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  • 100 Yen Love (2014)
    Review preview for 100 Yen Love

    Shin Adachi’s script seeks to get past the gloss and into the reality of Japan’s “lost generation”.

    Luke Shaw · 3.5 out of 5
    A young woman morphs from slacker to boxer.
  • Destiny: The Tale Of Kamakura (2017)
    Review preview for Destiny: The Tale Of Kamakura

    Takashi Yamazaki’s brilliantly realised fantasy universe, based on the manga by Ryôhei Saigan, will thrill fans of fantasy animé and Japanese mythology.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A woman tries to cope when her fantasy writer husband moves them to a small town regularly visited by fantastic creatures.
  • Godzilla Minus One (2023)
    Review preview for Godzilla Minus One

    When Godzilla Minus One shines it is devastating.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.
  • Godzilla Minus Zero (2026)
    Review preview for Godzilla Minus Zero

    The first Japanese production to be shot specifically for IMAX, there's plenty big on that big big screen.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    Japan, 1949. Pilot Kōichi, his wife Noriko and adoptive daughter Akiko are attempting to recover from Godzilla’s recent attacks. But just as everything seems settled, a new danger emerges.
  • Monster (2023)
    Review preview for Monster

    A beautifully constructed piece of work in which every detail serves the whole, putting the tools of the epic at the disposal of a story which is intimate and delicately realised.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A mother is shocked when she learns what a teacher has said to her son, but the truth is more complicated.

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