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An action fantasy movie starring two idols, Meibi Yamanouchi and Riho Iida.

A young couple, stranded by a car breakdown, discovers an old hot spring inn. They quickly decide to stay there. Soon, they begin to be followed by the shadow of someone or something around them. It turns out to be the ghost of a woman who died at the inn and cannot rest in peace.

Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Transformation Lesson is a web-exclusive episode explaining how to transform into Ryusoulgers

A short anime based on Kenji Miyazawa's fairytale "Twin Stars" where Chunse Doji and Boze Doji live in the Milky Way.

Mix of arthouse, comedy, horror. A man who has committed numerous crimes rescues a dog. An unique experimental movie in which a dog who died in a traffic accident after being tossed around by humans is reborn as a heretic and attempts revenge on humans. Under the guidance of the devil, he is reborn as a scarecrow to bring the Blood Festival. A 35mm independent film by the director who loves to make movies, but is not interested in professional film directors. The director who was shocked to see a picture of a dog abused and abandoned by humans, devoted his passion to this unique work that took seven years to complete.

Rolling Bomber Special is a Web Original that tells the story of Katori Shintaro, and his quest to destroy the world...if the "heroes" of this story are to believed. See, a Sentai team calling themselves Earth Defender Freshman is onto his schemes and will stop at nothing to protect the world and everyone in it.

Chaos ensues when a girl escapes from the Land of Paintings and forgets the spell to return the painting to its original state.

DVD release of the theatrical play "Ginga Eiyu Densetsu = Dai 1 Sho Ginga Teikoku Hen = (Legend of the Galactic Heroes Chapter 1)" based on hit novel of the same name.

On the island of Okinawa, driven by his kindhearted nature, a boy named Ray determines to stop the destruction of the island's natural forests and coral reef, no matter what he has to give. What will he give to stop a tidal wave from killing the island's people?

This is a story of PLUG and his friends, who live in the Zero Emission world, sharing energy each other, harmoniously.

Depicts with song and dance the anguish of Francis Xavier, the missionary known for introducing Christianity to Japan for the first time, in this musical period drama fantasy.

Mone, Kechon, Chiffon, Younapi and Chibo are ordinal women. They work at a cleaning company. The CEO of the company is a woman and she is like a devil. The 5 working girls have boring days. One day, they go to a place in the middle of the forest to clean up. There, they find a dead body of a beautiful girl. The girls raise the beautiful girl from the dead by imitating a ritual of a Norwegian black metal band.

A young college graduate name Chiaki brings her friend Mai to visit her hometown called Nuegabuchi, a hot spring village. The village has many legends of a mysterious monster called nue. In the middle of the night, Chiaki would hear eerie cries of a monster, bringing up grim memories from her childhood. During her visit, it is revealed that Sawatsukumori, the man who killed Chiaki's father twelve years ago, was just released on parole and is now missing. In another scene, we see a magazine editor named Kyogoku taking orders from a mysterious woman to capture the nue. Kyogoku eventually arrives at Nuegabuchi and comes head to head with the nue.

Short pilot film for Riku ni Agatta Ningyo no Hanashi, a stop motion animation adaptation of Randall Jarrell's The Animal Family children's novel.

Three 10-minute videos present a trippy view into the minds of their creators. Scientific Attack Force features three shorts done in very different styles. PLASTIC GUN MAN, a 3D Western spoof, WORLD MECCANO TRIANGLE, a music video reminiscent of '90s era screensavers. HAIIROGAOKA NO SORIDAIJIN (translated as "Prime Minister of Gray Hill"), an anime-style animated video parody of Akira Mochizuki's famous 1977 manga, Yuuhi ga Oka no Souri Daijin.

A re-edit of the 1968 Agon miniseries created by screenwriter Shinichi Sekizawa, who wrote the majority of the original Showa Godzilla films. It was released by Toho Video in the 1980's and on DVD in 2005.

Having lost his wife, elderly Shogo lives alone in the countryside. Beginning to show signs of dementia, he receives the care of a young helper named Yumi. As he grows closer to Yumi, he begins to see in her his late wife.

A short anime directed by Mizuho Nishikubo and produced by Production I.G, which was shown at the V Jump Festival '98. The special is based on the Slime Boukenki manga by Osamu Kaneko.

Opening its eyes, the moon that fell to the depths of the sea was met with complete darkness. Will the moon be able to return to its home in the sky?

Suzunosuke visits a martial arts master and tries to learn the 'Vacuum Slash,' a secret technique of producing tornadoes.

The stage show of Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger Season Tsuu, later released on home video.

The second and final compilation films for Ultraman Great (aka Ultraman: Towards the Future). Jack Shindo is an astronaut doing research on the planet Mars. On a routine mission to survey the desolate landscape, he discovers mankind's greatest threat, Gudis, whose monsters have been ordered to kill all life on Earth. Jack must work with the mysterious colossal alien Ultraman and the Universal Multipurpose Agency to save humanity from extinction!

For eons, light and dark have fought ceaselessly for dominion over the world. Whispers echo of a Dark Lord whose insidious grip on the realm is marked by insatiable lust, twisted jealousy, ravenous greed, unrelenting vanity, and possessive manipulation. A group of adventurers rose to face this threat with hidden wishes of secrets and shadows untold.

Animation by Maki Morimoto.

Following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, this is Eihi Shiina's first film as a director, which she directed, wrote, acted in, and art produced as the culmination of her activities to date. The trilogy of short films, 1st "KOTONOHA", 2nd "KOTONONE", and 3rd "KOTONOHANA" was created in Japan with the theme of life, death and nirvana. The beautiful and sorrowful visual poetry depicted from Eihi Shiina's original point of view is her brain itself, in which everything she has is concentrated. It is her last message (a will) as an artist to Japan and the world. —Eihi Shiina

In a small Normandy village overlooking the English Channel, an elderly shopkeeper runs the enigmatic “Shop That Sells Memories,” offering customers tiny floating bubbles that reveal their deepest past experiences. When a troubled young glassblower named Tom returns after years abroad, he and his long‑lost love Marie rediscover each other through the shop’s magic, ultimately reuniting and prompting the shop to vanish forever.

In Tokyo, the new type of virus called Emanon has spread out. Once people infected by the virus, they lose their most important person's memory. Teru, a guy who spends his life lazily, met his previous girlfriend Mio. But she has infected by the virus and forgot about him. Because of the virus, the world has plunged into confusion and it's been growing as a global pandemic. In the meantime, Teru and Mio restarted their relationship but he also infected and lost the memory about Mio. Tokyo fall into a turmoil and shattered. Teru and Mio ended up in the countryside where they've been before.

Mamiya Mugen is a detective who has the ability to look into people's minds and show their dreams to others. He is lured by the disembodied voice of girl, Nayuko Mishima, who has been missing for months.

Amid an urban crowd, a man is sleeping—or perhaps unconscious. Nobody pays him any attention, but then an insect crawls into his body. He begins to experience strange events at the threshold between reality and fantasy.

You may know his artwork from Kanye West’s newest album Graduation or Murakami’s most recent venture with Louis Vuitton (both of which are showcased at his retrospective currently at the MOCA, going insofar as having a Vuitton store within the exhibit.) but what you should know Murakami for is his sculpture and video work. Rarely does one have the pleasure of seeing a video so provocatively strange to the point of being borderline disturbing, while simultaneously being extremely hilarious, and remarkably well made.

Ciel is asked to investigate some strange happenings in an elite public school.

A mysterious man lands his ship on a seemingly deserted planet. He sets out with his crew to see if any survivors remain.

Wendy and her two little brothers are brought to the land of adventures called Neverland by Peter Pan, a boy who will never grow up. In Neverland, they encounter exciting events and meet with little fairies, mermaids, Indians, and pirates. Required to act as a mother, Wendy never has a moment of peace with all that is happening around her, including breath-taking fights with pirates. Later in the series, they set off to find buried treasure with a map they obtain from the pirates.

A dreamlike portrayal of a hangover after a decadent party.

In Tokyo, a young man, Tomo, and his companion, Hiroko, have hardly any money left to their name. Convinced that their misfortune is part of a larger, unexplainable joke, they agree to throw themselves into all the encounters that come their way with the singular hope of defeating this joke before it plays out.

A video version of the original Kamen Rider manga.

In this Japanese retelling of Cinderella, Okuro (Takayama) is the unfortunate stepdaughter of a family of tanuki: shape-shifting raccoon dogs. She hopes to see the tanuki prince (former Takarazuka star Miyagi) against her stepmother's wishes; the magical spirit of the willow tree, and a hapless kappa (water goblin) intercede in unexpected ways.

Based on the children's book by Masako Matsuno.

Princess of Darkness Black Lady (Revision) was the revision to the previous Black Lady musical, featuring some plot and character changes from the original.

Ciel Phantomhive is busy preparing his manor for a ball when three new guests appear from Japan. As part of English hospitality, Ciel invites them to the ball. At the party, though, an unwelcome intrusion occurs, and it is the start of the mystery surrounding the Japanese guests.

A short anime directed by Yuasa Masaaki with Production IG, distributed on VHS as a bonus to a video game magazine subscription. The main character is a Slime from the Dragon Quest video games.

An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo.

Aliens have come to earth and threaten humanity. But one company is taking care of their elimination: the Miyata Busters. Unfortunately, the company is no longer doing well, because with new technology everyone can now put an end to the aliens. And then something goes wrong in the disposal machine ...

This story is a dark fantasy told through reconstructed flashbacks memory bugs(errors) seen at the moment of Tsuruha's death. Her brother Kikuo returned to 1930s Japan after finishing his studies in France to become a translator. He soon receives a letter from Tsuruha, who was thought to be dead. To inquire about matters, Kikuotravels to his sister's rural home to discover her there along with a doll that looks mysteriously like her daughter.

An axe-human tries to get along with a balloon-human in Balloon City.

The Secrets of Ryusoulger transformation course video gives an advance look at the Ryusooul Changer, Ryusouls, Ryusoul Ken and Kishiryuoh!!

An omnibus movie consisting of three stories by Miyazawa Kenji.

Three short stories in Tokyo about people's death and how they see their life after death. In each story the main character experience death and they live another life that seems just like another day. Regretting their ignorance that caused pain to their beloved ones, each tries to find a clue to what went wrong in another life.

A Fairytale Story of Princess Kuro.

Bat Megmel is a girl that lives in the Magical World. One day, while practicing magic, she accidentally unleashes the demon king Atler. She must seal him again.

A bizarre love comedy about a bullied schoolboy Kotaro. His problem is the eyeballs – not the normal pair, but the additional pair that pops up from his nose whenever he gets nervous. Needless to say, girls usually run away screaming.Tashiro is a fanboy director whose films are full of references (e.g. Kotaro gets self-confidence by watching The Toxic Avenger on VHS) and insider jokes. There’s also an amazing cameo at the end of the film.

Gombei is a master duck catcher. One day, when he tried to catch too many ducks, they took him to a distant village. Gonbei, reflecting on his actions, decides to catch only one duck a day.

Suzunosuke continues his battle with the Skull Mask gang in a booby-trapped cave.

A girl who lost her mother in childhood; A man trapped in a past of painful memories; An old man who lives alone and lost his daughter. When the girl meets the man, her body begins to float suddenly in the air. At the same time, the old man receives a message on his answering machine from his daughter who was thought to be dead. This is the story of three souls moving toward UTOPIA.

Aiko lives in a shrine with a sliding door that mysteriously is only half painted and thought during her childhood that she wanted to paint it. But the 17-year old Aiko now has no dreams about the future. Suddenly, a strange man appears before her. Aiko's grandfather and the shrine's chief priest offers the man to stay in the shrine, but Aiko isn't having any of it. But he realizes the kindness of the brusque young man and slowly comes to like him. What is his true identity?