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A man makes a robot girl and tries to teach her the aspects of daily life. But what is his real goal? Hidamari no Shi is the fourth part of the five-part film Zoo, adapted from the first volume of Otsuichi's novels of the same name. It is the only part of the film made from animation; the other parts are live-action sequences.

In this documentary horror film, Yuko Mune, the most popular psychic of the moment, travels to unknown haunted places in the Kansai region. She risks her life in Osaka, Nara, Himeji, and other haunted danger zones where power has been concentrated since ancient times and many people have died as a result of intrigue, lust, and curses.

A video of the long-awaited national tour, which has moved around 100,000 people. From the nationwide tours that took 16 performances across 10 places nationwide with the best album "SPEEDLAND", the Nippon Budokan pattern sold out the same day of tickets. This 2-piece set is packed with a huge hit tune, and also includes footage of documents such as rehearsal and backstage. This is a must-have item that is highly recommended for those who are touching the SPEED this time.

AKB48's first ever concert and held from November 3rd to November 4th, 2006 in Nippon Seinenkan, Tokyo, Japan.

A young man raised in an orphanage receives special education for gifted children on the piano in preparation for taking place in an international contest. However, because of the stress and pressure, he passes out while performing for the final screening. Because of this trauma, he no longer can go near the piano. When that boy collapses in a park, he's rescued by a man. The months and years pass, and the two have become acknowledged members of a certain underground conglomerate. One day the young man is involved in a drive by shooting and loses his memory, then turns back to the piano and begins to perform beautifully..... A musical in which the protagonist is wrapped in trauma, that follows him until he is determined to search for his path in life, with his friend as an axis, and the distractions of his feelings for the many women he loses his heart to.

The life of a homeless boy is changed when a foreigner offers him a life-changing sum to perform a single act.

Mina, who is running a honey trap, is trying to scam a man as usual when she accidentally meets Ginpachi, a professional pachinko player. She becomes interested in him, and when she tries it herself, she immediately finds herself with a mountain of winnings...

Electronic Pinokio (2005) is playful again with its material (video) and the optical illusions you can produce and also provoke with it. But mainly it looks like a grainy shot from someone to close to a TV screen. Yellow, green, blue. pink, white, green. It will later turn into a pinkish and red female face and an ass will come and disappear again. The sound is dark and slowly pondering until red characters tell us it is “The End”.

A documentary following the children of a nursery class from ages 0 to 6

This is the third installment of the popular "“List of Curses” Told by High School Girls in Shibuya" series, in which high school girls are actually interviewed on the streets of Shibuya and tell their stories.

Video, music, dance, graphics, modelling... that's what Kyupi Kyupi is, a video + performance group that goes beyond the boundaries of all genres. The members are headed by graphic designer Koichi Emura, sculpting and 3DCG artist Masatsuka Kimura, multi-talented singer Asami Wakeshima, and filmmaker Yoshimasa Ishibashi. The culmination of 6 years of Kyupi Kyupi. Super permanent DVD "Kyupi Kyupi The Best" containing cute and erotic images is finally on sale! Re-editing and condensing a number of video works comprising the entire trajectory of Kyupi Kyupi, from the first live performance in Kyoto in 1998 to the long-run performance of "Cabarotica" in 2003. You can now thoroughly enjoy the rich world of Kyupi Kyupi.

A woman is talking on her cell phone. A man's hand reaches out to her and tells her to snap the phone. The woman says, "Shut up and hit the man. The woman hits the man, saying, "You're always talking on the phone like that, living off the support of others. I'm on my own. The way you live is the problem. The man says. In fact, the man tries to have an affair and gets dumped. I thought the story would go like this, but it didn't go at all. This film was made based on a film shot in a seminar for fourth-year students at Tama Art University. The actors were students who participated in the seminar. They wanted to make a film about a story, so I asked each student to tell a story, which I transcribed, made into a scenario, and filmed them acting and talking. Rather than creating a "story," the work was composed of everyday scenes, with the idea of a "story" in mind. I have just begun to think about stories that make time. (Suzuki Shiroyasu).

2005 release

2005 release

Bonus short included on the "Atsushi Wada Works 2002-2010" DVD.

A young girl, wandering a long distance, suddenly finds herself in a deserted new town. There, a man claiming to be her probation officer approaches her and offers her a ride. The man is the caretaker of an apartment complex, and his daily routine involves approaching women with the intention of assaulting them. The man and the girl discover a deep sense of emptiness shared within each other…

Death File" is a murder warning website. By clicking on a person listed on the site, a video of that person's death is shown, and the person who saw the video becomes the next target.

Oguchi Yoko belongs to that special category of film makers for whom life, work, documentary and fiction are basically one and the same thing. She is her film, her films are her. There is one significant theme that keeps returning, her masochistic tendencies. Here she returns to a relationship with someone who deceived her. A true story, of course.

An erotic horror film about a "corpse" that can only be seen by couple Kenichi and Mayumi, who have just moved into a new house. The married couple are troubled by the strange smell of the garbage bags left behind by the previous occupant. However, Mayumi is somehow drawn to it...

Mr. Tatsuo Ikeda, who is familiar with many TV programs as a psychic organizer. A request arrived to him. "I want her to use her psychic powers to find a grandmother who has been missing for several months." The client is her family. He tried his best but couldn't find it, so he entrusted his hope to Mr. Ikeda. With the permission of the family, we conducted a close interview with Mr. Ikeda's psychic investigation! Where on earth is Grandma? This work is a document that pushes the limits of the psychic world, where Mr. Ikeda searches for missing persons by his own psychic ability.

2005 release

An entry in the Mighty Lady tokusatsu series

A daughter parts on a journey to retrace the steps of her father, who has gone to choose the place of his own death. Mixing interviews with her mother, her older half- brother, her aunt and the person who found the body, she follows the second half of her father's life ---a live previously unknown to her--- up until his death. As the film shi from snowbound Northern Japan to tropical Palau, the image of her father as one human being among others is revealed amongst the landscape.

2006 release

Softcore movie directed by Yukio Kitazawa.

An American ambassador and his family move into an old castle. They learn from the help that Simon, a man suffering for 300 years due to a heavy sin he committed, resides in the castle. The Americans are quite lighthearted and unfazed by the situation. The father gives the ghost a gift, the boys pillow fight and play tricks on him, and the daughter Virginia is kind and forgiving with him. The ghost is quite surprised because he's used to haunting and people hating him.

A new horror TV drama by six up-and-coming directors, set in a school built on land where a legend of a priestess who was slaughtered by warriors 400 years ago remains... Three high school girls begin to tell a hundred stories and face the horror of a chain of curses...

Kurokawa has successfully completed his first mission as an assassin. But when he returns to his boss' office, he is scolded for not having disposed of the body and is ordered back to the scene of the crime. The members of the group "The Donkeys" are trying to make some money by stealing a precious purse from some gangsters. The two stories unfold on parallel tracks but at a certain point they intersect and, as the rhythm accelerates, come to a surprise ending…

The 29th installment of the popular series that contains psychic images from general posts.

2008 release

YUKO☆RING is a live mini-concert that gravure idol Ogura Yuko held in secret on January 2005 at Liquidroom Ebisu.

Reissue in Blu-ray. Part of six-live-BD series from Ayumi Hamasaki features "Arena Tour 2006 A -(miss)understood-," "Countdown Live 2007-2008 Anniversary," "Asia Tour 2008 -10th Anniversary- Live in Taipei," "Premium Countdown Live 2008-2009 A," "Arena Tour 2009 A -Next Level-," and "Countdown Live 2009-2010 A -Future Classics-. Track list: 1. Are You Wake Up? 2. Born To Be... 3. AUDIENCE 4. evolution 5. STEP you 6. Ladies Night 7. alterna 8. is this LOVE? 9. (miss)understood 10. tasking 11. Pride 12. rainy day 13. Startin' 14. UNITE! 15. Bold & Delicious 16. HEAVEN 17. teens 18. BLUE BIRD 19. Humming 7/4 20. Boys & Girls 21. Beautiful Day

The first of two shorts detailing the further adventures of the Yokai.

2003 release

A visual work created from footage of solo performances and exhibitions, video art, etc. produced in the 10-year period between 1998 and 2008, edited and reconstructed with a focus on the self-made sound object called the optron.

Angela Aki's Piano Hikigatari Live MY KEYS 2008 in Nippon Budokan filmed on December 26, 2008.

Set in Tokyo, Shikoku, Korea, and Tibet, the film uses images of people, landscapes, and even the artist's own relationships as material. While questioning the nature of sexuality, the film traverses the boundaries between fiction and documentary. Various human patterns emerge like a "mandala" from the endless "everyday" captured by Oki's camera.

A film by Yasunori Kakegawa + Yasunori Ikunishi + Kuknacke

Anpanman to start it ! Learn numbers, colors and shapes. Step 1 Genki 100 times! Color Kazu - kids intellectual training on subjects of challenge, life, the theme of discipline, English, Hiragana, colors and numbers.

Part 2 of the short documentary about the GROPER TRAIN film series

Star Troupe's stage play.

Second installment in the "Junji Inagawa no Shin - Kyōfu no Hyakumonogatari" film series.

Last time Hotaru, the brilliant detective, brought a marriage fraud ring to ruin. Now she faces another formidable foe! This time, it's a man named Umeki, who leads a scam and commits all sorts of evil deeds. He's also the man who once deceived Hotaru, leading her to become a detective.

2009 release

Ayumi Hamasaki Arena Tour 2002 A is a Japanese-language live concert dvd released on January 29, 2003, the same day Ayumi Hamasaki Stadium Tour 2002 A (Stylized as ayumi hamasaki STADIUM TOUR 2002 A) was also released.

This concert film was filmed at Nakano Sunplaza on March 31st, 2007 and marks Nami Tamaki's final performance as a high school student.

Yet Ono is stunned by the power of the memory enhancement device developed by Tatsuo, realizing that in terms of academic ability, he can no longer compete. He then harshly criticizes the device’s flaws, emotionally cornering Tatsuo. The original script, written in 1985, was intended as a follow-up to his 7th film “The Equation of the Fog”, but was never produced due to various circumstances. After 24 years, it was finally adapted into film with full cooperation from current members of the Koshigaya Campus Film Research Club.

Hokushou Kairi's dinner show.

White and grey, a big screen with noises and voices: we hear a man suffering. The film follows the hardscrabble day-to-day exploits of a nameless hero as he is trying to survive amidst violent, desperate men and desolate landscapes. Later we will watch them all again building a metal construction out in the desert. So these men here will find an Asian guy, almost dead: “You have got a point!” The Promised Land? No, and it is someone else who will die in the end. Or will simply end up in hallucinations.

Filled with interviews with the production team, the featurette covers the story's development, the film's style and look, and even has the original Japanese teaser.

The daily life of the citizens of Kabul during the civil war: the bazaar, mosques, the literacy movement awarded honors by UNESCO, women's education, and English school. Scenes of live and self-defense in nearby farm villages. The lives of war orphans. And a new holiday-the anniversary of the revolution, seen in the faces of the 200,000 people gathered to celebrate. This is a document of the only "democratic republic" in the West.

"Legend of beauty girls, we can give you a lost memory on your younger days." An image video starring Aya Sugimoto.