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In the 1930s, Japan implemented a colonial policy called the “Policy of Sheep for North and Cotton for South.” The policy forced cotton cultivation in the southern region of the Korean Peninsula and sheep raising in the north in order to secure raw materials for its own industry. The film chronicles the process of transporting thousands of sheep on a boat from Australia to the Unggi region (now Seonbong in North Korea), how the sheep adapt after their arrival, and the process of wool production. The narration of the film, which appears as intertitles, is from the sheep's point of view, giving the film a whimsical, children’s-movie-like touch. Although the film hides its purpose of explicit propaganda behind its family-friendly format, it is of great importance; it gives us a glimpse into one aspect of the policy of expropriation of cotton and sheep under the Japanese colonial rule in the 1930s. Acquired in 2010.

Robotech: The Inside Story is a documentary of the production of Robotech, recorded in 1986 by the fan Dexter Odani for a film class, but not finished and released until 2013. It included many interviews with rare members of the Robotech production team, as well as cast members such as Reba West and Greg Snow. It is included in the bonus features on Robotech: The Complete Set (20-Disc Collection).

You can almost feel the rough cedar wood with your hands when Mikio Hagiwara talks about his craft. He is the third generation to manufacture wooden barrels. He sees his job as a vocation that is closely interwoven with family life.

This documentary is set in a small mountain village in Nagasaki Prefecture. 13 households, 54 residents remained and they all help each other to live. More than fifty years ago, plans surfaced for constructing a dam, which residents have steadfastly opposed. Villagers who want to protect a hometown blessed with abundant nature and clean water have been pitted against a mighty power. Rather than focus on the opposition movement, this film turns its sights on the lives of people now bound together like family in their coexistence with nature.

The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images from my memory live in. After journey, what will remain could be something we cannot talk to, but perceive.

A self-destructive and anxious 30-year-old man and his 26-year-old friend with a camera. It's a personal film about their relationship in the last years of a life - battling the HIV virus. The flamboyant man flirts with the camera while the filmmaker is tormented, forcing himself to go on filming. Their sincerity when facing the undefeatable facts is moving.

A half-hour archival documentary on the film's production.

Baroque grotesque mondo documentary about 2 japanesse friends going to india taking pics of handicapped indians and hiring prostitutes.

Eldest daughter Nao is disabled but has a naturally sunny disposition, her gentle mother works hard, her father loves golf and drinking, and her little brother is great at sports. The camera carefully continues to record the daily lives of this family going about their business with laughter and tears, the same-old conversations, and familiar-looking living room and kitchen.

A Super 8 work made in New York after Nam June Paik invited Kim Soungui to the city.

Director Lee Jeong-joon's distills more than a decade of patient observation, unwavering dedication, and profound ecological insight. Long known as the "Dolphin Man" for his commitment to documenting the lives of Jeju's Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, Lee crafts a film that compels us to fundamentally reconsider our relationship with the sea—a space shared by both human and non-human beings.

A speculative fiction about the invented city of Chin Kong; which is the imagination of Hong Kong in its dystopic future through the lens of political pessimism.

Military educational film on the training of fighting against the enemy with bayonets.

VOWS tells the story of monastic discipline in Chinese Buddhism with narration by Ven. Ming Ying, Senior Prior of Bailin Monastery, and seven ordained monks who recount their journeys from young layman to ordination day. Ven. Ming Ying, formerly the Dean of Academic Affairs at Hebei Buddhist Academy, comments on the historical struggle between lineage and adaptation as the Buddhist monastic tradition took hold in the cultural landscape of China. He offers a thought-provoking narrative on Buddhist discipline as a guide for both monastic and layperson through the difficulties of everyday life in this world.

This documentary examines Taiwan's role within the war machinery of East Asia, and how air-raid shelters have transformed from military defense structures into part of the everyday landscape. By guiding audiences through the often-overlooked landscapes of Chiayi, the film calls for renewed attention to historical sites and explores how war has shaped urban structures and collective memory. It also invites reflection on the lasting impact of war, reminding us that war is never as distant as it seems.

Taking place on Victory Lane in Keelung, this film delves into the lives of three Korean women in their 70s, shaped by war and identity struggles. Unable to return home after migrating during the 20th-century Japanese colonisation of Taiwan, they endure the physical and emotional toll of living between Korea and Taiwan, forgotten in the divide between the two countries.

I always wanted to capture a farmer's feelings toward the corn he has grown for a lifetime in my films, so this is a compilation of footage I shot over twenty years, documenting the entire process from planting to harvesting corn.

Eighteen years ago, the Three Gorges Dam was in the building process. The Zhang family, who lived in the old town of Yunyang had to move elsewhere. One day, the grandfather suffered a stroke and lost his memory. The children returned to look after him. The eldest daughter even bought an apartment and new furniture for her old man. Years later, Grandpa Zhang turned better. It is time to consider how the family should go on. The topic is now focused on the eldest grandson. The relatives ought to worry about his marriage, for he is already 28 years old. Facing this urge, the grandson has then considered pretending to marry his best friend to comfort the family, while living a completely different life in Europe.

Japan’s oldest student dormitory holds a century of autonomous history. Facing a university demanding their eviction due to the building’s age, the residents, fighting for the survival of their space, question the future using dialogue as their foundation.

This animation records the moment three women’s voices reached me—their childhood selves, longing for their mothers, unhealed wounds, and the search for belonging. They want to grow up but cannot. Through their own words, I convey your voice.

The film chronicles the historical wounds inflicted upon the Communist Party in Phatthalung and neighboring provinces, interwoven with the events of the Thai state, including instances of people being killed, pushed down hills, and burned in red tanks. Despite the passing of many decades, the story of the people's struggle endures, and the lasting scars from those events remain unhealed.

A documentary chronicle of the excavation of a Western Han dynasty tomb in Hunan province and the camera-observed autopsy of a remarkably preserved female corpse — a 2,100-year-old noblewoman whose burial goods and condition revealed details of elite life in the Han era.

Director opens a Korean dictionary and chooses two words at random to make a movie. The words she chose are ‘melancholy’ and ‘regret’. And she chooses her grandmother as main character. Following her daily life, the movie takes an unexpected turn, and the director remembers why she picked up a camera in the first place.

Before and after the release of the new crown epidemic prevention and control, the two elementary school students on the Sino-Vietnamese border experienced the plight of the times behind the world of the same age and the daily trivialities of the adult world. Becoming a reporter, the two intersect in interviews in their parallel lives, observe the adult world and the world of the same age together in their own observations, and tell about their growth.

The Land in the Middle of the Pond makes reference to the 1950’s forced displacement of the Atayal Qara community from their ancestral territory for the construction of the Shimen Reservoir – now the main water supply for Northern Taiwan. Throughout the video, we hear the voice of an elder who recalls the events which resulted in the forced displacement of her community and the impact of diaspora. In the video we see Ciwas tracing veins that run along her limbs like rivers. During the performance, later Ciwas and other Atayal women engage in an Atayal name exchange ritual, between person and plant. This customary ritual Ciwas employs like the tracing of her bloodline at the reservoir, as a symbolic act for reconnecting with her ancestral land while affirming her identity past, present and future.

In March 2022, a massive wildfire broke out through Uljin in North Gyeongsang Province and Samcheok in Gangwon Province. The fire threatened not only the lives of the residents, but also the countless animals who shared the area. In the aftermath of the disaster, some animals, especially the cats-known for their territorial nature-were left behind. LUCKILY, I SURVIVED tells the story of the volunteers came from across the country to help with the recovery, and the cats rescued from the site. Among them are 'Snim (monk)' who refuses to leave the burned temple, 'Sandle' who suffers severe burns all over its body, and 'Sagye' once cared for by elderly villagers now ailing after the fire. Through their stories, the film sheds light on the devastating impact of a man-made wildfire and the compassionate efforts of people to save vulnerable lives offering a glimpse of hope for coexistence of human and the rest of nature.

Nestled between the skyscrapers of Hong Kong, housing some of high finance’s most creative minds, and the gleaming glass and steel boxes of Shenzhen, China’s Silicon Valley where the future is being built, lies a hidden world no less exceptional. In this lost country backwater of mountains and vegetable fields, factories still manufacture soy sauce in century old clay pots; Kenny hand makes concrete spacers that hold up some of the world’s longest suspension bridges. Cha Guo 茶粿 shines light on the lives of the villagers, craftsmen, farmers and business owners who make up this local village’s close-knit community. The people’s philosophy and signature are their resilience and their dedication. They embody “Made in Hong Kong” over generations. Cha Guo 茶粿 celebrates the heroes of Hong Kong and the fabric of what makes it and its people synonymous with warmth and the ubiquitous “can do” attitude.

The family of Da Mashi (Nu ethnic group) has lived on the cliff of Nujiang for 100 years. To plant potatoes on the slope, the local people have to place a fistful of weed with the potato; otherwise it will roll down from the slope into the river. Nujiang had been beyond social revolution, with no contact with the outside world but the annual relief by the government until the 1990s. In addition, having been isolated for a long time, the Nu people believe that Gods exist in the mountains, rivers and brushwood. In 2000, with the promotion of the national poverty support policy and ecological protection policy in the Three Parallel River Area, Da Mashi's family was faced with a new option for survival. That's intriguing.

This is the first work that marks the construction record of the Kasumigaseki Building, Japan's first skyscraper building. We will introduce the construction plans for the Kasumigaseki Building and safety measures for skyscrapers.

Short Film from Himeda Tadayoshi.

Extensive Look into the game Cosmology of Kyoto

In a mixture between documentary and fiction, the film examines the diverse dimensions of collecting, exploring collections contained in private households and those in museums. In doing so, it highlights the intertwined relationship between people and things.

The Chinese government announced that 319 people died in the Tiananmen Square incident 30 years ago. The details of why and how the citizens were suppressed by force remain unknown. In an attempt to uncover the truth, NHK visited those involved in the incident in China and around the world, and unearthed new historical materials. What emerged was a carefully deployed military force and part of the power struggle within the government. We will reexamine the 50 days that decided the fate of China, and unravel the mysteries of the many incidents.

Documentary about Gertrude Du-Wagner, an Austrian woman who married a Chinese policeman in the 1930s and raised a family on a farm in eastern China.

The invisible 'I' searches for postcards and letters, and eventually takes a train to the industrial city of Ulsan. ‘I’ wanders around the Gongeoptap (Ulsan Industrial Center Monument) area and the Bangudae Petroglyphs (Prehistoric rock carvings in Ulsan), then writes a letter to someone from a place with a view of the factories.

Two athletes from opposite sides of the world rise above discrimination and pressures of race and nation to stage the greatest duel in Olympic history and forge a lifelong friendship.

Traditional Chinese medicine is known as the quintessence of China and one of the important intangible cultural heritages of mankind. The documentary《Approaching the traditional Chinese Medicine》is a popular science documentary on the history of intangible cultural heritage. Starting from the source of human medicine, it expounds the whole process of the origin, development, maturity, decline and return of Chinese medicine. It reveals the inheritance and development relationship between TCM and medical sages such as Fuxi, Yan Emperor, Huang Emperor, Qi Bo, Bian Que, Zhang Zhongjing, Hua Tuo, Ge Hong, Sun Simiao and Li Shizhen. It also explains the integration and development relationship between Mongolian medicine, Tibetan medicine, Miao medicine and other minority medicine.

After 5-years' observation and recording, the director screened the entire process of villager autonomy of Dongpo Village in the suburb of Chengdu under the background of urbanization and the promulgation of organic law of villager committee. The film focuses on the villagers’ growing participation in political life and the running of their village.

Sixteen years ago, a human trafficker broke into Wu Xinghu’s house and took his 13-month-old son. Since then, he has been on a relentless journey to find his son. In July 2023, Wu Xinghu reached out to Wang Meizhi and Wu Xuexian, the parents of another trafficked child, and they decided to meet up in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, to look for their kids together in Henan, Shandong, Anhui, and Hebei Provinces. During the search, Wu Xinghu’s parents passed away one after another, while Wu Xuexian’s child was miraculously found and rescued. This only fueled Wu Xinghu’s resolve to find his own kid.

We are living in a time of catastrophe: global warming, extreme climate change, declining biodiversity, and the threat of extinction. These crises raise the need for a fundamental reflection on anthropocentrism and the relationship between humans and non-humans. Within this context, Human Discord Rhapsody imagines a world without us and emphasizes that the world we live in is more than a human world. Snails and ants imagine and sing about a world without us and a world beyond humans, respectively.

A live rendition of Flood, recorded on 3 May 2001 at Koenji 20000v.

Story of an old tea house at the old village of Digu. What will happen to it at our moder times?

Beatrice records her experiences of gender confirmation surgery, and meditates on what it means to be a woman in this honest and very entertaining autobiographical documentary.

This is a film about change. In the spring of 2004, three young men, Xin'er, Xiu'er and Shasha, have to undergo a sex change operation in Changchun to transform themselves into the women they have longed for. Another clue is that in the process of Xinyi's and Xiu'er's "butterfly transformation", a bridge in Changchun, built during the period of the Manchus, is also blown to pieces by a violent means - demolition. It was blown to smithereens. A new bridge was quickly built on the same site. In today's world, both individual people and society as a whole sometimes use the most violent and bloody means to transform themselves, perhaps for the sole purpose of looking good.