Shirakawa Koji (1967, Miyazaki) studied film directing at the Image Forum Institute of Moving Images in Tokyo.<br />

Koji Shirakawa

Raw experimental film made with a revealing and occasionally painful honesty. The film-maker empathises with the world of thought of his handicapped brother.

IFFR 2000

Sight Behind the Bandaged Eye, The

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The Sight Behind the Bandaged Eye

Two-part film gets into the head of two prostitutes, a young rent boy and a woman of thirty. In powerful, expressionist images, filled with sexual frankness, a wounding sense of loss is portrayed.

IFFR 2002

Zipper and Tits, 

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Zipper and Tits

The film-maker was forced as a child to write with his right hand while he was left-handed. Experimental and painfully honest way to come to terms with a trauma.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Koji Shirakawa

Filmography

Koji Shirakawa at IFFR

Discipline for the Left-Handed

The Sight Behind the Bandaged Eye

Zipper and Tits