This year’s Classics selections offer three late 1980s and early 90s classics of Japanese independent and genre cinema by some of its leading lights: Kaizo Hayashi, Masashi Yamamoto and Shinya Tsukamoto. Starkly different in style, content and approach, they nevertheless exemplify a fertile period in Japanese cinema when the emergence of a new generation of independent filmmakers offered exciting alternatives to the otherwise stagnant mainstream cinema of bubble era Japan.