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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • A Weapon in My Heart

    An archetypal action movie with surreal touches and cinematic references, from the director of Eureka.
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  • Diary of the ghost

    This paranormal story about a restaurant slowly blooms into a touching film about loneliness.
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  • The King of Minami

    This tale of a loan shark helping small business owners became the quintessential V-Cinema series.
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  • Situation-Cinema

    A text-based performance where Tetsuya Maruyama invites us to explore the cinematic outside the cinema.
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  • Psychic Vision: Jaganrei

    This found-footage investigation into a haunted pop song is the earliest example of the J-horror genre.
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  • Female Teacher: Forbidden Sex

    Ring director Nakata Hideo’s directorial debut is a steamy tale of love in school corridors.
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  • Scary True Stories: Second Night

    This omnibus of ghost stories was hugely influential on the formation of J-horror.
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  • A Haunted School

    An early feature by a J-horror pioneer, in which even daylight won’t keep you safe from ghosts.
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  • 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.
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  • 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…
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