The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers

6.4

In the near future, Tokyo is a cyber-metropolis where Shingo is the barkeep of a modest bar. He, along with a DJ, Kan, who together had once seized fame as the Stardust Brothers, head for the Moon where they're bound…

The World’s “Top” Theater

Sakata, a merchant town that is half the adage “Sakai in the west, Sakata in the east,” was home to the Green House—a cinema dubbed “the world’s most deluxe theater.” It all but disappeared from popular…

Listen to Light

Three girls, Yukiko, Kyoko and Sachiko, hide feelings they can´t express and get on with their everyday lives. Despite the memories they can’t forget, they take a step towards the future and find a ray of light…

Night of the Dead Geisha

Misa Murai is a screenwriter working for a production company which is specialized in horror films. She harbors deep resentment toward her colleagues and boss because of the workplace bullying she faces everyday. Her…

Bad Poetry Tokyo

6.4

A 30-year-old woman, a hostess past her time working at a shady club and an aspiring actress living in Tokyo. Betrayed by her lover and her dreams crushed, the broken woman leaves Tokyo for her hometown in the countryside…

Winter After Winter

Set during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. It is 1944 and the Japanese are searching north-eastern China for young men who can be set to work as forced labour. In order to secure the bloodline, father Lao Si…

Last Lover

Koki usually sleeps next to Miyu but, one morning, he leaves early. Miyu is surprised and thinks it is a joke but then she hears news that Koki died while asleep behind the wheel of his car. Since then weird things…

The Return

A samurai drama shot in 8K, The Return tells the story of an ailing outlaw who returns to his hometown after a 30-year journey. In the village of his youth, he decides to save a girl in dire straits. (Source: TIFF)…

Abracadabra

Lukman, a magician, tries to make a little boy vanishing from his magic box as his swan song. Unexpectedly, he cannot make the boy come back to the stage. Abracadabra follows Lukman's journey to bring back the vanishing…

Tokyo Telepath 2020

Summer 2018. Tokyo has become a giant building site in the run-up to the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Behind the ambitious buildings' facades, an even more far-reaching transformation is unfolding: the city is…