Kei Shichiri Movies

A sea voyage steered in a “direction without direction.” A single-screen version of a video performance piece created and exhibited...

A dance film produced in collaboration with renowned dance and choreographer Ikuyo KURODA and commissioned by popular Japanese rock band Clammbon....

Mieko and Ena decide to co-write a novel together under a single pseudonym. But then Ena begins to act strangely, spending her nights obsessively...

A single-screen version of a multi-projection installation exhibited in Kyoto in 2016 and Nara the following year. The director’s statement...

A documentary that focuses on an installation called “Busshitsu Shiko 51: DUBHOUSE” (Experience in Material No.51: DUBHOUSE) by architect...

The ghost of her young mother appears to a gray-haired cleaning lady and laments her daughter’s life of loneliness, having borne no children....

For the film’s 10th anniversary, experimental filmmaker Kei Shichiri (DUBHOUSE, JAPAN CUTS 2015) presents an all-new sound and image...

The second work made using the same soundtrack, the same recited text, as “Salome’s Daughter: Another Side (First Fruits)”. This...

A Kafkaesque porno like "Silence of the Lambs"

Gōzō Yoshimasu is one of Japan’s leading poets, still prolific into his ninth decade. This film documents his 2019 performance of Se...

When did film and music first encounter one another? In the beginning, film had no voice. Even so, he must have heard the sounds that emanated as he...

A female prison guard arrives to conduct a psychiatric evaluation of an 18-year-old female inmate. But what awaits her? Lesbianism, S&M, rape, gang...

After falling asleep on a bus, a boy arrives in a town that feels both strangely familiar and completely unknown. There he meets a girl who seems to...

This film is not silent. However, only the voices of its two characters have been removed from the everyday sounds that surround them, so the viewer...

A woman talks about mother. Her words become a dance, and the story begins. An enigmatic note has been left on the table: “I’m going to...

I am a cleaning woman. My hair has turned white, and the days simply pass by without meaning. Then, the ghost of my mother appears before me in her...

When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never...

TheForbidden pure love story, based on the original work of Junichi Watanabe. Chitani Moriya is an ordinary 25-year-old office worker who is driven...

A short collaborative piece commissioned by chamber orchestra Caisse Resonante, made to accompany one of their original compositions. It is also a...

A young woman’s shadow appears in a library at night, where it happens upon the frozen figure of a young man. His romantic interest thus...