Shunji Iwai Movies

A woman sits around at home.

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...

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...

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

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

The year is 2020, the middle of the corona crisis. Art student Itsuka has her graduation exhibition canceled and must take home the piece which she...

A woman battles her spending habits.

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

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

A film about a pregnancy

Set in the 1990s during Japan's "band boom" era, the film tells the tale of a girl in high school, Asako, who goes to a concert and meets Natsu,...

An outwardly normal schoolteacher preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human blood.

Hideaki Anno's documentary about the making of Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris. From concept to film, the documentary is a video diary of...

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

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

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...

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...

Short directed by Shunji Iwai for the song Miracle by illion, Youjirou Noda's solo project, in the album "P.Y.L."

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

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