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Akiba-Field
Two women. Two swords. A man in a box. An empty street. All you need to set the scene for the apocalypse. An exercise. A…Published on: -
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Put a group of young Japanese actors in an empty office building. Like an experiment with rats. Acting with Stockholm syndrome.Published on: -
Tokyo Giants
Last part of the Plot Point Trilogy by Nicolas Provost with the Japanese capital Tokyo and its inhabitants as the leads.Published on: -
Disappearing Landscape
Three modern stories about migration. Not the easiest film of the festival, but the cleverest. The filmmaker, a Serbian artist who teaches in SingaporPublished on: -
Japan’s Tragedy
Black-and-white, with rice-paper doors. The director knows his classics, but remains a modernist. A father and son wrestle with death and loss. StrangPublished on: -
For Love’s Sake
School kids as gangsters, dressed like pop stars. Arty choreographed fights and supplely sung drama. A story like Romeo and Juliet, based on a popularPublished on: -
Wandering Alien Detective Robin
Like Sting’s sad song, an Englishman in New York it doesn’t get lonelier than an alien detective in Tokyo. Nevertheless upbeat genre mishmash.Published on: -
Penance
Kurosawa, always exploring the boundaries between art-house and genre films, gives us a fascinating TV series about a vengeful mother seeking her daugPublished on: -
The Complex
The horror master of Ring leaves Hollywood and goes back to his roots. Back to Japan and the now classic J-horror which he invented. Sweet…Published on: -
Vinylmania – When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions per Minute
Set in 11 cities and 7 countries, the director went on a global trip to find out what role vinyl plays in the 21st century.…Published on: