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Doing Time
With a restrained, Ozu-like flavour, Sai adapted Hanawa Kazuichi’s autobiographical manga about three years imprisonment after collecting replica gunsPublished on: -
A Summer Family
Mix of theatre, dance and film about a Japanese dancer who lives in the French countryside in a commune with two women. When his daughter…Published on: -
The Women in the Mirror
Yoshida’s return to form after a fifteen-year interval takes on the important theme of the atomic bomb. Three generations of women question their idenPublished on: -
Blood and Bones
In this epic fresco, Sai explores social history through one man, a Korean emigrant to 1920s Japan (played by Kitano Takeshi), who works his way…Published on: -
Toad’s Oil
When a young man suddenly dies, those around him each have to find a way to cope with their loss in their own way. His…Published on: -
To Walk Beside You
In 2008, this festival showed the first four features by Ishii Yuya. He is back with an absurdist tragicomedy. Just like his parents, 17-year-old NoriPublished on: -
Good for Nothing
Yoshida’s striking debut film. Good for Nothing depicts a new moral amongst the youth, estranged from the previous generation that had brought about tPublished on: -
Yasukuni
The Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo was established as a place of worship for the war dead. Some two million are enshrined there – including more…Published on: -
Miyoko
A special, exuberantly designed biopic about a Japanese manga artist, his muse Miyoko who regularly posed nude and the Tokyo artists’ district where tPublished on: -
The Affair at Akitsu
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attractionPublished on: