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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Why

    The experimental animation by artist Tanaami Keiichi captures the intensity of a boxing fight by freezing and stretching the moment between a punch an
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  • Ow

    The most ‘political’ black-comedy noir from Japan since Oshima’s Death By Hanging, Suzuki Yohei’s mind-fuck of a movie runs rings around the genre. Wh
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  • Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

    Foreshadowing Adachi Masao’s own decision to participate in the Japanese Red Army and the Palestinian resistance, the curious newsreel propaganda film
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  • The Shell Collector

    The latest discovery by a blind shell collector puts the relationship between man and nature on edge: a rare mollusc that is extremely poisonous, but
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  • Three Stories of Love

    True-to-life stories, made with much love for detail. Stories about ordinary people who are sometimes a little less lucky in love than they would want
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  • Pieta in the Toilet

    Have a tissue at hand: a very emotional film. A young artist has given up on everything. He no longer believes in his talent and…
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  • Female Student Guerrilla

    In protest against their graduation ceremony, five high-school students take up arms to stage a revolution. Adachi’s fifth ‘pink film’ is an oddball c
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  • Mountains May Depart

    1999, 2014 and 2025 provide the historic and futuristic backdrops for Jia Zhangke’s ambitious take on the open wound of feelings that hardly matter an
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  • Action Direct

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  • Greater Things

    A disengaged Japanese couple living in a design house. A Lithuanian wrestler who works in Japan and feels like an outsider there. An Iranian architect
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