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Travelogue made by Yujiro Ishihara during the location shooting of his 1959 film Love and Death (Sekai o kakeru koi) in Europe.

Third in the River series. Piano tuner Eiko travels up the Danube River. In the ancient city of Bratislava, where Mozart's melodies flow, she encounters the sound of shepherds calling forth spring from the earth with their long whips, the echoing sound of the fujara flute in the mountains and fields, and a music box playing memories... Eiko meets the kind-hearted people of Slovakia and the vibrant sounds of spring.

Japanese documentary about the world tour of legendary Korean Pon-chak singer Epaksa.

This documentary follows and records interviews with an actress in an underground theater troupe and others around her.

An intimate and loving interview with the late fashion designer Miyake in his Tokyo apartment, alongside glimpses of his groundbreaking creations. In his own words, "When I work, I don't think I'm a man or a Japanese."

An examination of the art of pottery through the works of two world renowned potters –Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada. The film traces the entire process of pottery making, beginning with the digging of clay and its preparation, and on through the long sequences of pods being thrown on the wheel.

This DVD covers all works from the original Street Fighter to Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future. The contents that explain each work include not only the full recording of the advertisement videos, but also a complete description of the system description and basic techniques of game, the techniques that were popular at the time, and the super fan material related to the series.

This work provides full-scale documentation of ONE OK ROCK's 2013 "Who are you?? Who are we??" TOUR, which covered Asia and their first-ever European tour. Over the course of one and a half months, it traces the band's journey across 12 performances in 11 countries: France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Taiwan. The members deliver awe-inspiring live performances in venues packed with local fans, while the overwhelming enthusiasm of international audiences is vividly captured through live footage. The documentary is directed by **Hiroshi Nakano**, a visionary filmmaker known for revolutionizing music videos and directing feature films. With his extensive experience in capturing artists' essence, Nakano records ONE OK ROCK's evolving "present" as they carve their path into a new era.

Documentary against buraku discrimination

10 minutes 18fps, 35mm, silent, black and white. The film records the members of Studio F enjoying a cherry blossom viewing party, with the smiling faces of Gosho, Naruse Mikio, Fujimoto Masumi, Chiba Sachiko, Shinobu Setsuko, Kobayashi Jyukuji, and Kawakita Sotaro. The original is 8mm. Around 1935.

The village of Oshikamura in Nagano Prefecture with a beautiful view of the Minami Alps. On top of that deep mountain, Simon Piggott, 70, who moved from England 30 years ago, and his family live. As such, Oshikamura is a place that warmly welcomes newcomers and pursues a quiet, slow life where people help each other. However, since the start of the "Linear Shinkansen Project" for tunneling through the Minami Alps five years ago, many changes began to occur in Oshikamura. This film slowly observes these changes in Oshikamura.

In 1968, Ogawa decided to form Ogawa Productions and locate it at the newly announced construction site of Narita International Airport in a district called Sanrizuka. Ogawa chose to locate his company in the most radical of the villages, Heta. Some farmers immediately sold their land; others vehemently protested and drew the support of social movements across the country. Together they clashed with riot police sent in to protect surveyors, who were plotting out the airport. Summer in Sanrizuka is a messy film – its chaos communicating the passions and actions on the ground.

At Nemunoki, children and young adults with physical, intellectual or familial difficulties are gently encouraged to discover and develop their talents through such activities as painting, music, tea ceremony and dancing.

A documentary by Nobuo Ōnishi, who follows the people living in the area where Tokuyama Dam is planned to be built. In 1957, talk arose that Japan's largest dam would be built in Tokuyama Village, Gifu Prefecture. While the residents moved to new locations, some elderly families returned to Tokuyama Village, wanting to continue living there for as long as possible. Ōnishi, who grew up in the Ibi District, was fascinated by the lives of those elderly people and continued to photograph them for 15 years until the village sank to the bottom of the dam.

Back in 2012-2013, Magenta travelled back and forth from France to Japan with the entire crew (at the time Soy, Leo, Vivien, Koichiro, Jimmy & Zach) to film for what was to become the SOLEIL LEVANT, a tribute to the Japanese skate scene which was largely overlooked at the time, but a big inspiration for them. There they met with rider Koichiro Uehara‘s crew of TIGHTBOOTH in Osaka, KUKUNOCHI in Yokohama, Takahiro Morita, the FESN & FATBROS crew in Nakano, Tokyo, and some of the many friends they made in Japan while visiting there for the past 6-7 years.

A (her)story told through the very people involved in the women’s liberation movement beginning in Japan in the 1970s.

The making of anime "Paprika" (2006), focusing on its adaptation from Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel.

In March 2011, the world was stunned by the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Today, the people of Iidate, a town outside the 30km radiation exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant, are still suffering. The direction of the wind, rain and snow caused radiation to reach dangerous levels and the entire town was forced to evacuate.

Kanami is a TV director. Her pet Natsu recently died due to a disease. Kanami begins to shoot a film about dogs after her movie director friend suggests the idea. For her movie, she visits an animal shelter and a shelter for dogs rescued from the area around Fukushima. She is touched by the people who work diligently to save the animals.

A documentary following the campaign of Satoko Kishimoto during the 2022 mayoral election in Suginami Ward

A city person discovers twelve paths with a different sense of time. What makes us come alive? Will we go on the same way?

NEW AKINA Étranger Akina Nakamori in Europe is the first video release released by Nakamori Akina. It was released on October 12, 1983.

A chronicle of the eight-year battle against the construction of the Matsubara dam at Ogunimachi Shimouke, Asogun, district of Kumamoto. Tomoyuki Murahara constructs the “beehive fortress,” the point of reference for the protest movement opposing the decision to expropriate land.

In his album film, Tatsuro Yamashita sings in English against the backdrop of Christmas in New York.

A pair investigates the mysteries behind superstitions.

This film is a record of life in a now-submerged village in the mountains of Niigata Prefecture.

Made in Japan, Last Room is both fiction and documentary. The occupants of the love-hotels and capsule-hotels tell their own intimate, dreamlike stories, interspersed with journeys through the archipelago's landscapes. Soon, these personal stories resonate with a collective history: that of Gunkanjima, the abandoned ghost island of Nagasaki, and then that of Japan as a whole.

Tokyo at the beginning of the 21st century, its inhabitants and artists. An observation and diagnosis of the modern Japanese metropolis: the singularity of unusual creative individuals is merely a response to the majority Japanese society. Even this can appear as an eccentric work of art. So where do the borders lie? A psychologist talks about the autistic way of life burgeoning in the dense population of the country. A noise musician speaks of her inspiration from sado-masochistic bondage as an art form. A programmer specializing in computer games assures us: I can distinguish our world and “the other side”! Why are the robots in Japanese comic books almost always affable and positive characters? Will “love hotels”, the unique designer havens for sexual experiences, become extinct in the future? Photographer Nobuyoshi Araki sees noise as one of the fundamental aspects of Tokyo life.

Chiyo is a poetic exploration of the suburbs in Japan through the filmmaker’s reflection on the life of her grandmother. With a series of everyday moments in Yashio from a summer fair to Buddhist rituals, the film embodies micro-narratives, seeking cinema’s ability to offer a contemplative space.

Junko Mizuta in Japan has only 7 seconds memory. She keeps taking notes on what she did, talked, where she went every single second for social communication. She was struck down in the 2000's by a herpes simplex virus that caused massive damage to her brain. She was left with a memory that spans just seven seconds, it's one of the worst cases of amnesia. She also meets a man who has the same memory handicap in the program. His memory duration may be even shorter than her but he rarely makes notes. CBC TV follows Ms. Mizuta for years and she says ”Memory is Life”. This documentary is about "What is Memory?" "What is Life?"

Documentary of the first episode of Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.

Documentary about a wrestling associating located in a mental ward.

A special feature included with the Juzo Itami Film Collection about the production of "Marutai no Onna" a.k.a. "Woman in Witness Protection".

A documentary by Sakube Yamamoto (1892-1984), an artist who left behind more than 1,000 paintings and diaries depicting his work and life in the coal mines. Born in Chikutoyo, Fukuoka Prefecture, which was the largest coal producing area in Japan, in 2014, he was born in Chikusei in 2014, and in 2014, he wanted to leave a record of his life in the coal mines to his children and grandchildren. I took up painting after I turned 60. From the testimonies of people who knew Sakubei directly, Sodo North Road. Sakube, an unknown coal miner, visited an active coal mine in Japan, and why did his drawings convey to future generations, "The world's treasures" and "the world's treasures" that should be passed on to future generations?

A main agenda of the prewar farmer's movement was struggle against landowners. Prokino also considered this as their prime concern. The main title sequence and the latter part of the film have unfortunately been lost. While we cannot see its entire structure, we can still get a glimpse of it from this surviving short.

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The Stormy Times is a collection of three short films created as a series of visual poems (Dream Running, Grasshopper’s One-Game Match, andWe Can Hear Joe’s Poem). Katsu Kanai screened this films together, along with extra documentary footage, as a memorial to his friend Jônouchi Motoharu.

A documentary about Menda Sakae, a man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 34 years.

Cameraman Yonesaku Kobayashi (1905-2005) is a pioneer of scientific films of Japan. He and producer Sozo Okada made many scientific educational films, and in 60's - 70's, many avant-garde composers composed music for these films.

Interviews about Japan's deployment of Self-Defense Forces in Iraq collected from Middle Eastern intellectuals, cultural figures, and Palestinians living in refugee camps in March 2004.

Senso Daughters focuses on the legacy of the Japanese occupation of Papua New Guinea during the Second World War. It is a legacy that arises from rape, starvation and terror. Sekiguchi's documentary lets the residents of Papua New Guinea, especially the women, tell the story of their three years under Japanese Army rule.

A companion piece to Voices from the Waves Kesennuma that forms half of the second installment in a documentary trilogy on the Tohoku region, co-directed by Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke. It captures dialogues between closely-linked people in accordance with the directors' objective of passing on experiences of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which is inspired by the folk tale tradition of the Tohoku region.

Concert film featuring eill's Live Tour 2021 『ここで息をして』which took place on August 8, 2021 at Zepp DiverCity.

Special message from director Nobuhiko Obayashi.

On September 11, 2018, the movie "Retsunami Kakuon Gunrushi 911” - a collection of unreleased footage of G.I.S.M. - screened for just one day at Tachikawa Cinema City, Tokyo, selling out over 700 seats in hours. Released physically on September 11, 2024 worldwide, the film is a one-hour piece of shocking footage carefully selected from the band’s legendary visual archive, shot and directed by Junji Yasuda.

TOKYO Ainu features the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, living in Greater Tokyo (Tokyo and its surrounding areas), who are and actively in promoting their traditional culture in a metropolitan environment away from their traditional homeland, Hokkaido. Shedding a common assumption that all Ainu live in Hokkaido, the film captures the feelings, thoughts and aspirations of Ainu people that who try to follow the Ainu way no matter where they live.

Footage shot during Japanese Army Lieutenant Nobu Shirase’s second Antarctica expedition.

A special feature included with the Juzo Itami Film Collection about the production of "Super no Onna" a.k.a. "Supermarkt Woman".

Kyogen actor Nomura Mansai's eldest son, Yuki (3 years old at the time), was chosen to play the role of a child monkey in the kyogen play Utsubo Saru, and together with Mansai's father, Mansaku, the three generations of the family made their first appearance on the stage. The first half of the programme is a documentary following Yuki as he trains for the traditional performance, and his father and grandfather as they strictly instruct him.

Memories (1995) making-of featurette, includes introductions to the creative genius behind the shows and looks at Otomo’s previous works, such as Akira. It also includes snippets from interviews with Otomo, Koji Morimoto, and Tensai Okamura.

Documentary on photojournalist Kikujiro Fukushima

Documentary focusing on japanese wrestling promotion Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling

This is the Sosai Masutatsu Oyama documentary, the founder of Kyokushin Karate aka "The Strongest Karate." This is the DVD print of the same title that was released in 1990, four year before Sosai Oyama passed away. This version contains the full length Mas Oyama's duel with the bull. A HIDDEN GEM! Available on the request from enthusiastic Kyokushin Karate practitioners. This documentary features some of the top fighters in Kyokushin history such as Kenji Yamaki, Kenji Midori, and Shokei Matsui. Synopsis: For the first time Mas Oyama's early training scenes are shown and Oyama Karate secrets and Kyokushin mysteries are revealed!

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "One Wonderful Sunday" (1947).