Yoshihide Otomo Movies

“Hana-Dama”—a flower in the wasteland. This flower is a symbol of earthly desires and every human is overwhelmed by desire and...

Guan Jian wants to report the murder of his father who died 10 years ago. The alleged murderer whom Guan Jian accuses of the crime is his own mother.

Twelve year old Sei has hit puberty and is quickly becoming sexually aware, sometimes not as privately as he'd like; erections in school and other...

Osaka Korean High School has provided education for the past six decades to the children of pro-North Korean residents in Japan. This school is...

The Unnameable Dance shows the life and dance of Tanaka Min, an elderly dancer in his 70s, in a multifaceted and dynamic manner.

Xiao Dou is a shy and naive mailworker living in Beijing with his sister. When a coworker is fired for reading people's correspondences Xiao Dou...

The Wages of Resistance is a feature-length documentary film that portrays an "extended span of time" of the protests against building Narita...

Kenji Nakagami, one of the most notable Japanese writers of the post-war, died in 1992. His work reveals a strong connection to his homeland, Kishu:...

A 6-year-old Tibetan boy leaves his family and flees to a refugee camp in northern India.

In 1970s Onomichi, Akira invites his crush Yoshioka to spend summer break at his home. But when Yoshioka falls for Meeko, tension brews beneath the...

Each year, at the start of the fall school year in September, Japan suffers from typhoons. That same month, in a small elementary school in a...

Eye-popping digital moving image work with an equally arresting soundtrack from noise music heavies.

Pig heads, intestines, megaphones: all these and more have been thrown into crowds of loyal fans following the influential punk band THE STALIN or...

A companion piece to The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories, which dealt with the protests against the construction of Narita Airport. Depicts the...

When impoverished young bride Youyou (Zhang) collapses from hunger at the door of handsome buccaneer Pan Hao (You Yong), he immediately decides to...

A documentary about the end of the student movement in 1972 and the lynching of Daizaburo Kawaguchi, a student at Waseda University. The documentary...

As they play carefree music, their musicianship is met with surprise, wonder, and sometimes even laughter. Captivating all who watch, Otoasobi...

"AA" is a documentary about Akira Aida (mostly known as Aquirax Aida), a japanese music critic who introduced free jazz, improvisation, and...

The documentary on Yamazaki Hiroaki, the student died in the First Haneda Incident of 8 October 1967.

Listen to the fragile sounds in this experimental film. Taki, Toto, and Hajime go to a private school where drugs have taken over their lives. They...