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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Real

    Kurosawa is one of the most-screened filmmakers at this festival. During the past 20 years, he has had a new film virtually every year –…
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  • Fuel

    A quiet observation of an expert griller working at one of the oldest Robatayaki restaurants in Japan. Slow cooking matched with slow-paced editing.
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  • First Love

    A boxer and a call girl become embroiled in a failed drug deal. Explosions, black humour and screaming Yakuza: Miike Takashi at his very best!
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  • Tokyo Telepath 2020

    A dystopian vision of Tokyo, undergoing radical physical and social transformation while preparing for the Olympics.
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  • R100

    Games can be dangerous. Director Matsumoto (Dainipponjin/Symbol) has certainly proven he can go further with Japanese absurdism, but can he stay unfla
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  • The Day She Commits Suicide

    Basically the title says it all. A young woman makes the final preparations while the film stays light, almost breezy.
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  • Mr. Jimmy

    Imitation as an art form by Akio Sakurai, a Japanese Led Zeppelin superfan who can play every concert down to the last detail.
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  • Cenote

    Entrancing underwater footage of cenotes, or holy springs, in Yucatan, Mexico. Long-lost memories echo in a hallucinatory game of light and dark.
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  • Seventh Code

    Low-key crime comedy set in desolate, post-Communist Vladivostok. Japanese businessmen undertake dubious transactions as pop idol Atsuko Maeda (also i
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  • Au revoir l’été

    A Japanese film with a French title, and just as lightfootedly psychological and en-passant intelligent as French films can be. If the film has a…
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