Shin'ya Kawai
Known for Production
Born
December 10, 1958 (age 67)
Filmography
29 films
Known for Production
Born
December 10, 1958 (age 67)
Filmography
29 films

2LDK
2003 · 1h 10m
country: Japan
Hoping to land a role, two Japanese actresses begin a fight within their apartment that keeps escalating.

Aragami
2003 · 1h 16m
country: Japan
Two seriously wounded samurai find refuge from a storm at an isolated temple, the home of a swordsman and a mysterious young woman. One samurai awakes to find that not only has his comrade died, but that his wounds have miraculously healed. He discovers that he has been given the power of immortality by the swordsman, a man once known as the legendary Miyamoto Musashi, who now lives an endless existence as Aragami, a "god of battle".

Jam Films
2002 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.

Yi Yi
2000 · 2h 54m
country: Taiwan
A Taipei family faces personal and moral uncertainty as everyday events test their relationships and sense of purpose.

The Island Tales
2000 · 1h 43m
country: Hong Kong
A group of disparate characters find themselves trapped overnight on a island somewhere off the coast of mainland China. The circumstances force them to overlook their preconceptions of one another, and they forge a kinship that goes to the heart their identities.

Sennen-Tabito
1999 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
Knowing that he has only a month to live, a pianist goes back to his beloved ocean. He meets a girl with a broken leg. She is the daughter of his dearest woman who died many years ago. The relationship between them becomes closer. They rescue a man who tries to commit suicide. When the pianist is nearing his end, that man finds love in the girl's heart...

Ring
1998 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

円都 YEN TOWN
1996 · 1h
country: Japan
Making-of documentary for Swallowtail Butterfly

Swallowtail Butterfly
1996 · 2h 28m
country: Japan
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

ACRI: The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius
1996 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
A scientist desperately wanting to prove that mermaids exist is ostracized from the scientific community in Japan. He settles down in Australia steadfast on his hypothesis. When a Japanese student visits him in Australia with strange questions about mermaids, how the young man survived in the ocean, and why he doesn't remember anything.

Kappa
1994 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
As famous photographer, Yuta Suzumori's (Tatsuya Fuji) health is worsening he tells a childhood story of when he saw a kappa in his hometown village of Kitagawa.

The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
A lone-wolf detective known as "The Shark" must navigate hostile territory within both the criminal underworld and his own corrupt department to hunt down a ruthless serial cop-killer in the streets of Shinjuku. Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.

Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
A comedy about a young woman who has terminal cancer.

Twinkle
1992 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a ‘good’ Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love with a young male college student.

Cover as Many Waves as Possible
1991 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
The year is 1982, and the place is Shōnan in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. A group of passionate young people operate a beach radio station for the local community.

Let's Go to the Hospital
1990 · 1h 58m
country: Japan
When a hard-driving copywriter (Hiroyuki Sanada) discovers his comely wife (Keiko Saito) is involved in a scintillating game of strip rock-paper-scissors with some guy clad only in a pair of boxer shorts and Mickey Mouse ears, he is less than happy. When the stranger tries to make a run for it, a fight ensues between the two men, and they accidentally tumble down several flights of a concrete stairwell. One hurried ambulance ride later, the copywriter finds himself in a private teaching hospital equipped with the latest gleaming gizmos. Meanwhile, a young internist (Hiroko Yakushimaru) girds herself for her first emergency room case -- the battered copywriter. After giving a curt bow and a nervous "Good Evening," she accidentally jams a syringe into his bloody wound. Soon the absurdity of their situation, along with their medical misery, binds the two men and their blundering nurse together.

The Enchantment
1989 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for consultation...

The Juliet Game
1989 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
Romantic comedy about a school teacher.

The Yen Family
1988 · 1h 53m
country: Japan
Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of a strange family that works together to accumulate a small amount of money, while mixing irony and satire.

Sukeban Deka the Movie 2: Counter-Attack of the Kazama Sisters
1988 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
After the events of the previous film, the 17 years-old Sukeban Deka III, Yui Kazama, works for the Juvenile Security Bureau along with her older sisters Yuka and Yuma. This organization is led by politician Kuraudo Sekin, who fights juvenile crime in heavy-handed manners, to the extent to equip his student agents with triple-bladed yo-yo weapons. However, when Sekin's methods become too zealous, Yui quits the bureau and refuses to undertake undercover missions for them. It is soon discovered that Sekin's actual goal is to overthrow the Japanese government, and the Kazama sisters, along with a gang of young outcasts, have to stop him.

There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
1987 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather to a young officer named Shinobu Ijuin. Because of his family’s noble status, Benio must first undergo rigorous training to learn how to be a proper bride and wife before she can marry. However, because of her vivacious personality, this proves to me more challenging than anyone imagined.

Take Me Out to the Snowland
1987 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
Fumio Yano is an unassuming young businessman in the ski wear line. His own skiing ability is close to professional level, and he assists a former world champion, Tayama, on the sales team. Fumio meets and falls in love with Yu, a young secretary, but initially finds it hard to express his true feelings for her. A St Valentine's Day fashion show provides an unexpected backdrop for crisis resolution, and a mad scramble ensues to beat the clock and make it to a neighboring ski resort in time for the press and photographers. A pack of chocolate is a symbol of true love...