Nihilistic drifter Utamaro meets Giko, a female-presenting shoplifter that immediately catches his eye, and one thing leads to another: the couple find themselves on the lam. A newly rediscovered landmark of Japanese queer cinema, directed by Isao Fujisawa, assistant director to Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes).

21-year-old Kana works a disaffected job at a beauty salon, her mood oscillating between soaring highs and deep lows, her relationship devolving into the increasingly volatile predicaments. Yoko Yamanaka's Directors' Fortnight-selected sophomore effort provides a frank and dynamic examination of womanhood and mental health in contemporary Japan.

Unemployed in the wake of the pandemic, 26 year-old filmmaker Taku Aoyagi decides to try his luck in Tokyo as an Uber delivery rider. A thrilling, first-person perspective on the gig economy.

In this demented spin on the unwanted guest scenario, iconoclast Masashi Yamamoto (Robinson's Garden, What's Up Connection) invites you to an absurdist party, an unhinged matsuri, that never stops giving.

Sakura, an aspiring rapper who lives next to the American military base in Yamato, sees her routine disturbed by the arrival of Rei, a Japanese-American relative. Daisuke Miyazaki's sophomore feature: an ode to his hometown of Yamato.

Two fans of cult 70s band Exne Kedy and the Poltergeists fall in and out of love around their shared passion, in this colorful, rock-inflected coming-of-age tale from Daisuke Miyazaki inspired by the music and lore of Kensuke Ide's musical universe.

A Tokyo greengrocer puts his livelihood at risk to extend help to a group of Chinese exchange students. A lesser-seen masterpiece from director Nobuhiko Obayashi (House) that chronicles the end of a decade marked by the Japanese economic bubble and the brutal close of possibility in China.

A Hong Kong teenager wins a trip to Japan and unleashes a chaotic chain of events (full of hackers! thieves! UFOs!) in Masashi Yamamoto's Hong Kong-Japan coproduction, an unhinged globalization mini-epic.

A bohemian drug-dealer discovers an abandoned building on the outskirts of Tokyo. Lensed by Tom DiCillo on the heels of Stranger Than Paradise and Variety, Masashi Yamamoto's second feature is his defining anticapitalist, punk statement.

4-year-old office worker Yoshika daydreams about former high school crush Ichi until Ni, a clumsy colleague, bursts her fabulous bubble. Akiko Ohku’s fan-favorite subversion of the romantic comedy.

Ai wakes from a night out to find footage of a sexual encounter on a porn share site. Without recourse, she resorts to a strange solution. Daisuke Miyazaki unveils a paranoid thriller set on the backstreets of Osaka, captured here in striking monochrome.

Carefree Takashi would rather play the bongo, but a Tokyo family is determined to open a countryside café in his home. Miike meets Ozu in Tadashi Nagayama's eccentric pastoral comedy examining Japan’s growing urban-rural divide.