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Japanese TV special from 1978 with Bay City Rollers playing songs in the TV studio mixed with interviews and behind the scenes footage.

Japanese documentary about the submarine I-10 operating in the Indian Ocean during WWII. The film is shot largely from the prowling submarine.

Forests and places full of green are sinking into the dam. The construction of the dam will erase 200,000 trees. The PH Studio, a unit consisting of an architect, an artist, and a photographer, hears this and comes up with…

The film is a war-propaganda newsreel film produced when Japan’s defeat in the Pacific War was imminent. The film covers the visit to the birthplace of the late Captain Choe Myeong-ha (Takeyama in Japanese), the first Korean-born Air Force officer who was killed in an operation to attack an airfield on Sumatra. It introduces the captain's parents and keepsakes, and follows junior officers undergoing military training at the captain's alma mater. The film also covers the training of young sailors, the process of making pine coal oil using rosin, the achievement of 1.2 billion won of savings, and mining ore for military supplies. Acquired in 1994.

This engaging documentary focuses on a group of ‘studying mothers’ who decide to involve themselves in the civic politics of a provincial town, Kunitachi.

Documentary about japanese painter Akira Tsuboi.

Features LOVEBITES' gig held at MyNavi BLITZ Akasaka held on January 27. Contains 17 songs in total. 1 Clockwork Immortality 2 Addicted 3 Bravehearted 4 The Crusade 5 Pledge Of The Saviour 6 Rising 7 Scream For Me 8 Break The Wall 9 Shadowmaker 10 Above The Black Sea 11 Empty Daydream 12 M.D.O 13 Journey To The Otherside 14 Edge Of The World 15 We The United 16 Epilogue 17 Don't Bite The Dust 18 Under The Red Sky 19 The Everlasting

Henry Townshend, a boy of about thirty with a hobby of photography, has recently moved into apartment 302, first floor of the South Ashfield Heights complex, in Ashfield, a pleasant town near Silent Hill. After a short period of peaceful stay, some strange events begin to happen. Every night, Henry is promptly awakened by the same, identical, nightmare. From that moment, he finds himself trapped in his apartment: the door, bearing the words “Don't go out!, Walter”, is locked with chains and padlocks, the windows are hermetically sealed, the phone is silent and no one seems to hear his screams. After five days of captivity, a hole appears in the bathroom wall: Henry, armed only with an iron pipe, crosses the portal in search of freedom. [A documentary about the making of the 2004 video game "Silent Hill 4: The Room".]

On August 6, 1945, the first-ever nuclear bomb deployed in war was dropped on the city of Hiroshima Prefecture, leaving an estimated 140,000 dead in its wake by the end of that year. Among the victims, one particular age group stands out for the sheer number of fatalities sustained: 12 and 13 year-olds, children of first year junior high school age. We investigate the tragedy of this lost generation, piecing together surviving records and speaking with survivors, for whom the memories of children robbed of their futures that day are still burned deep in their memories, nearly eight decades on.

"Making a Perfect Donut" is a video work focused on US military base issue in Okinawa by Kyun-Chome who works as a contemporary artist in Japan. This film is a project documentary that started from the question “If one was to combine an American donut with its hole in the center, and a round shaped Okinawan donut; wouldn't that be a perfect, holeless donut regardless of which side of the military fence it is seen?”

My father’s 100-year-old family home may soon be torn down. Filled with traces of past lives, it holds the weight of memory. To preserve those memories, I captured them on film.

Shows the activities and ways of life of Japanese folk potters in Onda, a romote village in the mountains of North Central Kyushu, Japan. Presents a detailed account of traditional pottery - making techniques which have remained relatively unchanged for more than 250 years.

Director Yau Ching has been conducting media production workshops in juvenile reform and welfare institutes in Hong Kong, Macau and Sapporo, Japan for seven years. With simple video recording techniques, the teenagers make this video letter to talk about love, dream, idols and ups and downs in their lives. Are you sick of those pretending high school dramas? Try to take a look at this sincere documentation of youthhood. To get your taken-for-granted values reflected, to be touched by their truthful reveals without any sensational gimmick, and most importantly, to recall what we went through when we were young, and the ways we could be alive…

Experimental movie about the Japanese punk band Deformer

A record of the Anpo Treaty and Okinawa struggles of 1968 to 1970. Part 1: '68.10.21 to '69.5.31; Part 2: '69.6.8 to '69.11.17; Part 3: '69.12.1 to '70.6.23

Noriaki Tsuchimoto, a documentary filmmaker known for his series films on Minamata disease, travelled to Afghanistan in 1988 for the production of the film "Afghan Spiring", during which he developed alcoholism. In 1996, after several years of hospitalization and treatment, he accepted a long interview with his close friends, cameraman Koshiro Otsu and producer Tetsujiro Yamagami.

BONNIE PINK GOES OVER SEAS is the third DVD and first concert DVD released by BONNIE PINK. It is a documentary of BONNIE PINK's tour of France, Canada and America. The DVD includes live and making-of footage and a bonus making-of footage of her latest album Golden Tears.

Shot in Super 8 by a group of NDU members in the course of a day, the film documents the second Six Cities Joint Disaster Prevention Drill, organized in Shinjuku on the first of September 1981, an event that mobilized about twelve million people.

Introduces Arita ware’s 400-year history through the eyes of young and energetic artist Miwa Komatsu. We look forward to seeing the new “Arita” creations that Miwa will create, along with Sakaida Kakiemon XV, who has taken on the preservation of the traditions of Arita ware, that will lead them to the next 100 years.

In the man-made waterways of rice paddies, the water in nature must follow artificial rules. In that way, nature is made abstract, giving rise to a new form of beauty distinct from the natural state. The theme of this work is the liveliness of water as it follows the man-made course.

Video installation by UMMMI.

During deeply intimate conversations with the filmmaker after she learns she is going to die, Kazuko challenges cultural and social norms speaking candidly about her own life and death while she grapples with what it means to be honest and live happily. As she nears the end of her life, through observations about love, money, marriage and death, Kazuko develops a deeper intimacy both with herself and the filmmaker, while inviting the viewer to deeply consider their own life. And death.

Raised in Osaka by his Japanese mother and Korean father and now living in London, the filmmaker returns to his aging parents' home where he must address his family's secretive and complicated history. Additionally, he must decide whether to disclose his sexuality to them.

Henshin! Henshin! Arashi and Rider is a 1972 special promoting Henshin Ninja Arashi and Kamen Rider.

In 2014, under the "new type of urbanization" plan, a nationwide urban village renovation program was rolled out, affecting about 100 million people. At the same time, the residency permit policy, which is seen as a transitional means of "household registration reform," began to be fully implemented, claiming that it would give migrant workers benefits almost equal to those enjoyed by the urban household population, but the migrant workers, who are supposed to be the beneficiaries, were not convinced. For them, the massive demolition and relocation have destroyed their only cheap living environment in the city, and the price they need to pay to "become a city dweller" is too high for them to afford, so they prefer to wander without a home.

The program investigates the secrets behind the success of Japan’s most famous baseball team, the Tokyo Yomiuri Kyojin-gun, affectionately known as the Giants. An interview with Kawakami, the coach at the time, retraces the glorious history of this team, which was Japan’s baseball champion for seven consecutive years, until 1971.

Being Women in Japan documents the recovery of Michishita’s sister from brain surgery, which hospitalized her for four months. Michishita's interest was not only in the personal struggle of her sister to regain her health, but also in how this crisis caused a major rupture in the daily life of her sister's family.

A documentary film about world-renowned Japanese photographer, Masayoshi Sukita, who earned the deep trust and admiration of David Bowie, T-REX, Iggy Pop and big-name artists around the world across an illustrious 40-year career.

A mini-documentary about avant-garde Japanese musician Kazuki Tomokawa. Tomokawa is a prolific Japanese musician, active in the Japanese music scene since the early 1970s. He is often described as a "screaming philosopher" due to his idiosyncratic singing style. His music has been used in the films of cult directors Takashi Miike and Koji Wakamatsu, and he also appears in person in Miike's Izo (2004).

Tadanobu Asano answers questions about his experience on Ichi the Killer, a special feature included in the Bluray release of the film.

Behind the scenes/making of footage from Toshiaki Toyoda's Blue Spring, starring Ryuhei Matsuda, Hirofumi Arai and Sousuke Takaoka.

A documentary following a homeless man who has lived on the streets of Shinjuku for more than twenty years. Director Motoharu Iida met the man, known as “Ashigara-san,” while volunteering to support homeless people in Shinjuku beginning in 1996. Wanting to learn more about his life, Iida began regularly visiting him with a camera and spent three years making this film.

Atelier Yamanami is a care facility for the disabled located in Koka, Shiga Prefecture in Japan. Currently, 88 users are registered as artists, all of whom possess a unique way of expressing themselves through various media and whose works are highly valued abroad. This documentary explores these artists' "relationship between their mental states and their art."

A portrait of Shingo Tamagawa, the talented animator behind the mysterious short animation film PUPARIA.

Mizuyoshi tries to highlight everyday landscapes through his camera. Capturing the movements of light on the water of a stream, or reflections through the grass, he seeks to render a certain cinematographic image quality.

In 1971, while the Japanese prime minister Sato Eisaku was visiting South Korea to attend a party for President Park Chung-hee, a group of eight South Korean hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) took a direct petition to the Japanese embassy. The South Korean hibakusha were detained by South Korean authorities for the duration of the prime minister’s visit. This film follows the lives of these eight people. That same year, Son Chin-tu, a hibakusha who had entered Japan illegally and was being held at the Omura Detention Center, filed his so-called “Hibakusha Certificate Lawsuit,” demanding Japanese residency and medical treatment.

Matsumoto's early video work Murder Catalogue, but there were few opportunities to be screened at that time since it dealt with a grotesque image. Digitized a half-inch videotape he had kept in his studio. It is a work that shows the original form of a mysterious narrative that later appears well in Matsumoto's work, as it is constructed to repeat an event through long-term filming of a video and monologues by a cassette tape recorder. A photograph is placed in front of the video camera by one by one and the camera zooms in mechanically towards the images. Also, in Matsumoto's voice, a short monologue about the photos recorded on the tape is played. However, the voice is suddenly cut off by the sounds of hitting and the screams of the terminal, followed by the camera starting to expand the different images in the same way, and the voice of the recorder is played over and over again. - Ex-Is

A documentary focusing on Hihokan museums, adult sex-focused museums from the Showa era. In the 70s, there were many of these museums, in 2007, only six remain.

A live rendition of Feedbacker, recorded on 1 November 2003 at Shinjuku Liquid Room.

Uncovering Japan's hidden poverty, The Ones Left Behind: The Plight of Single Mothers in Japan gives a voice to the people who need their voices heard the most, the everyday, hardworking, single mothers of Japan.

'Chikara - the Sumo wrestler's son' follows the 10-year-old Japanese boy, Chikara, and his struggle to become a Sumo wrestler. His father was a professional Sumo wrestler, so expectations surrounding Chikara are extremely high. Today his father owns a noodle-shop where he works a lot. Their only time together is when they train Sumo wrestling. It's a very valuable time for Chikara. He wants to impress his father, but when he's there, Chikara gets nervous and everything seems to go wrong. The national Sumo Championship is approaching and Chikara wants to do well. It's a story of a small boy in a tough sport, parental pressure and expectations, but above all, it's a universal narrative about the relationship between father and son.

What is Cosplay? Well, Cosplay is short for costume play, and it occurs when thousands of anime fans crowd a convention center dressed as their favorite anime characters. This encyclopedia gives Western anime fans a detailed experience of this slightly bizarre phenomenon. Features characters from series like Magic Knight Rayearth, Sailor Moon, Sorcerer Hunters, and Evangelion.

Meet the former residents of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident’s Exclusion Zone, who share their experiences of the loss of home and community, and the fragility of memories.

This film documents actions performed for World Uprising by Ikuo Shukusawa, Sanzō Tanaka, and Shigeru Hanagata, who collectively worked as Shikata Kōbō (Death Type Workshop). Camera person unknown, 1971, B&W, silent, 3 min. Courtesy of Kumiko Matsuzawa.

Three mysterious deaths. The prosecutor claimed the defendant was a serial killer. Her lawyer said she was innocent. The evidence was limited, and the lay judges had difficulty reaching a verdict. Learn about the problems real lay judges face.

Although sumo is a cherished part of Japanese culture, few have managed to get a behind-the-scenes look at the sport. Director Eiji SAKATA had the opportunity to spend six months in close contact with two sumo stables. In the process, he managed to capture fascinating footage of the rigorous training sessions and daily life of the wrestlers.

The silence capturing all the surroundings of Mt. Buko. Documentary directed by Minoru Shinojima 1979, 8mm.

Kazaburō Sugishima, who turns 97 this year, has long contributed to the recovery and development of Yokohama following the Great Air Raid. His wealth of experience and timeless insights resonate with today's civic efforts across generations, continuing to inspire and guide Yokohama toward becoming a vibrant and dynamic city.

A documentary following Shoji Sakurai, who spent 29 years in prison after being falsely arrested for the "Fukawa Incident."

Single channel audiovisual work—synonymous with the art steering sensorial experience around nature and its many manifestations, the objects are reconstructed as the 3D sculptures accentuated by the cinematic screenings and dramatised by the sounds to underline the interplay of reality and fiction.