NARRATIVE

Documentary, 2024, 73 min
Producer, Writer and Director: Jonathan Bellés
Cinematographers: Óscar Rivero and Ségolène Lacourte
Editor: Jonathan Bellés
Supervising Editor: J.L. Romeu

Official website: https://ishirohondafilm.com/

Ishiro Honda: Memoirs of a Film Director is a documentary film that explores the life and film career of one of the most profitable Japanese directors: Ishiro Honda. This film will highlight Honda’s filmography from a historical perspective but also from a personal point of view; his work in the Japanese film industry and his experiences in war, from which he barely survived. Also his feelings about the atomic bomb, a subject that became his obsession, constantly reflected in his films.

Cast: Ryuji Honda, Hisao Kurosawa, Joe Dante, Shinji Higuchi, Tomoo Haraguchi, etc.

Documentary, 2019, 50 min
Producer, Cinematographer, Writer and Director: Jonathan Bellés
Associate Producer: Ségolène Lacourte
Supervising Editor: J.L. Romeu

The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga introduces us to the origin of Godzilla and its connections with the Atomic Bomb. But how has this affected more than sixty years of Godzilla movies? This documentary film discovers this story through interviews with more than twenty Japanese legends that have worked on the Godzilla movies from 1954 until now.

Cast: Akira Takarada, Haruo Nakajima, Sushuke Kaneko, Kenpachi Satsuma, Koichi Kawakita, Kazuki Ohmori, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Koizumi, Akiko Kobayashi, etc.

Production company: 451 Prods
Genre: Short Film
Produced and Directed by Jonathan Bellés
Year of production: 2016
Runtime: 10 min
Cast: Virginia Morant, Rachel Merino y Rubén Bellés
Choreographer: Sheila Toledo

Production company: 451 Prods
Genre: Dance video
Produced and Directed by Jonathan Bellés
Year of production: 2011
Runtime: 15 min
Choreographer and Dancer: Sheila Toledo