Last of the Wolves (Japan, 2021) [NYAFF 2021]
Last of the Wolves is director Kazuya Shiraishi’s sequel to his well-received 2018 yakuza film, The Blood of Wolves. Although he returns to the crime...
One Night (Japan, 2019) [NYAFF 2020]
In his career so far, director Kazuya Shiraishi has chronicled the darker aspects of Japan with true-crime stories featuring outlaws like The Devil’s Path (2013)...
Sea of Revival (Japan, 2019) [Japan Foundation Film Tour 2020]
Ikuo (Shingo Katori) is working in Tokyo as a punter, but gets fired. He has a serious gambling problem, wasting all his money and time...
The Blood of Wolves (Japan, 2018) [NYAFF 2018]
Hiroshima is a prefecture with lots of natural beauty but filmmakers do like to find drama in the dark underbelly of the place, perhaps most...
Dawn of the Felines (Japan, 2016) (NYAFF 2017)
Kazuya Shiraishi’s Dawn of the Felines is not a cat zombie film but a melancholic entry in the Roman porno reboot series that provides a...