Mountains May Depart review – our friends in the east
A love triangle unfolds over three decades in this intriguing Chinese melodrama
Youth review – Chinese dancers endure fall-outs, heartache and burst blisters
Feng Xiaogang’s sprawling drama lays on the Spielbergian syrup and covers swaths of China’s history in broad brushstrokes – but it carries a potent message
Bingo: The King of the Mornings review – hectoring tale of porn star turned clown
Daniel Rezende’s version of the life of Brazil’s Bozo takes the myth for granted and is guilty of some lazy screenwriting tricks
The 50 top films of 2017 in the UK: No 7 Toni Erdmann
Continuing our countdown of the year’s finest films, Catherine Shoard celebrates an audacious German comedy packed with flabbergasting set-pieces
Blade of the Immortal review – bloodshed and birdsong
Takashi Miike’s samurai slasher has both elegiac and witty moments but the gore does tend to bore…
Menashe review – intensely emotional tale of a widower’s grief
A Yiddish drama set in a Hasidic Jewish community unpicks patriarchal power politics with a powerful central turn from non-professional Menashe Lustig
Blade of the Immortal review – spectacular corpses and an undead samurai
Takashi Miike’s surreally violent action movie based in Hiroaki Samura’s long-running manga may not be his best work but is brutally dramatic
The Braddies 2017: Peter Bradshaw nominates his films of the year
The Guardian’s film critic presents his shortlist of the year’s movies, directors, actors, writers and screenplays he considers most awards-worthy
100 not out: Takashi Miike joins the world’s most prolific directors
The Japanese director is known in the west for ultraviolence and boundary-pushing gore, but he has honed his craft in genres including family films to reach this career landmark
The poisonous dispute over Indian film Padmavati mustn’t spill over into the UK
Threats against British cinemas won’t be tolerated, and the Indian government must know that, writes Sunny Malik, a UK-based social media manager focusing on Bollywood
Heartstone review – fervent teen sexuality drama
This long, Iceland-set debut steams with suppressed emotion as two teenagers explore a dawning relationship
Fireworks review – anime romance sparkles with strangeness
This disorientating teen tale – think Japan’s answer to Sliding Doors – follows the divided destinies of three characters in wholly un-Hollywood style
A Caribbean Dream review – Shakespeare goes to carnival
Shakirah Bourne’s tender-hearted adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a refreshingly low-key palate cleanser with plenty of time for its older characters
Félicité review – gritty story of Kinshasa bar singer
Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu plays a mother scratching a living in the Congolese capital in Alain Gomis’s dramatic, compassionate study
Perfect Blue review – cult anime pushes teenage girl over the edge
Satoshi Kon’s 1997 exploitation movie about an ex-pop star and her stalker still packs a punch, but certain scenes are extra uncomfortable in the Weinstein era