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A retired samurai has to assemble a squad of assassins and set a town-sized trap.
Modern melodrama, tracing four interlocking stories across three continents.
A runaway human boy becomes apprenticed to a supernatural beast.
A detective investigates a series of murders, trying to work out why, despite each having the same methodology, the perpatrators appear to be different.
All aboard the magical mystery bus.
Takashi Miike follows 13 Assassins with a neo-classical remake of the Yasuhiko Takiguchi story about desperate, impoverished ronin and implacably cruel feudal lords.
A spoiled boy has to cope with the arrival of a new baby sister - and much more.
The chief retainer of a small domain in Echigo called Nagaoka is caught between the Eastern and Western armies after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
The story of an urban renewal project which involves the creation of 17 public toilets in key locations in the Japanese capital.
Facing the apocalypse, as a secret website devotes itself to the terrible isolation of ghosts and the parable of techno terror.
The fate of missing schoolgirl haunts the lives of a medium and her husband in Japan.
19th century travels in search of silk worms introduces the perfectly naked Japanese concubine.
A fed up accountant joins a dance class to find romance.
A trucker helps a young widow turn her modest ramen shop into a success in a film that contemplates the relationship between food and love.
A Tokyo salaryman loses his job and tries to conceal it from his already dysfunctional family.
Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defence of murder-robbery suspect Misumi - a crime he admits - but as he digs into the case, he begins to wonder if his client is guilty after all.
An unemployed Japanese businessman has an affair with a girl who leaks water.
A wayward ex-detective investigates his daughter’s disappearance.
A challenging Testament Amanda Seyfried and Mona Fastvold on music, Mancunian and money in their latest film
Seen and herd Elle Sofe Sara on yoik, secrets and reindeer in her debut Árru
The awakening Alison McAlpine on capturing a donkey's eye view in Perfectly A Strangeness
Extra spice Adam MacDonald on survival dynamics and This Is Not A Test
Shades of the morning Natasha Kermani on survival in dark times and The Dreadful
'All of us can relate to being alone' Louis Paxton on isolation, animation and folklore in The Incomer
Golden night for Yellow Letters İlker Çatak takes top prize in Berlin after controversial week of politics
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BAFTAs One Battle After Another is big winner; a good night for I Swear
Independent Spirit Awards Train Dreams is Best Picture
César nominations Nouvelle Vague leads the race for France's biggest awards
Oscars Sinners dominates the nominations
