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Experimental 16mm short by Go Takamine.

2002 release

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Mika Aikawa is given the powers of Idol Soldier Priere and told she must be the protection from an evil person.

Part of Girls Cinema collection. Collaboration between idol Nanase Iwai and cinematographer Noboru Shinoda.

A video CD starring Fumie Hosokawa.

Minori Chihara's first concert DVD held at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel Stellar Ball on March 23, 2008.

A video promoting Miho Kiuchi.

Noriko is a hostess at a second-rate club in Ginza. She is the self-proclaimed number one, but the truth of this is dubious as far as her disastrous rejection is concerned. She throws her toy ring into a park fountain and says goodbye to the love that has ended... Drunk on outdated narcissism, her small eyes are caught by one businessman jumping into the fountain. On closer inspection, it was her childhood friend Tomozo.

Color short film shot in 8mm by the Japanese Isao Yamada, filmmaker, visual artist and manga author.

2005 release

Norihiko, who couldn't tell his friends that his family was too poor to buy him a bicycle and had to tell lie after lie after lie, became an office worker whose only merit as an adult was his feeble mind and no tardiness or absenteeism.

2008 release

2008 release

The Number 2 Lake Biwa School has cared for severely physically handicapped children for over 40 years. The renovation of the old and crumbling facilities provided the inspiration for making this film, which mixes 16mm synch sound sequences of the lives of the people in the home and their families with 8mm footage from the time when the school was founded and the earlier years of some of the inhabitants. Each of the residents has a different story to tell. One of the long-term residents decides to leave the facility and move to a more independent halfway house set up by the residents, causing his parents to worry. Another resident is wholly dependent on an artificial respirator and can only communicate by moving his eyes. As the seasons change, so the small dramas in the school unfold.

Psychic organizer Tatsuo Ikeda has once again set foot in a forbidden haunted place! It is no exaggeration to say that this is the Bermuda Triangle of Japan, a cursed sea area! The area where the battleship Yamato is said to have sunk is located on Tanegashima Island, famous for being the place where guns were first introduced to Japan....

A work produced with the theme of the number "4" as an event for the 4th Into Animation, an independent screening by the Japan Animation Association.

2003 release

Visual album by Ryoichi Kurokawa.

On March 30, 1997, the Miike Coal Mine, the largest mine in Japan, ceased operations. The burden of its history, however, is still being borne by many: a chronicle of prisoners used in the mine, forced labor, strikes, and coal dust explosions. This documentary is the first to directly confront the legacy of the Miike Mine, reviving through eyewitness testimonies a history of struggle lasting 150 years that modern Japan is trying to forget. It took seven years to complete, interviewing over 70 individuals, from the men and women who signed up to do this backbreaking work and lived in pride by the mountain, to the Koreans who were forcibly brought to Japan and made to work down the shaft. The director Hiroko Kumagai hopes that we look at Miike not just to explore the past, but also to think about the future: what it means to work and to live courageously.

It was shot through a toy 35mm camera with 16 lenses, which would take a series of 16 images consecutively within a few seconds in two rows on 35mm film, spreading on two regular 35mm frames for still photography – the mechanism is similar to the device that Eadweard Muybridge created to photograph a horse galloping in 1887, before the movie camera was invented. The film shows an event at Tokyo Racecourse when it was holding the 2008 Japanese Derby (Tokyo Yushun), the biggest event of the year, where the excitement of each race would last about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. This toy camera was not designed to produce a movie, so the bouncing visual displays the uniqueness of this particular toy camera, while it might also echo the vigorous movements of the racing horses.

An 8mm film work employing a multiple-exposure technique. In the series of long-exposure works, exposure was controlled through shutter speed and aperture adjustments. In this work, however, the same effect was explored through the use of multiple exposure.

2001 release

"I shall give eternal life only to beautiful things...." While visiting London in 1887, Count Dracula of Romania exchanges promises with the daughter of a multi-millionaire. The romance of vampire legends has traveled about for hundreds of years, and in 1987 Star Troupe performed this production with Shion Yuu in the pivotal role. This very popular show was a unique theme for Takarazuka-- the first act is on classical and aesthetic beauty, and the second act is a more modern pop style of Count Dracula's love.

The title is a combination of "I want to meet you" and "靉靆 (the flow of clouds, or a lens)". A kind of fake work using old film shot 10 years after its expiration date. However the "film you don't know who belongs to" that is inserted in the middle is real. ​A living story that could only be realized through film. Due to the death of Kamioka, who shot most of the film, the decision was made to leave the footage alone and completely replace the monologue.

The main character, Aoi Natsume, is a high school girl who lives peacefully with her father, Wataru. The band activities with her best friends, Haruka and Nozomi, were in turmoil ahead of her university entrance exams the following year. One day, she happened to get Ao's novel "LOST IN TIME". The story surrounding her one girl was too similar to her own upbringing. Her mother died shortly after she was born, and her father kept his mouth shut about the past. The next day, with the novel in hand, Ao's long journey of self-discovery began.

Kenji Murakami seeks out legendary wildman director Kenji Onishi and arranges a meeting with director Yoko Oguchi. The meeting turns unexpectedly intense...

A film that deals with very relevant issues in our everyday lives, Hashi centres on 3 women from 3 age groups - Shino(50s), Junko(30s) and Momo(20s). Momo is a bento (box lunch) delivery girl who sends bento lunches to Shino and Junko, who are colleagues in an office. Momo would always tell her dreams to Shino or Junko. One day Shino gets a call from an ex-boyfriend whom she has not met for 30 years. Junko has doubts about her relationship with her boyfriend. Their 3 lives cross and diverge in oblique and tangential ways. As the story weaves around issues of love, relationships, insecurity, death and the blurring between dreams and reality, the men in their lives are always present but hardly seen or heard.

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

2008 release

2000 release

2004 release

Often sexy, sometimes profane – but always provocative – VERMILLION PLEASURE NIGHT is a variety show that stands out even by the offbeat standards of Japanese late night television---required viewing for the Japanophile, the college student, and the urban hipster!

A new project to bring the hidden darkness of Japan to your home! The dark side of Japan that surely exists near you! You can't miss it. This time, we will follow the rumors about underground culture and self-binding spirits in the Kanto area that have not come to the surface!

A second-year junior college student, plans a trip abroad with three of her friends. One of them gets married to her boyfriend, ruining the initial plan. The student picks up a guy on a dating site that loves exhibitionism. Following his invitation, she discovers her love for showing off!

2003 release

2005 release

This is the fifth installment in the “Cursed Mirror” series, which consists of image drama and real drama, selected from horror stories in the most familiar places such as schools, hospitals, and inns. One night, Miyuki wakes up to use the restroom. While washing her hands in an old hospital bathroom, she sees a woman's image in the mirror...

A bus carrying students on a school trip. The problematic students leave the bus behind and depart. Taking a lesbian couple, a new female teacher, and a sexy bus guide hostage, they head for a certain destination..

First installment in the "Junji Inagawa no Reidan" film series.

A series of four animated prequels to Street Fighter IV, each centered on a different character. They depict events set after Street Fighter II.

A former officer. A belle of high society. In the past they shared a love that could not be fulfilled; now the two of them are reunited. The man went into reserve and visited his hometown in southern Europe. There he unexpectedly met a girl. Upon meeting the two were strongly drawn to each other. However, the girl has noble blood in her veins and had no reason to even acknowledge his existence. They had no choice but to part ways, without either of them expressing their feelings...

Adaptation of the game "Terrors 2" for the WonderSwan Color.

The latest in a series of psychic documentaries compiling horror stories submitted by ordinary viewers. The film introduces a number of haunting ghost photos submitted by viewers, and explores the shocking truth behind them. The many frightening images that cannot be seen directly will surely shake all viewers to their very core.

2008 release

A woman and a man try to come closer together, but is that still possible when everybody around them is behaving strangely and becoming one with their surroundings?

Rin is a slightly risqué spy striving for world peace. Her new mission from the boss? To make contact with a top-tier agent visiting Japan in secret and secure a dossier known as "Gold P." What exactly does the "Gold P" operation entail?

2006 release

2004 release

2006 release

Part of the documentary project that each company competed on the theme of the Constitution of Japan.With the keyword "oblivion," Koreeda explores how "Article 9 of the Constitution renounces war" has been involved in people's inner world, turning the camera around in various places, including his father's hometown, Taiwan.It is a unique work that reflects the personal history deeply.

A chronic pain that developed about 5 years ago has been clinging to me like noise. How I wish I just opened my eyes one morning and it would be gone.

Ayu is a tennis-playing phenom in love with baseball player Kaji. To snare him, she tries to act too cool for school. But she may just have an inside track when she meets Nina, who's imbued with magical powers. Seems Nina has traveled from the kingdom of magic to Japan so she can find the holy stones and become princess in her own land. Question is, can they help each other? Contains four anime episodes. Nanako Shimazaki directs.

This video adaptation of Junji Inagawa's novel of the same title contains two episodes: "The Battle of the Women," a horror created by a feud between office workers, and "The Forgotten Item," a horror in which a girl in a kimono appears to a man and a woman living a happy life.