Discover Movies

Gravure Idol DVD released in 2009.

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

A documentary profile of contemporary Japanese artist Hisashi Tenmyouya, whose works have become famous for their striking combination of gold leaf, traditional Japanese painting, and present-day pop culture.

A yakuza man who falls to the bottom of the earth and a woman he meets there get together, and 50 years later their son and daughter rise up to take revenge.

Vivid, chromatic animation.

Satō Makoto discovered documentary film when he visited Minamata (well known as the former site of an environmental disaster) as a student, and worked on Katori Naotaka’s The Innocent Sea. While touring Japan with the film, he met people who lived by the polluted Agano River in Niigata and decided to make a film about them. Living there with seven crew members for three years, Living on the River Agano was completed in 1992 and showed people who live with the river and work in agriculture and fishing, quietly probing the cruelty of nature destroyed. Ten years later, and after attending several funerals of people who appeared in the first feature, the team returned to the area. The resulting film Memories of Agano is a ghostly poem on people, fields, stories, songs and buildings receding into absence, the power of images and the strength of sound to revive the past.

2009 release

Kana is a newcomer assigned to office worker Shinobu's department. Kana, who adores Shinobu, gradually begins to act out of character, and Shinobu begins to avoid Kana. Kana eventually disappears, and unexplainable events occur frequently in Shinobu's surroundings.

Experimental 16mm short by Takashi Ishida.

The film is based on the stories of 12 women who lived the Women's Liberation movement in Japan in the 1970s. The Women's Liberation influenced countless individual lives, and those who met the Women's Liberation realized the importance of living their own lives honestly with their own senses and thoughts, not influenced by some traditional values and norms.

The live performance video recorded at Tokyo Kousei Nenkin Kaikan on August 22nd, 2005 promoting the new album San.

An old man, Mr. Eguchi accidentally finds a special hotel for gentlemen that are called "House of the sleeping beauties" by the sea. When a guest reserves a room, he can sleep with a young girl who is dead sleep by medicine. But the house has the strict rules and a landlady controls all. Mr. Eguchi fall in impossible love with a sleeping girl and the love remind him of his life. The background of this story is 1960's in Japan. It was the last period that Japonisme and specific morals had remained in ordinary people and their life after the Second World War.

2004 release

2005 release

Documentary directed by Takahisa Zeze about people fascinated by ruins and urbex.

The True Horror Unleashed by Human Love and Hate: in "Ghost Story of the Strange Specter" an American wife is killed by her husband for the insurance money after they had an international marriage but kept quarreling due to cultural differences. In "Ghost Story of the Blood-Stained Meal" a woman is abducted and buried from the neck down in the ground by the man she left and killed when she refused to get married again, and she attacks for revenge.

6th installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

The investigation into ghost photos captured on cell phones and the rumors surrounding them continues.

Martial arts action film filmed in Super 8mm

2004 release

miniDV diary film by Shirouyasu Suzuki.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

The camera finally caught something at the haunted spot called the scariest! A girl's face crying sadly at the site where a girl was said to have been murdered! A shocking moment! Ai Yoshizaki, an actress who herself has had many psychic experiences, reports completely on a terrifying spot that is said to be the worst in the past !

A strange girl's appearance was reflected in an uncensored adult video that was secretly circulating on the street. A certain video production company infiltrates the underground world without regard to danger in order to explore the details and mysteries of the video.

Part 14 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series. Video

Since ancient times, Okinawa has been home to many sacred places that are not to be entered by humans, and even today, spiritual beliefs remain strong on this mysterious island. Despite its bright resort image, however, Okinawa has had a difficult history.

Single channel audiovisual work—synonymous with the art steering sensorial experience around nature and its many manifestations, the objects are reconstructed as the 3D sculptures accentuated by the cinematic screenings and dramatised by the sounds to underline the interplay of reality and fiction.

With a "Chinese Goth" theme, the gothic queen Mari and the lovely Rei appear on screen, full of charm! These two beautiful women will save the world!

2005 release

An official recording of Tamaki’s annual fan event (RA★MG), from October 2008.

Shot on high-definition video during the 1998-99 "One Earth" tour of Japan's celebrated Kodo drummers, this illuminating documentary explores the lives and philosophy of the Kodo group, who beat taiko--the signature drums of their art--to express the universal language of Kodo, a word derived from ko (or "heartbeat") and do (a reference to a childlike purity of spirit). "To beat taiko is to face yourself," says leading player Ryutaro Kaneko, expressing Kodo's goal of a complete merging of mind, body, and spirit in the act of drumming. Made up of 42 members (20 of whom actually perform on stage), the Kodo group is seen training (four months each year, with eight months of touring) at Kodo village on the Japanese island of Sado, where the group had its origins in the early 1970s before officially naming itself "Kodo" in 1981.

The second-in-command of Japan’s largest yakuza organisation, the Sanno-kai, dies suddenly. An unprecedented decision to select the next second-in-command by vote sends shockwaves through the organisation. A two-volume set of the yakuza drama based on the manga by Kazuhiko Murakami

Follow-up records taken by the missing person to persuade the police. The footage, which police seemed to have forgotten to hire as formal evidence, contained the astonishing footage that the disappeared person recorded at the end of his life. The person who left this video record is a woman who got married after acquiring a man after an affair. However, the man soon disappeared. A woman suspected of rekindling with her ex-wife discovers them in a surveillance video of an elevator in the apartment where the man and ex-wife once lived, while chasing her ex-wife's fate. However, the love scene with his ex-wife in the elevator surveillance video was his last sighting. The pursuit of the woman who turned into a stalker finally hits one fact that the man followed. The last shocking phenomenon that the woman experienced was recorded on the surveillance camera of the elevator.

2004 release

Megumi, a full-time housewife raising a child, is feeling anxious because her child shows no signs of speaking. Her husband is uninterested in child-rearing and ignores her, which only makes her more and more frustrated. Megumi begins to feel stressed about everything in her daily life, and her mental health is pushed to the limit.

Third "Kai" film in Junji Inagawa's "The Most Fearful Stories" series.

Part 2 of "The Most Fearful Stories - Onnen Gekijō" by Junji Inagawa.

Short film by Takagi Masakatsu.

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

2005 release

miniDV film by Yukiyasu Shimada, dedicated to Toshiro Mayuzumi.

A documentary portrait of Miho Shimao, widow of renowned Japanese writer Toshio Shimao.

A series of nine flipbook-like vignettes showcasing simple revelations of movement and color. Koji Yamamura's animation refers back to the phenakistoscope, one of the earliest mechanisms used to make drawings move.

Odaiba, on the Tokyo Bay waterfront. The Odaiba Boys—a gang based here, comprising Sancon, Shu, Zaza, Jiji, Muzzle and the rest—were hanging out as usual. One day, a woman named Rei appeared before them, claiming she was searching for their leader, Nao, who had gone missing two years earlier. Around the same time, a masked man calling himself Nao appeared before rival gangs—the Kawasaki Security Squad and the Tsurumi Cruise CATS—and ran riot. Was this really Nao’s doing? Behind the scenes, a grand scheme was unfolding, orchestrated by a Member of the House of Representatives seeking to line his pockets and the Kōryū-kai, the yakuza organisation that controls Odaiba.

A film by Masakatsu Takagi.

A detective is asked by a young woman to investigate a stalker. As the investigation proceeds, a suspect who has been persistently and repeatedly harassing her comes to the forefront of the investigation. The detective began recording the stalking behavior on video.

Toshio Matsumoto articulates his perspective on the creation of Dogra Magra, presented in the supplementary section of the Radiance DVD release.

The fallen poem of a married woman who killed herself. The trauma of the past awakens and rushes into an erotic parallel world where it is impossible to determine what is real and delusional.

Short film by Takashi Ishida.

"HARUKO" is a documentary tracing the life of Haruko Kim, a Korean woman who migrated from poverty-stricken Cheju Island to Japan during the colonial era. Through rare archival footage shot by her son, a cameraman for a pro-North Korean organization in Japan, the film captures the struggles of three generations adapting to life in a foreign land. Set against the backdrop of Shinjuku's transformation from slum to entertainment hub, it reveals the harsh realities faced by Zainichi Koreans. Haruko, portrayed with raw honesty, resorts to illegal means to support her family, enduring multiple arrests in her fight to survive.

An entry in the Mighty Lady tokusatsu series.

A seven-episodic experimental animated short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.

Marie, who lives alone and attends university, receives a visit from her mother one day. The purpose of the visit was to report her remarriage. She is surprised at her mother's decision without consulting her or her brother but congratulates her on her happiness.

2008 release

2003 release

"Nemusuke" is my handle name. Japan's SNS mixi friends handle name is "la take". This video letter was done through "mixi" comments. I'm a little stay-at-home dad. I live in Tokyo. "la take" lives in Kyoto. Our relationship will get along with Youtube.