Movies: Haiku

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

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 range from the humorous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little conflicts, pro...

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 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the t...

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her f...

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker....

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

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

Dealing heavily with perceptions of time, Aeon documents the urban cityscape as Wellington transforms through a zen-influenced eternal cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth within a 24-hour period....

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

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen...

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker....

A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô (1644–1694), the spiritual father of haiku poetry. A monk, portraying the poet, journeys through Japan, following Bashô's journal and writing many of his haikus. A ruminant, poetic, Zen ...

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

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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 in flight stays motionless in the air. The second haiku, 'Owl Gets in Your Eyes', shows Catherine B...

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 Japanese poems known as “Haiku”....

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

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

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

A haiku about a window and a woman....