Part of the 2026 season: Knowing Me, Knowing You
Ghost Killer
Ghost Killer, ゴーストキラー
Director SONOMURA Kensuke
Cast TAKAISHI Akari, MIMOTO Masanori, KUROBA Mario
2024, 104 min, English subtitles
University student MATSUOKA Fumika (TAKAISHI Akari) drunkenly trips in the street after an unsuccessful date. Pulling herself up, she notices a bullet casing lying on the ground and picks it up. When she returns home, she is shocked to see the ghostly owner of the empty bullet, KUDO Hideo (MIMOTO Masanori), a legendary assassin who was recently murdered.
Terrified and in disbelief, Fumika discovers that by holding Hideo’s hand, she is granted lethal combat skills she never had. But Hideo has unfinished business — to find out who killed him — and only Fumika can help. Very reluctantly, she lends the hitman her body to investigate, but soon finds herself embroiled in a war between rival business factions and drawn into the orbit of KAGEHARA (UROBA Mario), Hideo’s former protégé who harbours secrets of his own…
Directed by SONOMURA Kensuke — director of the acclaimed Baby Assassins series — with a screenplay by SAKAMOTO Yugo, this thrilling and kinetic action film delivers sharp humour, high-octane martial arts, and a surprisingly heartfelt story of redemption and unlikely partnership.
Contains violence and action sequences
公式サイトはこちら:https://ghost-killer.com/
Screening dates
Please note: Tickets for some screenings may not be available yet.
- Brewery Arts Cinema Saturday 7 February, 17:00
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Sunday 15 February, 20:40
- Aberystwyth Arts Centre Saturday 21 February, 19:45
- QUAD Saturday 21 February, 20:30
- HOME Wednesday 25 February, 20:15
- Queen's Film Theatre Sunday 1 March, 15:15
- Depot Monday 2 March, 20:15
- Phoenix, Leicester Saturday 28 March, 20:00
- Broadway TBC
- Jesus College / Panorama TBC
- Hyde Park Picture House TBC
- The Phoenix Cinema 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





The Man Who Failed to Die
Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality
A Bad Summer