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Japanese comedy film.

The legendary ninja Kurama Tengu (Enoken) uses his superhuman powers to help free a band of street urchins from their Fagin-like master. The film's incredible climax, when Enoken fends off dozens of men attacking with ladders and handcarts, brings to mind a slightly less dextrous Jackie Chan.

Enoken plays a frog-oil-hawking conman whose claims to martial prowess land him in hot water with the local samurai gentry - but not before he falls in love with exactly the wrong girl. Another musical comedy period film quick on the heels of the earlier Kondo Isami.

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.

A woman who becomes morbidly “clean” by the slightest chance. What is the “last trash” she disposes of...?

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Japanese stars screaming: War!

Squid have 10 legs. Octopuses have 8 legs. Added together, that’s 18 legs.

One day, the sleazy Tomoko accompanies the pimp Ken to a popular dating club. She's a little dim-witted and always makes mistakes, but she's hard to hate.

Kyoichi Kageyama, a TV station reporter, is always getting into trouble. But when he gets his hands on a TV that shows the “news of the next day,” his reporting becomes a string of scoops, his love life blossoms, and everything starts going his way, until the news from tomorrow reports his aunt getting robbed and murdered!

Mendou hires a new personal Ninja with some very unusual abilities, only to have him fall head-over-heels for his manipulative sister, Ryoko.

The Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of “King Lear” and “Christmas Carol”. A neighborhood loan shark is hounded by his relatives expecting big inheritance. But he is not giving any favor to anyone. His only joy of life is to go on junk hunt in the neighborhood, collecting garbages and scraps and selling them to junkmen to make profit.

Tomoko wakes up trapped in an unknown and terrifying place. She tries to ask for help, but no one comes. After rolling a dice she travels to an even stranger place where a kung fu expert cybernetic shark awaits her.

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 remake of the 1959 tokusatsu sci-fi film "Prince of Space."

The second of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.

Kotaru's Life is turned upside down when his favorite AV actress moves in next door.

A human reincarnated as a maggot begins to explore the potential for his new existence and slowly succumbs to the routines of his form.

A short animation by Takashi Taniguchi

The Coco guesthouse cultivates new relationships, providing a platform for confronting personal pasts and futures.

Director Watanabe Kunio The first talkie film by Tamagawa Studio Starring Sugi Kyoji as Hosoi Ichikawa Haruyo as Kinuko Hoshi Reiko as Mitsuko Matsumoto Shutaro as boy of liquor shop Uemura Setsuko as landlord widow Kitahara Natsue as hysteric wife Oosaki Kenji as her husband Matsudaira Akira as singer at next door Hanano Kuniko as maid Kawagoe Ippei and Bando Mieshi as old couple Kanbe Hikaru as thief

A young man suspects that his new lover is cheating on him. All is not what it seems.

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.

Two schoolgirls get to know the scary side of a classroom.

Three high school students at the Robocon Research Club learned that an UFO will destroy the earth from Akane, a mysterious new student, who suddenly appeared in the area of Hayama and Iijima. They gather junk to save the Earth by building a three-body-combined robot and stand up to the enemies.

The five employees of Studio Delta were finishing their work and preparing for their end-of-year and New Year holidays. Ume's friend suddenly had a plan and couldn't help Ume with the Comic Market which was happening at the end of the year. Momoe decided to accompany Ume and only remembered on that day that she is supposed to meet her favorite A-kun. In addition, a sudden work request happened at Studio Delta and the work needs to be completed by New Year's Eve. Will the employees be able to welcome the New Year safely?

A theatrical version of the laid-back CG animated series HAL & BONS, which gained attention through its serialization in the DVD magazine Grasshoppa! beginning in 2001. Hal and Bons, a pair of dogs living on the planet Himadama, spend their days happily drinking beer and enjoying a carefree life. One day, a talking piece of mochi named Mochi-kun arrives to interview them and ends up staying as an unwanted houseguest, leading to a series of unusual events.

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

A group of friends raised in a children's home encounter each other again as adults.

Maejiri, an otherwise ordinary office worker whose only unusual trait is that his butt is in the front, secretly lives a double life as the city's protector — Oshirimae Man. One day he discovers that a strange drug is spreading through the city which causes people's butts to move to the front. After infiltrating a pharmaceutical company, he uncovers the shocking "Oshirimae Man Empire Revival Plan," led by a mysterious villain burning with vengeance. Can Oshirimae Man stop him before all of humanity finds its butt… in the front?

The 12th Nintama Rantarou Musical installment.

The 12th Nintama Rantarou Musical installment.

While the Tribes of Light and Shadow have peacefully reunited and are living together on the surface, life in Astral's household has not gotten any easier as Sharon, Nina and Mew still fiercely vie for his attention - only to have Delta beat them to it!

Always dressed in his plump satin jacket, Takuro hangs around with his no less plump buddies, but is essentially a good-natured and polite young man who quickly makes friends with strangers. Only when it comes to love does he seem to have no luck: He doesn't want to know anything about his admirer Hiroko and is constantly on the lookout for great love. In urban Tokyo, day in and day out, he meets a wide variety of, sometimes bizarre, characters. He is not lacking in variety, but he just seems to be treading on the spot in his life. But maybe true love isn't as far away as Takuro thinks...

Featuring the beloved comic duo Yaji (Nakae Ryutaro) and Kita (Makino Toroku), the film follows this odd couple along the Kiso Road where they meet and rescue a couple who are running away from their family after their 50 ryo of travel money has been stolen. Featuring appearances from popular jidaigeki heroes Tange Sazen and Kunisada Chuji.

Taro, who looks like a skull, doesn't stand out at school, but he is blessed with friends like Yasushi, who has a head that looks like the inside of a clam, and finds meaning in seemingly meaningless things as he goes about his daily life.

The 1987 Japan English Touring cast of Little Shop of Horrors, filmed at Theatre Apple (シアターアプル) in Tokyo during its October 1 - October 28, 1987 run at the theater. The meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names "Audrey II" - after his coworker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down and out Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it, BLOOD.

Eri as a child hides her pain with a determined smile. This leads to an unprecedented change, turning her into a doll. After landing a singing contract she learns the depth of what she has become.

Animation by Maki Morimoto.

A found footage documentary about a latex creature that starts killing people and doing unspeakable things to them. Episode 0 of 日曜はきだめスペシャル 第二弾.

Ryuji Yamamoto, an actor from over 1,000 pink and AV film, directs and plays a fictionalized version of himself that has a gay awakening at Cine Friends Nishijin in Kyoto. Many pink film actors and crew also appear as "themselves."

Having just finished building a time machine, an inventor tries to show it off to impress his childhood friend.

A short movie inspired by the eponymous fairy tale written in 1923 by Kenji Miyazawa.

A short in which a student named Ai meets an alien with a time machine. Ai also appears in the short "Kobe to Watashi".

It is the story of a compulsive Japanese worker obsessed with order; for everything there is a site, but he realizes that he can not finds his site.

Japanese comedy film.

A couple falls in love again through strange encounters and awkward situations during a hot summer. Hajime sees his wife in the street wearing strange clothes. When asked, she says it wasn’t her. Hajime then installs cameras to monitor his wife and that’s just the start of his paranoia. His interactions with people become more twisted, leading him to question reality. Whimsical, odd and surreal, with great black-and-white cinematography.

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.

In the year 20001, three aliens arrive on the ruins of Earth to investigate the extinct human race. Revering humanity as a highly intelligent civilization, they wildly misinterpret the artifacts left behind: mistaking playgrounds for sacred places, umbrellas for communication devices, and graveyards for farmland. The team consists of a warm-hearted yet misguided captain, a highly logical but often inaccurate analyst, and their innocent, instinctive young member. While the two adults obsessively analyze human civilization through logic and theory, the youngest slowly begins to understand humanity through emotion, contradiction, and empathy, discovering that what science cannot decode, the heart just might.

Meat-kun has been kidnapped by Iron Mask. In order to save Meat-kun, the treasure of Inmora Island is needed. Furthermore, the treasure is hidden in the Seven Story Tower, which is guarded by the brutal Senshi Choujins. When Kinnikuman asks Terryman and the Seigi Choujins to help him, for some reason they all refuse. Alone, Kinnikuman heads to Inmora Island to fight the Senshi Chōjin and is overwhelmed by their great numbers.

Three wives launch a sex strike to put their domineering husbands in their place!