Gaspar Noé’s Tokyo-set audio-visual experience is stunning and scandalous—a hallucinatory techno trip exemplar of Noé’s brand of divisive filmmaking. An intoxicating first-person crawl through the city by night, Enter the Void is sensational cinema at its most phenomenal and visceral.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s intimate and immersive Happy Hour is one of the best films of the past decade. Equally devoted to the innermost feelings of its characters is his follow-up, Asako I & II, an entrancing, Vertigo-inspired romance mystery, featuring a lively soundtrack by J-Pop star Tofubeats.