Japan
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Cloud
Writer and Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Unsurprisingly, resellers get a bad rap. Buying up limited-edition luxury goods, as well as Oasis…
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Hope – The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi From the outside, the Ishikawa family have it all. The father is an architect, the mother a…
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A Girl Named Ann – The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025
Writer and Director: Yû Irie Unremittingly dark, this Japanese social realist drama plays out like the bleakest Ken Loach film.…
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Tattooer – Charing Cross Theatre, London
Writer – Takuya Kaneshima (translated by Linda Hoaglund), based on the short story by Junichiro Tanizaki Director – Hogara Kawai…
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Spirited Away – The London Coliseum
Based on the Film by Hayao Miyazaki Adaptor and Director: John Caird Co-Adaptor: Maoko Imai We in the UK typically…
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Summer Vacation 1999 – Queer East Film Festival
Writers: Moto Hagio and Rio Kishida Director: Shûsuke Kaneko A cult Japanese Gothic thriller that we’ve never heard of, Summer…
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Small, Slow But Steady
Writer: Sho Miyake / Keiko Ogasawara / Masaaki Sakai Director: Sho Miyake The boxing film genre may be niche, but…
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A Night At The Kabuki – Sadler’s Wells, London
Writer and Director: Hideki Noda What if Romeo and Juliet survived? It is a question not unknown to dramatists, the…
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