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CLIMBING FOR LIFE, the newest work from acclaimed filmmaker Junji Sakamoto, is an inspiring biopic of pioneering Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei. In 1975, Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest and later the first to complete the Seven Summits, conquering the highest peaks on every continent and redefining what women could achieve in […]
BOSS is a riotous action-comedy that flips the gangster genre on its head. Opening with a flashback to their swaggering youth—when any of them could have become the next don—the film leaps to the present, where the once-fearsome crew now faces middle age, fading street cred, and mundane dreams like opening a Korean-Chinese food franchise.
BEFORE THE BRIGHT DAY, the poignant directorial debut of emerging Taiwanese filmmaker Shih-Han Tsao, captures a young man’s turbulent coming-of-age against the backdrop of the 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis. Chou, labeled a “B-class loser” by his teacher, yearns for more than his uneventful adolescence—especially with Min, the girl he likes, placed in the elite A-class.
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Adapted from an unfinished work by acclaimed dramatist Hisashi Inoue, ARMY ON THE TREE is inspired by real events on the Okinawan island of Iejima in the final days of World War II. Inoue, whose plays often examined the legacy of war and the shared responsibility of ordinary Japanese citizens, conceived the story as a
Between death and rebirth lies “another world,” a dazzling realm where souls await reincarnation. Here, Gudo, a spirit guide, escorts the departed on their journeys—until he encounters Yuri, a young girl consumed by grief and rage. Ordered by the Goddess Mira to prevent Yuri’s transformation into a monster, Gudo embarks on a perilous mission that
Every year, Shige has to get permission from the Hokkaido government, the fishermen’s union, the organization that fosters salmon, and the police department before he can start Marek fishing. He’ll get caught as a poacher if he catches a salmon without those permissions, even though his sole purpose of this it to keep the tradition
In her first French-language performance, Jodie Foster dazzles as Dr. Lilian Steiner, an American psychoanalyst in Paris whose orderly life unravels after the sudden death of a patient. Reeling from both personal and professional crises, Lilian becomes consumed with doubts about the supposed suicide and launches her own investigation—suspecting murder. Rebecca Zlotowski (OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN)
