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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Family Romance, LLC

    Ishii, the owner of Family Romance, LLC, is hired to play the absent father of a young teenage Japanese girl.
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  • First Love

    A boxer and a call girl become embroiled in a failed drug deal. Explosions, black humour and screaming Yakuza: Miike Takashi at his very best!
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  • Tokyo Telepath 2020

    A dystopian vision of Tokyo, undergoing radical physical and social transformation while preparing for the Olympics.
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  • R100

    Games can be dangerous. Director Matsumoto (Dainipponjin/Symbol) has certainly proven he can go further with Japanese absurdism, but can he stay unfla
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  • Mr. Jimmy

    Imitation as an art form by Akio Sakurai, a Japanese Led Zeppelin superfan who can play every concert down to the last detail.
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  • Seventh Code

    Low-key crime comedy set in desolate, post-Communist Vladivostok. Japanese businessmen undertake dubious transactions as pop idol Atsuko Maeda (also i
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  • Au revoir l’été

    A Japanese film with a French title, and just as lightfootedly psychological and en-passant intelligent as French films can be. If the film has a…
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  • Mejima

    Melancholy, romantic gangster film. Illegal butcher Mejima falls for gangster’s moll/prostitute Mon, seemingly sealing his fate. However her boss, the
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  • Don’t Light My Fire (Otoboke Beaver Music Video)

    Japanese punk rock group Otoboke Beaver is a female quartet from Japan. This video illustrates a song that stems from their recent album, Itekoma Hits
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  • Tora-san, Wish You Were Here

    Bittersweet tribute to Japan’s biggest post-war comedy-cinema phenomenon and a reflection on times lost, loves regained and laughs remembered.
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