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Shunji Iwai

Director · 55 credits · 18 in highly-rated films

Best known for Love Letter (1995)

Frequent collaborators: Ayako Fujitani

Best Shunji Iwai movies by genre

Directed movies (44 total, ranked by score)

  1. Love Letter

    1995 · ★ 7.8 (269 votes)

    Drama, Romance

    1

  2. All About Lily Chou-Chou

    2001 · ★ 7.4 (309 votes)

    Drama, Crime

    2

  3. Swallowtail Butterfly

    1996 · ★ 7.5 (101 votes)

    Drama, Crime, Music

    3

  4. The Case of Hana & Alice

    2015 · ★ 7.3 (172 votes)

    Animation, Comedy, Mystery

    4

  5. April Story

    1998 · ★ 7.1 (132 votes)

    Romance, Drama

    5

  6. Jam Films

    2002 · ★ 7.9 (23 votes)

    Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

    6

  7. A Bride for Rip Van Winkle

    2016 · ★ 6.9 (75 votes)

    Drama, Romance

    7

  8. Hana & Alice

    2004 · ★ 7.0 (138 votes)

    Drama, Comedy, Romance

    8

  9. New York, I Love You

    2008 · ★ 6.0 (607 votes)

    Comedy, Drama, Romance

    9

  10. Picnic

    1996 · ★ 6.8 (78 votes)

    Drama, Adventure

    10

  11. The Snow King

    1993 · ★ 6.5 (2 votes)

    Drama

    11

  12. Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?

    1993 · ★ 7.1 (39 votes)

    Drama, Romance

    12

  13. Kyrie

    2023 · ★ 7.5 (10 votes)

    Drama, Music

    13

  14. Last Letter

    2020 · ★ 7.0 (28 votes)

    Romance, Drama

    14

  15. The Boys Wanted to See Fireworks from the Side

    1999 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    15

  16. Last Letter

    2018 · ★ 6.2 (18 votes)

    Romance, Drama

    16

  17. The Kon Ichikawa Story

    2006 · ★ 7.0 (7 votes)

    Documentary

    17

  18. Fried Dragon Fish

    1993 · ★ 6.3 (9 votes)

    Crime

    18

  19. Friends After 3.11

    2011 · ★ 7.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    19

  20. Vampire

    2011 · ★ 6.0 (56 votes)

    Drama, Horror

    20

  21. Omelette

    1992 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    TV Movie, Comedy, Drama

    21

  22. Ghost Soup

    1992 · ★ 6.6 (12 votes)

    Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

    22

  23. Undo

    1994 · ★ 5.9 (30 votes)

    Drama, Romance

    23

  24. Town Workers

    2014 · ★ 7.5 (2 votes)

    Animation

    24

  25. A Summer Solstice Story

    2023 · ★ 9.0 (1 votes)

    TV Movie, Drama

    25

  26. The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8

    2020 · ★ 5.6 (8 votes)

    Science Fiction

    26

  27. World Map

    2025

    Drama

    27

  28. Chang-ok's Letter

    2017 · ★ 5.3 (9 votes)

    Drama, Family

    28

  29. Lunatic Love

    1994 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Horror, TV Movie

    29

  30. The Man Who Came To Kill

    1991 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)

    Horror, TV Movie

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 28, 2026.