Iwanami Productions Movies

A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido

As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life...

Commissioned by the Tokyo National Museum, this film, regarded in some quarters as the masterpiece of Haneda’s Iwanami period, is one of...

TV documentary about the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and its safety concerns in 1976.

Haneda’s debut as full director, made after four years spent as an assistant, is set in a farming village in Shiga Prefecture (east of Kyoto)....

One day, Kandume's can boy, who lived happily with his friends in the kitchen, becomes an empty can and is thrown away. Eventually, the can boy has a...

Shot in a retirement home over a period of two years, this film raises the question of "how to take care". The director films with great tenderness,...

A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students.

Children Who Draw explores the delicate chemistry of school children interacting in an art class through a constant juxtaposition of observational...

A young delinquent takes part in a robbery and is sentenced to a juvenile detention center, where he clashes with other youths and reflects on his...

This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese temples. Horyu-ji, in the small town of Ikaruga outside...

Haneda employed various cinematic and scientific technic to explore the world of cabbage butterfly, and the result was a completely new type of...

A teaching film for social studies, which was developed as a new educational subject in 1947. At an elementary school in Hokkaido, children have...

An educative film about the water supply and watersystems in small towns and villages in Japan. It captures the unsanitary and inconvenient...

Marine biological documentary

An examination of a specialist school for twin siblings and the theme of heredity and environment on human development

From the opening sequence, combining underwater and aerial footage, this masterpiece about the construction of a steam-power plant in Kurihama (south...

The clear record of a zoo's daily workings and the hardships of zookeepers.