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The one-hundred-year-old Fujiya inn stands in the quiet region of Kyoto. Mikoto (Riko Fujitani) is standing in front of the Kibune river at the back of the building when she is called back to work. But two minutes later, she finds herself back at the river again.

The whole inn seems to be stuck in a time loop! While trying to find the source of the time loop, characters confront discontentment with their employment, mortality, and the impending end of a relationship in this charming time adventure comedy.

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Taka (Shô Mineo), a shiftless young man, sets off on a quest to find his missing brother Mune (So Yamanaka). Teaming up with a quirky new friend and an edgy, mysterious young girl, Taka finds himself taking on a pack of vicious monster cats determined to execute unscrupulous pet shop owners.

Why are the monster cats after him? Why was his brother captured? What is the purpose of this mysterious young girl? Mysteries are about to be revealed as the journey leads to a final showdown.

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The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go.

Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (Dominic Sessa) — and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da'Vine Joy Randolph).

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It's 1908. The West has changed. Grizzled frontiersman Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) hasn't. Despite the fortune he's made selling water to thirsty desert travelers, he lies in wait.

Someday two no-account desert rats - who long ago robbed Hogue and left him to die in the baking Arizona sand - will drop by for a drink...

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To her friends, Halla (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir) leads a quiet and routine life. But her happy and upbeat exterior hides a secret double life as a committed environmental activist.

Known to others as "The Mountain Woman", she wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry to protect the stunning highland landscape that is under threat. Just as she begins planning her biggest and boldest operation yet, she receives an unexpected letter that will change everything. She will be forced to choose between her environmental crusade and the chance of fulfilling her dream of becoming a mother. Funny, moving and utterly unique, 'Woman at War' follows Halla as she juggles the adoption of a beautiful little girl whilst planning her final act of industrial sabotage.

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Ten years after a Western economic collapse, cold-blooded drifter Eric (Guy Pearce) traverses the scorched Australian outback on a mission to track down the men who took everything he had.

After losing their trail he soon crosses paths with Rey (Robert Pattinson), a badly wounded member of the gang who was left for dead by his own brother. Vulnerable and naive Rey joins Eric as his unwitting accomplice and together they cross this new world to exact their revenge.

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A small town pharmacist's uneventful life is turned inside out when a chance encounter with a lonely trophy wife turns into a walk on the wild side in this murderously funny dark comedy starring Sam Rockwell and Olivia Wilde.

Doug Varney (Sam Rockwell) has been disregarded for years by everyone from his domineering wife Kara (Michelle Monaghan) to the goldbricking employees at the drugstore he bought from his insufferable father-in-law. When Doug embarks on an exhilarating drug-and-alcohol fuelled affair with Elizabeth (Olivia Wilde) - the most glamorous woman he has ever met - no-one is more surprised than he is.

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This tale of friendship and survival, set during the days of the 1860s focuses on a roguish group of runaways living by their wits and natural instincts.

Two of them in particular are complementary opposites: Drew is a good boy from God-fearing stock in Ohio, out West to evade the draft and Jake is a scruffy scoundrel - a saddle tramp not above a little larceny here and there. Along the trail they encounter a variety of varmints and renegades. And eventually, they find themselves older and wiser for the journey and friendship.

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From Oscar-Nominated producer Ridley Scott and director Luke Scott comes this visceral, edge-of-your-seat thriller with an all-star cast including Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Toby Jones, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rose Leslie.

Inside a remote, top-secret lab, a group of scientists is working on an experiment that is leading the way for the next steps in human evolution. But when the experiment's subject - a genetically designed "human" (Anya Taylor-Joy) - triggers a terrifying event, those involved must decide if the promise of infinite potential outweighs the incalculable danger.

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Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea.

Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.

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Internationally acclaimed director Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Himizu) brings his ultimate passion project, one of his oldest scripts and the film tie has wanted to bring to the big screen for over 20 years.

Filmed on location Fukushima, home of the nuclear power planf meltdown and starring many of the city's residents, 'Whispering Star' takes place in a post-apocalyptic future in which humans are now outnumbered by machines, particularly Al robots, following 'devastating' human mistakes. Humanoid delivery woman Yoko Suzuki (Megumi Kagurazaka) makes her rounds through space, landing on isolated planets and meeting near-extinct human beings along the way. Whispering to Yoko is the child-like voice of her spaceship's operating machine. Neither understands why humans have the need to send each other seemingly insignificant objects that take years to be delivered. Sono's beautifully crafted sci-fi setting is reminiscent of the films of Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky.

The Whispering Star (2015)
An interstellar delivery robot-woman (Megumi Kagurazaka) travels the galaxy distributing packages to various human beings, and muses on the meaning of life in this haunting sci-fi drama from Japanese auteur Sion Sono (Love Exposure).
The Sion Sono (2016)
Arata Oshima (son of the famous director Nagisa Oshima) documents the making of Whispering Star as well as the life of cult director Sion Sono in this feature-length documentary.

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Mickey Rourke leads an all-star cast in this brilliantly realistic and savage Western set in the turbulent years immediately after the bloody Civil War. Back to his mean 'n' moody best, Rourke plays Col.

Graff, the fearsome and brutal leader of a band of renegade Confederate soldiers who are robbing and murdering their way across the country. Lost in his own private war, Graff's iron will is driving the gun-happy outlaws straight into the jaws of Hell, unless they can break free from his obsessive hatred. .

An audacious, genre-defying mix of horror and folklore, 'Lamb' is the debut feature from Icelandic writer-director Valdimar Johannsson. A couple on a remote sheep farm find a mysterious newborn and decide to raise it as their own, but soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature.

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The Kegans are an American dynasty. They own oil, banks, beautiful women, even Presidents. They have the power to make fortunes and destroy careers. One man will inherit it all. If he lives.

19 years after the assassination of his half brother President Tim Kegan, Nick Kegan (Jeff Bridges) is serving on a Naval Vessel when a dying man is brought to him, and confesses he was the second gunman involved in the assassination. Back home and by order of his domineering father (John Huston), Nick begins to investigate the man's claims and he soon finds himself deeper into the many conspiracy theories that surface, and the twists and turns become inextricably bound he finds it harder to decipher between his friends and enemies.

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Vinegaroon law goes like this. Penalty for stealing whisky: hanging. Penalty for not cutting the judge in on a bank heist: hanging. Penalty for speaking ill of New York actress Lillie Langtry: shooting. Then hanging.

Paul Newman joins director John Huston, screenwriter John Milius and a cast of superb sidewinders to turn the real-life Wild West into a tall tale of a Wilder West. Newman tackles with gusto the title role, a self-made man who proclaims himself the law west of the Pecos, writes admiring letters to Langtry (Ava Gardner) and rides into gun-blazing glory whooping "For Texas and Miss Langtry!"