Megumi Sasaki (佐々木芽生 ''Sasaki Megumi'', born 1962) is a Japanese filmmaker and writer. Her films include ''

Herb and Dorothy ''Herb and Dorothy'' is a 2008 documentary film by Megumi Sasaki. The film tells the story of two middle-class collectors of contemporary art, Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, and the enormous and valuable collection of conceptual art and minimalist art ...

'', ''Herb & Dorothy 50x50'', and ''A Whale of a Tale''.

Early life

Born in Sapporo, she moved to New York City in 1987 and later worked for NHK as a reporter.

Filmmaking career

Sasaki's 2008 film '' Herb & Dorothy'' followed art collectors

Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Herbert Vogel (August 16, 1922 – July 22, 2012) and Dorothy Vogel (born 1935), once described as "proletarian art collectors," worked as civil servants in New York City for more than a half-century while amassing what has been called one of the ...

to document how they chose artwork for their collection. Five years later Sasaki released ''Herb & Dorothy 50x50'', which tracked the progress of the Vogels' efforts to donate fifty pieces from their collection to each of the fifty US states, but which the '' Los Angeles Times'' called "less personal than the earlier documentary". Sasaki's 2018 film ''A Whale of a Tale'' is a documentary about the Taiji dolphin drive hunt. It was created as a response to '' The Cove'' and includes perspectives from Japanese fishermen as well as activists. Sasaki claims that she decided to make the film when she saw '' The Cove'' win an Academy Award. '' The New York Times'' called the ''A Whale of a Tale'' "a rambling blend of complaint, tourism and straw-men arguments" while '' The Hollywood Reporter'' praised it for delivering "a thoughtful riposte to ''The Cove'' even while providing plenty of opportunity for those opposed to the practice of killing or capturing whales and dolphins to make their case". A nonfiction book by Sasaki with the same title as the film was published by Shueisha in 2017.

Filmography

Bibliography

*, 2017, Shueisha,

References

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