Renoir

Play trailer

1:57

Renoir

May 2026

2h 2m

Drama

Play Trailer

Watchlist

Watchlist

Tomatometer

Popcornmeter

89%

Tomatometer

53 Reviews

Popcornmeter

Fewer than 50 Ratings

Suburban Tokyo, 1987. Imaginative eleven-year-old Fuki begins her summer break lonely and adrift -- her kind, terminally ill father has landed once again in the hospital and her mother, distracted by the inevitability of his diagnosis, hasn't much time for her daughter. Fuki responds to the situation not with tears but with placid curiosity about the prospect of death -- becoming fascinated by the occult and experimenting with hypnotism. As the summer passes, Fuki encounters a string of lonely, imperfect adults, all of whom nudge her closer to an emotional truth she isn't quite ready to name yet. Chie Hayakawa's sophomore feature is a tender, often unsettling portrait of childhood grief and the sinuous imagination of an inquisitive young girl. Led by transfixing newcomer Yui Suzuki, RENOIR "delicately articulates the girl's inner child in a way that allows us to feel it expand across the season," (IndieWire) and "steps to a delicate rhythm whose echo isn't heard until the very end" (RogerEbert.com).

Watch on Fandango

Stream Now

Critics Consensus

A restrained meditation on grief, Renoir gradually accumulates a big emotional wallop thanks in large part to Yui Susuzki's guileless performance.

Read Critics Reviews

Tim Cogshell

Alt Film Guide

Jun 17, 2026

3.5

Inspired by events in her own childhood, Chie Hayakawa’s surrealistic coming-of-age drama is both esoteric and memorable. Yui Suzuki stars as its deceptively easygoing central character.

Go to Full Review

Tim Grierson

Los Angeles Times

Jun 8, 2026

Renoir may be a delicate wisp of a film, but it’s flecked with thoughtful questioning about whether childhood’s sorrows leave permanent scars on us as adults.

Go to Full Review

Carlos Aguilar

RogerEbert.com

May 29, 2026

It's bold and admirable to make a film centered around a complicated child protagonist that doesn’t strive to appease what audiences have come to expect from these types of stories.

Go to Full Review

Guilherme Quireza

PopMatters

Jun 11, 2026

Chie Hayakawa’s deeply personal Renoir is a harsh and intimate portrait of childhood, examining a grief that arrives without clear form or catharsis.

Go to Full Review

Filipe Freitas

Always Good Movies

Jun 6, 2026

2/5

A coming-of-age drama that, struggling to find a consistently satisfying rhythm, timidly engages with supernatural elements.

Go to Full Review

Laura Hiros

Rincón de cine

Jun 5, 2026

3/5

The film demands your full attention and patience, but every second is rewarded by the journey alongside Fuki (an extraordinary Yui Suzuki) and her imagination [Full Review in Spanish]

Go to Full Review

Read all reviews

James H

@1012_5221_ Jun 12, 2026

I caught this film at a festival last year. It was beautiful, immersive, and at moments tense. We were lucky enough to have the director in attendance and a short Q&A followed the screening. I have been waiting since for this film to get distribution, and now that it has, I'll be catching it a couple more times during this short run. This is a film that will be 'fine' on streaming, but seeing it in a theatre can't be beat.

See more

Stephen C

@bob25009 May 29, 2026

The worldwide gross is $244,315.00.

See more

Russell J. T

@Mnbear3 Apr 17, 2026

My biggest and probably only gripe with this movie is titling it "Renoir " when in fact the only Renoir reference in this movie is a small framed portrait of Renoir that hangs in the young girl’s room. It’s quite a misleading title as it stands…. (I should explain that the local theater did not use the tile you see here with the young girl’s face …. Instead they used an impressionist wash background of blues and greens w simply " Renoir" on it….. So we thought we were going to a film about Renoir!! Took a bit of adjusting to settle into a different mindset but we did. Lesson learned: Read summaries/ reviews before booking! :)

See more

Read all reviews

Read More

Read Less

WRITE A REVIEW

EDIT REVIEW

POST RATING

Chie Hayakawa

Director

Yui Suzuki

Fuki Okita

Hikari Ishida

Utako Okita

Ayumu Nakajima

Toru Omaezaki

Yumi Kawai

Kuriko Kita

Ryota Bando

Kaoru Hamano

Little Women

95%

92%

Little Women

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Little Women

Aftersun

96%

82%

Aftersun

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Aftersun

Malu

100%

%

Malu

Watchlist

Good Side of Bad

%

100%

Good Side of Bad

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Good Side of Bad

The Quiet Girl

97%

94%

The Quiet Girl

Watchlist

TRAILER

for The Quiet Girl

Discover more movies and TV shows.

View More

Renoir: Trailer 1

1:57

Now Playing

View more videos

View more photos

Synopsis

Suburban Tokyo, 1987. Imaginative eleven-year-old Fuki begins her summer break lonely and adrift -- her kind, terminally ill father has landed once again in the hospital and her mother, distracted by the inevitability of his diagnosis, hasn't much time for her daughter. Fuki responds to the situation not with tears but with placid curiosity about the prospect of death -- becoming fascinated by the occult and experimenting with hypnotism. As the summer passes, Fuki encounters a string of lonely, imperfect adults, all of whom nudge her closer to an emotional truth she isn't quite ready to name yet. Chie Hayakawa's sophomore feature is a tender, often unsettling portrait of childhood grief and the sinuous imagination of an inquisitive young girl. Led by transfixing newcomer Yui Suzuki, RENOIR "delicately articulates the girl's inner child in a way that allows us to feel it expand across the season," (IndieWire) and "steps to a delicate rhythm whose echo isn't heard until the very end" (RogerEbert.com).

Director: Chie Hayakawa
Producer: Eiko Mizuno Gray, Jason Gray
Screenwriter: Chie Hayakawa
Distributor: Film Movement
Production Co: Loaded Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Theaters): May 29, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 31, 2026
Runtime: 2h 2m

Join The Newsletter

Join The Newsletter

Cookie Settings