Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on February 2012

Fans of horror flicks will be too scared to fall asleep in their movie seats as Shin-Bungeiza in Ikebukuro (3F, 1-43-5 Higashi-Ikebukuro Toshima-ku; www.shin-bungeiza.com) holds an all-night movie marathon of works by Italian master of gore, Lucio Fulci, February 18 from 10:30pm. The shockers on the program include The Psychic (1977; pictured) about a clairvoyant woman who finds a skeleton in the closet, literally… The Turin Horse (2011), the latest—and self-proclaimed final—film by acclaimed Hungarian director Bela Tarr is screening at Shibuya’s Image Forum (2-10-2 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku; www.imageforum.co.jp). Tarr is known for his pensive, philosophical films captured in striking black and white cinematography… 51, a nature documentary about a Chinese panda born at the dangerously low weight of 51 grams and nursed to health by its mother, can be seen at Shinjuku Musashinokan (3-27-10 Shinjuku; http://shinjuku.musashino-k.jp). Model Jun Hasegawa provides the Japanese narration.