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One of the latest trends in world cinema is the "Greek Weird Wave", with films like "Dogtooth" and "Attenberg," that take reality and push it to its borders, occasionall…
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Yuji Shimomura has worked as a stunt co-ordinator on films such as “Shinobi: Heart under Blade” (2005) and “Flashpoint” (2007), as well as directing cinematics for the video game “Bayonetta” (2009). …
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Masato Ozawa won a number of plaudits for his directorial debut "Remiges" (2013), which looked at the important subject of child abuse. In “Lost Serenade” (2016), he returns to that same t…
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Sana likes to taste tears. She runs towards her crying sister and tastes her tears and feels it as salty. And at night she again tastes the tears of a pregnant lady who sheds it for her unborn baby,…
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TORICO is a director, fashion designer and blogger. Her first short film, "Mikagami" (2004) received great reviews after its screening in Fantasia International Film Festival and Yubari, an…
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Senile dementia and loneliness, particularly in teenagers, are two of the issues that have been tormenting the Japanese society for some time now. Kikuchi presents his thoughts on the subjects, throu…
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A very odd production (as is usual the case with Sato's films, one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink") that combines the Pinku film with the body horror and the splatter, "The Ey…
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The film is based on the ero guro manga by Suehiro Maruo, which circulated in 1984 and was previously adapted in an anime film, in 1992, titled "Midori". The film will screen at the 18th J…
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Yoshihiro Hanno is a Paris-based musician and composer, who has worked with auteurs like Hou Hsiao-hsen and Jia Zhangke. This film is his directorial debut, in an effort that started 14 years ago whe…
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Yutaro Nakamura's feature debut is another splendid sample of Japanese indie, that uses the familiar theme of the "love triangle," to present a number of social issues among Japanese yo…