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Japanese
Masters
Evil Does Not Exist
Film
Evil Does Not Exist
Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Villagers of a small, modest forest town live off the land and water. When a Tokyo talent agency…
Classics Restored
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
Film
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
Directed by Duane Kubo, Robert A. Nakamura
Mako and Pat Morita headline what was the most ambitious Asian American film of its time: a feature…
It follows It passes on
Film
It follows It passes on
Directed by Erica Sheu
Fragments of family history refracted through shards of glass and flickers of shadows, while recollections of Kinmen bombs…
Masters
Monster
Film
Monster
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
From the world’s greatest director of children comes a Rashomon-like story of a mother who alleges that her…
The Old Young Crow
Film
The Old Young Crow
Directed by Liam LoPinto
Combining animation and live action, a young boy who moves from Iran to Japan befriends an older woman…
Asia Pop!
One Second Ahead, One Second Behind
Film
One Second Ahead, One Second Behind
Directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita
In this quirky rom-com, post office worker Hajime wakes up with an unexplainable suntan and no recollection of…
Asia Pop!
River
Film
River
Directed by Junta Yamaguchi
In a remote Fujiya Inn, staff and guests find themselves mysteriously rewinding back to where they were two…
time_traveler
Film
time_traveler
Directed by Isaac Kau
Post-grad scenes of joy and alienation bleed into a language of fleeting moments between things.
Classics Restored
Typhoon Club
Film
Typhoon Club
Directed by Shinji Somai
From one of Japanese cinema’s most influential filmmakers of the 1980s comes a junior high romp of meteorological…
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