Movies: Shunji Iwai

Shunji Iwai's unreleased film adapted from his own latest novel...

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

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

Making-of documentary for Swallowtail Butterfly...

At the beginning of the film, the filmmaker begins to talk to the camera. I don't know what kind of film I'm going to make, but I'm going to make it. The camera is set up in a room. He moves into a bigger room and tries to capture more of his everyda...

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 daughter....

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

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 endearment she found everywhere. From her notebooks to her illustrations and school supplies, Arita appear...

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 secret file at Delta headquarters for information....

In March 2011, Japan was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, with the devastating tsunami that followed causing a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power station that sent ripples of discontent throughout the country. Director Iwai Shunji's Friends ...

This is Hanataba...

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

Extra, behind scenes from Hideaki Anno's film Ritual (also known as Shiki-Jitsu)....

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

An omnibus work portraying the lives of youth who have just started to work. Town Workers was produced using rotoscoping, an animation technique which traces live-action performances. It was created in collaboration with Town Work, a part-time job ma...

A woman sits around at home....

A film about a pregnancy...

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 has to care for her nagging mother-in-law, who is nearly bedridden....

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 shows up again....

Baton is a collection of three 20-minute Sci-fi anime films dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yokohama city. On Planet Abel, human-like robot Apollo (Ichihara Hayato, Rookies) and robot-like human Mikaru (Ueto Aya, Azumi) com...