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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Half Empty or Half Full

    Richly variegated documentary with fiction about the old widower Yamagishi Tatsuji who has had a stroke. He was once a famous film maker, for instance
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  • Dainipponjin

    Some films can best be described by the word incomparable. ‘The big Japanese’, because that’s what the title means, is a fake documentary about a…
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  • Hole in the Sky

    Beautiful, very human portrait of a good-hearted lonely man who runs a remote roadside diner and one day thinks he finds love.
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  • Electric Dragon 80,000 V

    Mind-expanding supernatural Japanese action film by specialist Ishii with a protagonist who is literally under high tension.
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  • Battle Royale

    Violent variation on Survivor; as answer to youthful rebellion, every year a school class is put on a desert island and pitted against each other…
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  • Devils on the Doorstep

    Tranquil Chinese village is lumbered with two prisoners of war during the Japanese invasion in the 1930s. Award-winning, impressive combination of cla
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  • Not Forgotten

    A bunch of WWII veterans, who meet up from time to time, are confronted by a new threat: a sect that has targeted old people.…
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  • Hotaru

    Sensitive and psychologically sound portrait of the relationship between two people who try to conquer the setbacks in their existence in order to ent
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  • Deadly Outlaw: Rekka

    Yakuza-versus-Yakuza crime spectacle by the ever productive Miike. Wild montage, freely scattered minor perversities and apocalyptic action.
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  • The Tale of Zatoichi

    Marks the start of one of the most-loved, longest-running series in Japanese genre film about blind samurai Zatoichi.
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