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1987 Graduated from Yokohama National University, began shooting music videos, TV ads and TV shows. Filming began in the 1990s.
With his series "fireworks" Association of the Japanese film director Artist Award. This is the first time this award presented to non-film director.
In 1995, his first feature length movies, starring Miho Nakayama from the "Love Letter" in theaters, and its fresh feel tremendous support of young people, and in Hong Kong and other Asian exhibition is also to be welcomed. A close study of film can be found. The success of the film, rock well before the work was made after another short release, "Dream Traveler" also won the Berlin Film Festival Award examiner.
In 1996 the city issued to stateless near future as the background of the movie "Swallowtail Butterfly" in the release media attention before they can be very hit. Kobayashi musician music for the film. "Swallowtail Butterfly" is one of the few works of Shunji Iwai has a profound theme, complex plots, large investments and many joined the movie star. Chara song also works with the rapid spread Shunji Iwai.
Directed by Takako Matsu in 1998 starring "April Story," took eight months alone, finishing editing, is a pursuit of the perfect director.
2001, Kobayashi Shunji Iwai cooperation again with the description of high school life, shooting the film "All About Lily Chou's" Kobayashi is the singer Lily Chou fictional film written several songs (the actual concert by the Japanese singer Salyu, these pieces because released the critically acclaimed film (and the emergence of some movie Debussy's piano music is also popular), after which the real publication called "Breath" album.
In 2002 he photographed a book entitled "ARITA" short film (included in the "improvised Shorts") and, in the first film where he composed for his films.
2004, Shunji Iwai directed the "Flower and Alice," which is his first comedy, the film's music comes from his hands.
Shunji Iwai next plan is to create the script in his film "Bandage" starring role in the film by the director Ryuhei Kitamura will be released in late 2008. Many fans questioned why he did not direct his own films.
Shunji Iwai - Filmography
Shunji Iwai
"Bandage" 2008 年 writer
"Song of the clouds" music video director in 2007
"I heard that you love me" (also translated the Rainbow Goddess) RainbowSong2006 of Writer / Producer
"City Chuankun Story" TheKonIchikawaStory2006 of writer / director
"Flower and Alice" Hana & Alice2004 of director / producer / composer / playwright
"Improvisation Shorts" JamFilms (one of the "ARITA short film") 2002 Director / Composer
"All About Lily Chou's" (also translated Youth Power Magic Story) AllAboutLilyChou-Chou2001 in director / screenwriter
"Type of day" Ritual2000 of actors
"April Story" AprilStory1998 on director / screenwriter
"Swallowtail Butterfly" Swallowtail1996 on director / screenwriter
"Dream Traveler" Picnic1996 of directors
"Love Letter" (film) LoveLetter1995 of director / screenwriter
"Love's bundled" Undo1994 on director / screenwriter
"Unknown zone" FriedDragonFish1993 on director / screenwriter
"Fireworks" Fireworks, ShouldWeSeeItfromtheSideortheBottom? 1993 年 Director / Writer
"Ghost Soup" GhostSoap1992 on director / screenwriter
Shunji Iwai - representative work
HanaandAlice
Flower and Alice (2004)
This is a film about the growth, the two girls experiencing absurd love triangle error process, become more and more mutual understanding and become mature, the friendship between them and more impregnable. Girls love woven doomed from the start no results, love the dim and hazy from the left, and even cast doubt on whether it is love. But is this just the most real sense of chaos, the most close to the adolescent experience of love - a short, fragile, but people aftertaste ... ...
akaAprilStory
April Story (1998)
Shunji Iwai to prose in the form of portrait of a girl's college life. Fragmentation, fragmentation of the narrative, to fill the gap with a crisp shot on the language and fresh and beautiful background music, so that the "April Story," rather the nature of prose pieces. Despite showing some places the barrier between people and misunderstanding, "April Story" is still quite easy, lyrical, and the period is also shy and innocent crush on an urban fairy tale ... if only ...
LoveLetter
Love Letter (1995)
"Love Letter" is the most familiar Chinese audience Shunji Iwai's works. Not only in China in the world which are regarded as a very one edge of the film, whether it is commercial films or art films like the audience, can not resist the movie comes out of the romantic youth, moved by feelings of sadness and Hiroko Fujii tree romantic memories ... ...
Undo
Youth Power Magic Story (1994)
Story takes place in the vast rural landscape other side of the quiet, small town somewhere. Lin See Yuichi and his mother, stepfather and stepfather's brother brought to live together, same class with him Hoshino mediated repair in the kendo community, two are good friends. Summer, they also went to Okinawa along with community tourism. However, their friendship has changed after the trip ... ...
FriedDragonFish
Unknown Zone (1993)
Operator Apex Detective Agency was sent to investigate a case of theft Super Red Arowana, according to various clues show that the culprits should be changed to fly Tibetan mountain areas in the factory, the scene on his way to meet summer Apex Lang, Lang raised a number of the end of summer Tropical fish, Apex had feelings for him can not help, however, the real identity of the original summer Lang is an international terrorist ... ...
Uchiagehanabi
Fireworks (1993)
Boys and girls between the vague feelings of regret bringing the sentimental, "fireworks" just be called "love letters" of the prototype. In the "fireworks" in this TV movie, Shunji Iwai from the traditional children's film and television works in the assumption that affectation, the people and the emotional experience of childhood portrait of sincere nature. Because of his excellent performance in the film, won the Association of the Japanese film director ... ... Newcomer of the Year Award
Shunji Iwai - Literature
Shunji Iwai "Mermaid" swim China
"Wallace Mermaid"
Famous Japanese director Shunji Iwai's works of fiction writer, "Wallace Mermaid", in September 2008 launched by the South China Sea, the introduction of publishing company.
Shunji Iwai's novel writing elegant, timeless, "Wallace Mermaid" is one of its representative. Mermaid legends to the core of the novel, bold and beautiful imagination suspense was slowed by the plot, the bizarre mystery of the legendary grand spread.
Shunji Iwai - Evaluation of the Characters
Shunji Iwai film composed of youth
Shunji Iwai
Shunji Iwai, Japan, the film director, works with the film "Mermaid Legend", "bundle of love," "Love Letter", "Dream Traveler", "Swallowtail Butterfly", "April Story," and so on.
"Cardamom Love" and translated as "All About Lily Chou's", Length 2 hours 20 minutes, showing that the cruelty of the Internet age group of adolescents, youth. These common obsession "Lily" juvenile songs, chat on the Internet, "Lily" music, talk sense, and talk when the state is the intimate personal, friendly, calm, but in the network, everything becomes not sure, do nothing, and even strangers with each other harm and injury.
Shunji Iwai's film, most of them showing a time and the best years of the past state of the pour, which, Iwai said: "" Love Letter "was my college experience an inner life, memories, I remember this very beautiful to express, and in which to place the complex and for the eternal love, this understanding of things. other live content "Love Letter" did not show it in, then using the "cardamom Love" to describe, a kind of psychological development of the performance of students situation, and the way schools are reasonable.
In his film, "swallowtail" the highest box office in Japan, and he personally thought that "cardamom Love" to be better. The film in Japan, like most teenagers look very happy Iwai this point, he said: "teens holding a movie is interested to look at, and they see a good film to will never forget. "
Shunji Iwai - Star Quotations
Shunji Iwai and Peng Yuyan
1, "I like to work in a completely extreme, whether it is aesthetic or otherwise."
2, "O my character, an analogy, like a lot of the room stood a chair, but I went in side is not to find these chairs, but to find things the other corner, others did not find things, making movies is In this way, I like to do other people do not do the subject matter. "
3, "in commercials and film work is the same movie, there is no negative impact, but I have a liberating feeling, because the broadcast of advertisements sold Buyong often marked with my name, there is no pressure, will have to make movies efforts to pay thousands of times. "
4, "as the film competition is just like playing football, regardless of the outcome, I did not know whether winning the prize, but I was very satisfied with this film, my film did not win often ah."
5, "each piece I make has a lot of pressure, thinking about the next one be better than this, I took this piece is, but I took the process is very happy, I will try to relax. "
6, "recently went to South Korea's Pusan Film Festival, find that young man want to do is film director, to know South Korea is Hing movie, but do not say that Korean films, Hollywood movies or the other, I almost do not see any film, I Just shoot your own movie. "
7, "I am not a genius director, I passed a lot of failures, and then slowly develop a love for movies. Until now, I always worry about writing the script, these things are made into a film, it will not change cartridge dust mask over into no one ignored. I think that with all the best life can not shoot a film. "
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