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Magabanashi

“Magabanashi” (真・狩場噺) is a Japanese collection of chilling tales, notorious for its “true” ghost stories that blend traditional storytelling with the dynamics of social media. Based on this, the drama “Human Story” focuses on the experiences of two members of the FEAR fan community. But is it really just a drama? Or perhaps a documentary? With an eerie intertwining of ghost stories and reality, viewers are taken on the most terrifying experience of their lives.

Magabanashi

6.0 2021
Demon Agent: Chang'an

The fantastical and magnificent city of Chang'an, a city woven with gears and mechanisms, is home to both humans and demons living side by side beneath its upturned eaves. Di Shao, a genius young man aspiring to become "Chang'an's Number One Detective," possesses exceptional crime-solving skills and a sharp tongue; while Asa, a rookie wolf demon constable, is formidable in martial arts yet kind-hearted. A bizarre murder case forces these two adversaries to team up, embarking on a hilarious and bickering detective journey. As clues point to the heart of the city, can this unreliable duo protect the joyful daily life of this fantastical city? And what earth-shattering secret lies hidden behind the bustling and prosperous Chang'an?

Demon Agent: Chang'an

NR 2026
KATHPUTALI: The Angel of the Himalayas

Leading Nepalese film scholar and Tokyo University of Information Sciences professor Ito Toshiaki serves as the first Japanese director and screenplay writer for a Nepalese film in this mid-length feature film. Screened in Kathmandu and recipient of the National Film Award from the Nepal government and the Nepal Short Film Critic's Award. A couple visits a mountain village in Nepal to put on a puppet theater performance. A young boy named Ramesh is brought to the festival being held in the village by his grandma Maya. There, he meets a girl named Nisha who wears the same ethnic attire as his grandmother.

KATHPUTALI: The Angel of the Himalayas

NR 2016
Abductee

Mister Chiba awakens in a container, tied up with a plastic bag over his head. When he manages to free himself, he finds a mobile phone, a light stick and a strange black stone. A number is tattooed on the inside of his wrist. From the way the container shakes can be deduced that Chiba is transported first in a truck and then on a ship. And he’s not the only one. People are trapped in the containers next to him as well, about a hundred in total. What is the purpose of this forced journey?

Abductee

NR 2013
The Other Timeline

On Homecoming Day, Myungjoon discovers an old cassette tape with recordings of his past diary entries. Hoping to correct his mistakes, he revisits pivotal moments in his life, but his actions trigger uncontrollable consequences. Trapped in an endless time loop, reality distorts as he desperately tries to rewrite the past. His obsession drives him to horrifying extremes—murdering loved ones and risking his own life. As he battles forces beyond his control, he questions the blurred boundary between dreams and reality, echoing Zhuangzi’s The Butterfly Dream, and confronting the inescapable nature of karma.

The Other Timeline

NR 2025
Detective Umon's Diary, Story No. 6

An important silent film survives, Kumahiko Nishina's Umon torimonocho rokuban tegara jinenji kidan (The Samurai Detective, aka The Detective Records of Umon, aka Detective Umon Diary: Exploit Number Six, 1930). Umon on his shining white horse stops a conspiracy against the Shogun. Umon was played by Kanjuro Arashi in this early film, & long after in the post-Occupation jidaigeki revival he reprised the role in Kajiro Yamamoto's Muttsuri Umon torimonocho (1955), helping to launch the renewed interest in such films.

Detective Umon's Diary, Story No. 6

5.6 1930
Sacrifice

Seven years after predicting the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake while she was unwittingly involved in a doomsday cult called Sacred Tide, college student Midori (Miki Handa) continues to have visions through unusual powers of premonition. Meanwhile at the same school, the duplicitous Toko (Miki Handa), who desperately seeks to escape her mundane life, suspects her classmate Okita (Yuzu Aoki) of being the culprit behind a string of disturbing cat killings and the murder of a classmate.

Sacrifice

4.3 2020