Crazy Lips (Hakkyousuru kuchibiru) retrospective screening at FrightFest, 28th and 30th August 2026 “What is happening inside this house” is the to-camera refrain of news reporter Yoshida, camped in a press pack outside the Kurahashi property. They are there because Michio Kurahashi (Kazuma Suzuki), chief suspect in the serial beheading of four local schoolgirls, has…
Takeshis’ first published by Film4 Summary: Japan’s busiest all-rounder Takeshi ‘Beat’ Kitano plays both himself and his loser double in a surreally self-flagellating examination of his career to date. Review: In his twelfth directorial feature, Takeshi Kitano turns inwards with the infuriatingly reflexive Takeshis’, wherein the different strands of his own personality, and the tensions between them, are placed…