Nao Yoshigai Movies

The "shadow" begins to see fragmented memories that transcend time and place. In an underground, it touches and listens carefully to the memories of...

A female musician lives in a traditionally built Japanese house. There are spirits running around the house that she cannot see. The spirits are...

Last gasps of the Seiza-sha house in Kyoto devoted to Torajiro Okada’s still-sitting meditation method from the late-Meiji era’s...

A helpless woman confronts a “black object” with a power greater than hers. The “black object” shoots her questions. The...

Rolling along on a bike or floating in a doctor’s office’s seasonal hamster display, Wheel Music explores the aesthetic feeling and...

A storyteller of peace serves as a guide in the “Gama”—natural caves where many local people lost their lives during the Battle of...

A nine-minute film with intricate hand-drawn animation and dance.

A misty body of water holds the moving human form, flesh, glass, and fabric placed in iridescent relation. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

For some reason, there is very little snow in the winter of 2020 on the Shiretoko Peninsula, a special place located in the northernmost part of...

Along with vegetable and sea life, the camera is but one element of a sensual ride along a coastal road and playground in this masterful short.

Ayano is out of step with other people her own age. The growing obsession with fruit connects them to Satoko, who tends to the trees. A missing pear...

A girl and a boy brave the cold sea at dusk to observe the little wonders of nature. Equipped with cell phones, they reveal their fascination in...