Haiku Movies

The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that...

After meeting one day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs...

An animated film based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet...

A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.

A collection of three short 'haiku videos' by Chris Marker. The first haiku, 'Yanka / Tchaika', shows the river Seine passing under a bridge. A bird...

A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô (1644–1694), the spiritual father of haiku poetry. A monk, portraying the...

Dealing heavily with perceptions of time, Aeon documents the urban cityscape as Wellington transforms through a zen-influenced eternal cycle of...

On the threshold of her old age, Dolores faces a wall full of memories.

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum.

A still, highly overexposed shot of a car bridge and the river below. A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

A poet and a spirit have an ongoing deal: Haiku for life.

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and...

"he gasps for a breath entwined, then on their back rests, eyes gaze at the sky".

A haiku about a window and a woman.