Shinji Aoyama Movies

Police detective Sosuke is shot down while chasing down a suspect. While he is unconscious, his gun is stolen. He recovers, but loses his wife and...

A detective and his partner track down a call girl with information about a drug cartel. After taking her into custody, they are attacked by cartel...

One day, Ezawa Jun, who has trouble with work and in love, gets a ryukin from a goldfish scooping game at a festival. However, she is actually a...

Shinji Aoyama’s short film follows an unlikely pair of detectives—played by Susumu Terajima and filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa—as they...

Commissioned by Yokohama National University, the film follows a man nearly twenty years after his graduation, who, facing a deadlock in his...

Masayuki meets Nanami, who is on a journey with a refrigerator named Ullie. Nanami's Iranian friend Amir is helping her haul the refrigerator which...

Three stories, depicted in three different styles, unfold in three locations: "Kyoto", a lyrical improvised drama based on documentar y footage...

In modern-day Kanazawa, writer Tokuda Shūsei returns to his hometown and is quietly drawn to Okine, the daughter of a fading inn. Inspired by...

In Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's role, the Onnagata, does not imitate the woman, as in...

Directed by Shinji Aoyama, this NHK documentary follows avant-garde jazz trumpeter Toshinori Kondo as he traces the footsteps of the poet Matsuo...

Joe, a stuntman burdened with a past he wants to keep hidden, suffers a serious injury during a stunt. One day, as he nurses a drink, he continues...

Aoyama Shinji’s Film History—and simultaneously a chronicle of modern Japanese history—layers together images of present-day...

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Philippe-Emmanuel Sorlin, originally aired 16 June 2015.

A 2001 Japanese language film directed by Shinji Aoyama, starring Hidetoshi Nishijima. The film screened at Locarno International Film Festival in...

Those who want to die seek refuge in a mysterious café in this feverishly strange Japanese debut.

Rinken Band represents the Okinawan pop music world. Director Aoyama Shinji (Eureka), one of those attracted to the band, focuses on the band's...

The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Chiyoda Ward's Miyakezaka district, the 122.7...

Video documentary by Shinji Aoyama.

An ensemble drama opens with the son of a celebrated actress staging his own play for his mother and her lover, a popular writer, at a lakeside home....

Created for the Short Shorts Film Festival 2010, DOWN is an experimental short in which individuals repeatedly collapse in public spaces, their falls...