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Pinocchio – A Man Without Nationality
Man sneaks into Japan disguised as a Buddhist monk to finish a lucrative industrial spying job. Everyone is after him: the Mafia, hysterical TaiwanesePublished on: -
Shocking Peach
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Mobster’s Confessions
Film about minor gangsters with megalomania is reminiscent of Godard with its eccentric mixture of comedy, drama, bizarre sex and an obsessive interesPublished on: -
Debeso
Picaresque road-movie set in the early sixties in rural Japan, a chronicle of a travelling theatre company that wants to break its ties with the…Published on: -
Memories of Summer
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Without Memory
Documentary by the maker of Maborosi about the head of a Japanese family who gets Wernicke’s Encephalopathy, a memory disorder, after a medical intervPublished on: -
Onibi: the Fire Within
Mochizuki’s second co-operative venture with the writer Yamanouchi may well be the most intense moving (anti) Yakuza film ever made.Published on: -
Sleeping Man
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Cure
Original variation on the serial-killer film. Insane psychology student has dangerous hypnotic powers.Published on: