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Long ago, Malanshan became a joyful home for humans, animals, and plants under the protection of the magical Malan Flower. At the foot of Malanshan lived two twin sisters: the elder, Dalan, was lazy, while the younger, Xiaolan, was diligent. The guardian spirit of the Malan Flower, Malang, accidentally rescued Wang Lao, who had fallen off a cliff while collecting herbs on the mountain. He encountered and fell in love with Wang Lao's daughter, Xiaolan. Dalan, Xiaolan's twin sister, coveted the material pleasures that the Malan Flower could bring and became jealous of Xiaolan. The Vine Monster, who had long coveted the Malan Flower, exploited Dalan's vanity, stole the flower, and intended to dominate Malanshan. However, the Malan Flower would always only bloom for diligent and kind-hearted people. With the concerted efforts of everyone, Malang and Xiaolan finally defeated the Vine Monster. Dalan and the old cat also repented of their wrongdoings, and Malanshan restored harmony and joy.

Pink film directed by Akiyoshi Sugiura.

Fifteen-year-old Masaharu lives on the small island of Aogashima, which has a population of 197. On the island, life is simple and facilities are spare. As there are no high schools on the island, Masaharu, in his final year of junior high, will be leaving for Tokyo after he graduates. He is the editor of Blue Island Times, the local newspaper he started with a friend, who has hit on hard times in Tokyo. One day, Yuki transfers from the city to his island school, and Masaharu is immediately smitten. As the two grow closer, Masaharu discovers his new friend's secret.

Seventeen-year old Soonie is married to the ten-year old son of the local Korean medecine doctor. Married to a child, Soonie is subjected to the hard life of the traditional daughter-in-law. Ten years pass and her husband, who has gone away to study, returns with a stylish 'modern woman' dressed in Western clothes. When Soonie finds out that the woman is carrying her husband's child, she quietly packs her bag and leaves. The film is divided into five episodes, following her life.

Perfect Life, the second feature by Emily Tang (Tang Xiaobai), at first revolves around Li Yueying, a young woman in the cold north-east of China. In a world where no one is waiting for an untrained, inexperienced woman, she knows that in order to fulfil her dreams she will have to resort to her own stubbornness and selfishness. Her father deserted her mother and the money saved by the family is destined for her younger brother's studies. When she stops working for a shop making artificial limbs in order to take a job as a chambermaid, she attracts the attention of a mysterious criminal, Mongol. Then in the editing, the documentary story of Jenny from Hong Kong starts to emerge. She thought she had her life perfectly worked out, but when her marriage breaks down, she also finds herself in financial problems and has to fight for the custody of her children.

A camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story.

Ricky leaves Hong Kong for Switzerland to look for the lost soul and the past of his deceased Swiss lover, Pascal. Ricky struggles with the confusion of memories, reality and illusion.

After a brutal senseless high school shooting that left three teachers and eight students dead, a vengeful father kidnaps the shooter from police and takes him to an abandoned warehouse. His intention: to execute the killer himself. But he soon realizes the boy doesn't value human life and has no remorse for what he did. In his rage, the father feels he is left with no choice but to teach the killer a horrifying lesson through pain and torture, to make him realize the weight of his crimes.

Ray comes to Chaingmai Thailand on a mission to be ordained as a Buddhist monk. When his bag is stolen, Ray's attempt to retrieve his possessions leads him to the discovery of the true meaning of enlightenment.

Amy and Sonny are two girls with contrasting personalities. Their "secret hideout" is an antique shop. One day, Amy falls in love at first sight with an older man named 'J'

June, a Thai woman working in Bangkok, converted from Buddhism to Islam when she married Ake, a Muslim man living in southern Thailand. Leaving behind her urban life, she begins life with her husband, while learning the teachings of Islam and the deeply rooted customs of her new home.

"Mayi, the protagonist in this strikingly stylised debut ... works as a removals man for a company belonging to a relative. In his spare time, he drinks and plays cards with his colleagues. At a certain point he sees an opportunity to find his way into the immediate vicinity of the beautiful Hudie and his obsession won't stop when it becomes clear that she receives a lot of male visitors. His desires and ambitions put him on the path of minor white lies, with dramatic consequences." - IFFR

An image video of Yuriko Sakuma, a popular idol who is active in pictorial and TV.

Shizuka, a university lecturer with a dazzling Lucia of the Heisei era who has grown from a girl to an adult, was married to Shinichi and living a happy life. However, except for the lack of sex, Shizuka was frustrated deep down. One day, on the way home from university, she casually looked into the window of a meat processing shop and saw a man and a woman having sex inside. The woman was pushed up by a strong man and moaned like an animal. It was the owner of the butcher shop and his wife. When Shizuka returned home, her desire was ignited and she sought Shinichi, but she also came in an instant. A few days later, unable to forget the scene, Shizuka went to the butcher shop and said timidly that she wanted to buy some meat. The owner of the butcher shop saw through her true feelings and invited Shizuka inside...

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39th movie in the series

Short animation from Takeshi Koike for SMAnime

A man named Isaac (Isaku) struggles with guilt following a physical altercation that left another man in a vegetative state. A vision of Jesus appears before him, telling him to return home and seek forgiveness from the family of the unconscious man. He meets the sister of the man, who now struggles to take care of both the boy and her mother by selling her body. The realizations of cascading effects of his sin only intensify his feelings of guilt, and complicate his path toward atonement.

After working their part-time jobs at a family restaurant, Shingo, Satoru and Yoshinori decide to visit a noted haunted spot. Convinced that they experienced something supernatural, they are returning home from the spot in a car when Yoshinori suddenly gets swallowed up by the backseat and simply vanishes. Shingo and Satoru are beside themselves until they find out from their boss and Yoshinori's supposed family members that their friend never existed.

Aiko and Meri are best friends. But they are to be apart in the next spring, because Aiko is going to Tokyo to attend the university there. In their home town, they meet various people. A bus driver looking for his runway daughter. A young man who can not decide what he should do about his job and marriage. A middle-aged housewife who doesn't see the meaning of their marriage life anymore..

More of Ringo's Dynamite! Exceptional Japanese chanteuse Shiina Ringo is musically charged once more leading the Tokyo Incidents to a triumphant live spectacle. Filled to the brim with their absorbing tunes, this release offers overall 22 hits including "Eki mae" ("In front of the station"), "Sabisu" ("Service"), "Kokoro" ("Heart") as well as the brand new smash hits "Transparent World" (written by Kameda Seiji with lyrics by Ringo) + "Superstar" plus more! No true fan should miss this spectacular music extravaganza!

In a quiet farming village in northeastern Japan, there lives an elderly couple. One day, a notice arrives in the mail about an antique camera sale in Tokyo. This triggers the old man's memory of the time when he used to love cameras and he decides he wants to go to Tokyo. Going on this shopping trip is like embarking on an adventure for them and is is full of surprises and unexpected happenings, but through this adventure, the old couple's lives slowly get revealed. Before heading home, the couple stops by Tokyo Station, a place that holds fond memories for them. They take a photo together with the old man's camera and quietly reflect back on the long life that they spent together.

Togashi, who runs a small restaurant along the highway and leads a quiet life, finds himself being threatened by debt collector Kido after becoming a guarantor for a friend's debt. One day, a woman named Keiko appears before Togashi.

Based on "Psychic Detective Yakumo", which has attracted the enthusiastic support of core fans, this film is a new genre of 'mystery horror'! In this new mystery, Yakumo Saito, a detective who can see the souls of the dead, takes on a murder case.

During the late Ming Dynasty, warrior Wang Liulang rescues a kidnapped woman, Xiaoyu, but is forced to flee after her captor, Cai Dexing, gains imperial protection. Returning as spirits, they sabotage Cai’s evil schemes until he meets his downfall. With justice served, they are reborn to reunite in a new life.

Friendship and violence

When a person departs from life to death, nokans (coffin-makers) are the closest people to see him or her off. Junji Inagawa, a ghost story teller with a distinctive storytelling style whose works include "Mystery Night Tour," will serve as a guide to introduce the many bizarre phenomena experienced by these coffin workers in their daily lives.

Inako Natsui is a quiet, modern girl working in a laboratory and living a closed and somewhat monotonous life in a small town. From time to time she goes to nearby to visit her lonely mother Wakayama who has been a widow for the past seventeen years. The girl's relatives, particularly Aunt Sadako and Uncle Shuhei, the local mayor's deputy, plan to introduce her to a suitable young man, but Inako has no real desire to get married. She is more interested in the hot mineral springs from where she takes her laboratory specimens. This all changes when she meets Mr Tamamiza, a young divorced man who's been left with a little boy. Her relatives are decidedly against the match. The girl falls in love with the man without realizing that she will encounter a painful conflict between her family and providence, as unexpectedly as the spring which gushes out from the geological fold, driven to the surface by mysterious subterranean forces.

A unique yakuza film depicting the life of a ‘former gangster’ who has become a Christian! Starring Sho Aikawa. Directed by Keiichi Ozawa, known for the ‘Shura ga Yuku’ series. Stab someone and you go to prison; get stabbed and you go to hell. The dragon bearing the cross begins to recount the sins he has committed…

On the Mongolian plains, a young girl, Puujee, helps her herder family with their animals. Chronicling the everyday life of Puujee's family, this documentary offers a fascinating look at Mongolian nomadic culture, which is verging on extinction. Taught to ride horses at an early age and wise beyond her years, the 6-year-old Puujee contributes to the family livelihood with her uncanny ability to tame wild horses.

Kill Devil is a Japanese movie about a group of juvenile delinquents in the year 2025. The juveniles are host to a "murder gene", and are sent to an uninhabited island by the government so that they can be rehabilitated. The government studies the causes of the gene, and implants an experiment on the juveniles called a "Tag". The Tag gives the juveniles murder impulses and memory loss, and both boys and girls start to brutally kill each other.

Biopic of ceramic artist Hazan Itaya (1872-1963).

The twenty-third 'Road to the Don' film.

A struggling, recently unemployed young factory worker returns to his family's laundrette, where he 'borrows' a police officer's shirt and begins successfully impersonating an officer of the law.

A Japanese film about a bunch of otaku (or the cool cinema versions) in Akihabara who form a company and find themselves pitted against an evil corporation.

Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this deeply poetic TV movie revolves around Chieko who becomes bewildered and troubled as she discovers the true facets of her past. With the harmony and time-honored customs of a Japanese backdrop, the story becomes poignant as Chieko’s longing and confusion develops.

Jun had been earning money from pachinko slots to buy a house, but when her husband found out, she vowed never to play again. However, when she found out that her friend Yumeko had been deceived by Shimako, who sells fraudulent strategies, she decided to challenge Shimako to a game...

In the cold region of Hokkaido, there is a Beiyou Yushi High School that specializes in recruiting high school students from all over the country who are unable to continue their studies due to bad behavior,

In this Shot-on-Video production, Kinnaree is about two brothers, Pong and Pun who are competing in a road rally race somewhere in the forested areas of Thailand, when they accidentally strike a completely naked beautiful woman with their car. She isn’t human though, she’s a Kinnaree, a thai mythological figure that is half bird and half woman that lives in the Himmapan jungle. After recovery, she asked to be taken back to the Rimthan Waterfall with hope to find her bretherns. Her and her kind, enjoy frolicking nude in waterfalls and splashing each other. But news of their existence spread. A pervy old hunter wants to capture them for his own nefarious purposes.

A detective and his assistant help send restless spirits into the spiritual world.

A rental house in Shanghai caught fire. Yu Shengnan, a female professor at the Medical University, found a woman's body very suspicious, so he quickly called the chief inspector Zhong and his partner Han Fei. After preliminary autopsy and on-site investigation, Katsuo and Zhong Lang concluded that the deceased was murdered before the fire...

In a near future Korea, where an "oblivion virus" which causes memory loss has become the centre of a tourist industry aimed at those who wish to forget the past, Anna Kim, a German woman of Korean descent, seeks the virus in order to erase painful memories and, along the way, develops a close bond with her driver and her teenage guide.

Their love feels solid—until an old friend reappears and Ootani starts wondering if he’s really the one Tachibana wants.

This is the third installment of the 2005 edition of the annual "Junji Inagawa's Super Scary Stories" series, "Legend of Ghost Stories. It happened when Odagiri, who works for a food company, went on a business trip to Tohoku with two junior employees. Odagiri was sick and had to miss a drinking party arranged by the locals, but... Total of 7 episodes will be included in the series.

An art school student and an artist find love but soon must face a painful struggle.

A mysterious light falls from the Heavens. It's the Pearl Jade. It can grant any wish. Dr. Ni tells Gyokumen Koushu about it. Lirin overhears and tells Kougaiji. Then Kanzeon Bosatsu (The Merciful Goddess) requests "orders" Sanzo and company to go and find and seal it before it falls into the wrong hands.

1990. Takizawa, the head of the Hayama group's Takizawa group, ordered the members to shoot and kill Sasamoto, who betrayed the group and tried to join the fifth Sannokai-affiliated Minamiyama group. This triggered the interruption of the "Yamaha War" by Sannokai and Hayama-gumi.

Straight to video horror/comedy directed by Minoru Kawasaki

Direct-to-video documentary special about the 1966 series Ultra Q. It is mainly comprised of interviews with the original staff and cast alongside stock footage of the show. The main cast reprised their roles for short in-character segments that are framed as interviews about the series' events.

Ling-Kit HO is just like one of many other students in Tin Shui Wai. However, he is a lot more hard-working than all the others as he wants to get away from this besieged city. Apart from his study, he is indifferent to everything because he comes from a defunct family. Having to take care of his mentally-ill mother, Ling Kit is also forced to face his Dad – a heavy drunker and a heavy gambler. His younger brother Chun-Kit has left the family for years. At that time, Chun-Kit was heavily bullied by his classmates in school and he was always beaten by his drunken father. Being the elder brother, however, Ling-Kit did not protect Chun-Kit from being beaten so Chun-Kit left in great panic.

Taiwanese movie