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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Maboroshi no hikari

    Masterful first feature about a woman in crisis, with references to Ozu, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Antonioni.
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  • Gion Bayashi

    Golden classic by master film-maker about the demise of the geisha.
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  • Buraikan

    Historic black comedy about acting playboy who rebels against the oppression of art.
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  • The Written Face

    Original documentary annex feature about the Japanese Kabuki theatre. Chosen as homage to Gerry and Ellen Waller by Mieke Bernink (Skrien).
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  • Fires on the Plain

    Surrealism comes home when Tsukamoto Shinya tackles the last weeks of the Pacific War: bodies rot, limbs fly, men are mown down en masse, comrades…
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  • A Midsummer’s Fantasia

    In his third feature (in two parts), festival favourite Jang Kun-Jae also presents an alter ego: a Korean director who, in black-and-white, prepares a
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  • Akasen tamanoi: Nukeraremasu

    A brothel in the red-light district of Tokyo. Naoko tries to break Shigeko’s record of 26 clients in one day. Shimako keeps wasting her money…
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  • Birmingham Ornament 3D (Fragment 201)

    A spin-off of Silvestrov & Leiderman’s Surrealist epic in instalments. This time, the avant-garde conquers a new dimension.
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  • Tokyo Skin

    Atmospheric portrait of a group of thirty-somethings who try to give their lives sense through semi-illicit activities. Début.
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  • Rubber’s Lover

    Secret experiment into new drug unleashes powers that the medical staff had not foreseen. Experimental.
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