Foreign

There's much more to Hong Kong cinema than kung fu flicks: Hong Kong, Hong Kong is a social realist drama with a huge heart, following two lovers dreaming of a better life: Man Si Sun (Cherie Chung, An Autumn's Tale) is an illegal immigrant from the...

One of the last films produced at Hong Kong's legendary Shaw Brothers studio, and absolutely one of their finest - a visually ravishing and erotically charged story of a free-spirited female poet Yu (Patricia Ha, Nomad) who, frustrated by the...

In a dark dystopian future, a solitary worker suffers a breakdown after being interrogated about crimes he has no recollection of committing. Is he a real human, or a clone created by scientists in an attempt to engineer a new, more submissive race of...

Passions are inflamed in an elite school for girls in 1930s Japan in Yumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell, as two of its students find solace away from the crowd in each other's company. But can their love flourish amongst the corrupting influence of their parents...

Ken (Yutaka Hayashi), a serious young man working as a cake decorator at an upmarket coffeeshop, finds himself led seriously astray by his feisty waitress coworker Yuri (the unforgettable Tamaki Katsura) after a chance encounter with a disturbed young...

Part of his war trilogy, which includes Fires On the Plain and Killing, Shinya Tsukamoto's latest examines the lives of Japanese citizens in the immediate post-World War II period. Part chamber drama, part road movie, Shadow of Fire tells the story of a...

A young man named Hiroshi (Tadanobu Asano) awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to a medical school where he catches the eye of a fellow student. But it's...

Shinji Somai's beloved cult film Typhoon Club is widely heralded as the director's seminal feature and considered to be one of the greatest Japanese films ever made. Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the...

A bittersweet, hilarious, enlightening and inspirational road trip through Japanese arthouse cinemas with independent filmmaker Hirobumi Watanabe, who also struggles to release his own movies in real life. This delightful minimalist micro-budget dramedy...

2nd part of the 'Anti-War' Trilogy by Nobuhiko Obayashi (director of House). Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her appearance gradually exposes wartime...

Part of the 'Anti-War' Trilogy by Nobuhiko Obayashi (director of House). In the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004 Chuetsu earthquakes, to report...

After Tetsuro loses his business, the yakuza collect his debt in the most violent, shocking way imaginable. Honorably, he divorces his wife and becomes a taxi driver. Existing bereft of meaning or support, he eventually encounters Nami, a part-time...

The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as perfect as they seem: the house is infested by termites and the family starts going crazy. As the...

Nobuhiko Obayashi (Hausu) takes on the Bosozoku (youth bike gang) genre with a poetic and bittersweet look at rebellious youth and young love. After being threatened by his girlfriend's brother, Ko (Riki Takeuchi) goes on a trip on his Kawasaki to...