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The Guard from Underground
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, one of Japan's most respected directors, delivers a twisted tale of psychotic, bone-snapping violence that pays homage to the slasher movies of the 1980s. One thing's for sure... it'll make you think twice about doing overtime ever again! It's not just the...Watch Movie
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Junk Food
Blending widescreen cinematography with digital video, JUNK FOOD casts an unblinking but painterly eye over the darkest, most brutal fringes of contemporary Japanese society. JUNK FOOD depicts the hitherto unseen world of aberrant sexuality and savage violence that emerges when the sun goes down...Watch Movie
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Noriko's Dinner Table
Brimming with a hip sensibility and a touch of ultra-violence, this provocative Japanese film by young director Sion Sono stunned audiences during its initial theatrical run. Teenager Noriko Shimabara escapes her tiny provincial town and moves to the big city to find an...Watch Movie
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New World
Coco, a rich Beijing party girl, is bored with her boyfriend, her giggly friends and her whole frivolous life. Looking for a getaway, she books a trip to Osaka, Japan where she's heard they celebrate Christmas with heartwarming nostalgia. Coco arrives at the hotel recommended by a friend and is...Watch Movie
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Carnival in the Night
Take a walk on the wild side with edgy indie director Masashi Yamamoto (JUNK FOOD, ROBINSON'S GARDEN), who captures the punk scene of 1980s Japan in this prickly early film. Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, Yamamoto gets the most out of a cast of young toughs...Watch Movie
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Taking Father Home
Filmed with a borrowed camera and featuring a cast made up almost entirely of the director's friends and relatives, TAKING FATHER HOME is the moving story of Yu Xun, a teenager who lives in a remote village in China's Sichuan province. With nothing but a basket of geese to use...Watch Movie
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Dear Pyongyang
A young girl's father sends her three brothers from Japan to live permanently in a homeland foreign to them: North Korea. In this autobiographical documentary spanning ten years, the daughter left behind, filmmaker Yonghi Yang, struggles to understand why her loving father would split his family...Watch Movie
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Sanguivorous
A young woman suffering from mysterious physical ailments is horrified to discover that she’s descended from generations of vampires. When she’s with her boyfriend, she struggles to control her peculiar appetite. But it’s in her blood. SANGUIVORIOUS is written and directed by Japanese filmmaker...Watch Movie
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Marronnier
From producer Junji Ito (UZUMAKI, TOMIE) and writer/director Hideyuki Kobayashi comes a new kind of horror. Marino loves her Marronnier doll that was unfortunately made by a demented genius who uses a diabolical machine to turn human beings into wax dolls. Marronnier's assistant, Numai, is even...Watch Movie
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Peep "TV" Show
Winner of the Rotterdam Film Festival's International Critic's Prize, PEEP ‘TV’ SHOW rages forth from Japan's dizzying Shibuya underground like a Dostoyevskian screed for the 21st century, where hidden webcams, lost youth, televisual violence and girls dressed as goth Lolitas merge to embrace (or...Watch Movie
