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Concert film featuring Ueto Aya's live tour "Genki Hatsuratsuu" held in Tokyo on August 29, 2005.

Hong Kong movie

Follows the life of Natsuki Iijima, a windsurfer from Japan, as he battles and ultimately loses his life to liver cancer. The first and only windsurfer to compete for 8 consecutive years in the World Cup Competition, Natsuki's diagnosis overwhelms him with fear and panic. Despite this set back, with the love and devotion of his wife Hiroko and four children, he decides to live life the best he can, to the fullest, without having his life prolonged with further treatment

A professional hand model Ching suffers from post-natal depression and her architect husband Hsuing is unable to deal with it, driving their marriage to the brink of collapse.

2002 release

A chance encounter on the road leads to the unusual need for a female bodyguard to protect the granddaughter of an old friend of Akiyama Kohei, a wealthy merchant who plans to bypass his son-in-law as head of the company. When Daijiro’s wife Mifuyu takes on the job strange things start to happen, including the brutal slaughter of company employees. With the backing of Lord Tanuma, a chief elder on the ruling council, Kohei, Daijiro, and Mifuyu form a plan to foil the kidnappers plot and save the girl from certain death.

Concert film featuring Mika Nakashima's YES MY JOY 2007 Tour filmed at Tokyo International Forum Hall A on July 30th, 2007.

Once upon the time on a small island named Taiwan, a neighborhood magistrate receives a secret message from space. 'The apocalypse is near...' the magistrate warns his people, however nobody seems to take his words seriously...

Nishihara Chieri, who works at a financial company, lives a modest life. One day, she is deceived by her boyfriend, Muneo, and ends up in debt of 5 million yen. If she doesn't pay it back within a month, he will find out and fire her. She frantically tries to find money, but she can't seem to save up any. Then, at a pachinko slot machine cash exchange, she spots a man with a large sum of money. "Pachinko slot machines can make money!" Chieri thinks, and immediately goes to play the slots, but it's not that easy to win. Chieri is at a loss, but by chance she sits next to Shunsuke, a slot machine pro, and he ends up teaching her how to play.

The story is based on an episode of the novel Journey to the West. The film features puppet live action, about 30% of the movie, with animated 3D backgrounds and characters.

A friendship develops between a young paralysed man from a wealthy Bangkok family and his male nurse from Isan in the North of Thailand.

An older woman and her mentally disabled son arrive at a train station. Even the dispatcher wonders what they are doing there, as they sit and watch passing trains. The film will remind you how nice it is to stop and look around. Best short film at IFF Venice in 2005.

Kuroki is crazy about gambling and Shirakawa loves unrivalled women. The pair are investigating a bank robbery.

One year has passed since Nao and Uehara accidentally moved into the same apartment. Since then, they have become an official couple. With Uehara's 16th birthday coming up, Nao's biggest worry is what to buy him. Everything is going smoothly- that is, until Nao realizes Uehara's birthday has already passed and she spent it acting as a cut model for the handsome hair stylist, Asai.

Dragged into a yakuza conflict, Jin (Lo Kwon) is forced to team up with Minoh (Kenichi Endo), the head of the Gōtotsu-gumi (Kazuhiro Nakahara), to rescue Maki (Koharu Tono), the kidnapped daughter of their boss. Frustrated by the lack of clues, Minoh storms the rival group Okimoto Kōgyō with his underlings. Maki is nowhere to be found, only the mutilated body of the Okimoto chairman remains. Meanwhile, drugs begin to circulate in the Gōtotsu-gumi’s territory, where narcotics are strictly forbidden. Upon uncovering the evil lurking in the shadows, Jin and Minoh charge into a deadly showdown! What is the true motive behind Maki’s abduction? And who will survive the coming storm?

Miyuki Honjo is living the normal life of a graduate student of Jonan University. However, on a certain day one night， by a twist of fate， not only her body， but her way of life is also changed... There is a mysterious dark organization called Crash! Miyuki is abducted by them and is forced to undergo surgery. Whether it is by coincidence or not.....she is spared being brainwashed. However, from this day on， her battles against the half-man， half-machine monsters begin. What awaits Miyuki as a result of her daily battles?!

Dong-Hwa is a complete loser, whose first novel called 'I met Kafka' brought the publishing company bankruptcy. To bring home the bacon, he tries to drive a taxi but only ends up running over someone. One day Dong-Hwa is offered a job to do ghostwriting for a CEO named Man-Chul, who turns out to be the ringleader of the biggest criminal syndicate in Korea. Dong-Hwa soon finds himself perfectly at ease in the mob, while Man-Chul starts learning about the other part of the world.

This is the third installment of the 2005 edition of the annual "Junji Inagawa's Super Scary Stories" series, "Legend of Ghost Stories. It happened when Odagiri, who works for a food company, went on a business trip to Tohoku with two junior employees. Odagiri was sick and had to miss a drinking party arranged by the locals, but... Total of 7 episodes will be included in the series.

Denzaburo Kato, the third generation leader of the Horii family whose territory encompasses the Yokohama area, has a dramatic encounter at a certain judo hall with a young man who would later shake up Japan's yakuza society. The man's name is Ryuji Inahara, the future president of the Inahara-kai!

Fong, a Taiwanese woman has relocated to Canada with her husband Kwok. Fong suspects that Kowk is cheating on her on his regular business trips to Taiwan.

A car crash on a bridge causes Keng and Prae a big trouble in their lives. When they regain consciousness, they realize that their souls have switched bodies. Things get even worse when both realize the unique problems of having a body of the opposite sex.

An abundance of footage from the shooting of Battle Royale and cast and crew discussions.

Pink film directed by Tarô Araki.

"GHOST HOUSE" Cast: Jinpachi Nezu ("Castle of the Owls", "Red Shadow"), Natsuo Ishido, Masako Izumi Synopsis: A young girl is forbidden by her parents to marry and decides to elope. "WHISPERS" Cast: Ryuji Harada ("Ka-chan", "Firefly"), Eisuke Tsunoda, Kimi Mizuhashi SynopsisTakuya (Ryuji Harada), a broadcast journalist, is asked by a program director to investigate a strange tree that is located in the area where he was brought up. "WORLD OF INIFINITY" Cast: Ikkei Watanabe ("Muscle Heat", "Gamera 3"), Yumi Aso ("Bond", "Last Scene") Synopsis: For 20 years, Takei (Ikkei Watanabe) devoted his life to his company and family. Using his weak heart as an excuse, he avoided involvement in social activities.

A surgeon, "I" finds himself lying in a strange place with amnesia. A voice recording of a former patient and lover reveals disturbing accounts of his conduct. His recollection brings back the past, only to reveal the truth as nothing but a dead man's dream. Attempts to fill in the gaps in his memory only result in his sinking further into a dark, inescapable hole.

Cucumber tells the stories of three families through the use of three Chinese dishes. Each of the stories is independent but connected to the others by the cucumber…

Set in the mid-1970s, the film is based on the true story of Yoshiharu Yamaguchi, a teacher and former Japanese international rugby union player, who turned-around a failing high school in Kyoto, giving special attention to the rugby team, which included the most disruptive students among its members.

A special concert to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Takarazuka's musical version of The Rose of Versailles.

Ah, my body's on fire! Roku, a company employee, learns that his ex-girlfriend, Nanako, has broken up with her lover and heads to her parents' house, only to be told that she has died. Roku meets Nanako's childhood friend, Emi, spends the night with her, and returns to Tokyo...

Seigo Yoshioka (Kenji Sakaguchi) is a teacher that became mute after a kendo accident. He feels lost after the accident and eventually decides to teach again on a small island where his mother was born. The children there on the island quickly name him "Kikansha Sensei" (Teacher Locomotive) after learning he is mute. The parents on the island are mostly hostile to Seigo Yoshioka, believing he is incapable of teaching their children. But with Seigo Yoshioka's determination and kindness, a strong bond develops between the students and the mute teacher, which then changes the parents' opinions of Seigo Yoshioka. Suddenly, tragedy then strikes ...

Straight to video horror/comedy directed by Minoru Kawasaki

This entry digs even deeper into the terror of being hunted and trapped, with women forced into choices that test both body and mind. The suspense builds as desperation clashes with determination, making every scene feel like a fight to hold on to identity as much as life itself. It’s unsettling, unpredictable, and lingers long after the credits roll.

When her husband's drug addiction destroys her perfect life, Jane is forced to support herself and her young daughter, Ling, by taking a job as a security guard. One night Ling sees a soaking wet child doing homework at her desk. Eventually, Jane also felt that something unnatural was in the house; strange noises occur with frequency and she feels that an unseen presence is spying on her. Jane soon finds out that the house is haunted.

A fantasy world with only cats as far as the eye can see. The awe and fear a person can feel in a world that doesn't know mankind.

A Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother.

In a rural village, there lives a man named Zoroku, with his sister, Haruko. All is well until one day, Zoroku becomes infected with a bizarre disease that blisters his skin and deforms his body. Fearing the reactions of the townspeople, his parents lock him in the house. Unfortunately, the village chief sees him, and soon, Zoroku and Haruko are mistreated by everyone in the village. Unable to watch Haruko suffer any longer, the parents decide to end Zoroku's misery themselves. Haruko tries to save her brother, and they leave home, but what comes afterward?

Hong Kong movie

Honda, the president of a real estate company, shows Kyoko an apartment. The two begin a strange life together. A man who can only get aroused by peeping due to scars from his past. A woman who is bound by her past and gets turned on by being peeped at. What lies at the end of this twisted love that combines loneliness and solitude?

Ellile is a knight-in-training in the Kingdom of Fredbarn in the Neverland World. He and Princess Roji are secretly in love, and plan to marry. Lifile, the head of the knights, finds out, and tells Ellile that he's not strong enough to protect Roji, let alone the Kingdom. Ellile becomes frustrated, and contemplates what to do.

Adiantum Blue is about a pianist with a terminal illness, who wishes to spend her last happy days with her lover in Nice.

Inako Natsui is a quiet, modern girl working in a laboratory and living a closed and somewhat monotonous life in a small town. From time to time she goes to nearby to visit her lonely mother Wakayama who has been a widow for the past seventeen years. The girl's relatives, particularly Aunt Sadako and Uncle Shuhei, the local mayor's deputy, plan to introduce her to a suitable young man, but Inako has no real desire to get married. She is more interested in the hot mineral springs from where she takes her laboratory specimens. This all changes when she meets Mr Tamamiza, a young divorced man who's been left with a little boy. Her relatives are decidedly against the match. The girl falls in love with the man without realizing that she will encounter a painful conflict between her family and providence, as unexpectedly as the spring which gushes out from the geological fold, driven to the surface by mysterious subterranean forces.

A detective goes undercover to bust an underground organization responsible for illegally smuggling jewels.

Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the Shinsengumi - at the end of the Edo period.

Miwa is informed that her time is limited due to heart disease. Submitting a letter of resignation to her workplace, she says good‐bye to her boyfriend Shinji, afraid of becoming a burden to him. Throwing off Shinji's hand, Miwa sets off on a lonely journey. The one who comforts the broken‐hearted Shinji is his colleague, Kyoko. Soon, the two fall for each other and become lovers. Learning of their relationship, Miwa goes mad with jealousy. She tries to trap Shinji with whatever means she can. Becoming a stalker, Miwa persistently corners Shinji and Kyoko. How far will she go?

A serial killer whose modus operandi includes painting abstract designs on his victims prior to raping, killing, and eating them is captured and interrogated by a hardened district attorney. When the maniac fails to provide answers satisfying both the prosecution and defense attorneys, he is hypnotized and shocking secrets begin to emerge.

Hong Kong movie

The third 'Road to New Don' film.

2008 release

Yosaburo's wife Chieko ran away from him, and he was running a public bath on his own. One night, Sakura, a beautiful woman he had never seen before, visited the bathhouse. Yosaburo was completely captivated by her. From then on, Sakura came to the bathhouse almost every night. However, Kumagawa, a regular customer, heard a rumor that a woman in a yukata was looking for men in the neighborhood. Yosaburo was worried, so he followed her on her way home from the bathhouse, and Kumagawa passed by. After a brief exchange of words, they started walking together. Then she disappeared into a house. When Yosaburo went around to the garden to peek inside, Kumagawa was playing with Sakura's body...

A journalist named Takashi arrives at a rural town to investigate a string of mysterious accidental deaths. Around the same time, a young woman arrives dressed in a sailor suit school uniform. Her name is Misa Kuroi, a powerful witch who’s been sent by the leader of her black magic cult to seek out and destroy a powerful demon of destruction called Ezekiel. Eventually, Takashi and Misa cross paths and decide to work together to solve a supernatural mystery.

There are only 320 Mlabri people left on this planet. They came out of the jungle in Northern Thailand on the border to Laos one generation ago. The Mlabri people used to be hunters and gatherers. Today they scrape out a meagre existence at the bottom of society working as day labourers for the Hmong farmers, and living in shacks on the outskirts of larger Hmong villages. The Mlabri people are currently going through a transformation process, which has taken many other people thousands of years. Now the young people are faced with the choice of staying with their families in the village or adapting to the Thai society. How do they experience the meeting between their own culture and the local, regional and national majority cultures? In this film young Mlabri tell about their past, present and future as they see it; all expressed in their unique and expressive Mlabri language.

#52 in the series.

"Our War" is a special drama produced by Japanese TBS TV. This is the third bomb of the war-themed TV series after the "Song of Sugarcane Field" and "Guangzhou·Showa August 6th, 20th." It is said that in 2005, young people from the end of the island, Kenji and Showa’s 19-year-old pilot, Shi Tingwu, changed their identity because of time and space, and then used their respective perspectives to look at the Pacific War and the youthful story of peaceful modern life.