We are pleased to announce that particle dance, a documentary film on Kengo Kuma, will open on Saturday, March 21, 2026, at Theatre Image Forum (Shibuya, Tokyo), followed by a nationwide rollout. For details, please visit the official website: https://www.particledance.jp/
Film Overview
Title: particle dance 2025 | Japan | 145 min | Color | 1.78:1 | 4K | 5.1ch | DCP Featuring: Kengo Kuma Written, Directed, Shot, Edited & Produced by: Hiromoto Oka Music: Kazuma Fujimoto / Sound Design: Michiaki Katsumoto / Title Calligraphy: Taku Furukawa
This documentary chronicles a fifteen-year journey following architect Kengo Kuma. Beginning in 2010, director Hiromoto Oka, a former student of Kuma, independently produced the film, teaching himself filmmaking and personally traveling with a single camera to document over eighty architectural projects across sixteen countries. As poetic and fragmented as a Japanese haiku, the film takes the form of a linked-verse sequence, sketching Kuma’s daily life on the road and his engagement in architectural education as he continually questions and proposes new possibilities for architecture through events including the Tohoku reconstruction projects following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the Tokyo 2020 Games, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Tohoku sections, through documentary footage of the reconstruction process and everyday life in communities such as Minamisanriku, Rikuzentakata, and Tome, convey the wisdom of recovery that resides in the Japanese people.