Haiku Movies

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 ran...

After meeting one day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.

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 collecti...

On the threshold of her old age, Dolores faces a wall full of memories.

Dealing heavily with perceptions of time, Aeon documents the urban cityscape as Wellington transforms through a zen-influenced eternal cycle of birth,...

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...

A still, highly overexposed shot of a car bridge and the river below. A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs h...

A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum.

A poet and a spirit have an ongoing deal: Haiku for life.

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

"he gasps for a breath entwined, then on their back rests, eyes gaze at the sky".

A haiku about a window and a woman.

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 Jap...

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô (1644–1694),the spiritual father of haiku poetry. A monk, portraying the poet, journe...

During the first national lockdown, a nameless man wonders across a barren Hartlepool reflecting on time before the pandemic.