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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Nobody Knows

    Lord of the Flies, but then different. Shocking and heart-warming at the same time, this portrait of the strategies for survival of four abandoned chi
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  • The Neighbor No. 13

    Psycho-suspense based on a legendary manga by Santa Inoue about Juzo and his violent alter ego Number 13, who does take his revenge on the…
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  • 69 Sixty Nine

    Nagasaki, 1969. The charming rebel Ken wants to organise a film and music festival to impress the prettiest girl in the school. But to win…
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  • Pink Ribbon

    In Japan they still make dirt-cheap, independent, soft-sex films – on 35mm and intended for cinema screening. Many now well-known directors once made
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  • The Master Spearman

    Just as stylised as Mad Fox, this unmissable chambara (swordfighting films set in feudal Japan) an often satirical, furious attack on (or is it a…
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  • Three… Extremes

    Nail biting about human shortcomings comes surrealistically yet terrifyingly to the surface in three segments. Japanese Miike Takashi (of Audition and
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  • A Bloody Spear at Mt. Fuji

    First post-war film by Uchida is an undisputed masterpiece. The violence is a long time coming, in this riotous film about a samurai who has…
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  • ONO! Or Art for the Executive

    Concrete version of one of Yoko Ono’s conceptual films from before she became Mrs Lennon.
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  • Howl’s Moving Castle

    Whirling fairy-tale by the maker of Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, about a shy girl who miraculously changes into a sprightly old lady (who is…
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  • Café Lumière

    Observations in the spirit of Ozu, by the Taiwanese master film maker Hou Hsiao-hsien. A pregnant writer and a bookseller with a passion for trains…
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