Busjack

Yoshifumi Fukazawa's bus hijacking movie could really have used Dennis Hopper and a few bombs

What To Do With the Dead Kaiju

Bureaucracy once again stumbles against a world-ending threat, but is the satire as dead on arrival as its subject?

Michihito Fujii’s remake is stressful, while eschewing much that might make it engaging.

An imaginary friend faces a very real threat in Yoshiyuki Momose’s animated fantasy.

A mystical steel mill traps a town in an endless winter, and that’s the least weird thing about Mari Okada’s fantasy romantic drama.

Unico once again risks life and limb for people he has no attachment to in this strange, fun short

Yuichi Sato never lets physics or storytelling get in the way of a good time.

Music gives new life to the deceased in Masaaki Yuasa’s tribute to history, performance arts and hair metal.

Plants are dragons and the past is the future in Keiichi Sugiyama’s equal parts bonkers and boring animated sci-fi.

Undeath leads to a deeper enjoyment of life, in Yusuke Ishida’s adaptation of Haro Aso and Kotaro Takata’s manga.

Good cinema cures all in Hideo Jojo’s charming comedy drama.

In Takayuki Kayano’s ode to cleanliness, our sense of self can get lost amid the trash.