Shunji Iwai – MRQE

Fried Dragon Fish (TV)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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 secret file at Delta headquarters for information.

8-ka de shinda kaijû no 12-nichi no monogatari

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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

Rip Van Winkle no Hanayome

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.

Hana to Alice Satsujin Jiken

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Tetsuko “Alice” Arisugawa has just moved to a new house with her recently divorced mother and enrolled at a school where a strange rumor lingers among the students about “Judas,” who is said to have been murdered over a year before. She is told that if anybody knows his fate it would be Hana Arai, the recluse in the house next door who has been unable to bring herself to attend class since “Judas” disappeared.

Friends After 3.11

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In March 2011, Japan was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, with the devastating tsunami that followed causing a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power station that sent ripples of discontent throughout the country. Director Iwai Shunji’s Friends after 3.11 (2011) is a deeply personal documentary which uses the statements of some of his closest friends to express the views of a society in a state of political despondency.

Ichikawa Kon monogatari

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

Hana to Arisu

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.

Riri Shushu no subete

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yichi Hasumi and Shsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yichi’s love for the dreamy and abstract music of fictional pop star Lily Chou-Chou.

Vampire (2011/I)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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

Love Letter

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki’s mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to also be called Itsuki Fujii.