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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • After the Storm

    The umpteenth typhoon of the season has trapped a failed author (who recently lost his father) with his mother, ex and son. Leave it to…
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  • Japanese Girls Never Die

    A young woman disappears in Tokyo and a group of female street artists paint her face on walls all over the city. A gang of…
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  • Out There

    Existing between Tokyo and Taipei, Ito Takehiro’s debut independent feature follows a young man whose multicultural upbringing finds him driftin
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  • The Handmaiden

    Master swindler Count Fujiwara has taken an interest in the family fortune of Lady Hideko. To rob her, he conspires with her new maid Sook-hee.…
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  • Das Gestell

    A wondrous film in which a Japanese philosopher asks a famous German colleague how the Japanese can deal with the technology integral to modern l
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  • Fake

    After years of being celebrated as Japan’s contemporary Beethoven, the life story of deaf composer Samuragochi Mamoru takes a scandalous turn wh
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  • A Bride for Rip Van Winkle

    This devastating portrait of loneliness by Iwai Shunji follows young Nanami, who recruits online strangers to act as her friends and family at her wed
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  • News

    Sardonic short by ‘Beat’ Takeshi (aka Kitano Takeshi), made for his latest TV show. Two cops in a car mull over some evidence.
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  • Happy Hour

    Four thirty-something housewives in Kobe are closely bonded by friendship and trust, until one of them breaks those ties. A patient five-hour saga of
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  • 100 Yen Love

    Take Masaharu’s Neo-Noir centres on a stupendous performance by Ando Sakura. She plays a seeming no-hoper whose doomed romance with a failed boxer lea
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