Part of the 2026 season: Knowing Me, Knowing You
Teki Cometh
Teki, 敵
Director YOSHIDA Daihachi
Cast NAGATSUKA Kyozo, TAKIUCHI Kumi
2023, 108 min, English subtitles
WATANABE Gisuke (NAGATSUKA Kyozo) is a retired French literature professor. Since his wife’s death, he has lived quietly alone in a traditional Japanese house. He leads a regular life and enjoys occasional company from former students, particularly TAKATSUKASA Yasuko (TAKIUCHI Kumi), all the while considering ending his life before he runs out of money for his funeral.
One day, he receives a chilling message on his PC: “An enemy is coming from the north.” Despite his immediate dismissal of it as a hoax, an ominous feeling begins to grow within him. Soon, he starts experiencing haunting dreams that seem to expose his deepest sins…Is it all in his imagination?
TSUTSUI Yasutaka, the original novelist, once called this “a novel that I thought was impossible to film.” However, seasoned director YOSHIDA Daihachi (Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction, JFTFP22; The Scythian Lamb, JFTFP19) successfully translates the book’s deep, unconscious karma and the self that cannot let go — even in later life — into this striking black-and-white contemporary film.
Contains sexual references
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Screening dates
Please note: Tickets for some screenings may not be available yet.
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Saturday 14 February, 17:40
- QUAD Sunday 15 February, 15:30
- Showroom Cinema Monday 16 February, 17:45
- Phoenix, Leicester Monday 16 February, 20:15
- The Ultimate Picture Palace Tuesday 17 February, 18:00
- Dundee Contemporary Arts Tuesday 24 February, 20:00
- Firstsite Saturday 28 February, 14:00
- Depot Sunday 1 March, 15:45
- HOME Tuesday 10 March, 18:00
- Exeter Phoenix Wednesday 18 March, 17:20
- Filmhouse Thursday 19 March, 20:45
- Broadway TBC
- Jesus College / Panorama TBC
- Watershed TBC
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Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality
The Man Who Failed to Die
What Should We Have Done?
The Final Piece
She Taught Me Serendipity
Ghost Killer
Adabana
Strangers in Kyoto
Petals and Memories
Ura Aka: L'Aventure
Teki Cometh
Conflagration
Blue Boy Trial
Kaneko's Commissary
The Real You
Silence of the Sea
Love Doesn't Matter to Me
Sham
The Last Blossom
Like Asura
I Am What I Am
ANGRY SQUAD: The Civil Servant and the Seven Swindlers
A Bad Summer
Missing Child Videotape
NEMURUBAKA: Hypnic Jerks





Like Asura
Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality
The Man Who Failed to Die