Named after Yasujiro Ozu’s custom-made, tatami-level tripod, Kani Releasing is dedicated to leveling the gaze and furthering the understanding of Asian cinema in North America. Kani aims to expand the canon, bolster up-and-coming filmmakers and reintroduce repertory classics in context.
Kani in Cinemas
December 7, 2024 12:30 PM
December 8, 2024 12:10 PM
December 29, 2024 7:00 PM
Bona will also be coming to Suns Cinema (Washington, DC), Cinema Moderne (Montreal, QC), Austin Film Society, Dave Barber Cinematheque (Winnipeg, MB), VIFF Centre (Vancouver, BC), SIFF FIlm Centre (Seattle, WA), Lightbox Film Center (Philly, PA), UW Cinematheque (Madison, WI) and more to be announced...
Book Screenings
Kani Films
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Beijing Watermelon
A Tokyo greengrocer puts his livelihood at risk to extend help to a group of Chinese exchange students.
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Man on the Brink
Rookie cop goes undercover and soon his world spins out of control.
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Cleaners
A rambunctious batch of students rebel against all expectations to be good and clean.
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Journey to the West
Tang Zhijun wants to believe, no matter what.
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Will Your Heart Beat Faster?
A laced cassette tape sets off the Yakuza, the Filipino-Chinese Triad, and a convent of fake nuns.
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Once a Moth
Lupita Aquino Kashiwahara
Living near the US Clark Air Base, Corazon de la Cruz dreams of a better life in America… until the unspeakable happens.
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Spacked Out
Flanked by her ride-or-dies Banana, Sissy, and Bean Curd, 13 year-old Cookie journeys into town to find an abortionist.
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Bullets Over Summer
Plainclothes officers (Francis Ng & Louis Koo) form a fortuitous family unit during a stakeout in Wilson Yip’s playful sitcom subversion of bullet ballet expectations.
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New Old Play
Qiu Fu, the most renowned clown of Sichuan opera, has reached the netherworld and puts off his final meal through colourful stories of his life.
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Sell Out!
A product designer invents a flawless soybean machine and attracts the ire of his bosses in this zany satire of cosmopolitan Kuala Lumpur.
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Viva Erotica
Leslie Cheung stars as Sing, a filmmaker making his softcore debut. An electrifying look at the world of Hong Kong Category III filmmaking.
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What's Up Connection
A Hong Kong teenager wins a trip to Japan and unleashes a chaotic chain of events. Masashi Yamamoto's unhinged globalization mini-epic.
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Robinson's Garden
A bohemian drug-dealer discovers an abandoned building on the outskirts of Tokyo. Director Masashi Yamamoto's defining 1987 punk statement.
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Tremble All You Want
24-year-old office worker Yoshika daydreams about former high school crush Ichi until Ni, a clumsy colleague, bursts her fabulous bubble.
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Videophobia
Ai wakes from a night out to find footage of a sexual encounter on a porn share site. Recourseless, she resorts to a strange solution.
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Ode to Nothing
Lonely, alienated Sonya struggles to keep her family-owned funeral home afloat. Until an unexpected corpse lands illicitly at her doorstep.
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Cain and Abel
When the domineering Señora Pina asks her favorite son to name his inheritance, she sparks a feud that boils over into all-out filial war.
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Being Natural
Carefree Takashi would rather play the bongo under the starlight... But a Tokyo family is determined to open a countryside café in his home.
New Releases
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New Old Play
Qiu Jiongjiong
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Man on the Brink
Alex Cheung
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Bullets Over Summer
Wilson Yip
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Cleaners
Glenn Barit
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