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Yakuza Graveyard
This touring festival of cult Japanese films from the Sixties and Seventies kicks off at the National Film Theatre in London on November 3, before making its way across the UK and Ireland. Comprising 12 ultra-scarce film prints, this is a rare opportunity to see the films on the big screen.
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Sixties Japanese avante garde take on the Oedipus legend.
Dark tale of a lone, deadly samurai.
A blind swordsman returns to the village of his victim to make things right.
An ex con is seduced by the allure of a thrill-seeking female gambler, while returning to his old gang to settle a score.
A celebration of sadomasochism and other painful pleasures in a naughty nunnery.
An undercover cop drifts into a gangster lifestyle.
A young student's life spirals into catastrophe after he meets a mysterious young man.
A wrongly convicted prisoner goes on the run in classic arthouse sequel.
Japanese surrealist hitman tale from the 1967.
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