The Midnight Maiden War
Small, Slow But Steady
A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has…
Come and Go
Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama by Japan-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lim Kah Wai. His eighth feature explores the lesser-known aspects of…
The Asadas!
Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.
37 Seconds
Still the Water
On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito suffers from the absence of…
Himizu
After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.
The Mourning Forest
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.
Zebraman
A failure as a teacher and a familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as the superhero “Zebraman”. Although the TV series was canceled after only 6…
Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
A girl named Ai gets a major record deal to sing a song written by a friend of hers who is deceased. However an obsessed stalker fan slowly starts becoming…