Shunji Iwai Movies

One day, Lan Xia goes to her classmate Hai Feng’s house to stay overnight. They start to feel awkward around each other without really knowing...

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

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

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...

A comical episode from Fuji TV's Yonimo Kimyouna Monogatari. Suekichi runs a small liquor store. He finds that someone has stolen canned crab from...

The short film shot within the movie "Ritual" (2000)

A story about a divorce.

Christmas-themed omnibus TV movie: Hotdog Express; Documentarytic; 祭典の日

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

Making-of documentary for Swallowtail Butterfly

A woman battles her spending habits.

A professional hitman comes to kill a man as his final job. He manages to shoot him to death, but when he is leaving the house, the man he killed...

ARITA is a short film told in pictures and in small moments. It is about a girl whose first friend is a small drawing named Arita, a cute nosed...

Behind the scenes documentary about the filming of "Hana & Alice", which began as a series of shorts promoting Kit Kat

A documentary about Hideaki Anno's project, Japan Animator Expo.

Businessman Yohei Kogure is being treated for a psychosomatic disorder. He's forgetful and regularly dreams about a girl who he believes to be his...

A documentary about actress and singer-songwriter Lily, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 64. The theatrical version combines live footage of...

A woman sits around at home.

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