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Human Rights Watch Film Festival Review: Roll Red Roll

The treatment women receive at the hands of men in almost all countries around the world is reprehensible. It came as no surprise to many but the #metoo movement highlighted…

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Film Review: Of Love and Law

Whilst the image many have of Japan may be one of strange gameshows, jaw-dropping fashions and general craziness, at heart it’s an incredibly traditional and conservative country. As a society,…

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Film Review – Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura

Whilst Japan has a rigid social and ultra-conservative society, it’s a country with a long, unusual and complex history of myths and legends. Shinto is one of the oldest continually…

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Film Review: Her Love Boils Bathwater

In a conservative country like Japan, the traditional family plays a central role. Whilst attitudes are changing rapidly, there’s still a lot of emphasis placed on the nuclear family. This…

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Preview: The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019

Since 2004, the Japan Foundation has organised a touring Japanese film programme in close partnership with independent film venues across the UK. Each year, a number or eclectic films are…

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LFF Review: Knife +Heart

In 1987, at the tender age of fourteen, Venessa Paradis announced herself to the world with the single Joe le taxi. Two years later she was making a splash in…

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LFF Review: Ray & Liz

There are very few British working-class voices in modern cinema. It’s one area of representation which seems to have been lost in the mix. This is also the case when…

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LFF Review: The Guilty

Nowadays, most thrillers you see on the big screen have eye-boggling budgets, multiple action set-pieces and often big dollops of CGI. However, tension isn’t something that can be merely bought.…

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LFF Review: School’s Out

The continuing appeal and obsession with Twin Peaks, now for another generation, demonstrates how much he love a good mystery. Indeed, David Lynch is the grand master of the abstruse…

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LFF Review: Burning

Whilst slick action films, sickly romantic comedies and stylish horrors may dominate at the box office, Lee Chang-dong is arguably the greatest living Korean director. Over a career which has…

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