Makoto Shimazaki Movies

Documents the events surrounding the making of 'Kikujiro no natsu'.

A James Bond Parody

A short film based on a synopsis of Straub-Huillet's "Class Relations" that director Kunitoshi Manda made before seeing the film.

This short film captures a woman who continues to read multiple texts describing her feelings for "people who are no longer here" in a corner of a...

Shimazaki, who is a teacher at a film school and film director, criticizes the works of a student at the preview of their graduation project....

A story of two friends who grew up in the same housing complex in Tokyo but drifted apart after 3/11/2011.

In this compact, off-kilter vignette, a lone researcher conducts a small-scale “experiment” whose procedures slide quietly from the...

Japanese horror movie from 1981.