Best Noir/Crime/Detective Film
Dusk Til Dawn Film Festival

Best Director and Best Cinematography Nominee
Terror Film Festival

20 Film Festivals in the U.S., Japan, Germany, Switzerland, and Mexico

“… a stylishly off-kilter entertainment that mixes yakuza and other Asian action genres to humorous and horrific effect…”
Mark Schilling, author of The Yakuza Movie Book

“… like directors Miike Takashi and Kitano Takeshi, Foster’s managed to infuse the genre with his own unique style.”
Matt Kaufman, Kansai Time Out

Boss Watanabe is clinging to his sanity and control of Kyoto’s yakuza after Boss Aihara massacres most of his men in a sneak attack. Holed up in a dingy bar with Uchida, his lieutenant, Watanabe starts to see the mutilated ghosts of his dead soldiers. The specters blame him for their deaths, and they want revenge. Terrorized by both his inner demons and the threat that Aihara’s thugs will find him at any minute, Watanabe has only one way out: he hires K, an alluring American hit woman, to assassinate Aihara. For the right price, K will kill anyone. Even her own client.

Kyoto Nocturnes, Part I: Elegant Slaughter (22 minutes) is in Japanese and English with English and Japanese subtitles.