Shunji Iwai Movies

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 embark...

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

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...

In this high school romance Hiro is dismayed to learn her new love Shu will be going away to college in Tokyo. She asks him not to go.

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

Freelance writer Aoi Teshigahara lives in Paris, France. Sen Yagami is a photographer who came to Paris, France due to his younger sister Suzume's...

The film "Summer Solstice Story" was produced in 1992. Now, with Aina The End as the new heroine, director Shunji Iwai himself takes on the task of...

It's Christmas Eve in Tokyo as Ichiro is moving into his new apartment one month ahead of schedule. As he is getting settled in, two strangers enter...

Making-of documentary for Swallowtail Butterfly

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...

A scientist desperately wanting to prove that mermaids exist is ostracized from the scientific community in Japan. He settles down in Australia...

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

27-year-old Sakumi Shimura lost the last 10 years of her memory from a car accident. Sakumi can only remember events up to when she was 17-years-old,...

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

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,...

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

Shunji Iwai directed video for The Moonriders 1996 song “Knit Cap Man”.

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

A woman sits around at home.

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