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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Agitator

    Miike IV at the IFFR 2002: Classic gangster epic about youthful bravura versus traditional discipline, Mercedes versus Mustang, Versace versus Yamamot
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  • H-Story

    Béatrice Dalle stars as herself in a film of filming the Japanese re-make of Hiroshima mon Amour. Successful portrayal of an impossible attempt.
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  • Conte du monde flottant

    Visually stunning film in which live action, animation and old and new visual techniques are mixed, and portray Japan and the atom bomb on Hiroshima…
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  • Hush!

    Ryosuke (Like Grains of Sand) made a captivating and often comic melodrama about (gay) relationships, friendship, loneliness and family. A woman decid
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  • Pistol Opera

    Thirty years after Seijun Suzuki’s masterpiece Branded to Kill, the 78-year-old director now presents the excellent sequel Pistol Opera, a Yakuza film
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  • [cameRa]

    A creative fiction film that borrows its form from a personal documentary. Two men in a dark room.
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  • Tokyo X Erotica

    One great discharge: this film keeps on coming, just like its wild, wonderfully shamelessly fucking protagonists, attractively flexible thanks to thei
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  • Zipper and Tits

    Two-part film gets into the head of two prostitutes, a young rent boy and a woman of thirty. In powerful, expressionist images, filled with sexual…
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  • Oinaru Gakusei

    A diminutive and original film set in the future, a hundred years away; without anything that resembles science fiction or special effects. There is indirect…
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  • Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

    With its extraordinary visual inventiveness Tetsuo: The Iron Man, shot in black and white, broke independent-cinema box-office records in Japan and become an instant cult…
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