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Three Businessmen
Humorous and surreal film by Cox (Repo Man, Sid and Nancy) about lonely businessmen who keep looking for a restaurant. With a major supporting role…Published on: -
Satisfaction Real
The maker takes up an earlier film, Satisfaction, and lets the computer loose on it.Published on: -
Mange-kyo
Sento Naomi (formerly Kawase Naomi) plays herself as film director. Then there are the photographer Arimoto Shinya and his models Mika and Machiko. SePublished on: -
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
The viewer is dragged along in a comic, violent and tragically trendy world filled with unusual sex, spectacular locations and haute couture. Made witPublished on: -
Milk
Original improvised film is a culture sketch in the form of an unusual cross-fertilisation between Japan and the West.Published on: -
Fishes in August
Warm narrative about unrequited love and rivalry. Schoolboy and swimmer Kenji is in love with Reiko, but she asks him to pair her off with…Published on: -
Dogs
Film noir and hard-boiled love story shot in black & white and on video, with wonderful camerawork, montage and casting about the hard female cop…Published on: -
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Ikinai
Sober tale sketches a portrait of everyday despair in today’s Japan though a bus journey taken by prospective suicides.Published on: