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Tokyo-Picnic
A vision of Tokyo in accelerated time. Smooth and scratchy sounds create an indescribably tense atmosphere.Published on: -
Contemporary Dining Table
Made for the portmanteau feature ABC: The Short Films, Sai Yoichi’s film is a brilliant vignette of the stresses, strains and generational conflicts iPublished on: -
Yellow Kid
A shy comic strip artist wants to make a story about a famous boxer. He gives the leading role to another, fairly untalented boxer who…Published on: -
Coup d’état
This film, considered to be the completion of Yoshida’s style, focuses on Kita Ikki, the prewar ideological leader of Japanese rightist terrorism andPublished on: -
Air Doll
Reflections on loneliness and transience, seen through the eyes of a plastic sex doll who comes to life. She takes her first wooden and naive…Published on: -
Symbol
Surrealist comedy by the director of the cult film Dainipponjin could only have been made in Japan. A sad comic wakes up in a closed…Published on: -
Pinocchio _ 964
This extraordinary film mixes cinematographic ingredients from his very different sources of inspiration: science fiction, horror, camp and avant-garde are interwoven into a bizarre and…Published on: -
Kikuchi
A strikingly styled and uncompromising debut, consciously financed independently from private means and made with a small and young crew.Kikuchi tells the story of the…Published on: -
Zazambo
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Stranger
Nagasaki turns the demands of the genre to his hand in this direct-to-video thriller. A stranger first gives a female taxi driver too much tip,…Published on: