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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • The Wicked Reporter – The One That Got Away

    Part III of the ‘mischievous reporter’ is a fast, raw, even ‘philosophical’ film full of sex, violence and gambling in low-life circles.
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  • A Story Written on Water

    Yoshida’s first independent production and the first of six stylistically dazzling ‘anti-melodramas’, all starring Okada Mariko. The erotic compulsion
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  • Japanese Devils

    14 veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army talk about their experiences in China, which most of the time means the crimes and atrocities they committed
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  • A Yakuza in Love

    Playful film bordering on comic turns radically in mood at the end. Tazaka has been healed of his heroin addiction, but his release drives him…
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  • Kamui

    Kamui has escaped rural poverty and family ties by becoming a ninja, but now wants a kind of freedom not available in feudal Japan, the…
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  • The Weald

    Melancholy documentary portrait of six groups of elderly people who live in the Japanese Yoshino Mountains. Kawase (successful last year in Rotterdam
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  • Bounce ko gals

    Biting social satire about schoolgirl subculture of the ko gals (= call-girls) characterised by hard, violent big-city realism is also a humorous and
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  • The Pig’s Retribution

    Sexy, funny and sad in equal measure, Sai’s second Okinawan film shows a virginal boy travelling with three hookers to a small island to collect…
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  • S-94

    Experimental post-apocalyptic horror in which the population has largely been exterminated by a virus. By the maker of Rubber’s Lover and Pinocchio 96
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  • Hand Soap

    Family with growing adolescent son portrayed in a beautiful animation style. Calm and yet sultry.
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