Directing
Kaori Oda
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Biography
Kaori Oda, born in Osaka, Japan in 1987, is a filmmaker and artist. In 2016, she completed a Doctor of Liberal Arts in filmmaking in Sarajevo, supervised by Béla Tarr. Aragane (2015), shot in a Bosnian coal mine, premiered at Yamagata International Film Festival. Toward a Common Tenderness (2017) had its world premiere at DOK Leipzig and TS’ONOT / Cenote (2019), shot in underwater caves in Yucatán, premiered in Rotterdam. GAMA (2023) screened at MoMA Doc Fortnight and Cinéma du Réel. Oda received the Nagisa Oshima Prize in 2020 and the New Face Award of the Japanese Education Minister in 2021.
Directed Films
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GAMA
2025·Documentary
5.5
Underground
2025·Documentary
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FUKUSHIMA with BÉLA TARR
2025·Documentary
6.0
Recording with Mother "Working Hands"
2025·Documentary
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Black Red Ultramarine White Lemon
2024
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Lighthouse
2024
7.0
Karaoke Cafe BOSA
2022·Drama
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Would You Like to Go to the Cinema Today?
2022·Animation
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Homo Mobilitas
2022
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Night Train
2021·Drama
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colere-ON: Sep 27 - Oct 5
2021
5.0
Cenote
2020·Documentary
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Night Cruise
2019·Documentary
6.0
Church of the Wind
2018·Drama
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TUNE
2018
6.0
Aragane
2017·Documentary
6.0
Toward a Common Tenderness
2017·Documentary
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Theory of Colours: prologue
2017·Documentary
7.0
TEN
2017
8.0
FLASH
2015·Documentary
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Lost in Bosnia
2014·Documentary
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Conniving
2014·Documentary
3.5
Thus a Noise Speaks
2012·Drama
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The Thread of Red Cocoons
2012·Drama