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SHE TAUGHT ME SERENDIPITY Director Akiko Ohku's films on the young and lonely have a following in Japan, and thisis the latest. (I...

PROMISED LAND プロミスト・ランド Masashi Iijima 2924) Two young men go on a forbidden bear hunt in the mountains to maintain cultural traditions, and are...

RAIRU SUGITA, KANICHIRO IN PROMISED LAND MASASHI IIJIMA: PROMISED LAND (2024) Two young men carry on a forbidden bear hunt Masashi Iijima's...

SEE YOU TOMORROW ほなまた明日, (Saki Michimoto, 2024) Young filmmaker Michimoto dramatizes an art school program in photography showing how one student...

RISA SHIGEMATSU, MAKOTO TANAKA, RYOTA MATSUDA, TAKURO AKIYAMA IN SEE YOU TOMORROW SAKI MICHIMOTO: SEE YOU TOMORROW ほなまた明日 (2024)S The...

LEO IMAMURA, NATSUKO, YUTAKA KYAN, AND ROCKO ZVENBERGEN IN THE GESUIDOUZ KENICHI UGANA: THE GESUIDOUZ (2024) TRAILER Saga of a punk band...

SERPENT'S PATH (Kiyoshi Kurosawa 2024) Kurosawa's French-set remake of his own grim 1998 film about revenge against child traffickers has...

LICENSE TO LIVE ニンゲン合格 (Kiyoshi Kurosawa 1998) First big role for HIdetoshi Nishijima as a young man awanened from a 10-year coma who looks for a...

SLIMANE DAZI, DAMIEN BONNARD, KO SHIMASAKI IN SERPENT'S PATH KIYOSHI KUROSAWA: SERPENT'S PATH (2024) Relentless cruelty in response to...

HIDETOSHI NISHIJIMA IN LICENSE TO LIVE KIYOSHI KUROSAWA: LICENSE TO LIVE ニンゲン合格 (1998)] Starman In Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1998 License to...

MICHIYUKI - VOICES OF TIME 道行き(Hiromichi Nakao 2024) A film about buying an old traditional Japanese house in Nara, about time, and about trains,...

MY SUNSHINE ぼくのお日さま (Hiroshi Okuyama 2024) A delicately stylish film about young figure skaters, particularly a male one, and homophobia arouind...

THE REAL YOU (Youya Ishii 2024) An adaptation of Keiichiro Hirano's 2021 novel of the same name (本心) it's a sci-fi tale about AI, human...

HANGING GARDEN (Toshiaki Toyoda 2005) It's said Toyoda paved the way with this 'exposure' of a Japanese family for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo...

ANNE SUZUKI IN HANGING GARDEN FROM NYAFF: A special 20th anniversary screening of NYAFF 2025 Filmmaker in Focus Toshiaki Toyoda’s unnerving 2005...

LINKS TO FILMLEAF JAPAN CUTS 2025 REVIEWS BEGIN HERE: TEKI COMETH (Daihachi Yoshida 2024) An old man living alone in a beautiful traditional...

Japan Cuts 2025 Program Opening, Centerpiece, & Closing Films Opening Film ChaO (Special Screening) 『ChaO』(チャオ) Thursday, July 10 at 6:00...

HIROSHI OKUYAMA: MY SUNSHINE ぼくのお日さま (2024) A pair of young figure skaters who weren't Hiroshi Okuyama's My Sunshine is so consciously stylish...

HIROMICHI NAKAO: MICHIYUKI - VOICES OF TIME 道行き (2024) Preserving the past and thinking about time in Japan This is a wonderfully sui generis...

SOSUKE IKEMATSU, KOSHI MIZUKAMI IN THE REAL YOU YUYA ISHII: THE REAL YOU 本心 (2024) Bonding in a world dominated by AI The Real You is an...

KYOZO NAGAATSUKA IN TEKI COMETH DAIHACHI YOSHIDA: TEKI COMETH 敵 (2024) Gerontion Recommeded by Nick Newman in The Film Stage's list of ten...

GOWOK: JAVANESE KAMASUTRA (Hanung Bramantyo 2025) From a commercially successful Indonesian director, an epic, generaion-corssing tale of sex...

HANBUNG BRAMANTYO: GOWOK: JAVANESE KAMASUTRA (2024) Indonesian epic of sex training strays too far from its opening sweetness In his detailed...

I,THE SONG (Dechen Roder 2024) In this handsome film from Bhutan a banished schoolteacher searches for her double who has gotten her into trouble...