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  • The Cat Leaves Home (2004)
    Review preview for The Cat Leaves Home

    Too cold and distanced.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 2.5 out of 5
    Two girls fight over men.
  • Creepy (2016)
    Review preview for Creepy

    To assume it's just another routine serial killer yarn is to miss the emotional subtlety and sharp analysis of contemporary Japanese mores that underlie the greater horror.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    An ex-cop is drawn into a missing persons case.
  • Drive My Car (2021)
    Review preview for Drive My Car

    Slow to build and with an assembly of characters who are all more complex than they seem on the surface, Drive My Car exemplifies Japan’s growing body of literary cinema.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Nishijima Hidetoshi as a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day the wife disappears.
  • Dolls (2002)
    Review preview for Dolls

    Takeshi Kitano returns to the tradition of the bunraku doll theatre, where tragedy is expressed in silence, leaving the audience to make sense of it, or not.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Three separate stories of love lost in the beautiful landscapes of Japan.
  • Tony Takitani (2004)
    Review preview for Tony Takitani

    An accomplished but difficult to watch film.

    Tim Bryant · 3 out of 5
    A lonely man's search for happiness.
  • The Wind Rises (2013)
    Review preview for The Wind Rises

    Miyazaki's films linger for a long time, they can't be pinned down, their meaning won't dissolve on the horizon.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Hayao Miyazaki brings together the engineer Jiro Horikoshi and the author Tatsuo Hori in a fictional epic tale of love.

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