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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Wrong Revision

    Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story The Devil and Tobacco (1916), Wrong Revision introduces a curious account of the devil’s introduction to Ja
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  • Outrage Coda

    Stylish finale of the Outrage trilogy. A new battle breaks out between rivals in the Japanese organised crime world, where tradition makes way for col
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  • Destination Nowhere

    The Japan-born son of an illegal Thai immigrant faces deportation. Scratching into a silhouette on a photograph, a portrait is created and filmed in c
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  • Radiance

    Hearing is believing: Japanese Misako writes audio descriptions for blind and visually impaired film audiences. She receives harsh criticism from an a
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  • Hanagatami

    Choosing stylised vivacity over realism, this anti-war period drama set on the eve of World War Two captures an historical moment of frenzy. The direc
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  • The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful

    Murder, intrigues, political vendettas and exuberant sets: this modern costume drama from Taiwan has it all. The trio from the title are Mrs Tang and
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  • Sweating the Small Stuff

    Ryutaro’s blue-collar life of working and drinking is interrupted by the news that Ryuko, a surrogate mother to him, is gravely ill. As we watch
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  • Mountain Plain Mountain

    Sound and rhythms take centre stage in this observational documentary on Ban’ei, a rare kind of draft horse race that takes place only in Obihir
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  • YEAH

    Somewhere between deadpan and plain weird, Suzuki Yohei’s unique brand of satirical comedy returns with this mysteriously titled film. A yo
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  • Top Knot Detective

    The story behind the hilariously bad Japanese television series Ronin Suiri Tentai, which was released in Australia in the early 1990s as Top Knot Det
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