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Kei Fujiwara's sequel to 'Organ' ends up being more merely unpleasant than unsettling

Kei Fujiwara's symphony of sickness drowns you face-down in its excesses and lingers for a long time to come afterwards

Suehiro Maruo's rendition of Edogawa Rampo's tale of wide-gauge decadence is both delirious and spot-on in its look and feel

Kijū Yoshida's staggering epic of Japanese anarchists Sakae Ōsugi and Noe Ito defies categorization, synopsis, or easy answers

An all-new anime adaptation of Hiroaki Samura's classic long-running manga gets it right at last

Some of the finest animation around, lashed to the mast of a story that goes nowhere

Mamoru Hosoda's weakest film yet, a cloying and sentimental misfire

The latest of Makoto Shinkai's gorgeous films that inevitably end up being about so much less than the sum of their parts

A raucous fusion of two genres (SF and comedy), and just like its two main characters, it's a symbiosis, not a collision

Twenty years later, Ryūhei Kitamura's pulp-horror gumbo of Lucio Fulci, Sam Raimi, George Miller, and everything in between remains a micro-budget, J-indie milestone