Filmography of the Ainu
This is a filmography of films and videos that portray the life and culture of the Ainu people of what is now northern Japan and the fringe of the Russian Far East. Representations of the Ainu can vary from the strictly documentary to the fictional and, as with representations of Native Americans in Hollywood cinema, may suffer from distortions and stereotypes.
The list is divided between documentaries and fiction films.
Documentaries
- A Record of the Shiraoi Ainu
- The Ainu Bear Ceremony
- Uepotara—A Traditional Exorcism Rite of the Nibutani Ainu
- Chisenomi
- Kita no dōhō
- Kotan no hitotachi, NHK documentary
- Words: The Symbol of a People, directed by Shiro Kayano
- Kyōsei e no michi: Nihon no senjū minzoku Ainu
- The Despised Ainu People
- Shin kyōsei e no michi: Nihon no senjū minzoku Ainu
- TOKYO Ainu
- Kamui to ikiru, directed by Hideki Komatsu
- Ainu. Pathways to Memory, directed by Marcos Centeno
Fiction films
- Rira no hana wasureji, directed by Kenkichi Hara
- Jakoman to Tetsu, directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
- Gorotsuki-bune, directed by Kazuo Mori
- Kimi no na wa, directed by Hideo Ōba
- Kotan no kuchibue, directed by Mikio Naruse
- Daisōgen no wataridori, directed by Buichi Saitō
- Mito Kōmon umi o wataru, directed by Kunio Watanabe
- Rex: A Dinosaur's Story, directed by Haruki Kadokawa
- Kita no reinen, directed by Isao Yukisada
- ''Ainu Mosir''