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Now showing — Tokyo Sonata · 5 works
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A Tokyo family slips into economic and emotional collapse while still trying to perform ordinary life.
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Pulse is a 2001 Japanese techno-horror film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. The plot follows two separate storylines in Japan that faces mass disappearances amidst a ghostly invasion of the real world via the Internet. One f...
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Sonatine is a 1993 Japanese yakuza film directed, written and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in the film. It won numerous awards and became one of Kitano's most successful and praised films, garnering him a sizable international fan base.
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A Japanese series of memory, missed timing, adult return, and city tenderness carried through long-form television.
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A serialized Tokyo crime drama about urban pressure, institutions, nightlife, and contemporary threshold energy.
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