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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Sayonara

    Japan after the nuclear disaster. A lonely girl is waiting for the evacuation together with her only friend, a female android that is almost indisting
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  • AKA Serial Killer

    An unusual portrait of a criminal, AKA Serial Killer barely features any faces. Shot as an antithesis to the sensationalised reporting that surrounds
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  • Asa

    Faux-sentimental short by ‘Beat’ Takeshi (aka Kitano Takeshi), made for his latest TV show. He plays a pensioner who takes a walk in the p
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  • Lowlife Love

    In this black comedy, Eiji Uchida (Greatful Dead) points his camera at the nether regions of the film industry: the motley collection of no-budget fil
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  • Galaxy

    A car crash instigates a journey into the mind of a nameless man whose subconscious stages a number of unusual encounters. Adachi Masao’s debut featur
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  • The Dork, the Girl and the Douchebag

    If you thought that the genre of Yakuza gangster films could no longer be improved or changed, here’s the raw proof to the contrary. The…
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  • The Whispering Star

    A humanoid robot travels in her rickety, rented spaceship from planet to planet, delivering parcels. Meditative, minimalist and absurdist anti-sci-fi
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  • Sharing

    Shinozaki Makoto’s mystery deals with the fall-out from the 2011 tsunami. A psychology professor and one of her students push their obsessions with pe
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  • Sex Game

    Sex and radical politics intertwine in Adachi Masao’s pink film that taps into the zeitgeist of 1960s Japan. Shot behind the barricades during a real-
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  • An

    Sweet red-bean paste – an – out of a can or homemade, it makes all the difference. Not only in your dorayaki pancakes, but in…
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