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Love and Other Cults
Why this pick
Uchida again finds bruised, desperate young outsiders in Tokyo’s margins, combining raw humour, emotional damage and an unvarnished indie energy close to Lowlife Love.
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MOVIE2015 1h 50m JPN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
Its neon Shinjuku underworld, hustling antiheroes and manic tonal shifts echo the sleazy, volatile atmosphere that makes Lowlife Love feel so alive.
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The Forest of Love
Why this pick
A savage, darkly funny plunge into artistic ambition, manipulation and exploitation, delivered with knowingly excessive style and an unstable, escalating sense of menace.
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Tokyo Tribe
Why this pick
For the same pleasure in filthy urban fantasy and reckless creative swagger: a hyper-stylised Tokyo underworld populated by ridiculous, vivid and violent would-be survivors.
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The World of Kanako
Why this pick
Its fractured investigation, corrosive humour and aggressively stylised ugliness offer a similarly confrontational view of people chasing fantasy through a morally rotten world.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Denden
Kida
Shugo Oshinari
Ken
Kanji Tsuda
Shinjo
Yoshihiko Hosoda
Mamoru
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Tetsuo