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 young delinquent takes part in a robbery and is sentenced to a juvenile detention center, where he clashes with other youths and reflects on his...

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...

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...

Marine biological documentary

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

Children Who Draw explores the delicate chemistry of school children interacting in an art class through a constant juxtaposition of observational...

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

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

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

One day, Kandume's can boy, who happily lived with his friends in the kitchen, becomes an empty can and is discarded. Eventually, he has a dream...

Commissioned by the Tokyo National Museum, this film, regarded in some quarters as the masterpiece of Haneda’s Iwanami period, is one of...

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,...

TV documentary about the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and its safety concerns in 1976.