
Personal Info
Place of Birth
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Directing
Kaori Oda
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 Movies (24)

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GAMA
Movie2025

5.5
Underground
Movie2025

0.0
FUKUSHIMA with BÉLA TARR
Movie2025
No Backdrop
6.0
Recording with Mother "Working Hands"
Movie2025
No Backdrop
0.0
Black Red Ultramarine White Lemon
Movie2024
No Backdrop
0.0
Lighthouse
Movie2024
No Backdrop
7.0
Karaoke Cafe BOSA
Movie2022

0.0
Would You Like to Go to the Cinema Today?
Movie2022
No Backdrop
0.0
Homo Mobilitas
Movie2022
No Backdrop
0.0
Night Train
Movie2021
No Backdrop
0.0
colere-ON: Sep 27 - Oct 5
Movie2021

5.0
Cenote
Movie2020
No Backdrop
0.0
Night Cruise
Movie2019
No Backdrop
6.0
Church of the Wind
Movie2018

0.0
TUNE
Movie2018

6.0
Aragane
Movie2017
No Backdrop
6.0
Toward a Common Tenderness
Movie2017
No Backdrop
0.0
Theory of Colours: prologue
Movie2017
No Backdrop
7.0
TEN
Movie2017
No Backdrop
8.0
FLASH
Movie2015
No Backdrop
0.0
Lost in Bosnia
Movie2014
No Backdrop
0.0
Conniving
Movie2014
No Backdrop
3.5
Thus a Noise Speaks
Movie2012
No Backdrop
0.0
The Thread of Red Cocoons
Movie2012