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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Past screenings
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Saturday 14 February, 17:40
Guest appearance - QUAD Sunday 15 February, 15:30
Guest appearance - Showroom Cinema Monday 16 February, 17:45
Guest appearance - Phoenix, Leicester Monday 16 February, 20:15
- The Ultimate Picture Palace Tuesday 17 February, 18:00
Guest appearance - Watershed 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
- Jesus College / Panorama Sunday 1 March, 18:00
- HOME Tuesday 10 March, 18:00
- Broadway Thursday 12 March, 18:00
- Exeter Phoenix Wednesday 18 March, 17:20
- Filmhouse Thursday 19 March, 20:45
If you like this you may like the following
All films in this season
A Bad Summer
Adabana
ANGRY SQUAD: The Civil Servant and the Seven Swindlers
Blue Boy Trial
Conflagration
Ghost Killer
Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality
I Am What I Am
Kaneko's Commissary
Like Asura
Love Doesn't Matter to Me
Missing Child Videotape
NEMURUBAKA: Hypnic Jerks
Petals and Memories
Sham
She Taught Me Serendipity
Silence of the Sea
Strangers in Kyoto
Teki Cometh
The Final Piece
The Hotel of My Dream
The Last Blossom
The Man Who Failed to Die
The Real You
Ura Aka: L'Aventure
What Should We Have Done?





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