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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Sharing

    Shinozaki Makoto’s mystery deals with the fall-out from the 2011 tsunami. A psychology professor and one of her students push their obsessions with pe
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  • Too Young to Die!

    A secondary-school pupil dies unexpectedly and finds himself in a demonic rock band. On a humorous and kitschy tour of the underworld, he looks for…
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  • Gonin Saga

    If the original Gonin was the Titanic of Yakuza movies, Ishii Takashi’s twenty-years-later sequel brings the tangle of reckless attacks, jealousies 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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  • Square Stories Too

    Basically three films rolled into one. Various, jump-cut images depict life and work on Addis Ababa’s central square. A contemporary triptych.
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  • Good Stock on the Dimension Floor: an Opera

    34-part film-poem that reinterprets traditional opera conventions to ask: ‘What happens to the black body when it is haunted by “a blackness” outside
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  • Romantic Heaven

    If our everyday lives are hell on earth, what are our romantic dreams of righting wrongs when we get to heaven? Jang Jin’s multi-stranded story…
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  • The Hands of God

    A documentary about puppeteers for God. Most people hope what they see here isn’t true.
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  • In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire

    A poetic title, almost a film description, that demands some close reading. Just like the film, which – as a visual poem – doesn’t immediately…
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  • Bahari

    Social friction in Bahari, a poor district in Alexandria. Young student dares to head down the wrong streets.
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