Japan

A Woman Called Sada Abe

By Terry Sherwood | October 2026

Noboru Tanaka’s A Woman Called Sada Abe is a film about pleasurable excess under the term decadence, although what constitutes that is…

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Noboru Tanaka’s A Woman Called Sada Abe is a film about pleasurable excess under the term decadence, although what constitutes that is itself one of its...

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Miiku Sakanishi makes his feature-length debut with Memorizu. The writer and director’s drama opens with Yuta (Tasuku Emoto) discussing how long 60 days...

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A Quiet Storm follows a family in suburban Tokyo where a mother's attention is spread across two sons with vastly different needs. The film centers on one...

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NOW IN THEATERS! Co-writer/director Genki Kawamura's Exit 8 is based on the Japanese indie horror game of the same name, a minimalist puzzle built around a...

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NOW IN THEATERS! In director Kazuya Shiraishi's Bushido, written by Masato Kato, honor is not just a code to live by, but a burden that can destroy...

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Director/action choreographer Yuen Woo-ping created a martial arts masterpiece way back in 1978 with his debut film Drunken Master, starring the legendary...

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Few films demonstrate with such ferocious beauty how sex, power, and cruelty become indistinguishable under authoritarian systems as the Fengliang Yang and...

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NOW IN THEATERS! Director Mamoru Hosoda swings for the fences with Scarlet, an epic fantasy built around a single emotional theme and a whole lot of...

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SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Makato Nagahisa writes and directs Burn. The dramatic feature follows Ju-Ju (Nana Mori), a teenage girl in Tokyo with a...

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The opening shot of Hideo Gosha’s Tokyo Bordello is of young boys molesting a syphilitic prostitute as she fights her way to the gynaecologist’s...

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