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A high school student remembers that special boy whom she met in her first year. They were close friends and enjoyed each other's company, but then he had to move away. In his absence, she feels very alone, but she never gives up hope that they will meet again one day.

Ostensibly searching for an emotional connection with her aging father, the woman contemplates her own inherited culture and familial touchstones. Her North American pop culture sensibility fuses with a distorted Japanese perspective to create a surreal interpretation of a “Japan of the imagination.” This fictional landscape is peppered with invented Japanese myths, ruminations on memory loss, the temporal space of digital photography and the ghosts of inherited imagination.

A colourful video feature about young criminals, sex scenes and their bitter ends.

Yuko Mune, a psychic photo appraiser, and Kenjiro Kamijima, a Johreishi, go on a photo shoot in Fukuoka, Kyushu. They set foot in a tunnel where a bizarre incident occurred, a dam where a village sank, and other haunted spots with a long history. What will the camera capture?

2000 release

2008 release

A horror documentary that explores the existence of a hauntings that lurks in the ancient capital of Kamakura.

Amakusa Shiro led the Shimabara Rebellion as a Christian and died an untimely death at the age of 16. This documentary explores the real image of Amakusa Shiro, who dared to take revenge on the world by conducting seance experiments and other means.

2009 release

2006 release

Three men set off from Kameari in Tokyo, riding their mama-chari all the way to Kyoto. Along the way, despite several close calls with death, their journey was filled with laughter. Enjoying the thrill of traveling with easygoing friends, the three pedaled their mama-chari toward Kyoto.

The job-hunting girl who travels to interviews today, tormented by stress, is surely you and me. The audience is cheering her on as she lives her life to the fullest. A life-size portrait of a modern woman shines prettily in this portrayal of everyday life with all its tragedies and joys.

Regarding the destruction of the world, the light relation between the world and me.

An abstract short film by Mika Seike depicting the tense conversation man and a woman.

2000 release

Japan is one of the most advanced countries in the world by anyone's standards, but there are still many mysteries that have been sealed off from the public eye, such as curses that linger in abandoned and forgotten buildings, and esoteric cults that continue to be practiced in secret without the hope of becoming a national phenomenon. In this first installment, we travel to spots rumored to be haunted to find out what they all have in common.

A psychic documentary that investigates the causes of bizarre spiritual phenomena. Included is an episode of a man who was grabbed by the arm with great force by an eerie girl who passed by him at an intersection, and since then his personality has changed.

"KOTOKO LIVE TOUR 2004 WINTER ~Fuyu no Shizuku ga Tsurete Kita Kimi ga Seija da★Happy White X'mas★~" is the first DVD released by KOTOKO. It features footage from her performance at Kosei Nenkin Dai Hall on the final day of her 2004 WINTER TOUR.

Mitsuo Hii's, aka P-Man, girlfriend, Kyoko, is missing. She's been altered and turned into a robot by the evil pervert Otaki-Kyō chinman. He's recruited by F Gang to fight a duel with P-Man, whose transformation circuit is destroyed and he's captured. P-Man is in mortal danger! What will happen now?

A mysterious film making one think what was real or unreal, visible or invisible.

2006 release

Experimental short by Kazuhiro Goshima.

Concert film featuring Tata Young's Japan Tour 2005 ~I Believe~ filmed live at Zepp Tokyo on April 17, 2004.

Concert film took place at Zepp Tokyo on July 29th, 2005.

An eight minute romp in the grass shot from a low angle and a subjective point of view as a small child or a stray dog, in which the main character young boy X who blows a melodica.

Winter in Japan means kotatsu and mandarin oranges. Tarafu Otani used these two things to represent the birthday of Christ.

An short experimental film by Tarafu Otani

A showcase of four different Japanese metal bands for the Wizard's Convention concert series in Japan, including Boris, Church of Misery, Eternal Elysium and Greenmachine.

Uchida, a fourth-year university student, drifts through his days without much direction. He has feelings for Fujiki, but Fujiki only sees him as a friend and seems to be interested in an older, beautiful woman named Sugimoto. Meanwhile, Fujiki plans to confess his feelings to Sugimoto under the pretext of borrowing her class notes, but…

A horror-documentary capturing paranormal phenomena caused by wandering spirits that continue to drift through the spirit world. Using a special device called a "sensor box," the journey follows the footsteps of Saigō Takamori, starting from the ruins of Hitoyoshi Castle. However, mysterious events that occur there remain unexplained, and experiments at Saigō’s final stronghold begin...

This is the third horror documentary film about psychic Takeo Ikeda, who undertakes a terrifying pilgrimage to save souls in the afterlife. The film clearly depicts his pilgrimage as he listens to the voices of the spirits who remain in this world even after death and are never rewarded.

This is the first installment in a series of horror documentaries about psychic Takeo Ikeda's terrifying pilgrimages. The first documentary film of the horror documentary series, "The Most Powerful Spiritualist," captures his pilgrimage as he listens to the voices of the spirits that remain in this world even after death, and are never saved. This film is full of terrifying images.

Experimental short film made up of still images, by Jun Miyazaki.

After falling asleep on a bus, a boy arrives in a town that feels both strangely familiar and completely unknown. There he meets a girl who seems to know him well. She takes him in and looks after him in her room, but he has no memory of her.

Documentary following sign-language rock band Bright Eyes

2008 release

Pachinko-themed film directed by Katsuo Monna

ULTIMATE CRASH '02 LIVE AT BUDOKAN is Onitsuka Chihiro's second live DVD, and is a recording from her one-night show on November 5, 2002 at the Nippon Budokan. It featured songs from her first three albums (although the last had not yet been released) and one cover.

Japan in the near future, where the earth is certain to be destroyed within a few years due to a nuclear test conducted by the US on the moon. Since Satoshi lost his girlfriend to suicide, he spends his days remembering her and watering his withered cactus, not knowing the meaning of life or death.

Part 16 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series. 8mm

A film by Masakatsu Takagi.

Second ever live DVD release from Angela Aki featuring footage of her band performances during Aki's latest Japanese tour. Includes 16 tracks total. Special Feature / Bonus Track: Rehearsal & tour documentary for "Today" tour, backstage footage and more

Yumiko, who is devoted to her bedridden husband, suffers from severe pain, ringing ears, and auditory hallucinations. At the request of a friend, she gets a brain scan. She worries about her future as condition gradually worsens. 60 years earlier, intense fighting has begun to take place in Okinawa. A Japanese soldier hides in a bunker with a woman, her son, and her sister. The two stories become increasingly linked as time goes on...

In this documentary film, Soyuko goes undercover at a rumored haunted place, and the camera follows the whole process. Yuko Mune, who has examined many ghost photos and taken ghost photos herself.

Forests and places full of green are sinking into the dam. The construction of the dam will erase 200,000 trees. The PH Studio, a unit consisting of an architect, an artist, and a photographer, hears this and comes up with…

Short film made by Atsuko Uda, featured in Tokyo Loop

A bright, fun, and spetacular revue showcasing the charms of the Takarazuka Revue in its 90th year.

As "another story" set after the end of the original manga, this what-if "Return" plot depicts what happens to the title character after his final act to save Earth. After drifting in space, the robot boy is rescued by the three members of ravex, and he is miraculously revived — not by Tezuka's Black Jack surgeon character, but by "Space Jack." The newly evolved robot boy will be named "Ratom." The Princess Knight and other Tezuka characters will appear in this all-new story. Musical artists BoA, Maki Goto, Anna Tsuchiya, Tohoshinki, and TRF are contributing to the album, and an event is planned at Tokyo's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation on April 10. The album marks Avex's 20th anniversary and what would have been Tezuka's 80th birthday.

2007 release

This 1973 work by photographer Daido Moriyama features footage captured with a portable 8mm film camera mounted on a motorcycle, documenting the nocturnal streetscapes of Shinjuku. The resulting imagery—blurred, shaky, out of focus, high-contrast, and lacking deliberate composition—unfolds as a stream of flickering lights that emerge and vanish amidst the flow of the city at night. Accompanied by the drone of the motorcycle engine and the honking of taxis, the piece lays bare the tedium, darkness, and disorder of the urban environment, while also evoking a deeply nostalgic sentiment for life in Shinjuku.

Soju, a natural disaster scholar, was living in a house with Teruo, an all-purpose automaton he created, when a mysterious man Domon, and an agents start pursuing him.

Short film by Kazushi Ozawa.

People arriving and departing from the airport seen through a revolving door. Modern live as it moves on in time and space

2006 release