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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.
Chutaro and Toshiko, a married couple who run a Zenzai shop called "Shiratama Zenzai," lived next to Hozenji Temple. Chutaro was a playboy who easily fell in love with women, and had no interest in business. Even if he occasionally offered to deliver food, it was only to meet the girls. However, Toshiko, who was a reliable person, would always get the better of him with her phone calls, and Chutaro's hopes were always dashed. Then, when a beautiful waitress, Ayako, came to him for advice, Chutaro's heart began to lean towards her. Chutaro also attended the same cooking school as Ayako, and would pursue Ayako even after school. But when Toshiko found out, things got complicated!
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.
Indie film by Fujiwara Sho, 2001.
The Virgin Boy's Story enters a new era and back on the big screen as the Titular Boy Kenji just wants to be a Hong Kong Movie star but finds himself caught in a Triad conflict instead!
Comedy about a man who acts as a pimp.
Based on the comic book by Tetsu Kusamoto.
A movie clue has lost his transceiver somewhere in the shore.
A short in which a student named Ai meets an alien with a time machine. Ai also appears in the short "Kobe to Watashi".
This is a short, privately produced animated film. While elucidating the mystery and fuzziness as well as merits and demerits of memory in idealizing reality, the story develops into a tale of destruction of human beings, turning the existence of the earth into a memory of the universe. The production, only 5 minutes long, greatly helps expand the viewer's imagination, embodying the enchantment of animation.
Sakurako, an office lady, is harassed by three men on the commuter train. However, one of the men's hands makes Sakurako feel ecstasy for the first time. Sakurako asks a shopkeeper to find such a man. Kanako and Mari immediately start searching using their own bodies, but...
Jouji gets a job as a tutor. His student is a beautiful girl Naomi, but she works Jouji very hard. After then, Jouji has a nightmare of the snake.
Mr. Takada is a successful mature writer who falls into a creative blockade following the death of her wife. Incapable of finishing the novel his fans demand anxiously, and about to turn seventy, he starts wandering several pubs in the city, until he meets Sayo, a beautiful young waitress with sentimental issues she doesn’t hesitate to share with her clients.
On of the southernmost islands of Japan, there's a dance school 'Orion Dancers Academy'. Hiding its public identity as a training school of singers and dancers, it actually operates as a girl-warrior training school, in order to win independence of the island. The secretly trained agents watch the music video of charismatic idol Cocoe on a huge TV monitor, and unlock codes from her dancing to complete their missions. However, the dark shadow of a rival organization slowly sneaks up on the girls and the training school on the island.
What happens when Watanabe meets horror? The eccentric director of instant cult movie "Techno Brothers" plays a director hired by a production company to make a documentary. His task is to spend a week in a haunted house. The approach is comical and offbeat, but as the story progresses, the laughter gives way to fear. Will we end up more scared or amused?
Kojima Kosaku is may appear to be a typical businessman, but he's far from it. Trained in sexual martial arts at his father's dojo, Kojima uses his sleazy skills to solve his company's seemingly endless stream of problems. The appearance of a fellow problem solver and sex maniac working for a rival company means that Kojima must stretch his skills to their limit.
Tora-chan and Miike and playing while their big sister prepares for her wedding. Just then a letter arrives; it's from Grandfather, who writes that he won't allow the wedding as long as he lives! Bride and groom rush to the church to get married before the old cat can stop them, but his boat has just arrived! Can Tora-chan and Miike keep him distracted long enough for their sister's happy day to go uninterrupted?
A heartwarming comedy that humorously depicts the differences in values and what it means to be a married couple. A newlywed couple who have been living long distance until now. They are excited about living together for the first time, but...
Manami, who runs a small pharmacy, learns that junior high schooler and frequent customer Emi has a crush on a classmate, and is reminded of her own youth. Eventually, Manami's desire to support Emi gets out of hand.
A video was submitted to Big Summer's psychic investigator team. The video shows a couple visiting an abandoned well at a haunted place, the woman was attacked by a deformed monster that appeared from the well. The boyfriend now asks the team to investigate.
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
Comedy about high school students.
Fu-yan, also known as Fujikawa, runs a business producing underground videos that are secretly sold by electronics store owner Umeda and his wife Makiko. One day, he receives a request from Umeda to make a new video. The lecherous old man Kikuchi wants him to make an underground video with him as the main character. Lured by the high fee, Fu-yan boards a ferry with Makiko's stepdaughter, Megumi. On the ferry, Fu-yan saves a woman named Yumeko who is about to jump into the sea. Having failed in life and about to commit suicide, Fu-yan takes Yumeko to Kikuchi in order to make her the queen of underground videos. Filming begins according to the script written by Kikuchi, and with Fu-yan's calming, Yumeko completes the film to the end. Before long, a good relationship develops between Fu-yan and Yumeko, but...
The movie's title is a play on the popular Always - Sunset on Third Street films and also deals with circumstances 1950's Tokyo, but focuses on the homosexual district of Shinjuku ni-chome.
A short movie inspired by the eponymous fairy tale written in 1923 by Kenji Miyazawa.
Stardom In Showcase Vol. 4 was a professional wrestling event promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom, held on February 26, 2023, at Kobe International Exhibition Hall in Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan.
A pretty female cat gets into trouble. What's gonna happen?
Nyank The Movie 5, another film production from japan which tells the story of human and cats co-existing in harmony. Shot in documentary style, a fresh and natural approach, It details multiple touching stories of relationship between people and cats that certainly warms hearts.
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 ...
Last short film made by Fukazawa, filmed on SVHS.
Created by Noburo Ofuji, who had been cartoon making since the 1920s, often with decorative paper cutouts. The character animation looks like it was done 15 years before, but a lot of the elements are highly original; design (those trees!), use of camera focus. Heavily musical in a manner that recalls animation's earliest use of sound. The lesson here is: "If you can't count on your friends, travel alone".
Famous detective Furuhata Ninzaburo has disappeared, so a TV crew decide to make a documentary about his career interviewing his associates and the killers he caught.
Olympic gymnast Yukiko resists marriage plans, stumbling into a newspaper job under reporter Tsubasa. Amid comic mix-ups with a fake fortune teller, jealous suitors, and her eccentric boss, she finds herself and finally chooses love with Tsubasa.
Love comedy on the south island. Misato is a 19 year old charming girl who lives with her stubborn brother who goes on a trip to Okinawa with her girlfriends.
The SD Gundams are at it again: first with a race among all of the prior SD Gundam characters, then the SD Zeons run a space travel agency in the second episode.
Another buxom bombshell falls prey to the masked vigilante, the Big Boobs Buster! Rumor has it that the vengeful villainess was once a mild mannered student ridiculed and rejected for her small bust size. Now, the spurned woman gets even by donning a ridiculous costume and taunting her well-endowed nemeses. Will bouncy coeds across the land be forced under cover? Is any bosomy beauty safe from the Big Boobs Buster?
Mikina, the daughter of the shrine priest, has dreamed of becoming a train driver since childhood. But when the station is completely destroyed in a fire, the future for the little-used railway in the region is on the line.
Masao (Serizawa Tateto) works part time at a convenience store, and suddenly gets hit on by a cute high school student (Aoyagi Fumiko) who frequents the store. But, Masao has his own love interest and turns her down. However, it seems the person he's interested in has a boyfriend, and the high school girl says she knows him…
Remi is an underground idol hoping to be famous but, with her ordinary face, she hardly gains popularity. Being at risk of getting fired, she gets infected with Zombie Virus, a fatal disease turning into a zombie. She expresses her determination to live as an idol to the death and her decision turns her into an overnight sensation. But in fact, her infection was a setup orchestrated by her producer. Still, she stands on stage as an idol and turns into a zombie in front of a packed audience.
Yuko Tanaka, who "married into" the Tanaka family, a family running a poultry farm, led a modest life despite being mistreated by her sister-in-law, Satomi Tanaka. One day, Saki Watanabe, the mistress of Yuko's husband, Ryosuke Tanaka, applies for a live-in employee position at the poultry farm. Unaware that Saki is her husband's mistress, Yuko, who conducts the interview, decides to hire her. Thus begins a strange cohabitation, including the husband's mistress.
An unemployed young man by chance gets into an age-old conflict of good versus bad. A magical fruit is said to be able to cure all diseases and when a malicious virus threatens the earth, its mission is clear: to save humanity from extinction. Before he knows it, he transforms into the intrepid Kamen Ninja Nishida and is plunged into a crazy adventure that takes him across time to the Japanese Middle Ages. Samurai versus ninja, wild fights, aerial acrobatics and clanking steel. The final battle for the future of the world begins.
The story centres on Ako and San, two women who live in the same house, and who live in, visit and leave the house. This omnibus effectively uses the stage of the house to challenge various approaches to the expression of time and space. Interesting the minor misalignments between people that unfold in the house!
Yoshio is a 24-year-old man born in Saidaiji , Okayama prefecture. He moved to Tokyo, bringing his guitar, in search of the bohemian lifestyle, and settled in Asagaya, West Tokyo. Within one year he has sold his guitar and has become a day labourer on civll construction projects.With no guarantee of constant work the only accommodation available to him is the cheapest type of accommodation, that with no bathroom, no air-conditioning, no bath, a shared toilet, a shared kitchen "Dokudami-so" with "no money, no job, no woman.
Cinema Keiba/JAPAN WORLD CUP is a fictional horse race 3D CG video series promoted/held by The Japan Racing Association since 2010. The videos were created by Mashima Riichirou and Jinni's Animation Studio. The race itself is presented as a 1600m G1 race on turf held in Tokyo Racecourse. It features a colorful cast of horses and non-horses racing each other in a extremely chaotic fashion. The result of the race is random with all outcomes being recorded in the DVD.
A romantic comedy about a highly educated office lady who is awkward in love and an office lady who has too high ideals and can't keep a relationship going.
Suzunosuke continues his battle with the Skull Mask gang in a booby-trapped cave.
horror-comedy short.
An average man is unknowingly thrust into superstardom.
Mitsuko-san is being bothered by her mother when she is teleported to a beautiful mountainous view to show her freedom.
2025 reboot of the 2023 Gou on Stage Zepp Tour
A popular novelist, Takuro Nakanishi, shares his techniques for how to have as many one-night stands with great-looking girls as possible.
A man hijacks a bus in Japan, absurdity ensues.
Based on the Maicching Machiko-sensei Manga.
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.
On a sunny day in the park, Albert, a man deep in thought, suddenly begins a strange form of self-therapy. He asks himself, "Are you sleeping well?" Then, as if moving to the other side of a desk, he answers his own question. Where will this bizarre therapy lead? This story portrays the struggles and solitude of a man grappling with mental health issues. Official Selection, Nasu International Film Festival 2025.This is the first short film officially released by director Yuki Sakakibara (榊原侑希).