Find out our recommendations of this year’s Fantasia Film Festival.
Category: Mystery
Under Ninja (2025) review
Great mindless fun, perfect to wash away the stress that has infiltrated one’s body during the week.
The Man Who Failed To Die (2025) review [Camera Japan Festival]
Seiji Tanaka refuses to colour within the lines of comedy, creating an eclectic collage of different genre-elements that does not fail to satisfy the spectator.
The Killer Goldfish (2025) review [Camera Japan Festival]
An absurd brutal supernatural fantasy that has the potential to become a cult-favourite.
Missing Child Videotape (2024) review [Nippon Connection 2025]
Ryota Kondo proves that the emaciated and abused body of J-horror still has some life within it.
A Man (2022) review
A compelling and thrilling exploration of the reality of identity fraud and the damaging effect societal discourses can have on a subject and his ego.
Short Movie Time: Neu Mirrors (2024) review
Keishi Kondo offers the spectator an unsettling illustration of the Lacanian gaze.
City Hunter (2024) review
A fun but very forgettable experience.
Character (2021) review
It might not be a film that challenges or subverts the tropes and dynamic of the mystery and thriller genre, but it sure does deliver a satisfying and thrilling ride.
The Master Plan / The End of The Tiny World (2021) review
“Pleasant, but ultimately fails to deliver the emotional catharsis it so clearly promises.”
The Cinderella Addiction (2021) review
“A highly enjoyable narrative that explores the opposition between indulging into fantasies and the developing of inter-subjective bonds.”
Re/Member (2022) review
A pleasant experience that succeeds in offering both the thrills of a horror-slasher as well as a touching exploration of romantic and amical feelings.
Short Movie time: Canary (2023) review
Taka Tsubota confirms his talent as director.
Masquerade Night (2021) review
A pleasant and entertaining narrative that is ultimately victim of the demand to be consumable for as many spectators as possible.
Rodan (1956) review [The Godzilla Project]
Honda delivers a bleak and disconcerting outlook on the optimistic post-war reparative economic growth.