Movies: Fireworks

The Katakai Festival, one of Niigata and Echigo's Three Great Fireworks Festivals, has a 400-year history. Held annually on September 9th and 10th in Katakai Town, it features fireworks dedicated to Asahara Shrine, filled with wishes and prayers. Hig...

Animation by Katomomo. Music by Kazune Yamagata....

Stark 70s firework safety film which mixes the everyday and the uncanny....

A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity....

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Futako, a woman made from the remains of fireworks, is fated to explode at the fireworks festival this summer. After spending time with Ichiro, she forgets her role as a firework and is forcibly reincarnated at a special ritual....

A gentle love story from the harsh environment of northern Bohemia....

The film tells the story of young people who grew up around a 330-year-old fireworks factory that is about to be forcibly evicted. Keitarō has shut himself in the factory for four years to perfect the legendary "Shuhari" firework in place of his abse...

Documentary reveals how fireworks are made, how they create their effects and how pyrotechnicians design and execute firework displays....