A Journey to the Center of Cinematic Madness

I became interested in Shunji Iwai when I saw his performance in Hideaki Anno's Shiki-jitsu (2000) and I became a fan of his when I saw ...

If you have read my blog ever since I began, you'll surely remember my incoherent and enthusiastic review of Shunji Iwai's All About...

Shunji Iwai's documentary The Kon Ichikawa Story (2006) chronicles the life of the legendary Japanese director, Kon Ichikawa (the direct...

Shunji Iwai's April Story (1998) is a short but delightful film of a girl entering university in Tokyo. Initially the film seems to tack...

Shunji Iwai's All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001) took me by surprised and twisted my heart and brain. 18 hours has passed since I watched t...