Shunji Iwai

Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However, her singing voice shakes the hearts of ...

The first summer to spend together with Toru. In the hot, humid room, Yuko can think only about Toru. As she peeks into Toru’s room through ...

An actor who has lost his job due to the coronavirus buys capsule monsters online and begins to raise them.

It is only at their sister’s and mother’s funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The ...

A girl gets a message from her mother during an stressful exam period.

All Yuan Zhinan has left behind when she passed away is a letter and an invitation to a school reunion. Attending the reunion in lieu of her late ...

Housewife Eun-ha is busy every day: In addition to taking care of her husband who doesn’t help out at all and her willful daughter and son, she ...

Swallowtail Butterfly 20th Anniversary concert at Inujima Seirensho Museum as part of Setouchi Triennale 2016

A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.

A Japanese girl struggling to fit in at her new school teams up with a reclusive neighbor to find out what happened to an upperclassman who ...

An omnibus work portraying the lives of youth who have just started to work. Town Workers was produced using rotoscoping, an animation technique ...

An outwardly normal schoolteacher preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human blood.

In March 2011, Japan was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, with the devastating tsunami that followed causing a meltdown at the Fukushima ...

New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond ...

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.

Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.

Documentary following the Japanese national football team preparing for the 2002 World Cup

The making of ‘All About Lily Chou-Chou’ starting from its conception as an interactive story that played out on a BBS

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their ...

A documentary looking back on the making of Shunji Iwai’s TV play Fireworks, Should We See it from the Side or the Bottom?.

In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in ...

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in “Yentown”, in an alternate-future Japan.

Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of ...

One summer day, a group of sixth-grade boys have an argument about whether fireworks are round or flat when viewed from different angles and ...

Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki’s mother says ...

Moemi is not overly pleased when Yukio brings home a couple of turtles to keep her company. Although Yukio works at home as a writer, Moemi feels ...

A man tries to figure out who his ex-girlfriend is dating.

A dragon fish is stolen by Tetsu Tobiyama and biologist Thomas Earwing seeks its return. Poo is led to Natsuro after she worms her way into a top ...

A woman battles her spending habits.