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A TV show that is so unclear to whom and where it is broadcast. A strange room where the recording and editing is taking place. A middle-aged gentleman like a wax figure sits on a turntable and grabs the microphone as the director signals him to do so. A reading about the mysterious genre "Ficfyon" has begun. 'What the heck did we not have time for?' The monologue of a man sitting in the audience and continuing to talk about his story will soon move into Ficfyon prophecies about the 2000s.

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NR 2005
SELF AND OTHERS - Eiga Dojo Workshop film

A very special event that took place immediately following the 2009 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Furuyashiki Village. They held a ‘dojo,’ a school where the veteran independent filmmakers from Japan taught the younger generation of independent filmmakers from China and Japan. They watched films, shot and hand-developed Super-8 films. Participants: Azuma Mieko, Cong Feng, Huang Weikai, Ji Dan, Kawabe Ryota, Mao Chenyu, Sato Leo, and others... The participants formed teams. Each received a camera, several rolls of film, and a CD with (mostly urban) sounds to use as a soundtrack. They were to plan and shoot a short film using in-camera editing. (total 4 short films).

SELF AND OTHERS - Eiga Dojo Workshop film

NR 2009
from DARK

Under Professor Furuchi, Kawano has been engaged in the development of a new vaccine against the unidentified substance which fell from outer space. People infected with it begin to attack other human beings for blood. The one and only way to prevent the attacks of the infected people is getting vaccinated and becoming one of them. Kawano has volunatrily chosen to be infected for absorbing in the research. His girlfriend Taeko is worried about him and visits the laboratory. She tries to rescue Kawano in cooperation with his friend Sawamura, a medical practitioner in town: meanwhile, the mysterious black substance has started pouring down from the sky...

from DARK

5.0 2007
KUMISO

Hitoshi Izaki, Chairman of the Kanto Chivalrous Union and Head of the Izaki-gumi, has died suddenly! As is to be expected in a yakuza organisation rife with intrigue and scheming, internal strife has erupted, and with rival organisations bound to be scheming in the shadows, the Chairman of the Funeral Preparations Committee—Kazumi Matsuda, the very epitome of chivalry—is racing against time to organise the once-in-a-lifetime ‘clan funeral’ for the boss to whom he owes a debt of gratitude! Will the ‘clan funeral’ he has organised at the risk of his own life actually go ahead without a hitch?

KUMISO

NR 2002
Taimagura Grandma

They may be elderly, but Masayo and Kumezo Mukaido are still working just as hard as when they were young. Their life is hardly made any easier by the snow that covers their mountain village home of Taimagura, in the north of Japan, for much of the year. But the old woman is good-humored and quick to smile, and the weather conditions are no obstacle at all to their carrying on their work. They mash soybeans with their feet to make miso, chop wood and harvest potatoes. The 16mm footage shows them hard at work on the land, intercut with black-and-white shots of their mountain village, and the elderly couple’s ruminations on life. Then the inevitable happens, and Kumezo dies. Now Masayo is all alone. This loving film documents a modest life packed with all the daily duties that come with working the land. It’s an ode to the unforgiving beauty of nature, an unflagging work ethic and ancient tradition.

Taimagura Grandma

NR 2004
Noroi no DVD: Kai

This is the third documentary on the real-life terror of abandoned buildings. Toru Kurihara, a self-proclaimed explorer of abandoned ruins and author of "How to Walk Among Ruins" and other books, revisited and filmed three abandoned places that he had feared. A psychic accompanies him to an abandoned hospital that is reputed to be haunted by spirits. The psychic accompanies him to the abandoned hospital, which is reputed to be haunted by spirits, to have him look at the building.

Noroi no DVD: Kai

NR 2009
Nana's Great Adventure

She was just going to run an errand on her bike, but before she knew it, it was a big war in space! "Oone Nana" is an ordinary girl who eats a lot and gets a job at a small factory in Osaka called "Daikon Co." One day, while busy preparing for a new product launch, Nana is given a secret mission. It's a simple job of just bringing new products by bicycle. But... After eating a lot, while she goes to the toilet, an unknown enemy from space attacks the Earth, and it's already in trouble... Nana ends up flying into space wearing the new product "Pomba 8000 Universal Space Suit" of "Daikon Co.", which is actually a company with amazing technology. Her only goal is to eliminate the threat from space and hold the new product launch without a hitch? Well, maybe to protect the Earth. Will Nana, who doesn't have a very high sense of mission, be able to protect the Earth? A big entertainment movie where okonomiyaki and space intersect!

Nana's Great Adventure

NR 2008
Pictures at an Election

“Pictures at an Election” (the title refers to Mussorgsky’s suite “Pictures at an Exhibition” featuring at the beginning of the film) is a 68 min. documentary that covers the campaigns of those candidates who tried to win one of the five seats in Tokyo during the Upper House election in 2007. It shows Japan’s electoral machinery in full steam and focuses on the question of how Japanese candidates try to appeal to voters. The documentary depicts different strategies and techniques, and presents a lively picture of political culture in Japan.

Pictures at an Election

NR 2008