Film “particle dance” Confirmed for Nationwide Release 2026.02.24

We are pleased to announce that the documentary film “particle dance” featuring Kengo Kuma will be released on Saturday, March 21, 2026, at Theatre Image Forum (Shibuya, Tokyo).

For more details, please visit the official website.

【Film Overview】
Title: particle dance
Year: 2025 | Japan | 145 minutes | Color | 1.78:1 | 4K | 5.1ch | DCP
Featuring: Kengo Kuma
Director / Cinematographer / Editor / Producer: Hiromoto Oka
Music: Kazuma Fujimoto
Sound Design: Michiaki Katsumoto
Title Calligraphy: Taku Furukawa

Spanning fifteen years since 2010, director Hiromoto Oka independently produced this film in an effort to preserve for future generations the works and wisdom of his former university mentor, architect Kengo Kuma. Self-taught and operating the camera himself, Oka documented more than 80 architectural projects across 16 countries.
Beginning shortly before the Great East Japan Earthquake, the film captures Kuma’s reconstruction projects in the Tohoku region, as well as his work surrounding the Tokyo 2020 Games and the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout these changing times, Kuma continuously questioned and redefined the role of architecture. The film portrays his daily travels, creative process, and approach to architectural education in a poetic, fragmentary style reminiscent of linked verses.
In particular, through recorded footage of reconstruction efforts and everyday life in places such as Minamisanriku, Rikuzentakata, and Tome, the film conveys the resilience and collective wisdom of the Japanese people in the face of recovery.