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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Female Teacher: Forbidden Sex

    Ring director Nakata Hideo’s directorial debut is a steamy tale of love in school corridors.
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  • Scary True Stories: Second Night

    This omnibus of ghost stories was hugely influential on the formation of J-horror.
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  • A Haunted School

    An early feature by a J-horror pioneer, in which even daylight won’t keep you safe from ghosts.
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  • Shumari

    In Japan’s northernmost region at Lake Shumarinai, filmmaker Yusaku arrives to document a community-led excavation of wartime forced-labour victims. But when the long-hidden bones of…
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  • Nox

    Nox is an immersive XR narrative in which the audience enters the internal world of a teenage girl struggling with trauma, social anxiety and dissociation.…
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  • The Mole Song: Final

    Available on Festival Scope Pro from 6 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
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  • We Are Aliens

    Alien fluffballs invade Earth in this surreal musical comedy from cult Japanese filmmaker Ugana Kenichi.
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  • Yasuko, Songs of Days Past

    A rapturous portrait of a pivotal moment in the life of Japanese poet Nakahara Chūya.
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  • Electric Child

    A man looks to super-intelligent AI to save his sick child. What could go wrong?
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  • A Monster with Its Mouth Agape

    An experimental homage to Butoh and its late master Yoshito Ohno.
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