Offscreen screened the three films that formed Tsukamoto's Anti-War Trilogy on the occassion of three previous festival editions. Now we are glad to be able to present - together with Cineflagey who releases the last film Shadow of Fire - a special screening of the entire trilogy in one not be missed program.

SHADOW OF FIRE (2021) - VO JP ST FR OND

World War Two is over but survivors struggle with trauma amid the ashes of their city. A ramen bar owner, obliged to sell her body, bonds with an orphan and a shellshocked soldier in a makeshift family unit, but don't expect comfort viewing from the third part of Tsukamoto's searing anti-war trilogy. Grim but great.

Screenings:

08.06 - 21:15 
13.06 - 19:00 
16.06 - 21:15 
20.06 - 19:00 
30.06 - 18:35

FIRES ON THE PLAIN (2014) - VO JP ST FR OND

Dantesque imagery on a Pacific island during the last days of WWII. Between mutilated bodies and rotten corpses, a lonely soldier is on a quest for redemption, only to descend deeper into hell. A hard-hitting anti-war film by steampunk body horror (“Tetsuo”, “Tokyo Fist”) director Shinya Tsukamoto.

Screenings:

14.06 - 19:00

KILLING (2018) - VO JP ST FR OND

An untested young ronin, living among farmers, must protect them from marauding outlaws. What at first may seem a surprisingly conventional small-scale chambara from the Japanese cult director develops into a subversive critique of the samurai code, with Tsukamoto himself in the role of sage elder swordsman.

Screenings:

21.06 - 21:10