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Tang Tang is a personal story of sexual role reversal in modern-day Bejing: Tang Tang is a normal man during the day, but at night switches his persona and becomes a woman. His transformation is so complete that he is able to perform on stage and make a living in bars all over Beijing. Though his lifestyle is far from the norms of Chinese society, he feels no disgrace or dishonor. Tang Tang is is not just about gay and lesbian relationship but, more importantly, about the constant reversals in life: to live or to die, to be male or female and, to love or to hate. We often think that reality is fixed, but tomorrow brings reversal. What you consider as reality is just the outer appearance.

The uncomfortable feeling caused by the loss of identity experienced by provincial youngsters who move to Bangkok. Depression might result from growing up in the provinces in the middle of Bangkok, which is a different atmosphere. feeling unrecognizable and eventually losing your identity and thoughts without realizing it.

The director's pregnant sister moved to Hsinchu upon marriage and hasn't returned to Taipei in a year. Their mother hoped to tend his sister during postpartum confinement, but instead, this made their relationship deteriorate even further. The director also uses the camera to search for traces of his father, a Taiwanese businessman in mainland China who has been absent since his childhood. The film tells the story of how their family fell apart more than 30 years ago and then came back together.

Throughout the recent months of protests against the extradition law amendment bill, film crews have been following and filming various officers who were playing key roles in different Police operations, in order to record on film the adversities they faced when executing their duties as well as their emotional journeys along the way. In the documentary, these officers working in different posts and different levels in the Force also provide moving personal accounts of what they and their families have been through during these challenging times. Filming of the documentary started when a riot started in Admiralty on the evening of August 31, 2019, and concluded on on December 24, 2019. Over a span of four months, the most dangerous , divisive and chaotic period in Hong Kong was captured.

The protagonist sets out to find ways to survive without money. She lives in squats, feeds herself by skip-diving and works in organic farms. Leaving the UK, she hitchhikes across Europe. Travelling with hippies, she reconnects with nature and opens herself to go with the flow to find peace. She continues her journey toward the East and becomes closer to her true home.

Concert film and documentary of Mami Kawada's second live tour "SAVIA" featuring the live concert and the documentary in the making of the film for her "SAVIA" tour. The concert film itself was filmed on August 8, 2008 at STUDIO COAST in Tokyo.

Documentary about the first and second generations of Chinese immigrants, who have mainly ended up working in Asian restaurants across the country.

Fang Junrui is a 30-year-old hospital guard who lives in an old tiny flat with his parents in the center of Shanghai. He has been passionate about relic restoration but couldn’t find a related job for years. That has led to his disappointment in life. He routinely buys arts and history books but runs out of space to store them, irritating his parents who own the flat. Things started to change when a friend from the church and the film director came to his life. He felt like that his life was moving again at God’s will.

After a traumatic failure at a competition, platform diver Farrah retraces and reconciliates with her past through a stream-of-consciousness journey across space and time.

This works is the Printing on the printfilm by photofilm. The photo have a speed and rhythm through the projection. So it shows another property about the time unlike existing thing photo works have. And it shows image and other things out of image( the film perforation, film cut number, dust, scratch) - It reveal the my obsession about the film.

The film follows wood sculptor Nakasone Masahiro's techniques and thoughts on creating a new replica of the lion of Shitahaku and Shitahaku people's thoughts on their lion dance.

This feature-length film follows a strict production rule set by the director himself: The footage was shot “15 seconds x 31 days” every August over 15 years. Using sound to disrupt the metrical image, the viewers’ memory is served a jolt.1

As a random phenomenon without rules and patterns, the chased signal from inputs 1 and 2 of 'wave forecast' turns into cycle frequencies, called music, and sends them back throughout outputs 1 and 2, to where they belonged. As mentioned, the music performance, delta w, composition film, achieved and presented as a composition film. Homeostasis, that’s how we live in a stable life pattern within a cycle of nature.

The story of the trial and struggle of Grandma Song Sin-do who has continually campaigned for redress in the issue of the comfort women drafted into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during the war. Although she lost the trial, her statement that My soul is undefeated reveals her desire to fight independently against the scars caused by the war and historical prejudice.

March 11, 2011. What happened that day in Japan seemed absolutely impossible, but it turned out to be completely real. What is the future for the people of Fukushima? Will they be able to live a normal life? And will there be an end to the dark tunnel in which they, and indeed all of Japan, found themselves? The greatest nuclear tragedy occurred at the Chernobyl power plant in 1986. And I decided to go to Chernobyl to find answers to the questions that tormented me. I wanted to see with my own eyes the consequences and perhaps overcome them. I wanted to find a way out for the Fukushima people. You can't bring back the past, the clock won't turn back, and the only thing left for us is to move forward.

A verbose essay film, making a mountain out of a molehill. Due to Covid-19, exploratory field trips to the countryside turned into school trips. Just when we thought we were going to be bored through the trip, we noticed the "stalacitites" growing on the buildings of the school. And so, as we explored, a hidden ecosystem, hidden behind the neat facade of the school buildings, slowly unraveled. And of course, we didn't intend to stop at just finding them...

The film records the daily life of James, a 19-year-old autistic patient, and his mother. During the day-to-day study and work, we see that music brings a different power to his mother. Music also makes us look forward to the future.

In 1945, US forces dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Last year, photos and a map of the aftermath were found, detailing the bomb's destructive mechanism. They showed how the Mach stem - a shock wave that hyper-intensified the power of the initial blast - was responsible for destroying buildings with increasing force 500 meters from ground zero. Through a simulation of the blast and interviews with survivors, this program reveals how the bomb was exploded to maximize its catastrophic effect.

The film follows the lives and aims of the people of Gyehwa Island whose livelihood depends upon the sea. The Seamangeun Reclamation changes the social fabric of the communities - and various factions struggle both against the government and each other. One such conflict arises, for example, between the shellfish farmers and the ship owners over questions of compensation for the reclaimed land. On its part, the government proves to be both insensitive to the positions of the islanders and deliberately divisive.

A pious old woman lives alone in her home, her family rarely coming to visit her. Will his prayers alleviate his loneliness?

In the dream I had one early morning in 2014, I was sitting in the backseat of a car. The driver suddenly turned to look at me and said: Why aren’t you filming? It was my second elder sister who had already passed away. After her death, I began to keep a diary and take pictures. When I got a video camera, I began to film the daily life of my family. I filmed out of the fear of death and loss. The idea was to capture everything on film before it disappeared. 2015 was the 20th anniversary of my sister’s death. That dream seemed to tell me to face her death. Death did not stop the passing of time, and the family members I was filming continued to avoid their grief which hadn’t subsided with time. Birth and death continue to alternate in our lives, and we are always getting ready for the day when we must say goodbye.

Seedlings protection rite (also called the parade of big rice dumplings) is a spring agricultural festival of Hakka people in Western Fujian, China. People worship the God of Grains (Shennong) in the rite. People collect thousands of fresh bamboo leaves, sew them together and make a pair of big dumplings filled with 120 kilograms of rice each. They also make tens of thousands of finger-sized rice dumplings for believers to take home. On the 15th day of the 2nd lunar month, villagers carry out the statues of the God of grains and big dumplings. Followed by flowers cars, eight sheds carry children chosen from every clan name in the village who are dressed up as ancient heroes, as people parade around the village. After the rite, villagers believe that farmland is awakened and that disasters are averted. A new agricultural cycle begins.

A herd of elephants, leaving their homeland, journey over 1700 km across Yunnan. Humans guide them, reflecting on protecting wildlife habitats. The elephants build trust as they seek food, water and shelter during their epic journey.

Geumjeonggul in Goyang City, South Korea, was built for the purpose of mining gold during Japanese colonial period and was closed. In October 1950, during the Korean War, in Geumjeonggul, the police massacred hundreds of residents of Goyang without any legal procedures, and buried them deep in layers. And 71 years later, the bereaved families are still suffering and struggling in trauma.

In a Balinese village, families go to great trouble and expense for their extravagant cremation ceremony. They provide special foods to mourners and prepare a bounty of offerings for the deceased, from gifts of money to symbolic baskets. The atmosphere is almost festive as a shadow puppet show is performed for the entertainment of the deceased, inheritances are distributed, and musical processions of mourners walk the streets. Dead family members seem almost present as their bones are uncovered, washed, and arranged for cremation with accompanying prayer rites. During the cremation, the village is filled with smoke from enormous burning pyres shaped like bulls, as the souls of the dead are cleansed of impurity and then sent out to sea so that they may continue their journey to heaven. Shot in 16mm, the film documents and explains the intricacies of these funeral rites and Balinese-Hindu beliefs about death.

The Price of Justice is a documentary film that follows four women as they try to pursue cases against their former employers. Taken into kafkaesque circumstances, these workers spend their days in waiting rooms, long queues and tribunals in a frustrating attempt to get access to justice. This documentary is my latest collaboration with Rights Exposure for Hong Kong Federation of Domestic Workers and has the support of the International Labour Organisation.

A documentary following the Yokozuna Hakuho in the wake of his retirement.

The first year after the devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan.

The Nakagin Capsule Tower, designed by Kisho Kurokawa and completed in 1972, is an exemplary work of post-war Japanese architectural movement Metabolism. Today, however, this historic building is in danger of demolition. Why do we need to preserve a building? What are the difficulties of preservation? Is demolition a tragedy or a natural phenomenon for modern architecture? Tracing the history of postwar Japanese architecture and reviewing the characteristics of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, this documentary examines the meaning of preservation and demolition from various points of view. The documentary includes interviews with residents of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, an architectural historian, a former Kurokawa office architect who was in charge of the Nakagin Capsule Tower project, Kurokawa’s son, and leading architects Arata Isozaki and Toyo Ito.

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

This is a documentary in which the camera's gaze is surrounded by a consciousness of staring, and this consciousness brings about a clear stance in approaching the subject. The distance between the able-bodied and the disabled is made clearer here by depicting it from the side of the disabled, and the film's title, "Why are schools for the disabled wrong? The title of the film, "Why are schools for the disabled wrong? This straightforward attempt at the most basic of documentary filmmaking, how to bring the subject to oneself, succeeds in capturing the full power of film itself, not just within the genre of documentary. The film is a success.

Collection of home movies which was shot by Deng Nan-guang, the well-known photographer, during 1930-1940s.

On November 18, 2017, a fire broke out in Xinjian Village, Xihongmen Town, Daxing District, Beijing. The fire caused 19 deaths and 8 injuries. This film mainly tells the bitter story of Li Zhiyong, the party involved, who moved three times after the fire broke out.

Tori Kudo takes us on a trip of the past several years of his life through his cellphone's camera roll.

Feature length documentary

After more than a decade in the financial industry, Jeff HUANG decided to leave his comfort zone at the age of 33 and changed his job from an analyst to a mixed martial artist without a regular income. Jeff walked away from it all, moved to Brazil to train. Upon his return to Taiwan, Jeff entered the professional world of MMA and became known as "The Machine". But In the face of his family's doubts and marriage crisis, will he be able to continue to follow the path he has chosen?

On a research grant in 2019, Lai Yu Tong travelled to Hong Kong amidst its year-long anti-government protest movement, with only his phone, some money, and barely any luggage. The film serves as a meditation on the incredible and the political by way of the minimal and the mundane.

After restoring their Ceremony of Ancestral Spirits, the Atayal people of the Raisinay Village, Miaoli County, were distressed by the absence of their traditional garments. Yuma Taru, a researcher of Atayal folk costume, decided to trace back their history by conducting interviews with the elders, learning weaving techniques from them. This documentary captures the passing down of the weaving art, and the younger generation’s yearnings for revival of their traditional clothes.

Zhang Yonghong is a papercutting artist with osteogenesis imperfecta. His daughter also inherited the disease. A family of three came to Beijing in 2008 for her daughter's treatment. From then on, they stayed in Beijing by selling handmade papercutting for a living. After divorcing his wife, Mr. Zhang struggled alone in Beijing. In recent years, because business is not good and Beijing's cleanup of "Holes in the Wall", Mr. Zhang has difficulties finding a house and frequent move. Despite the enormous pressure to survive in Beijing, Mr. Zhang is reluctant to return to his hometown. To stay in Beijing, he dated a Beijing girl and hoped to marry her and have children with her. But the road to becoming a Beijinger is fraught with difficulties…

Crowdfunded documentary on the life and career of Japanese idol Tsukihi.

Tour Documentary

some students want to fight against with 'Seven man helping",and they set up a new group called "Tsunami".this film shoot a story about the leader of "Tsunami" --Mr.Ma

At the beginning of reform and opening up, the special geographical environment of the mountain city of Chongqing gave birth to a special industry-the mountain city sticks. Over the past 30 years of climbing uphill and carrying heavy loads, an army of hundreds of thousands of sticks has not only picked away the sweat-soaked years, but also picked away their own age. At the end of the year of Guisi, a few rickety figures are about to say goodbye to the fading industry. A retired lieutenant colonel picked up a stick and began his pursuit-glory and embarrassment, toughness and helplessness, their lives need no comment, their The story is worth remembering.

Yin Hong and her husband were born in the 50's. The Cultural Revolution dramatically impacted their youth; there was no place for any artistic expression. Yet they loved music and they have a gifted son, Lu Nan, who today is 15 year's old. "Piano Dream" is a story about parents investing everything they have for their only child's success. It is a dream journey binding two generations. The film brings attention to a woman's choice and fate, probing the impact of her dream on her son's maturation and their relationship. It shows the son's bitterness to a point where one asks oneself if the mother's dream is not becoming her son's nightmare. Filmed over a period of nearly three years, this documentary keeps faithful to real life, but maintains a poetic feel.

Lulu Ogawa's fascinating 1998 video documentary depicts a wide cross-section of Japanese transgendered people, from drag queens to FTMs to intersex activists to male transvestites. They tell familiar stories of exclusion and abuse while growing up, discuss the need for safe spaces where they can express their complex identities, and reveal the cost of black-market hormones and the physical pain of sex-reassignment surgery.

The Special Investigation Committee, which was created to punish pro-Japanese, was destroyed due to the interference of the Rhee Syngman administration. Since then, the Committee’s Investigators and their descendants live a painful life in the bondage of poverty and ideology.

With so many casinos set up in Macao, factories seem to be part of a long forgotten pass. However, the old buildings’ vitality is still influencing the city. This is a story about factories, families and workers. From the big bosses to the deliverymen, their stories inspire a whole generation.