The AFA has launched several digital initiatives, including:
Based in Sagamihara, this is one of the oldest and richest archives in Asia. They are the custodians of everything from silent saimono (short comedies) to the works of Akira Kurosawa. Their recent digitization of the "Mitsuzo" collection has allowed scholars to view pre-WWII propaganda films that were previously banned and thought destroyed. asian film archive