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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Hana and Alice

    Subtle portrait of teenage emotions and their selfish obsessions. At the instigation of Alice, Hana tries something on with Miyamoto, but that only se
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  • Grainy Days

    Young Japanese woman wonders all kinds of things about her own life in a soya-processing factory.
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  • Vital

    Philosophical horror. Dark and subdued, with a surprisingly serious undertone. Medical student with amnesia becomes fascinated by the anatomy of a dea
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  • Nobody Knows

    Lord of the Flies, but then different. Shocking and heart-warming at the same time, this portrait of the strategies for survival of four abandoned chi
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  • The Neighbor No. 13

    Psycho-suspense based on a legendary manga by Santa Inoue about Juzo and his violent alter ego Number 13, who does take his revenge on the…
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  • Rosecolored Flower

    A rose in a glass vase on the windowsill. Soft Vermeer-like light falling into the dusky room, and playing through the crystal-clear water. Most of…
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  • 69 Sixty Nine

    Nagasaki, 1969. The charming rebel Ken wants to organise a film and music festival to impress the prettiest girl in the school. But to win…
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  • Pink Ribbon

    In Japan they still make dirt-cheap, independent, soft-sex films – on 35mm and intended for cinema screening. Many now well-known directors once made
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  • The Master Spearman

    Just as stylised as Mad Fox, this unmissable chambara (swordfighting films set in feudal Japan) an often satirical, furious attack on (or is it a…
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  • Three… Extremes

    Nail biting about human shortcomings comes surrealistically yet terrifyingly to the surface in three segments. Japanese Miike Takashi (of Audition and
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