YOUR GUIDE TO JAPANESE FILMS WITH ENGLISH SUBS

PLAYING THIS WEEK


  • Single Screenings Flash -   Single Screenings with Subs Falling Angels/天使たち (2024) at: K's Cinema. 2026/02/12 (Thu) 19:00. Spring, on the Banks of the… ...
  • TOKYO MELODY: A FILM ABOUT RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - This 1985 French–Japanese co-production is a rarely screened documentary portrait of beloved musician, Ryuichi Sakamoto, captured by American multimedia artist… ...
  • CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC - Here it is, the film that toppled Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Infinity Castle from its 9-week perch… ...
  • KOKUHO - If you’re in Japan, or follow its trends, you are already aware that Lee Sang-il’s Kokuho has made/is still making… ...
  • DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA INFINITY CASTLE - Five years after Mugen Train smashed every box office record in Japanese history, the Demon Slayer saga enters its climactic… ...

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OPENING SOON


  • KANEKO FUMIKO - It’s been 100 years since Kaneko Fumiko died in solitary confinement at Tochigi Women’s Prison, age 23. A nihilist who… ...
  • HAPPYEND - Neo Sora’s indie hit Happyend returns once again for encore screenings, this time at the quirky arthouse/café Stranger in Sumida,… ...

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  • YASUJIRO OZU SPECIAL - For three weeks, the tiny but creative arthouse cinema and café on Tokyo’s eastern outskirts, Theater Stranger, is paying tribute… ...
  • WE-ENTRANCE AND EXIT TO THE WORLD - Fusing stagecraft and cinematic imagination, WE – Entrance and Exit to the World transforms director Hiroshi Koike’s acclaimed 2023 multimedia… ...
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