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Featured image for A Letter from Kyoto (교토에서 온 편지, Kim Min-ju, 2022)Background image for A Letter from Kyoto (교토에서 온 편지, Kim Min-ju, 2022)

A Letter from Kyoto (교토에서 온 편지, Kim Min-ju, 2022)

A disillusioned young woman returns to her hometown in search of healing but finds it in a state of disrepair in Kim Min-ju’s poignant debut feature/

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Invasion of the Neptune Men (宇宙快速船, Koji Ota, 1961)

Space enthusiast children place their faith in tokusatsu hero Iron Sharp when faced with alien invasion in Koji Ota’s kids tokusatsu.

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Eat Bitter (Pascale Appora-Gnekindy & Sun Ningyi, 2023)

A Chinese construction manager and a local worker experience parallel struggles in Pascale Appora-Gnekindy & Sun Ningyi’s documentary.

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Eye for an Eye: The Blind Swordsman (目中无人, Yang Bingjia, 2022)

A blind swordsman takes revenge against the evils of feudal society in Yang Bingjia’s impressively helmed action drama,

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Tinker Ticker (들개, Kim Jung-hoon, 2013)

A jaded young man finds himself torn between continuing to fight the system and a total capitulation to it in Kim Jung-hoon’s explosive debut feature.

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Into the Shaolin (在少林, Sun Hongyun, 2023)

Sun Hongyun’s documentary paints an ambivalent picture of life inside the Shaolin Temple.

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Village of Eight Gravestones (八つ墓村, Yoshitaro Nomura, 1977)

A young man is called to the country to inherit a cursed fortune in Yoshitaro Nomura’s eerie adaptation of the Seishi Yokomizo mystery.

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Crocodile Island (巨鳄岛, Simon Zhao & Xu Shixing, 2020)

Survivors of a plane crash find themselves confronted by a giant crocodile in Simon Zhao & Xu Shixing’s aptly named monster movie.

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Heaven Rain Flows Sweetly (Li Shasha, 2023)

In her personal essay film Heaven Rain Flows Sweetly, Li Shasha finds herself meditating on her rootless life and traditional attitudes to the natural world when confronted firstly…

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Flowers of Mold (너를 줍다, Shim Hye-jung, 2023)

A cripplingly shy woman finds herself trawling her neighbours’ trash in a frustrated bid for connection in Shim Hye-jung’s offbeat romance.

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Total Trust (Zhang Jialing, 2023)

Zhang Jialing’s documentary explores the implications of the oppressive surveillance state of the modern China.

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The Threat (脅迫, Kinji Fukasaku, 1966)

An ambitious executive is confronted with the emasculating nature of the salaryman dream when escaped convicts invade his home in an early thriller from Kinji Fukasaku.

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The Summer (그 여름, Han Ji-won, 2023)

A rueful young woman meditates on first love while losing direction in the city in Han Ji-won’s nostalgic adaptation of the story by Choi Sun-young

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Ashima (Kenji Tsukamoto, 2023)

A teenage rock climber wrestles with the pressures of parental expectation and early fame in Kenji Tsukamoto’s probing documentary.

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Time Still Turns the Pages (年少日記, Nick Cheuk, 2023)

A discarded suicide not confronts a dejected teacher with his own unresolved traumatic past in Nick Cheuk’s poignant drama.

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A Normal Family (보통의 가족, Hur Jin-ho, 2023)

Two brothers experience a moral crisis when their kids become the subject of a viral video in Hur Jin-ho’s steely drama.

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How to Have an American Baby (Leslie Tai, 2023)

Leslie Tai’s intimate documentary follows a series of women giving birth abroad in the hope of getting US citizenship for their children.

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Elegies (詩, Ann Hui, 2023)

Ann Hui considers the role of poetry in an age of resistance while interviewing some of the island’s most revered poets.

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The Contestant (Clair Titley, 2023)

An aspiring comedian finds himself at the mercy of a maniacal TV producer in Clair Titley documentary character study.

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Darkness in the Light (日本の黒い夏ー冤罪, Kei Kumai, 2001)

Idealistic teen reporters have some questions to ask of mass media and the police in Kei Kumai’s true life drama.

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A Wild Roomer (괴인, Lee Jeong-hong, 2022)

An irresponsible and self-interested carpenter ensures a separate but connected existence in Lee Jeong-hong’s quirky indie drama.

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Small Fry (잔챙이, Park Joong-ha, 2023)

A dejected actor begins to feel like a fish caught on a hook only to be cast back in Park Joong-ha’s tense chamber drama.

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A Wing and a Prayer (동에 번쩍 서에 번쩍, Lee Kwang-kuk, 2022)

A pair of 25 year olds find themselves marooned in adolescence thanks to the precarious socio-economic conditions of contemporary Korea Lee Kwang-kuk’s indie dramedy.

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The Desperate (どろ犬, Takaharu Saeki, 1964)

A bruiser cop railing against the system is pulled towards the dark side in Takaharu Saeki’s icy noir.

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My Heavenly City (我的天堂城市, Yu Sen-I, 2023)

A collection of Taiwanese migrants live unwittingly connected lives while otherwise lonely in New York in Yu Sen-I’s melancholy drama.

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I Haven’t Done Anything (좋.댓.구, Park Sang-min, 2022)

A former child star makes a bid for YouTube success in Park Sang-min’s hilariously ironic meta dramedy.

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One Second Ahead, One Second Behind (1秒先の彼, Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2023)

Misaligned romantics eventually rediscover a long forgotten connection in Yamashita Nobuhiro’s take on Taiwanese rom-com My Missing Valentine.

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As If It’s True (John Rogers, 2023)

An influencer enters into a mutually exploitative relationship with a vulnerable musician only to find herself falling for him for real, or perhaps not, in John Rogers’ non-rom-com.

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Ma, I Love You (真爱好妈, Chiu Keng Guan, 2023)

A single mother experiences separation anxiety when she discovers her teenage daughter plans to study abroad in Chiu Keng Guan’s heartwarming drama.

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Terror in the Streets (悪魔が呼んでいる, Michio Yamamoto, 1970)

A young woman finds herself in the crosshairs of mysterious forces in Michio Yamamoto’s folk horror paranoia thriller.

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It Remains (釀魂, Kelvin Shum, 2023)

Grief-stricken souls find themselves trapped in a hazy dreamworld of haunting guilt and vengeful spirits in Kelvin Shum’s eerie supernatural horror.

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Sabakan (サバカン SABAKAN, Tomoki Kanazawa, 2022)

A melancholy middle-aged writer looks back to a climactic summer of his youth and the ghost of fractured friendship in Tomoki Kanazawa’s heartwarming nostalgia fest.

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Little Blue (小藍, Lee Yi Fang, 2022)

Mother and daughter find themselves in eerily similar situations when dealing with a social double standard in Lee Yi Fang’s pointed drama

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Youth (Spring) (青春, Wang Bing, 2023)

Wang Bing turns his camera on the mostly young workers in the textile factories of Zhili.

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Door II: Tokyo Diary (Banmei Takahashi, 1991)

A sequel in name only, Banmei Takahashi’s Door II: Tokyo Diary has almost nothing to do with his previous film Door, the title was apparently tacked on at…

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Door (Banmei Takahashi, 1988)

A housewife finds herself unsafe in the domestic space while stalked by a persistent salesman in Banmei Takahashi’s home invasion thriller.

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Coo-Coo 043 (一家子兒咕咕叫, Chan Ching-lin, 2022)

A pigeon racer ponders building a coop for birds he can no longer care for while his own home crumbles in Chan Ching-lin’s bleak rural drama.

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Perfect Days (Wim Wenders, 2023)

A man in late middle-aged quite obviously living in the past begins to wake up to the possibilities of change in Wim Wenders’ Tokyo-set drama, Perfect Days. Even…

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Road to Boston (1947 보스톤, Kang Je-kyu, 2023)

The right to participate in a foreign marathon becomes a victory for the Korean in people in Kang Je-kyu’s sporting period drama.

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The Angry Street (怒りの街, Mikio Naruse, 1950)

A sociopathic student takes revenge on a changing society by seducing wealthy women in Mikio Naruse’s brooding noir.

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Polan (ポラン, Kota Nakamura, 2022)

The closure of a second-hand bookshop leaves a gaping hole at the centre of a community in Kota Nakamura’s warmhearted documentary.

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The Boys (소년들, Chung Ji-young, 2022)

A “mad dog” policeman uncovers a miscarriage of justice but finds that his faith in his institution may have been misplaced in Chung Ji-young’s pressing judicial drama.

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White Badge (하얀 전쟁, Chung Ji-young, 1992)

A brief window of democratic freedom confronts a traumatised reporter with painful memories of the Vietnam War in Chung Ji-young’s pressing drama.

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If Only I Could Hibernate (Баавгай болохсон, Zoljargal Purevdash, 2023)

A teenage boy finds himself torn between his dreams and responsibility towards his family in Zoljargal Purevdash’s gentle coming of age drama.

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Cinema at Sea Announces Lineup for Inaugural Edition

In cinemas across Okinawa 23rd to 29th November, 2023

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Baian the Assassin, M.D. (Part 1) (仕掛人・藤枝梅安, Shunsaku Kawake, 2023)

A traumatised assassin takes it upon himself to get rid of a few villains in Shunsaku Kawake’s classic jidaigeki homage.

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Three Days of a Blind Girl (盲女72小時, Chan Wing-Chiu, 1993)

Rendered temporarily sightless, an oblivious housewife awakens to the truth of the world around her when confronted by an intruder in Chan Wing-Chiu home invasion horror.

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All Under the Moon (月はどっちに出ている, Yoichi Sai, 1993)

Citizens of post-Bubble Tokyo struggle to reorient themselves amid changing realities in Yoichi Sai’s lighthearted comedy.

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Hidden Blade (无名, Cheng Er, 2023)

Ideologically victorious but emotionally ruined, sleeper agents of a coming revolution find themselves lonely exiles in Cheng Er’s melancholy espionage drama.

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