Overview of articles
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! VI: The Hero
A yakuza comedy with a sting in its tail, from one of Japanese cinema’s contemporary masters.Published on: -
Exit 8
A young man is trapped in an endless loop in the Japanese subway in this existential horror.Published on: -
Scarlet
Acclaimed director Hosoda Mamoru reimagines Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a bloody and visually stunning Japanese anime.Published on: -
believe in it
Buoyant animated images soar across the artist’s notebooks like joyous thoughts in flight.Published on: -
happy eyescream
Strange, slightly absurd animation, in which Tsumire struggles with her brother’s influence and her self-image.Published on: -
Tokyo Taxi
A road movie taking audiences through the melancholic metropolis and nostalgic nooks of Tokyo.Published on: -
A Weapon in My Heart
An archetypal action movie with surreal touches and cinematic references, from the director of Eureka.Published on: -
Diary of the ghost
This paranormal story about a restaurant slowly blooms into a touching film about loneliness.Published on: -
The King of Minami
This tale of a loan shark helping small business owners became the quintessential V-Cinema series.Published on: -
Psychic Vision: Jaganrei
This found-footage investigation into a haunted pop song is the earliest example of the J-horror genre.Published on: