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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Fishes in August

    Warm narrative about unrequited love and rivalry. Schoolboy and swimmer Kenji is in love with Reiko, but she asks him to pair her off with…
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  • Dogs

    Film noir and hard-boiled love story shot in black & white and on video, with wonderful camerawork, montage and casting about the hard female cop…
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  • Begin

    Kitano as gangster in a music video made for his singing daughter.
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  • Ikinai

    Sober tale sketches a portrait of everyday despair in today’s Japan though a bus journey taken by prospective suicides.
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  • Shabondama Elegy

    Virtuoso application of digital techniques in a feature combining the genres of film noir, art film and porn. Man condemned to death and on the…
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  • Shizuka

    The camera roams on a winter day through the forest and comes across a naked body.
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  • Tsuru-Henry

    The film is set on the island of Okinawa and describes a drama in which fiction and fact are confused. The singer Tsuru with her…
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  • Noiseman Sound Insect

    Overwhelming animation. Future scientist plucks music from the air. Street children resist.
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  • Ryoko!!

    Japanese film and TV star shines as terminally-untogether magician’s sidekick with a private life full of complications.
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  • 2 Duo

    Yu and Kei are a couple with the usual problems. Then things get a little out of hand.
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