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The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme returns to the UK in February, presenting a diverse lineup of Japanese cinema to audiences across the country. This year's selection is based around the theme of 'love' and is titled People Still Call It Love:...

Bursting with anarchic energy and awash with lurid colours, The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio surpasses its 2013 predecessor in sheer entertainment value as a consistently ridiculous crime caper.    Prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike again takes the helm, with...

Third Window Films in the UK is gearing up for their next couple of releases for the autumn season with Takeshi Kitano's A Scene at the Sea this week and Kids Return next month, but that is far from the...

Our friends at Third WIndow Films have given us the opportunity to exclusively announce the remainder of their planned 2016 releases. Through this point in the year Third Window has put out classics from Kitano Takeshi along with the wonderful...

Our good friends at one of the world's finest DVD distribution labels, Third Window Films, have given us an early look at their 2013 schedule, and it looks awesome!Several of these titles are films we've already previewed for TWF in...

This one took it's sweet time getting to me from the UK, but it was definitely worth the wait.  Tetsuya Nakashima's beautiful 2006 film, Memories of Matsuko, has been available on UK DVD from Third Window for a while, but...

Our good friends over at Third Window Films in the UK have a great film coming out in high definition in one week!   Third Window have Oscar-nominated Tetsuya Nakashima's 2006 genre defying Memories of Matsuko on Blu-ray coming up...

With Dear Doctor comes the feeling that something is always awry. It is greater than the sum of its parts and more complicated than it first seems. Coming across initially as a drama serial, the film eventually firmly places itself...

[Our thanks go out to Chris MaGee and Marc Saint-Cyr at the Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow for sharing their coverage of the 2010 Nippon Connection Film Festival.]Osamu Ino (Tsurube Shôfukutei), a small town doctor in rural Japan, has gone missing. Except...

[Our thanks to Teresa Nieman for the following review.]Koji Yakusho is arguably one of the best actors of his generation, and now, with Toad's Oil, he's decided he wants to direct. The man has acted in some of Japan's greatest...