Jyowa
2015, English. Directed by Daniel Costa Neves & Pedro Diniz Reis.
communicating through ropes
Jyowa is a made-up word created by Yukimura Sensei which merges the characters for “rope” and for “speaking or communicating”, hence it can be translated as “communicating through ropes” or “rope stories”. This project was started in Tokyo in 2011 as a documentary film, yet it ended up becoming more of an aesthetic experience that takes the viewer into the unique universe of five of Japan’s top rope artists (by order of appearance): Naka Akira, Yukimura Haruki, Nawashi Kanna, Urado Hiroshi and Hajime Kinoko. In each of the the five chapters we can see two people taking a journey into a deep and profound level of communication in which rope takes a very special place.
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NC-17
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- Released
- 1 January 2015
- Country
- Japan
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Jyowa runs 110 minutes (1h 50m).
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Jyowa is rated NC-17 in India. Check the rating guidance before watching with young children.
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Jyowa isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 2015. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
What movies are like Jyowa?
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Who directed Jyowa?
Jyowa (2015) was directed by Daniel Costa Neves and Pedro Diniz Reis and stars Akira Nakata, Nozomi Mashiro, Haruki Yukimura.