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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Sex Crime

    Sai’s only contribution to Japan’s soft sex ‘roman porno’ genre, training ground for a generation of young directors, shows a short-lived but happy mé
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  • Quill

    A huge hit in Japan and winner of several ‘Best Director’ prizes, this moving biopic about a guide dog for the blind avoids all false…
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  • Eros + Massacre

    Yoshida’s masterpiece is a daring analysis of sex, politics, revolution and art in modern Japan that shifts back and forth between the 1910s and 1960s
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  • Let Him Rest In Peace

    With a gorgeous visual style and a laconic tone, male lead Fuji Tatsuya (star of In the Realm of the Senses), returns to his seaside…
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  • Mr. Sakurai at a Ticket Counter

    Experimental mini road movie shot on 8mm. A film that regularly stops for camera exercises in which architectural objects are ‘scanned’.
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  • Where Are You?

    2008s Film Maker in Focus Kobayashi Masahiro shows today’s Japan from the perspective of an adolescent. Kobayashi Yuto, the son of the director, plays
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  • MARKS

    The young Mizusawa survived his family’s group suicide only to be sexually abused in a mental hospital. In a separate storyline, Tokyo faces a series
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  • The Eighteen Who Stirred up a Storm

    Too outlandish or ahead of its time? This realistic depiction of a group of young contract labourers at the bottom of society was neglected at…
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  • Mosquito on the Tenth Floor

    In Sai’s first film, ex-rocker Uchida Yuya plays an unstable and alcoholic Tokyo cop, despised by his ex-wife and daughter. As his life moves in…
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  • Contemporary Dining Table

    Made for the portmanteau feature ABC: The Short Films, Sai Yoichi’s film is a brilliant vignette of the stresses, strains and generational conflicts i
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