“The night has countless faces. And there is a man who peers into them one by one.” Manga comes to life in a surprise new short from Japanese auteur Takashi Miike. Working at a tireless pace, the filmmaker behind Audition, […]

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Over a decade before he made waves with his Oscar-winning sensation Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi made his sophomore feature film when he was still in film school at Tokyo University of the Arts. Never before seen in the U.S., […]

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Yohei Suzuki takes the family drama to weird and surreal new places in his directorial debut

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(White on Rice is now available on DVD through Indieblitz Releasing. Visit the film’s official website for more information.) What if, by some glorious mistake, Savage Steve Holland (Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer) had been hired to direct the […]

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