Shunji Iwai Movies

Swallowtail Butterfly 20th Anniversary concert at Inujima Seirensho Museum as part of Setouchi Triennale 2016. At the former power plant of the...

Christmas-themed omnibus TV movie: Hotdog Express; Documentarytic; 祭典の日

Making-of documentary for Swallowtail Butterfly

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

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

A professional hitman comes to kill a man as his final job. He manages to shoot him to death, but when he is leaving the house, the man he killed...

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

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

A comical episode from Fuji TV's Yonimo Kimyouna Monogatari. Suekichi runs a small liquor store. He finds that someone has stolen canned crab from...

The first summer to spend together with Toru. In the hot, humid room, Yuko can think only about Toru. As she peeks into Toru's room through...

A woman sits around at home.

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...

A film about a pregnancy

This is Hanataba

At the beginning of the film, the filmmaker begins to talk to the camera. I don't know what kind of film I'm going to make, but I'm going to make it....

A documentary about Hideaki Anno's project, Japan Animator Expo.

A woman battles her spending habits.

A girl gets a message from her mother during an stressful exam period.

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

The short film shot within the movie "Ritual" (2000)