Blue (Japan, 2021) [JFTFP 2022]
The violent bloody sport of men’s boxing has always been intertwined with an aspirational ideal of creating the desirable virile male body. The player’s sense...
The House of the Lost on the Cape (Japan, 2021) [JFTFP 2022]
On March 3, 2011, the Oshika Peninsula of the Tohoku Region in Japan became the site of one of the most devastating earthquakes in recent...
The Sound of Grass (Japan, 2021) [JFTFP 2022]
The loneliness of a long-distance runner forms the basis of The Sound of Grass, a gentle film about a man striving to find peace from...
The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme Returns with Intricate Representations of a ‘Dark Mind’ in Japanese Cinema, February 4 – March 31
After temporarily moving online last year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme returns to the big screen, working...