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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Toad’s Oil

    When a young man suddenly dies, those around him each have to find a way to cope with their loss in their own way. His…
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  • To Walk Beside You

    In 2008, this festival showed the first four features by Ishii Yuya. He is back with an absurdist tragicomedy. Just like his parents, 17-year-old Nori
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  • Good for Nothing

    Yoshida’s striking debut film. Good for Nothing depicts a new moral amongst the youth, estranged from the previous generation that had brought about t
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  • Yasukuni

    The Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo was established as a place of worship for the war dead. Some two million are enshrined there – including more…
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  • Miyoko

    A special, exuberantly designed biopic about a Japanese manga artist, his muse Miyoko who regularly posed nude and the Tokyo artists’ district where t
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  • The Affair at Akitsu

    Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction
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  • Family

    Animation of a homely little scene. An apple is carefully pared and divided amongst the people at a table. And another one, and another again.
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  • still in cosmos

    The collaboration between Makino and drone musician Jim O’Rourke again results in a compelling film that envelops you with a dense universe.
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  • Sex Crime

    Sai’s only contribution to Japan’s soft sex ‘roman porno’ genre, training ground for a generation of young directors, shows a short-lived but happy mé
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  • Quill

    A huge hit in Japan and winner of several ‘Best Director’ prizes, this moving biopic about a guide dog for the blind avoids all false…
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