View a screening of the Oscar-nominated short documentary "Instruments of a Beating Heart" and participate in a Q&A with the filmmaker, Ema Ryan Yamazaki.

Date: 
July 1, 2025 (Tuesday)

Time:
19:00 – 20:30 (Japan Time) 

Place:
The Parliament, 1st Floor, Temple University, Japan Campus​​

Moderator:
Professor Sachiko Horiguchi, TUJ Director of Research

Admission:
FREE

Open to TUJ and its affiliated communities

Ema Ryan Yamazaki is a Japanese/British documentary filmmaker based in Tokyo, with roots in New York. With a unique perspective as an insider and outsider in Japan, Ema strives to tell stories that empathetically show human struggle and triumph.

Her third feature documentary, THE MAKING OF A JAPANESE, premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2023 and is currently playing festivals and in distribution around the world. She has also recently served as Editor and Co-Producer for Shiori Ito's BLACK BOX DIARIES, which premiered to critical acclaim at Sundance 2024.

Yamazaki has also screened her second feature, “Koshien: Japan’s Field of Dreams” previously at TUJ.