いわい しゅんじ: watch order

The movies in the series, sorted by release date. Total runtime: 22 h 31 min.

1. 
   Movie 1

   Fried Dragon Fish (1993)

   50 min · ★ 6.4

   A dragon fish is stolen by Tetsu Tobiyama and biologist Thomas Earwing seeks its return. Poo is led to Natsuro after she worms her way into a top secret file at Delta headquarters for information.

2. 
   Movie 2

   Undo (1994)

   47 min · ★ 6.0

   Moemi is not overly pleased when Yukio brings home a couple of turtles to keep her company. Although Yukio works at home as a writer, Moemi feels neglected and desired a dog or a cat, but neither is allowed in their…

3. 
   Movie 3

   Love Letter (1995)

   1 h 57 min · ★ 7.8

   Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in…

4. 
   Movie 4

   Picnic (1996)

   1 h 12 min · ★ 6.8

   Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of the walls of the city, they seek to find a picnic spot with the best…

5. 
   Movie 5

   Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)

   2 h 28 min · ★ 7.5

   The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

6. 
   Movie 6

   April Story (1998)

   1 h 7 min · ★ 7.1

   In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in the first place.

7. 
   Movie 7

   All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

   2 h 26 min · ★ 7.5

   Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract…

8. 
   Movie 8

   Rainbow Song (2006)

   1 h 57 min · ★ 7.5

   Tomoya Kishida is working as a staffer in a television studio when he hears about the death of his close friend, Aoi Sato. This sparks his recollection of the events in life they shared from meeting at a record store,…

9. 
   Movie 9

   Halfway (2009)

   1 h 25 min · ★ 6.0

   A high school couple experiences young love and heartache as they're faced with the prospect of long-distance dating after graduation.

10. 
    Movie 10

    A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (2016)

    2 h 59 min · ★ 6.9

    A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.

11. 
    Movie 11

    Fireworks (2017)

    1 h 30 min · ★ 6.6

    Moshimo, Japan. The annual fireworks festival is about to take place and a group of schoolboys, arguing over whether they are round or flat when viewed from different angles, set out to find it out.

12. 
    Movie 12

    Last Letter (2018)

    1 h 53 min · ★ 6.3

    All Yuan Zhinan has left behind when she passed away is a letter and an invitation to a school reunion. Attending the reunion in lieu of her late elder sister, Zhihua accidentally runs into Yin Chuan, on whom she had a…

13. 
    Movie 13

    Last Letter (2020)

    2 h · ★ 7.0

    It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the task of informing the deceased's friends of the death while the…