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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Debeso

    Picaresque road-movie set in the early sixties in rural Japan, a chronicle of a travelling theatre company that wants to break its ties with the…
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  • Memories of Summer

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  • Without Memory

    Documentary by the maker of Maborosi about the head of a Japanese family who gets Wernicke’s Encephalopathy, a memory disorder, after a medical interv
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  • Onibi: the Fire Within

    Mochizuki’s second co-operative venture with the writer Yamanouchi may well be the most intense moving (anti) Yakuza film ever made.
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  • Sleeping Man

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  • Man of the Story

    Poetic and political film against the historical background of a Southern Indian state follows the life of a petit-bourgeois country kid as he grows u
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  • Cure

    Original variation on the serial-killer film. Insane psychology student has dangerous hypnotic powers.
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  • The Outer Way

    Very bizarre and ambiguous ‘moral drama’ may be Mochizuki’s best film so far. the cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of…
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  • Another Lonely Hitman

    Mood film marks co-operation between the director with the ex-Yakuza-lawyer Yamanouchi Yukio and the ex-punk-rock star Ishibashi Ryo as hitman in this
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  • Postman Blues

    Entertaining and refined feature about the conscientious postman Sawaki who happens to become important to Yakuza and police. Full of hilarious moment
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