Overview of articles
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A Weapon in My Heart
An archetypal action movie with surreal touches and cinematic references, from the director of Eureka.Published on: -
Diary of the ghost
This paranormal story about a restaurant slowly blooms into a touching film about loneliness.Published on: -
The King of Minami
This tale of a loan shark helping small business owners became the quintessential V-Cinema series.Published on: -
Situation-Cinema
A text-based performance where Tetsuya Maruyama invites us to explore the cinematic outside the cinema.Published on: -
Psychic Vision: Jaganrei
This found-footage investigation into a haunted pop song is the earliest example of the J-horror genre.Published on: -
Female Teacher: Forbidden Sex
Ring director Nakata Hideo’s directorial debut is a steamy tale of love in school corridors.Published on: -
Scary True Stories: Second Night
This omnibus of ghost stories was hugely influential on the formation of J-horror.Published on: -
A Haunted School
An early feature by a J-horror pioneer, in which even daylight won’t keep you safe from ghosts.Published on: -
Jarkov
Jarkov, a remarkably well-preserved 20,000-year-old woolly mammoth encased in a Siberian permafrost tunnel, becomes the focal point for exploring time and matter beyond human grasp.Published on: -
Shumari
In Japan’s northernmost region at Lake Shumarinai, filmmaker Yusaku arrives to document a community-led excavation of wartime forced-labour victims. But when the long-hidden bones of…Published on: