Kaori Oda

Directing·Osaka Prefecture, Japan

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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.

Film	Credit
A Very Straight Neck2025 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
GAMA2025 · Director	Director
Underground2025 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer	Director, Director of Photography, Writer
FUKUSHIMA with BÉLA TARR2025 · Actor, Director, Director of Photography	Actor, Director, Director of Photography
Recording with Mother "Working Hands"2025 · Director	Director
BBy the Sea2024 · Director	Director
KKandachime2024 · Director	Director
Black Red Ultramarine White Lemon2024 · Director	Director
Lighthouse2024 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
Karaoke Cafe BOSA2022 · Director	Director
Would You Like to Go to the Cinema Today?2022 · Director	Director
Homo Mobilitas2022 · Director	Director
Night Train2021 · Director	Director
colere-ON: Sep 27 - Oct 52021 · Director	Director
Cenote2020 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer	Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer
Night Cruise2019 · Director	Director
Church of the Wind2018 · Director	Director
TUNE2018 · Director	Director
Aragane2017 · Director of Photography, Director	Director of Photography, Director
Toward a Common Tenderness2017 · Herself, Director, Writer	Herself, Director, Writer
Theory of Colours: prologue2017 · Director	Director
TEN2017 · Director	Director
FLASH2015 · Director	Director
Lost in Bosnia2014 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Conniving2014 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Thus a Noise Speaks2012 · Actor, Director, Writer	Actor, Director, Writer
The Thread of Red Cocoons2012 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer