Shunji Iwai Filmes

A short film consisting of rotoscoped clips from 'Swallotwail Butterfly,' set to the music of the film's Yentown band.

Businessman Yohei Kogure is being treated for a psychosomatic disorder. He's forgetful and regularly dreams about a girl who he believes to be his...

This is Hanataba

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

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

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...

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

A film about a pregnancy

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...

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.

Shunji Iwai's unreleased film adapted from his own latest novel

A woman battles her spending habits.

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

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,...

An outwardly normal schoolteacher preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human blood.

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

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...

Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.

A scientist desperately wanting to prove that mermaids exist is ostracized from the scientific community in Japan. He settles down in Australia...