Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on February 2013

This March Shinjuku Musashinokan (3-27-10 Shinjuku; http://shinjuku.musashino-k.jp) is celebrating Troma Entertainment, the film studio synonymous with low-budget shock exploitation films. The 1984 cult classic The Toxic Avenger [pictured] screens from March 2, and Troma’s latest, the ultra-gory and super-silly Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, will show uncut for the first time in Japan from March 23.

Partner (1968), a rarely-seen early work by venerated Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, will receive a re-release at Shibuya’s Image Forum (2-10-2 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku; www.imageforum.co.jp) from March 9.

Cinema Vera (1-5 Maruyamacho, Shibuya-ku ; www.cinemavera.com) will honor late director Nagisa Oshima with a retrospective beginning March 2. Oshima died in January at the age of 80 after a long career that often stirred controversy.

Amour, Michael Haneke’s cinematic meditation on mortality, will finally be released in Japan on March 9. Catch it at Shinjuku Musashinokan or Bunkamura’s Le Cinema (2-24-1 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku; www.bunkamura.co.jp).