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Since 2004 the Japan Foundation has been bringing diverese lineups of finely programmed Japanese cinema to UK shores. Consisting mainly of contemporary works, with the odd anniversary screening and classic to enrichen the mix, this annual Touring Programme offers the...

Simpsons jokes and expectations of foreign film exoticism notwithstanding, Shindo Kaneto's 1960 film The Naked Island has arrived on Blu-ray by way of the Criterion Collection (spine #811). Shindo's follow-up to that film, Onibaba, remains one of my favourite movies...

Japanese director Shindo Kaneto, who passed away last year aged 100, is probably best known for his fantastic horror films, Onibaba and Kuroneko, both of which are already in Eureka Entertainment's Masters of Cinema series. On 17 June they will be joined by...

Responsible for many of the best Blu-ray releases of 2012 in the UK, Eureka's connoiseur label, Masters of Cinema is set to continue its winning streak into the new year with the release of Shindo Kineto's demented classic, Onibaba on...

[Our thanks to Matthew Grinshpun for the following review.]If you're lucky enough to be in Montreal, or to live in a town being visited by the touring 35mm copy of Shindo Kaneto's Kuroneko, you owe it to yourself to check...

Hypnotic, entrancing and deeply theatrical, Fantasia presents a retrospective screening of Kaneto Shindo's 1968 classic Kuroneko as a reminder of a different era. Presented on a gorgeous archival print, Kuroneko remains every bit as vital today as it must have...