The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2017: Odd Obsessions - Desires, Hopes and Impulses in Japanese Cinema

A housewife and bank employee turns to a life of crime by embezzling money from clients’ accounts in order to please her young lover.

A delinquent runaway roams the streets picking fights with random bystanders in what soon turns into a sinister game of violence.

A musical capturing the aspirations and struggles of naïve country bumpkin who strives to become an apprentice geisha.

A film depicting Japan’s highly competitive and demanding university entrance exams.

A deadbeat rocker returns home with news of his girlfriend's pregnancy to find his father diagnosed with terminal cancer.

A darkly comic drama following an elderly man's attempts to sexually satisfy his captivating, younger wife.

A romantic comedy following a 77-year-old widow who signs up with a matchmaking service in pursuit of a last chance at love.

An emotional and beautifully animated film following a boy tormented by his past bullying of a deaf classmate.

A young man despairs when he discovers he is incurably ill before meeting a teenage girl whose will for life sheds light on his own.

A film following 24 hours in the lives of the inhabitants of a love hotel in Tokyo’s well-known entertainment district.

A dressmaker who inherited her grandmother's clothing store must decide between tradition and forging her own modern path.

An erotically-charged drama about a man who stumbles into an unsettling affair with a young woman and her sister.

A documentary capturing the people of the world’s largest fish market at the heart of Japanese cuisine for over 80 years.

A seemingly happy middle-aged housewife becomes hopelessly infatuated with her young hairdresser Kaito, an interest which quickly becomes unhealthy.