37 Seconds

A breakout performance from Mei Kayama anchors HIKARI’s reflective debut feature, in which a 23-year-old manga artist (Kayama) ...

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Brave Story

When eleven-year-old Wataru is told he can change his destiny by entering a magic gateway into another world, he jumps at the c...

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Cut

Award-winning Iranian filmmaker and TFF alum (Vegas: Based on a True Story) Amir Naderi travels to Tokyo to tell this striking,...

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Cycloid

A man sets his alarm clock and goes to bed, but during the night, the world turns into a seamless series of animated dreamscape...

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Delamu

One of Chinas's great filmmmakers (The Blue Kite, Springtime In A Small Town) offers a rare glimpse at a culture nearly untouch...

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Departures

Winner of the Academy Award® for best foreign language film, Departures is the eccentric, lushly scored, movingly funny tale of...

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Hanging Garden

Meet the Kyobashis, a model suburban Japanese family. Or are they? In director Toshiaki Toyoda's skillful examination of contem...

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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

From Tribeca Film. Revenge, honor and disgrace collide when a samurai’s request to commit ritual suicide leads to a tense showd...

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Infection

Death is "just a breath away" in this horror film from Japan that is set in a horrifying hospital whose overworked staff is bus...

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Kata

A fantastical and dramatic journey through the mind of 13-year-old Mahiro Takano, a long-time undefeated national kata karate f...

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Little Miss Sumo

Female sumo wrestling champion Hiyori confronts obstacles both inside and outside the ring in an attempt to change Japan's nati...

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Love Collage

We've all experienced the intensity of first love. In this bittersweet romantic tale, set against the backdrops of New York and...

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Madly

Madly is an international anthology of short films exploring love in all its permutations. Directed by some of the most vibrant...

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Magic Hour

Bella is a peculiar woman labeled a monster by the man who created her. Trapped in a hotel room, she braves the outside world w...

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Mr Long

Following an assignment gone wrong in Tokyo, professional Taiwanese hitman Mr. Long (Chang Chen) finds himself stranded without...

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Odayaka

The Great East Japan Earthquake has just struck, the waters of the ensuing tsunami finally rolling back into the sea. In the co...

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Picture Character

Emojis are a worldwide phenomenon, with some arguing that these smiling poops and heart-eyed faces are on the verge of actually...

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Pig: The Dam Keeper Poems

Pig: The Dam Keeper Poems is a 2D animated series based on the world of The Dam Keeper, the beloved Academy Award®-nominated sh...

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Premonition

This Japanese horror film was created by a director of one of the influential original Ring films. This time the malevolent mag...

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Quill

This feature follows a golden retriever's service-filled odyssey from birth to working guide dog. Quill is assigned to Mr. Wata...

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Recollections

In Yamamoto, Japan, eighteen months after the Tohoku disaster, survivors left with nothing hold onto their existence through pi...

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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a prolific career spanning over four decades, from techno-pop stardom to Oscar-winning film composer. ...

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Scenes From a Visit to Japan

A short travelogue, shot in super-8, divided in three sections. Screening as part of the Shorts: Journeys Across Cultural Lan...

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Silence

A young man (Kai Joseph Keenan-Felix) wanders around the city, where people wearing masks come and go. One day, he finds a girl...

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Still Walking

Years of tension kept barely below the surface threaten to run over when two middle-aged children visit their elderly parents o...

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