has become a musical force itself. With a string of No.1 hit singles and albums, not to mention sell-out performances, NMB48 continues Japan’s pop-music phenomena. Director Funahashi Atsushi, whose documentary work has previously chronicled such harrowing events as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, pulls back the curtain on the life and struggles of the band members and the workings of the idol-making industry.
Director: Atsushi Funahashi
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Sayaka Yamamoto as Herself |
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Fuuko Yagura as Herself |
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Ayaka Okita as Herself |
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Miru Shiroma as Herself |
| Production | Takumi Matsumura | Producer |
| Editing | Takafumi Aoki | Editor |
| Production | Yoshihiro Furusawa | Producer |
| Directing | Atsushi Funahashi | Director |
| Production | Kumiko Isono | Producer |
| Production | Makoto Ishihara | Producer |
| Production | Akihiro Makino | Producer |
| Camera | Yoshihisa Toda | Director of Photography |
