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Tatsumi
Basing a film on a manga is often a commercial decision, but filmmaker Eric Khoo is a real fan of Japanese manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi.…Published on: -
Tokyo Playboy Club
There are rundown nightclubs where the excitement is gone, but the Playboy Club in Tokyo has long since passed that phase. It’s the ideal backdrop…Published on: -
Kotoko
Tsukamoto has to answer for almost unbearable films such as Tetsuo II: Body Hammer and Tokyo Fist. Not exactly free of violence, to put it…Published on: -
Tampopo Head and the Name of the Dogs
This fairytale-like short film explores the melancholic tendency of people to project their emotions onto dogs.Published on: -
AUN – The Beginning and the End of All Things
In the first place, it’s a work of art. So much fantasy, so much wisdom, so many wonderful images and such idiosyncratic music, it’s almosPublished on: -
Genpin
A poetic film for women who want to have children, have them already or might want them. Maybe also for new or future fathers. Less…Published on: -
Ken and Kazu
Two young drug dealers in a car have a quarrel. We’ve seen that before. But not quite like this.Published on: -
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and the 27 Years Without Images
Eric Baudelaire, artist and photographer, films on Super-8 the political and personal reflections of May, the daughter of the founder of the JapanesePublished on: -
Pure Asia
It doesn’t often happen in our era of YouSendIt and digital platforms, but occasionally films do get missed. For instance this black-and-white miraclePublished on: -
Bonz
CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery) makes it possible to show the most impossible things anywhere. Here the simplest apparition.Screened before About thePublished on: