Junichi Kajioka

By turns an elaborate wartime drama of China, suffering under Japanese occupation during the 1930s and 40s, and an absurdist comedy of madness, cultural disconnects and historical booby-traps that Samuel Beckett would recognize in an instant. (Film Forum)

Inspired by photos of Bonnie Parker, Kate gathers a gang of her shop-assistant friends and comes up with a plot to rob the store.

A Japanese artist visits the Highlands of Scotland to paint, but becomes the target of a sadistic killer. Alone, suffering from exposure and hunted, he must find a way to survive.