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- The eagerly-awaited new anime adventure from Makoto Shinkai, director of the much-admired 5 Centimetres Per Second. Asuna is a young girl who has been forced to grow up fast after the death of her father. While walking home one evening she is attacked by a strange, fearsome monster. A mysterious boy called Shun rescues her [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Winner of Japan’s top animation prize, Colorful is a tender story about rebirth based on a 1998 novel by Eto Mori. After reaching a purgatory-like state after death, a dejected soul is placed in the body of a boy who has just committed suicide. The soul must figure out what his greatest mistake in his [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Heat Wave is a simmering drama of intersecting lives all taking place one sweltering afternoon somewhere on the edge of Marseilles, France. Following overlapping and repeating timelines like a subtler version of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, the narrative is cleverly constructed to enlighten the differing perspectives of its characters. Two teenaged cousins Stéphane and Luigi, [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A hilariously over-the-top tribute to the transforming robots of ‘70s Japanese television, K-RZ is an exciting action/comedy that will stir the heart of anyone who longs for justice dispensed with a swift robot karate kick! Following the death of his scientist father, secret police officer Yutaka Daimon inherits a mighty robot warrior named Zaborgar. Equipped [...]Click to read more about this film »
- An inventive explosion of different styles, Mars is a rotoscope-sci-fi-slacker-romantic comedy with a raft of hipster cameos and a stylistic nod to comic book art. It’s also great fun from beginning to end. Mark Duplass (Humpday, The Puffy Chair) plays Charlie Brownsville, a kind of slacker-celebrity astronaut sent out on the first manned mission to [...]Click to read more about this film »
- The best comedy yet from Japan’s exciting new talent and Leeds favourite Yûya Ishii. Stuck in a tiny flat in Tokyo, Mitsuko is unattached, friendless, broke and 9-months pregnant. Her inept parents thinks she is in California, happily settled with the baby’s GI father. One day she follows a cloud back to the run-down alley [...]Click to read more about this film »
- One of Japan’s few surviving pre-war horrors, a genre that was soon to be suppressed by the increasing state censorship. Japan’s first scream queen Sumiko Suzuki plays Mitsue, the possessive actress betrothed to apprentice shamisen player Seijiro. When his lost cat Kuro brings home a beautiful girl, dark jealous passions are invoked in Mitsue and [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Veteran cinematographer Sandor Kardos’ astonishing adaptation of the classic Rainer Maria Rilke short story is a bold innovation in cinematic narrative technique. Commandeering the technology used in horse racing to document the photo finish, the film resembles a carousel of hall-of-mirrors images, distorted and bleeding into one another. An enigmatic stranger comes to work as [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Park Jungbum’s much-lauded debut is the story of Jeon Seungchul, a North Korean defector forging a life in the capitalist South. Emerging from a resettlement camp, the unassuming Seung-chul is placed in a home on the outskirts of Seoul, and finds a job papering the city with posters. Yearning for a human bond, he joins [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Yakuza Weapon is a wild combination of hard-boiled gangster action, manga-style comedy and splat-tacular special effects. When ex-yakuza Shozo discovers his gang boss father has been assassinated by his most trusted man Kurawaki, a titanic battle is fought and he is left barely alive, missing an arm and a leg. Despite his debilitating wounds, the [...]Click to read more about this film »
