THIS year’s Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme includes Conflagration (no certification) from 1958. It was inspired by true events and fictionalised in Yukio Mishima’s novel The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Exemplifying Oscar Wilde’s notion that “each man kills the thing he loves,” this was the work of a troubled apprentice monk. In the film, Mizoguchi Goichi (Ichikawa Raizo VIII) arrives there, craving spiritual comfort. The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026 takes place in cinemas around the UK from 6 February to 31 March.