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Born in 1987 in Japan, Nao Yoshigai is a filmmaker, dancer and choreographer. Her film is “dancing.” She choreographs image and sound for time to focus on “watching and listening” as a motion picture, based on physical sense and phenomena which are unique for living things. ‘Grand Bouquet’ is selected to the Directors’ Fortnight in 2019.
Total trailers found: 13
23 May 2019
A helpless woman confronts a “black object” with a power greater than hers. The “black object” shoots her questions.
16 April 2021
A nine-minute film with intricate hand-drawn animation and dance.
29 June 2019
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.
01 January 2018
A misty body of water holds the moving human form, flesh, glass, and fabric placed in iridescent relation.
17 July 2020
Rolling along on a bike or floating in a doctor’s office’s seasonal hamster display, Wheel Music explores the aesthetic feeling and social character of Sendagi, an old town in Tokyo under urban development in preparation for the planned Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.
01 March 2025
A shadow reveals its form from the darkness underground. It communicates with a woman's consciousness, and she begins to see fragmentary memories that transcend time and place, as if daydreaming.
01 January 2017
Last gasps of the Seiza-sha house in Kyoto devoted to Torajiro Okada’s still-sitting meditation method from the late-Meiji era’s intercultural ferment.
27 July 2018
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.
16 February 2026
After her mother’s death, Nao retreats to a Zen temple to wrestle with grief. Blending family archives, hand-drawn animation and performance art, this seductively meditative documentary explores suffering, and the gentle art of transcending it.
26 January 2021
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 Japan where rare wild animals coexist with humans.
21 June 2025
A storyteller of peace serves as a guide in the “Gama”—natural caves where many local people lost their lives during the Battle of Okinawa.
17 April 2021
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 front of the luminescent and strange creatures that inhabit the sea.
15 October 2016
A female musician lives in a traditionally built Japanese house. There are spirits running around the house that she cannot see.
