Overview of articles
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Too Young to Die!
A secondary-school pupil dies unexpectedly and finds himself in a demonic rock band. On a humorous and kitschy tour of the underworld, he looks for…Published on: -
Gonin Saga
If the original Gonin was the Titanic of Yakuza movies, Ishii Takashi’s twenty-years-later sequel brings the tangle of reckless attacks, jealousies anPublished on: -
Le Moulin
Poetry, literature, painting and old film clips converge in this lyrical, unusually designed film essay about Le Moulin, the Taiwanese poets’ collectiPublished on: -
Ow
The most ‘political’ black-comedy noir from Japan since Oshima’s Death By Hanging, Suzuki Yohei’s mind-fuck of a movie runs rings around the genre. WhPublished on: -
Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War
Foreshadowing Adachi Masao’s own decision to participate in the Japanese Red Army and the Palestinian resistance, the curious newsreel propaganda filmPublished on: -
The Shell Collector
The latest discovery by a blind shell collector puts the relationship between man and nature on edge: a rare mollusc that is extremely poisonous, butPublished on: -
Three Stories of Love
True-to-life stories, made with much love for detail. Stories about ordinary people who are sometimes a little less lucky in love than they would wantPublished on: -
Pieta in the Toilet
Have a tissue at hand: a very emotional film. A young artist has given up on everything. He no longer believes in his talent and…Published on: -
Female Student Guerrilla
In protest against their graduation ceremony, five high-school students take up arms to stage a revolution. Adachi’s fifth ‘pink film’ is an oddball cPublished on: -
Greater Things
A disengaged Japanese couple living in a design house. A Lithuanian wrestler who works in Japan and feels like an outsider there. An Iranian architectPublished on: