Iwanami Productions Movies

As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life...

A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido

A teaching film for social studies, which was developed as a new educational subject in 1947. At an elementary school in Hokkaido, children have...

This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese temples. Horyu-ji, in the small town of Ikaruga outside...

Haneda employed various cinematic and scientific technic to explore the world of cabbage butterfly, and the result was a completely new type of...

From the opening sequence, combining underwater and aerial footage, this masterpiece about the construction of a steam-power plant in Kurihama (south...

A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students.

An examination of a specialist school for twin siblings and the theme of heredity and environment on human development

The clear record of a zoo's daily workings and the hardships of zookeepers.

An educative film about the water supply and watersystems in small towns and villages in Japan. It captures the unsanitary and inconvenient...

Marine biological documentary

Shot in a retirement home over a period of two years, this film raises the question of "how to take care". The director films with great tenderness,...