The Snow Woman
A Japanese horror fairy tale unlike any you’ve ever seen and a visual feast, hiding a truly devastating edge.
A Japanese horror fairy tale unlike any you’ve ever seen and a visual feast, hiding a truly devastating edge.
A mysterious and intoxicating pop romance from acclaimed director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.
Shinji Somai’s comic spectacle of movement and play is a stirring contemplation on time’s ravages and delights.
If you’ve ever wanted to attend, but didn’t know if you’d enjoy your first time, our special host for this evening, Thom Hilton, will be your guide. You’ll learn the funniest callbacks, proper prop timing, and how to dance the Time Warp.
An ultra-stylish, candy-coated amusement park ride in the form of a movie, this overlooked crime-noir delight is an essential big screen experience.
The final feature film by Toshio Matsumoto is an adaptation of the celebrated novel by Kyusaku Yumeno, stunningly shot by cinematographer Tatsuo Suzuki.
Winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo International Film Festival in 1985 and widely regarded as the seminal film of director Shinji Somai’s career.
In the fields just outside of Tokyo, thousands of student protesters joined the peasantry to fight the building of the Narita International Airport. A jaw-dropping achievement, a spectacular monument to humanity in revolt, PEASANTS OF THE SECOND FORTRESS depicts the revolt against state oppression with its cameras directly in the fray, amid the fires, the hoses, the batons, and the clash of activists against monstrous police.