Film Highlights
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Funeral Parade of Roses
1969
Toshio Matsumoto
105mins / Cert 15
Shining a light on the gay subcultures of the 1960s Tokyo underground, Toshio Matsumoto’s pop-art masterpiece puts queer experience front and centre.
Featuring: Peter, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Emiko Azuma
A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks (not to mention a...
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0.5mm
2014
Momoko Andô
198mins / Cert not rated
Momoko Ando’s 0.5mm is a meditation on the generation gap as it pertains to Japanese culture.
Featuring: Sakura Andô, Miyoko Asada
Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family of an old man asked Sawa to sleep with him, which led her to eventually lose her job and house. Now, she has nowhere to go. Sawa...
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An Actor’s Revenge
1963
Kon Ichikawa
115mins / Cert 12A
An Actor’s Revenge is an eye-popping examination of how the illusions of art intersect with life.
Featuring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto
While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, a leading female impersonator comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his...
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Godzilla
1954
Ishirô Honda
96mins / Cert PG
American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.
Featuring: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada
When seventeen vessels blow-up and sink nearby Odo Island, Professor Kyohei Yamane, his daughter Emiko Yamane and the marine Hideto Ogata head to the island...
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Drive My Car
2021
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
179mins / Cert 15
Nishijima Hidetoshi is a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day she disappears.
Featuring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima
A director's wife was a playwright, but she died two years ago. When he's invited to direct a play at a festival in Hiroshima, the...
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Our Little Sister
Umimachi Diary / 2015
Hirokazu Kore-eda
126mins / Cert PG
A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their thirteen-year-old half sister.
Featuring: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose
Three adult sisters learn of their estranged father's death and decide to travel to...
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Dear Pyongyang
2005
Yang Yong-Hi
107mins / Cert Not Rated
By visiting North Korea many times, a woman of Korean-Japanese descent tries to understand her father's loyalty to the country.
Featuring: Yang Yong-Hi
The daughter of a leader of the pro-North Korean movement in Japan, Yang Yong-hi was separated from her brothers at a young age under a North...
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Seven Samurai
Shichinin no Samurai / 1954
Akira Kurosawa
212 mins / Cert PG
Farmers hire a band of samurai to defend them against marauding bandits in Kurosawa’s influential epic, a touchstone for action movies ever since.
Featuring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Seiji Miyaguchi
Strongly influenced by the poetic westerns of John Ford, Kurosawa’s story of farmers...