The Japanese filmmaker Kinji Fukasaku is arguably best known in the West for Battle Royale (2000), his controversial depiction of civil unrest which re-imagined Lord of the Flies with high-tech weapons and Nintendo generation teenagers.
Review by John Berra

With its cool monochrome, nonchalant protagonist, freshness of tone and naturalistic feel, Kisses has as much to do with European neo-realism as it does with Japanese cinema, and was no doubt influenced by Masumura’s stint as a student at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome in the 1950s.
Review by Virginie Sélavy

The central protagonist of Spider Forest is not the luckiest of souls. When we first encounter Kang Min, he is awakening in the titular forest, having been knocked unconscious, only to wander into a remote cabin where his girlfriend and his boss have been brutally hacked to death.
Review by John Berra

As soon as the epigraph that opens Eden Log appears on the screen, ‘So the Lord God banished him from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he had been taken’ [Genesis 3.23.], you know that you’re in for a sci-fi movie with metaphysical pretensions along the lines of Cube.
Review by Alexander Pashby

According to Lynch, a private screening of his debut film Eraserhead ended with Mel Brooks declaring, ‘You’re a mad man, I love you. You’re in’.
Review by Paul Huckerby

Based on the true story of the rapist and serial murderer Eisuke, Violence at High Noon is a detached and disturbing portrait of post-war Japan that owes much to the films of Alain Resnais and Robert Bresson in terms of its non-linear structure and its fascination with the amoral activity of the social outsider.
Review by John Berra

Imagine a time in the near future when memories could be transplanted to another human brain, or removed entirely. That simple premise is the key idea behind Chrysalis, the directorial debut from Julien Leclercq.
Review by Martin Cleary

Astra Taylor’s spot-on profile shows the extent to which Žižek is both intimidated by the responsibility his celebrity brings and irked by the impact it has on his intellectual standing.
Review by Pamela Jahn

The idea behind the film was to create a cinematic vehicle for Sun Ra’s mythology, linking the extra-terrestrial theme with the erudite Egyptian alchemy that played such an important role in the musician’s philosophy.
Review by Celluloid Liberation Front

Beastliness and clinical horror cohabit in Georges Franju’s wonderful Gothic fairy tale.
Review by Stephen Thomson