Nobuhiro Kawanaka Movies

A five-part documentary chronicling Toshio Matsumoto, the legendary filmmaker known as a pioneer of experimental cinema in Japan and also active as a...

The documentary to find the "true Shuji Terayama".

Video began as a medium that inspired discovery. This art documentary traces the expressive roots of “media art” in Japan — works...

Photographs of a nude, arranged into stop-motion sequences on the left half of the screen, are juxtaposed with a close-up of the film itself passing...

As demonstrated by the film's title, Kawanaka has been exploring the theme of “Shishōsetsu” (“realized” fiction) for...

Masato Hara made his directorial debut in high school in 1968 and achieved a reputation as a young prodigy. Many years later, he continues to make...

In recent years, my older colleagues and friends have begun to pass away one after another. I wonder if I'm reaching that age myself, and I feel like...

Film shot on 16mm by Japanese filmmaker Nobuhiro Kawanaka in the late 1990s.

The work by Nobuhiro Kawanaka, who consistently produces film works from a personal aspect, focuses on Naito Chin (comedian, book reviewer), who had...

A nostalgic work, which attempts to reconstruct the materials of postwar 35 mm newsreel footage given by the filmmakers’ friend and old tinted...

A compilation of Kawanaka's representative "Shishōsetsu" series. "The title of my film series, 'I-novel,' is easily misunderstood. The 'I-novel'...

The newest work in a series of works employing 16mm film to exchange correspondence between the two filmmakers Nobuhiro Kawanaka and Sakumi Hagiwara....

Short film that is part of a series of 6 films that Nobuhiro Kawanaka made between 1987 and 1992.

Digital film by Japanese director Nobuhiro Kawanaka presented at the Image Forum Festival.

Lately, I cannot help thinking; “What if the gods created life and death by mistake?” I find it odd that as I age, my body withers. If,...

Digital film by Japanese director Nobuhiro Kawanaka presented at the Image Forum Festival.

The seminal image of the continuous motion of a woman skipping. While Edward Muybridge worked to accurately record human movements, this film, shot...

This formal study is based on a series of postcards of pre-war Tokyo. The artist fuses these images of the past with the same scenes that appear...

“I am deeply involved in human memory and the feeling of nostalgia brought about by time. For this piece, my challenge was to observe time...