July 21, 2021
After meeting one day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer....
July 16, 1999
The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that range from the humorous to the heartbreakin...
November 26, 2003
Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century ...
August 14, 1935
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-betwee...
April 5, 2024
On the threshold of her old age, Dolores faces a wall full of memories....
March 25, 2005
A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament....
December 31, 1993
A collection of three short 'haiku videos' by Chris Marker. The first haiku, 'Yanka / Tchaika', shows the river Seine passing under a bridge. A bird in flight stays motionless in the air. ...
March 29, 2024
Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and transcendental Japanese poems known as “Haiku”....
March 6, 2019
A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô (1644–1694), the spiritual father of haiku poetry. A monk, portraying the poet, journeys through Japan, following Bashô's jour...
November 7, 2016
A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum....
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"he gasps for a breath entwined, then on their back rests, eyes gaze at the sky"....
October 31, 2004
Dealing heavily with perceptions of time, Aeon documents the urban cityscape as Wellington transforms through a zen-influenced eternal cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth within a 24-hou...