Shunji Iwai Movies

It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on...

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,...

The making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story that played out on a BBS

Hana is a normal high school student, unsatisfied in her daily life. One day she had a dream and met a 10-year-old girl living in Sengoku Era. The...

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,...

Florence, Prague, Paris, Shanghai, Otaru of Hokkaido, five different love stories in five different cities.

In March 2011, Japan was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, with the devastating tsunami that followed causing a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear...

A dragon fish is stolen by Tetsu Tobiyama and biologist Thomas Earwing seeks its return. Poo is led to Natsuro after she worms her way into a top...

An actor who has lost his job due to the coronavirus buys capsule monsters online and begins to raise them.

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

A woman sits around at home.

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

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

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.

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...

Extra, behind scenes from Hideaki Anno's film Ritual (also known as Shiki-Jitsu).

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,...

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

A story about a divorce.

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...