Shunji Iwai (岩井 俊二, Iwai Shunji, born 24 January 1963) is a Japanese film director, video artist, writer and documentary maker.

Filmography

• 2025Hanataba — Executive Producer
• 2025World Map — Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
• Luca on the Road — Director, Screenplay, Creator
• 2023A Summer Solstice Story — Writer, Director
• 2023From the End of the World — Teacher
• 2023Kyrie — Editor, Screenplay, Director
• Lemon-Colored Dream — Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
• 2022Ribbon
• Even If I Could Find You In My Dreams — Cinematography, Director, Writer, Editor
• 2020Last Letter — Co-Producer, Novel, Screenplay, Director, Editor
• 2020Little Letter — Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
• 2020The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 — Editor, Screenplay, Director of Photography
• The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 — Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
• 2019ZARD yo Eien nare Sakai Izumi no Uta wa Kou Umareta
• 2018Last Letter — Music, Editor, Novel, Executive Producer, Director, Screenplay
• 2017Chang-ok's Letter — Writer, Director
• Chang-ok's Letter — Director, Writer, Music, Editor
• 2017Fireworks — Original Film Writer
• 2016A Bride for Rip Van Winkle — Novel, Editor, Director, Screenplay, Producer
• A Bride for Rip Van Winkle: Serial Edition — Screenplay, Editor, Director, Novel, Producer
• 2016Yen Town Space in Inujima — Director, Editor
• 2015Anno-san and Our Reckless Challenge: Japan Animator Expo
• 2015Cities in Love — Executive Producer
• 2015The Case of Hana & Alice — Editor, Writer, Director, Producer, Original Music Composer, Original Story
• Mysterious Transfer Student — Producer, Editor, Screenplay
• 2014Town Workers — Writer, Director
• 2013Far Away, So Close — Music
• 2012I Have to Buy New Shoes — Producer, Editor, Director of Photography, Executive Producer
• 2011Documentary of AKB48 The Future 1mm Ahead — Executive Producer
• 2011Friends After 3.11 — Director, Editor
• 2011Vampire — Producer, Writer, Director, Music, Editor, Director of Photography
• 2010Bandage — Producer, Screenplay
• 2009Baton — Writer, Producer
• Baton — Writer, Producer
• 2009Halfway — Editor, Producer, Executive Producer
• 2008New York, I Love You — Writer, Editor, Director
• 2006Rainbow Song — Screenplay, Producer
• 2006The Kon Ichikawa Story — Director, Music, Editor, Screenplay
• 2005Filming H&A
• 2004Hana & Alice — Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Music
• Hana & Alice — Original Music Composer, Director, Writer, Editor
• 2003Once upon a time returning to my hometown
• 2003The Railway and the Girl — Camera Operator
• 2002All About "All About Lily Chou-Chou" — Director
• 2002Arita — Director, Editor, Music, Writer
• 2002Jam Films — Writer, Director, Editor, Music
• 2002Triumphal March and 30 Days of Their Own — Editor, Director
• 2001All About Lily Chou-Chou — Director, Creator, Editor, Writer
• 2001Gift of the Magi — Executive Producer
• 2000Ritual — Director
• 1999GAMERA 1999 — Co-Producer
• 1999The Boys Wanted to See Fireworks from the Side — Director
• 1998April Story — Writer, Director, Music, Editor
• 1997Knit Cap Man — Director
• 1996ACRI: The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius — Story
• 1996Picnic — Director, Writer
• 1996Swallowtail Butterfly — Director, Editor, Screenplay, Original Story
• 1996円都 YEN TOWN
• 1995Love Letter — Director, Screenplay, Editor
• 1994Lunatic Love — Director
• 1994Undo — Director, Writer
• 1993Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? — Director, Screenplay
• 1993Fried Dragon Fish — Writer, Director
• 1993The Snow King — Director
• if: Moshimo — Director, Teleplay
• 1992A Canned Crab — Director
• 1992A Summer Solstice Story — Director, Editor, Writer
• 1992Blood-sucking Tree — Director
• 1992Ghost Soup — Director, Writer, Editor
• 1992Maria — Screenplay, Director
• 1992Omelette — Director, Screenplay
• 1991The Man Who Came To Kill — Director, Writer
• 1991Unknown Child — Director, Writer
• Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen — Director
• 1987M.B. MOVIE
• Late Summer by ZERO — Writer, Director
• The Nuke Crab — Writer, Producer, Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2024Lily, I am crying — Self
• 20th year reunion — self