The Noble Witness is a 16-minute short biographical documentary that chronicles the life, philosophy, and creative resilience of Shoji Oda, a 98-year-old wood-carving artist and survivor of the Japanese American concentration camp. Rather than recounting history as distant face, the film captures memory as a living, breathing presence- something fragile, human, and urgently contemporary.
Credits
Directed, Filmed, and Edited by Yuta Okamura