Whose Film is it Anyway? Contemporary Japanese Auteurs

The ICA features the third film by the one-time Kore-eda protégé Miwa Nishikawa, the most important Japanese female film director of her generation.

The Japan Foundation presents a charming tale of a lonely Japanese fisherman and an unexpected relationship.

A young man accused of sexual assault in Tokyo is forced to sign a statement that are not his own words.

A normal day in the life of a young man changes abruptly as he encounters a number of people with enteretwining fates.

A boy is torn between his desire to please his father and his need to rebel against his strict education. 

A widow's life becomes troubled by the sudden appearance of her troublemaking brother.

The ICA screens Nagasaki’s most recent adaptation of his original 1982 version of the same name, Heart, Beating in the Dark, considered one of the best films of the period.

The Japan Foundation analyses the difficulty of human relations in this portrait of an eight-year marriage brought together by an unexpected pregnancy.

The Japan Foundation presents a sick yet beautiful film probing three generations of a family trapped in a matrix of prostitution, dysfunction and the desire for vengeance.