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Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail" (1945).

2004 release

This horror documentary explores the mystery of ghost photography in Hiroshima, where countless spirits wander about. Sixty-four years after the atomic bombing, there is still no end to the unexplained sightings, and psychic photographer Yuko Mune and Johreishi Kenjiro Kamijima decipher the messages from the spirits.

Set against the background of the Spanish Civil War, the plot centers on socialist playwright Katherine McGregor and renowned photographer Georges Malraux, a Polish Jew who fled his homeland for Paris. The two first meet in Hollywood at a party announcing the film adaptation of Katherine's play Tempest in Spain, based on the opera Carmen. The two are reunited in Barcelona, where they unexpectedly find themselves falling in love as they become embroiled in a battle against fascism.

Aoyama Shinji’s Film History—and simultaneously a chronicle of modern Japanese history—layers together images of present-day landscapes, newsreels, and photographs of Emperor Shōwa as well as of Kōtoku Shūsui and Sugako Kanno, who were executed in the High Treason Incident, with readings of texts by Nakano Shigeharu (Five-Shao of Sake, Shinagawa Station in the Rain) and Natsume Sōseki (Recollections).

The Odaiba parking lot was cleared off as the 500hp drift machines replaced the wandering shopping carts for the 2005 D1 Grand Prix round 2. It's that time of yeah when the grandstands rise above the scenery and ten thousand JDM fans fight their way through the gates to experience the infamous D1 night battle session. It's ALIVE!! Kumakubo's 500hp FR Impreza produced by JUN Auto received its first breath of life. How will JUN's extensive tuning knowledge affect it's first attempt at a drift machine? Orido's remastered RS8R Supra also makes its appearance after mending it's wounds from the first battle!

In “A Rock In The Light”, I requested the music of Haruyuki Suzuki, a contemporary composer. This music is unified with the image, which is visually structured, setting the rock at the center, along the axis of light. For the new DVD version, I titled “Air’s Rock”.

First "Kai" film in Junji Inagawa's "The Most Fearful Stories" series.

Junji Inagawa, one of Japan's most famous horror storytellers, visits the sites of reputed horrors and attempts to uncover the causes. This time, he examines the "abandoned love hotel Lili in Yubari, Hokkaido" and "Kamogawa Yellow Spring Tunnel in Chiba Prefecture...and the Kanayama Dam" to get to the bottom of the matter.

Demon Hunting is a Japanese made-for-television horror movie. It originally aired as the second episode of Series Kyōfu Yawa in 2003. Nozomi Ando stars as Michiru, a teenager who makes a pact with a demon to kill the rival classmate who's dating the teacher she is in love with herself, Mr. Kamata (Hideo Sakaki). While she's at it, she also asks to see the world destroyed. Her memory of this pact is erased and eventually her wishes begin to come true...

2008 release

indie ninja tokusatsu film

A girl who loves reading stories about male romance wanders the streets of Japan fantasizing about guys.

A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.

Sou Kazuho's dinner show.

This is the 1st installment of the "Psychic Documentary" film series.

Takarazuka Revue Moon Troupe 2009 production of the Viennese musical Elisabeth

About a woman who has lived a nomadic life playing sanshin music since the age of 9, and made her CD debut at the age of 85.

2007 release

A world in which protagonists of both animated and live action segments proceed in their respective journeys. Characters continue their incoherent monologues, monsters appear suddenly, and in a world that constantly lacks consistency "organized" humans and spirits clash ceaselessly to no clear purpose. In the end the two journeys meet, and the two travelers themselves are also found to be totally untamable beasts.

2004 release

2004 release

2002 release

The Prime Minister attends a kendo dedication in the mountains. A mysterious man named Watanabe appears and confronts him about the truth behind the Japan Airlines Flight 123 plane crash.

Yukiko, an assistant to a fashion designer, goes to a language school to study abroad and has a relationship with a male teacher. Dreams and reality slowly become one, and Yukiko loses her mental balance. What really scares her is whether "Sensei" really existed.

Short film by Kazushi Ozawa.

This is the third in a new series of short horror-cinema films depicting contemporary fears with Junji Inagawa as the storyteller. It includes "Peony Lantern," a traditional Japanese ghost story performed with beauty and sadness by Nanako Okochi, as well as "Kuma Onna," "Yamamba," and "Nurarihyon," a total of four stories.

The 20 best urban legends from the "Honto Ni Atta!. Toshi Densetsu" trilogy have been selected in this screaming edition.

Kiryuuin Shou is in 3rd year in High School, his friend Jun is heartbroken by his cheating ex-boyfriend Kenji. Kiryuuin and Jun go to the beach to have fun and to meet some new guys. Kiryuuin nearly dies... But he is saved by a sexy lifeguard: Kyan.

Nowadays, abandoned bicycles are a common sight in front of stations in Tokyo. The number of abandoned bicycles is unparalleled in the world, and there are concerns about how to deal with them. The protagonist is a worker who removes such abandoned bicycles. The job involves removing other people's bicycles without asking, which naturally leads to constant trouble during the work. Is it his own fault? Is the world to blame? The man begins to ask himself. The stress of his job causes him to start taking pleasure in riding his bicycle around town at night. But what he sees is nothing but a wild landscape. One night, while riding his bike as usual, the man sees something else...

A video installation that Takashi Ito exhibited in January 2009 in Kyoto.

The Live Style 2006 tour lasted from August 13, 2006 to November 23, 2006 and marked the 15th anniversary of her career. The set list included many of her b-side singles and is as follows: - Violet Sauce - Handle Me - Without Me - Fish - A Walk in the Park - Say the Word - Put 'Em Up - Alarm - No More Tears - Strobe - Exist for You - Four Seasons - Ningyo - Lovin' It - Drive - Girl Talk - Can't Sleep, Can't Eat, I'm Sick - Do or Die - Uh Uh... - How To Be a Girl - Want Me, Want Me - Shine More - The Speed Star - Body Feels Exit - Chase the Chance - Can't Sleep, Can't Eat, I'm Sick (remix).

2006 release

Porn magazine writer Akane has come to attend his niece Yuri’s funeral with his daughter Haruko. He is feeling nervous because the deadline for his articles is approaching. When Akane finds Haruko flirting with Yuri—or what must be Yuri’s ghost—the three of them start playing hide and seek, but soon the innocent game takes an unexpected turn… Drama with an air of immorality taking place behind the closed door of a closet.

A seaside school. In the corridor stands the principal, beloved of the high-spirited youngsters. Gazing at a picture of a whale drawn as a child, the head teacher is swept away with sentiment into a flashback from the past.

2004 release

One day lately in the seventeenth century, Spanish Santa Catalina Island is assaulted and its town is burnt down by the English pirates headed by Edgar. The governor and his wife are killed. However, the governor's son, Emilio, manages his escape and dives alone into the sea.

The exhibition introduces more than a dozen carefully selected and startling photos from among the ghost photos submitted by ordinary users, and from these, further investigations and interviews are conducted on those that have been known to have been taken!

Kuribayashi Minami's live performance from her dream link concert tour held at Nakano Sun Plaza on October 8, 2008.

DVD footage of AKB48 Team B's 3rd Stage "Pajama Drive"

ANIMA is a dance animation movie representing a human "life."

The third in the series about a high school girl who gets caught up in a series of disappearances. Mayuka, a member of the drama club, happens to come across a script with eerie contents. Immediately after that, she begins receiving a constant stream of silent phone calls...

Shocking content that cannot be broadcast on TV! A shelved tape that would never be made public was leaked as a "debt collection record"! While covering the reality of wiretapping, I happened to come across a prostitution scene in the entertainment world! Shocked by the astonishing request! Is there such a person? A human horror so gruesome that a ghost would be better!

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.

2007 release

A Japanese actress (Yuka) comes face to face with a slew of restless spirits when she signs on to star in a horror film -- the true story of a crazed professor's murderous rampage that left 11 victims, including his young daughter, in its wake. But the film being shot at the very site where the grisly killings took place. Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge) directs this darkly mesmerizing tale of crime, punishment and redemption.

This is the fourth installment in the “Fearful Dolls” series, which consists of image dramas and real-life dramas based on a selection of horror stories from schools, hospitals, inns, and other places close to home. Ordinary dolls that can be found in anyone's home will take you to a world of spine-chilling horror.

The Naked Summer is a film that documents young artists' effort and growth while training and preparing for a performance of Butou that is praised internationally as a unique art form. Butou was born about 40 years ago as a form of modern dance that pursues the untraditional movement of the body and defies the convention of the human body. As a result, it is known for the dancer's strange facial expressions, naked body covered in white powder, and strong visuals. The film contains the summer training process of the dance group Dairakudakan led by a veteran artist of Butou, Akaji Maro

This is the 7th installment of the "Psychic Documentary" film series.

Mari's three puppies were just born, when the earthquake in Yamakoshimura started. Now their home is in ruins, and their owner, an old man is trapped under the debris. Mari somehow manages to break her chain, and encourages the old man, until help arrives. In the end, someone saves the old man, but he can't take in the dogs, so they remain in the now abandoned village. Can Mari and the puppies live on like this?