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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Japan’s Tragedy

    Black-and-white, with rice-paper doors. The director knows his classics, but remains a modernist. A father and son wrestle with death and loss. Strang
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  • For Love’s Sake

    School kids as gangsters, dressed like pop stars. Arty choreographed fights and supplely sung drama. A story like Romeo and Juliet, based on a popular
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  • Wandering Alien Detective Robin

    Like Sting’s sad song, an Englishman in New York it doesn’t get lonelier than an alien detective in Tokyo. Nevertheless upbeat genre mishmash.
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  • Penance

    Kurosawa, always exploring the boundaries between art-house and genre films, gives us a fascinating TV series about a vengeful mother seeking her daug
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  • 2012

    The latest film by IFFR fixture Makino Takashi contains everything he saw in 2012 and that was a lot. An extremely rich universe.
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  • The Complex

    The horror master of Ring leaves Hollywood and goes back to his roots. Back to Japan and the now classic J-horror which he invented. Sweet…
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  • Sou

    Simple, yet effective animation of rock formations and strata. Solids become liquid, like our sense of time.
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  • Going Home (Part 6-11)

    The sequel and denouement to Going Home, Kore-eda’s first television series. Parts 1-5 also screen at the festival. Advertising exec Ryota continues h
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  • Experience in Material 52:DUBHOUSE

    Strict, but exquisite evocation links two artistic disciplines and two visions of light and darkness. Architecture and film meet in the cinema.
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  • GFP Bunny

    A humorous film of a girl who poisons her mother – and also true to life? In Japan, it’s possible. The maker was a Tiger…
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