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Cinema
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's three-hour triumph lost Best Picture at this year's Oscars, but deserved better. A delicate odyssey through grief and storytelling, Drive My Car was the best film of 2021
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Visual Arts
180 The Strand unveils a breathtaking immersive project by Japanese electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda, taking us on a cyber-technological sensorial experience
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TV
This thrilling and stylish BBC drama explores the devastating effects of a murder separated by thousands of miles. Kelly Macdonald stars
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Visual Arts
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Design
Japan's home design is far from domesticated. For the first time, a major London exhibition explores Japanese post-war architecture in all its wildly radical glory
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Visual Arts
Tokyo-based artist Yoshitomo Nara brings his big-eyed, childlike creations to Mayfair for an exhibition of new works
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Visual Arts
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