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Your Name
Makoto Shinkai | Japan | 2016 | 106 mins
Mitsuha and Taki are total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he’s never visited. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together? Find out in the latest film from the acclaimed auteur Makoto Shinkai.
Your Name - Rio Cinema, Dalston
Saturday 14/11/2026 - 14:00
Shall We Dance? – 4K Restoration
Suo Masayuki | Japan | 1996 | 137 mins
Shohei Sugiyama (Koji Yakusho) seems to have it all - a high-paying job as an accountant, a beautiful home, a caring wife and a doting daughter he loves dearly. However, he feels something is missing in his life. One day while commuting on the train he spots a beautiful woman staring wistfully out a window and eventually decides to find her. His search leads him head-first into the world of competitive ballroom dancing.
Shall We Dance? – 4K Restoration - The Chiswick Cinema
Saturday 14/11/2026 - 18:00
Shall We Dance? – 4K Restoration - Dukes at Komedia, Brighton
Saturday 28/11/2026 - 20:00
Shall We Dance? – 4K Restoration - Showroom, Sheffield
Saturday 05/12/2026 - 20:00
Linda Linda Linda – 4K Restoration
Nobuhiro Yamashita | Japan | 2005 | 114 mins
For Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi, their dream of playing the final high school concert together is dashed when their lead vocalist quits the band. Desperate, they recruit the very first person they see: Korean exchange student Son, played by Doona Bae (THE HOST, BROKER), whose comprehension of Japanese is limited at best. It’s a race against time as the group struggles to learn three songs in three days for the festival’s rock concert.
Linda Linda Linda – 4K Restoration - Electric Palace, Hastings
Saturday 14/11/2026 - 18:30
Linda Linda Linda – 4K Restoration - The Lexi Cinema, Kensal Rise
Saturday 21/11/2026 - 18:00
Linda Linda Linda – 4K Restoration - The Lexi Cinema, Kensal Rise
Saturday 21/11/2026 - 20:40
Kamikaze Girls
Tetsuya Nakashima | Japan | 2004 | 102 mins
Meet Momoko (Kyoko Fukada - The Ring 2, Dolls), a self-absorbed dreamer who fantasises about fleeing her backcountry home and living life in 18th century Versailles. When she unexpectedly meets the rebellious Ichigo (Anna Tsuchiya from Dororo and Sakuran), a rough-and-tumble biker chick, the two misfits form a unique friendship together and nothing can stop them! Born from the pages of cult author Nobara Takemoto, Kamikaze Girls is a frenetic roller-coaster ride brimming with day-glo visuals and wild hilarity!
Kamikaze Girls - Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford
Wednesday 18/11/2026 - 20:00
Kamikaze Girls - Ciné Lumière, South Kensington
Saturday 12/12/2026 - 18:00
Love Exposure
Sion Sono | Japan | 2008 | 237 mins
Yu Honda (Takahiro Nishijima) is a devout teenager whose father, a widowed Catholic priest (Atsuro Watabe), demands a confession every day. Desperate for sins worth confessing, Yu falls in with a gang of delinquents and becomes a master of upskirt photography. After losing a bet, he goes out in drag and meets Yoko (Hikari Mitsushima), the girl of his dreams - who falls for his female disguise. But a cult has its own plans for them.
Love Exposure - Regent Street Cinema, Central London
Sunday 06/12/2026 - 18:00
Weathering With You
Makoto Shinkai | Japan | 2019 | 112 mins
High school freshman Hodaka Morishima leaves his home on an isolated island and moves to Tokyo, but he quickly finds himself in financial trouble. Living his days in isolation, he eventually lands a job as a writer for a shady occult magazine. Then one day in an alley, Hodaka meets a young girl named Hina Amano, bright and strong-willed, who possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
Weathering With You - Rio Cinema, Dalston
Saturday 12/12/2026 - 14:00
All Films
Shall We Dance? – 4K Restoration
Shohei Sugiyama (Koji Yakusho) seems to have it all - a high-paying job as an accountant, a beautiful home, a caring wife and a doting daughter he loves dearly. However, he feels something is missing in his life. One day while commuting on the train he spots a beautiful woman staring wistfully out a window and eventually decides to find her. His search leads him head-first into the world of competitive ballroom dancing.
Linda Linda Linda – 4K Restoration
For Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi, their dream of playing the final high school concert together is dashed when their lead vocalist quits the band. Desperate, they recruit the very first person they see: Korean exchange student Son, played by Doona Bae (THE HOST, BROKER), whose comprehension of Japanese is limited at best. It’s a race against time as the group struggles to learn three songs in three days for the festival’s rock concert.
Tokyo Sonata
The winds of change blow as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and a lack of communication. When a Japanese salaryman loses his job to outsourcing to China, it’s simply the beginning of a series of shattering incidents, leading to the implosion of the family unit.
Your Name
Mitsuha and Taki are total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he’s never visited. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together? Find out in the latest film from the acclaimed auteur Makoto Shinkai.
Kamikaze Girls
Meet Momoko (Kyoko Fukada - The Ring 2, Dolls), a self-absorbed dreamer who fantasises about fleeing her backcountry home and living life in 18th century Versailles. When she unexpectedly meets the rebellious Ichigo (Anna Tsuchiya from Dororo and Sakuran), a rough-and-tumble biker chick, the two misfits form a unique friendship together and nothing can stop them! Born from the pages of cult author Nobara Takemoto, Kamikaze Girls is a frenetic roller-coaster ride brimming with day-glo visuals and wild hilarity!
Love Exposure
Yu Honda (Takahiro Nishijima) is a devout teenager whose father, a widowed Catholic priest (Atsuro Watabe), demands a confession every day. Desperate for sins worth confessing, Yu falls in with a gang of delinquents and becomes a master of upskirt photography. After losing a bet, he goes out in drag and meets Yoko (Hikari Mitsushima), the girl of his dreams - who falls for his female disguise. But a cult has its own plans for them.
Weathering With You
High school freshman Hodaka Morishima leaves his home on an isolated island and moves to Tokyo, but he quickly finds himself in financial trouble. Living his days in isolation, he eventually lands a job as a writer for a shady occult magazine. Then one day in an alley, Hodaka meets a young girl named Hina Amano, bright and strong-willed, who possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
Ringu
When her niece is found dead along with three friends after viewing a supposedly cursed videotape, reporter Reiko sets out to investigate. She finds the tape, watches it and receives a phone call informing her that she'll die in a week.
Penguin Highway
A fourth-grader, Aoyama-kun, investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.
Kiki’s Delivery Service (+ Craft Activities)
It is a tradition for all young witches to leave their families on the night of a full moon and fly off into the wide world to learn their craft. When that night comes for Kiki, she embarks on her new journey with her sarcastic black cat, Jiji, landing the next morning in a seaside town, where her unique skills make her an instant sensation. Join us from 11.00am for craft activities, before the film screening at 11:30am.
The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Walk through an eccentric, colourful journey of love, life and youthful exuberance unlike anything you’ve seen before. From pub crawls to festivals, book fairs to impromptu musical performances, the night is short and there’s much to take in - how can “Senpai” possibly grab the attention of the apple of his eye?
Tampopo
The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous “ramen western” by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre-bending adventure underpinned by a deft satire of the way social conventions distort the most natural of human urges—our appetites. Tampopo is a lavishly inclusive paean to the sensual joys of nourishment, and one of the most mouthwatering examples of food on film ever made.
Audition
A widower, seeking a new life after his wife's death, uses a fabricated movie audition to attract a woman, but his deceptive plan spirals into a terrifying descent when he finds the perfect candidate, only to discover she's not quite what she seems.
One Cut Of The Dead
One Cut Of The Dead opens in a run-down, abandoned warehouse where a film crew are making a zombie film… Yet, this is no ordinary warehouse. It’s been said that it’s the site of where military experiments took place… Out of nowhere, real zombies arrive and terrorize the crew! This may sound like a the plot of a clichéd zombie film, but One Cut of the Dead is something completely different! Starting off with a non-stop one-take 37 minute shot, the film then completely switches direction and turns the zombie genre completely upside down into a charming, audience-friendly comedy! Young director Shinichiro Ueda and his cast of non-professionals have created something fresh and entertaining which has become both a massive hit not just in Japan, but across the world!
Cure
A landmark in the history of Japanese cinema, Cure was the breakthrough film for director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who would go on to make several further modern masterpieces in Pulse, Creepy and Tokyo Sonata. Released to critical acclaim in both the East and the West, this nerve-shredding thriller charts the hunt for a depraved serial killer in a bleak and decaying Tokyo.
Battle Royale
A class of Japanese high school students are forced to participate in a government-mandated death game on a deserted island, where they must kill each other until only one remains
Gaea Girls
A sobering wrestling documentary that ranks among the most shocking Japanese films ever made. This fascinating film follows the physically gruelling and mentally exhausting training regimen of several young wanna-be GAEA GIRLS, a group of Japanese women wrestlers.