Classics 2020

Provocation and Disruption: Radical Japanese Filmmaking from the 1960s to the 2000s

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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief is a chaotic film that responds to the sexual revolution, radical student movements and social...

Horror, Short Film

Emotion: That Dracula We Once Knew

Emotion 伝説の午後＝いつか見たドラキュラ

Opening with a dedication to Roger Vadim’s Blood and Roses, Emotion intersperses slow-motion cuts and colour filters with voiceovers featuring...

Classics

Eros + Massacre

エロス＋虐殺

This biopic follows the life of Sakae Ōsugi, a Taishō Era (1912-1926) anarchist known as a proponent of sexual freedom...

Drama

Funeral Parade of Roses

薔薇の葬列

By branching out of his documentary career, experimental director Toshio Matsumoto produced his most revered work—the intoxicating and surreal debut...

Fantasy

House

ハウス

House is a fusillade on the brain cells and a smorgasbord of filmic delights, which is apt given that it’s...

Anime

Mind Game

マインド・ゲーム

Robin Nishi is a 20-year-old with little going for him besides his dream of becoming a manga artist. One day,...

Anime, Coming of Age

Night is Short, Walk on Girl

夜は短し歩けよ乙女

A heroine known only as The Black-Haired Girl goes down the rabbit hole for a night on the town and...

Anime

Penguin Highway

ペンギン・ハイウェイ

Aoyama (Kita Kana) is a young boy confident in his own intelligence and place in the world; he spends his...

Classics

Pistol Opera

ピストルオペラ

The beautiful and deadly Stray Cat is ranked number three in The Guild, an underground organisation of assassins. Though she...

Drama

Shoplifters

万引き家族

From revered director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Still Walking, 2008; Nobody Knows, 2004), Shoplifters is a brilliantly humanistic masterpiece that intricately –...

Classics

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

鉄男

Marked as director Shinya Tsukamoto’s (Killing; JFF2018) breakout film, Tetsuo: The Iron Man tells a horrific visceral story of the...

Drama

The Reverse Diaries

リバースダイアリー

Rihito Shiraishi (Gen Ogawa) has found an unhappy niche as a talented ghostwriter, but though he desperately aspires to be...

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