Origin: Spirits of the Past

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

The City of Lost Souls

Cultures clash on the streets of Tokyo in one of Takashi Miike’s more subdued gangster thrillers.

Uzumaki, the movie, will no doubt be many people’s first foray into the twisted mind of Junji Ito – so does it do him justice?

Miike trades gruesome violence with quiet contemplation in the second film of the trilogy.

Some good ideas are wasted in a perfectly serviceable but otherwise dull sci fi mystery.

There's deviance and corruption galore in the first in Takashi Miike’s crime trilogy.

Things spiral out of control in Takeshi Kitano’s final chapter of the Outrage trilogy.

Bureaucracy and destruction run rampant in Hideaki Anno’s revamp of the beloved franchise

The Yakuza take a much needed break while in hiding in Takeshi Kitano’s gangster drama