Overview of articles
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Tokyo Fist
Violent drama about young boxers in Tokyo, by the director of the TETSUO-cult movies.Published on: -
Another Lonely Hitman
Mood film marks co-operation between the director with the ex-Yakuza-lawyer Yamanouchi Yukio and the ex-punk-rock star Ishibashi Ryo as hitman in thisPublished on: -
Seishun no satetsu
Law student and tutor Eto Kenichiro becomes involved with pupil Tomiko, but leaves her in the lurch because he has to marry his cousin.Published on: -
A Fugitive from the Past
This masterpiece is a modernist detective epic about a robbery with murder during a destructive typhoon in 1947.Published on: -
Paradise Girls
Three women, three stories, three locations. Three initially carefree lives are each disrupted by a male figure – respectively a friend, a father andPublished on: -
Japon: un pays lointain
Striking documentary portrait of young Japanese woman who seeks love from a shop-window mannequin.Published on: -
Twilight Saloon
One by one, the guests appear – a pianist, a stripper, a pachinko-playing painter, a young waitress – in this charming group portrait of Japan,…Published on: -
Hana and Alice
Subtle portrait of teenage emotions and their selfish obsessions. At the instigation of Alice, Hana tries something on with Miyamoto, but that only sePublished on: -
Grainy Days
Young Japanese woman wonders all kinds of things about her own life in a soya-processing factory.Published on: -
Vital
Philosophical horror. Dark and subdued, with a surprisingly serious undertone. Medical student with amnesia becomes fascinated by the anatomy of a deaPublished on: