Tokyo International Film Festival

Dwelling By The West Lake

‘Dwelling By The West Lake’: Tokyo Review

A young man must save his mother from the perils of a pyramid scheme in Gu Xiaogang’s rural China-set drama

Air

‘Air’: Tokyo Review

Alexey German Jr focuses on female Russian pilots in this surprsingly conventional Second World War drama

Lumberjack The Monster

‘Lumberjack The Monster’: Tokyo Review

A psychopathic lawyer faces off against a masked serial killer in Takashi Miike’s blood-soaked latest

Shadow Of Fire

‘Shadow Of Fire’: Tokyo Review

In the devastating aftermath of the Second World War, survivors face a hard-scrabble existence

A Long Shot

‘A Long Shot’: Tokyo Review

Debut about an armed heist at a Chinese factory in the mid-1990s is inspired by true events