A compelling psychological horror story that doesn’t require preexisting gaming knowledge.

With its sprawling story of a fitful brotherhood at its center, Kokuho is often a film of ravishing beauty.

The work of an artist with nothing to prove, with a hand at the wheel so sure you don’t even notice it.

A film of tremendous unease that adults experience on behalf of children and children experience between themselves.

Director Koji Fukada offers a unique contribution to the melodrama genre: a film of unusual subtleties.

Three titles varied movies screenings during the final weekend of the festival’s 16th edition.

A coolly dystopian film centered on the Japanese government’s assisted euthanasia program for those ages 75 and up, created in response to a glut of seniors and an increase in hate crimes against them.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi has masterfully and thrillingly expanded Haruki Murakami’s typically spare and evocative short story into a three-hour feature.

As so often happens with international films, this movie is much more accurately represented by its original Japanese title, Coincidence and Imagination, than its English translation.