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

A teenager leaves his classmates and heads home for the evening. Feeling frustrated and lonely, he sends a neutral text-message to a friend. From this point, this one-man DV experimental film presents a real-time exchange of incoming and outgoing messages, depicting a digital-era study of text-message relationships. Letter is the directorial debut of Japanese artist, filmmaker, and scholar Sasaki Yusuke when he was only 17. The film screened at the 2004 International Film Festival Rotterdam and won the Grand Prix at Image Forum Festival Tokyo in 2003. Sasaki holds a doctoral degree from the Tokyo University of the Arts and is currently a lecturer at Tottori University.

Mika Seike’s contribution to the animated short film anthology Tokyo Loop.

AGENT ORANGE is one woman's personal journey through Vietnam to try to understand the ravages caused by chemicals in the Vietnam War, and to come to terms with her husband's premature death. Her observation of the way in which Vietnamese families and health organisations are coping with ongoing deformities in children, even after all these years, is an extraordinary revelation, deeply moving and deeply disturbing.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Yo Ota goes on working on « the space of the unreal movement » on the film medium and on showing time development in non narrative cinema. This film has nothing to do with the English meaning of «Speed trap», that is speed control by police radars. To obtain objects in movement, he set his 16mm camera on the verge of a road. During film shoot, some drivers thought his camera was a speed trap and briskly slow down in front of the camera.

Paris, New Year's 2000. On a Paris street, a strange mood is brought about by the appearance of some young men. They are, in fact, not human. At the turn of every century, the season for graduation at Hell's School of Demons returns. These young men's last task before they may graduate is to go to the human world. Vim is given the task of making the life of Adjani, who happens to be the first person he meets, as utterably miserable as possible. This is troublesome to Vim, for Adjani is a woman who already draws unhappiness to her. Vim becomes very anxious... A little black spice for the New Year, in this fantastic love comedy for adults.

10th installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

Two disaffected hoodlums, one of them of Korean ancestry; his sister, her girlfriend, and a mad scooter girl. The failure of their relationships as a critique of modern Japan.

Mr. A has arrived and Eagle Talon must fight with him.

2003 release

2008 release

This is the second horror film that unearths, verifies, and unravels the reality of the bizarre phenomena that are prevalent today. In addition to "The Grudge Apartment," a drama recounting horrifying experiences submitted by the general public, psychic X, who has had numerous spiritual experiences and is also an expert on the occult, appraises psychic photographs and psychic items and provides incisive explanations of the truth.

2008 release

Ki-No-Ko is a surreal five-minute short film published on Art of Silent Hill, Lost Memories: The Art & Music of Silent Hill and The Silent Hill Experience.

Short animated film by Tomoyasu Murata.

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

A 25-year-old man suffering from pneumonia. No matter how difficult the world may be, he is doing his best just to be afraid of being hospitalized by a doctor, even though it is the New Year when the whole of Japan is superficially conspicuous. Contact with a high school girl who was interested in his poetry did not change his melancholy outlook on life. A narcissistic reminiscent of the independent work "I Am Sono Sion !!", which was sensationally released by director Sono Sion, who captured the collapse and rebirth of the modern Japanese family in "Noriko's Dinner Table" to the utmost. There will definitely be someone who is attracted to the character of the main character. A world view that should be called the origin of independent films. If you get hooked here, it's no longer possible to control the rotation of your brain that keeps activating.

A man gets one arm of a woman who he fell in love, just one night. After that a man has a tragic nightmare because of one arm. The background of this story is 1960's in Japan. It was the last period that Japonism and specific moral had remained in ordinary people and their life after world war II.

2002 release

LIVE 7/28/2000 Fuji Rock @ Naeba Ski Resort, Niigata, Japan

This is the sixth documentary of actual horror stories. Psychic researcher Toshitaro Yamaguchi and two female psychics investigate a number of haunted places in the Kanto region, including a private house where a rotten smell of unknown origin and other bizarre phenomena occur frequently, and an apartment building where spirits wander about.

Film director Masato Hara welcomes MAORI as a partner and begins a new life. The two of us routinely turn the 8mm camera and make songs while the days go by. The time between the two will soon be the time for the three with their newborn eldest son, KOBOH. And a small family trip. Head south from Kyoto to Hiroshima, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Put enough luggage, shooting equipment and accordion in a small car.

Concert film and documentary from Mika Nakashima's First Tour 2003 performed on February 23, 2003 at Zepp Tokyo.

This film investigates ghost photos captured on cell phones and the rumors surrounding them. Is it really true that they are the work of psychic spirits?

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

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.

3rd installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

Countdown Live 2001-2002 A is a recording of Ayumi Hamasaki's 2001 New Year's Eve concert, originally released as part of the Complete Live Box.

A story set in a world before ours. A world in chaos where forces of good and evil fight and mingle. By doing so, it creates the chance to give birth to the new world. A couple of winged beings make love and fly away. They bear a child in an egg, and when the child opens its eyes they are immediately destroyed, one consumed by fire and the other by water. Mythical, elemental and mysterious, the world created by Tsuji is dangerous, menacing and suffuse with signs of apocalypse, but somehow simultaneously tender and compassionate. A Feather Stare at the Dark captures simple gestures and primal feelings and amplifies them, realising the non-verbal and non-literal with remarkable grace.

This drama depicts the loneliness and love of a daughter whose father and home village have been submerged by a dam development, while also incorporating Japan's unique eroticism.

This is the first 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.

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

Documentary on end-of-life care in Japan

19th entry in the popular "Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video" series.

DVD footage of AKB48 Team B's 2nd Stage "Aitakatta"

Short film by Takagi Masakatsu.

Yamiwo, a girl who is unable to bear her desire for masochism, wanders to visit the cruel angel. Her pure innocence and bottomless curiosity bring out Tsukihana's sadistic tendencies to the fullest, and the appearance of a girl whose bare feet are adorned with insect pins and hypodermic needles and sheds tears of pain is that of the dark empress "Gekika".

A documentary about the band Buck-Tick's history from 1992 to 2001, released on the fourth disc of boxset.

This film is based on a novel by Araki Sumishi, who has gained a following mainly in Kobe. It depicts the true feelings of a young man who is troubled by the value of its existence.

A collection of Single 8 bloopers sprinkled with bleach to dissolve the emulsion. It is also a work that contains personal grudges.

Concert film featuring dream's live 2002 tour "Process" filmed at SHIBUYA-AX on June 23, 2002. This was the last performance of dream as a three member group.

Yamashiro Chikako channels the stories of survivors of the Battle of Okinawa through lip-synch and superimposition. With her body as an archive, she stages the link between the donors and inheritors of trauma and, ultimately, the impossibility of transferring memory across generational lines.

1994年07月10日 10th July 1994 京都・京都大西部講堂 Kyoto University Western Auditorium Seibu-Kodo 首吊りの舞踏会 "Kubitsuri No Butokai" 2 audience shot videos (52:36 & 50:57) of the same concert combining a few angles, accessible via menu Visually, neither of a high-grade master copy, as released by the Ignuitas label, in 2006.

2006 release

A collection of real-life horror documentaries. Guided by horror/splatter novelist Yumei Hirayama, the film takes us to the famous suicide spot Fuji Jukai. The camera captures the remains of the suicides, bouquets of flowers, and even human bones.

The screams of the idols are echoed by the extremely unscrupulous actions that should never be done, including the manager of the office.

Short animated film by Tanaami Keiichi.

Keisuke, a part-timer whose life is practically devoid of any romantic relationships. "I want to have sex with love!!" Keisuke longs for this and a chance presents itself. He meets the beautiful and sexy Maria and the gloomy Kageko. Keisuke falls in love with Maria at first sight and immediately gets a job at the same workplace!! However, Kageko keeps getting in the way and things don't go smoothly. At that time, Keisuke is asked to go on a group date with Maria and the others, but the classmate who invited them ends up hurting Maria's feelings. Keisuke gets drunk and complains to Kageko, with whom he has a bitter rivalry, but—he is shocked when he sees Kageko's face without her glasses!! Kageko is an unbelievable stunning beauty!!