Nobuhiro Kawanaka Movies

The documentary to find the "true Shuji Terayama".

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

Since she was a little girl, Nagisa Yoko had two dreams: one was to have a song written for her by Aku Yu; the other was to sing at the Shinjuku Koma...

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

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...

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

Writes Kawanaka, "Video is a medium of image as well as sound. Walking on a gravel road with a camera, the crunch sound is captured in real time....

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...

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

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

“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...

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

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

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

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

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,...

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

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