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Showing 30 Films from Japan
![37 Seconds](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3761/medium_37_Seconds_1__knockonwood_WB_LR_UBG.jpg)
37 Seconds
A breakout performance from Mei Kayama anchors HIKARI’s reflective debut feature, in which a 23-year-old manga artist (Kayama) ...
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![Brave Story](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1733/medium_film_12721067_photo1.jpg)
Brave Story
When eleven-year-old Wataru is told he can change his destiny by entering a magic gateway into another world, he jumps at the c...
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Cut
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker and TFF alum (Vegas: Based on a True Story) Amir Naderi travels to Tokyo to tell this striking,...
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![Cycloid](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2338/medium_Cycloid_web_1.jpg)
Cycloid
A man sets his alarm clock and goes to bed, but during the night, the world turns into a seamless series of animated dreamscape...
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![Delamu](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1467/medium_film_12725172_photo1.jpg)
Delamu
One of Chinas's great filmmmakers (The Blue Kite, Springtime In A Small Town) offers a rare glimpse at a culture nearly untouch...
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![Departures](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/4/medium_film_41264102_photo1.jpg)
Departures
Winner of the Academy Award® for best foreign language film, Departures is the eccentric, lushly scored, movingly funny tale of...
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![Hanging Garden](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1907/medium_film_12726872_photo1.jpg)
Hanging Garden
Meet the Kyobashis, a model suburban Japanese family. Or are they? In director Toshiaki Toyoda's skillful examination of contem...
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![Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1716/medium_Press3-HARA-KIRI-Death_of_a_Samurai_251-cropped.png)
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
From Tribeca Film. Revenge, honor and disgrace collide when a samurai’s request to commit ritual suicide leads to a tense showd...
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![Infection](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/156/medium_film_12728742_photo1.jpg)
Infection
Death is "just a breath away" in this horror film from Japan that is set in a horrifying hospital whose overworked staff is bus...
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![Kata](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/4564/medium_Tribeca_Kata_1_1080p.png)
Kata
A fantastical and dramatic journey through the mind of 13-year-old Mahiro Takano, a long-time undefeated national kata karate f...
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![Little Miss Sumo](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3926/medium_LittleMissSumo01_WB_LR_UBG.jpg)
Little Miss Sumo
Female sumo wrestling champion Hiyori confronts obstacles both inside and outside the ring in an attempt to change Japan's nati...
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![Love Collage](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1498/medium_film_12727817_photo1.jpg)
Love Collage
We've all experienced the intensity of first love. In this bittersweet romantic tale, set against the backdrops of New York and...
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![Madly](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2862/medium_Madly_Original_2_WEB.jpg)
Madly
Madly is an international anthology of short films exploring love in all its permutations. Directed by some of the most vibrant...
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![Magic Hour](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/4809/medium_Tribeca_Magic_Hour_1_1080p.png)
Magic Hour
Bella is a peculiar woman labeled a monster by the man who created her. Trapped in a hotel room, she braves the outside world w...
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![Mr Long](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3297/medium_TFF17_MR__LONG_2.jpg)
Mr Long
Following an assignment gone wrong in Tokyo, professional Taiwanese hitman Mr. Long (Chang Chen) finds himself stranded without...
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![Odayaka](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2128/medium_odayaka__1_PUBS.jpg)
Odayaka
The Great East Japan Earthquake has just struck, the waters of the ensuing tsunami finally rolling back into the sea. In the co...
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![Picture Character](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3814/medium_PictureCharacter__Taylor_Gentry__1_WB_LR_UBG.jpg)
Picture Character
Emojis are a worldwide phenomenon, with some arguing that these smiling poops and heart-eyed faces are on the verge of actually...
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![Pig: The Dam Keeper Poems](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3712/medium_PIG__Tonko-House__1.jpg)
Pig: The Dam Keeper Poems
Pig: The Dam Keeper Poems is a 2D animated series based on the world of The Dam Keeper, the beloved Academy Award®-nominated sh...
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Premonition
This Japanese horror film was created by a director of one of the influential original Ring films. This time the malevolent mag...
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![Quill](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/442/medium_film_12734742_photo1.jpg)
Quill
This feature follows a golden retriever's service-filled odyssey from birth to working guide dog. Quill is assigned to Mr. Wata...
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![Recollections](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2210/medium_Recollections_pubs.jpg)
Recollections
In Yamamoto, Japan, eighteen months after the Tohoku disaster, survivors left with nothing hold onto their existence through pi...
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![Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3532/medium_Ryuichi-Sakamoto-Coda__Neo_Sora__1.jpg)
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a prolific career spanning over four decades, from techno-pop stardom to Oscar-winning film composer. ...
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![Scenes From a Visit to Japan](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/images/graphic-no-image.jpg)
Scenes From a Visit to Japan
A short travelogue, shot in super-8, divided in three sections. Screening as part of the Shorts: Journeys Across Cultural Lan...
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![Silence](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/4569/medium_Tribeca_Silence_1_1080p.png)
Silence
A young man (Kai Joseph Keenan-Felix) wanders around the city, where people wearing masks come and go. One day, he finds a girl...
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![Still Walking](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/807/medium_film_41263622_photo1.jpg)
Still Walking
Years of tension kept barely below the surface threaten to run over when two middle-aged children visit their elderly parents o...
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