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Yamato Yuuga's dinner show.

In April 2000, I started photographing Koichi Ebitsuka's works. Mr. Ebitsuka was a teacher at Tama Art University, and he happened to be appointed concurrently to the second department of art, where I work, and we became close. He was born in 1951, so he is 16 years younger than me. I wanted to think about and experience the "contemporary art" that I hadn't been to. And he, being selfish, visited his atelier and was shown around his works on an island in the Seto Inland Sea. For me, the year 2000 was a year of Ebitsuka-san's sculptures.

This is one scene from a classic history play that is full of quick-changes of role and costume. A magical fox takes on the guise of a warrior named Tadanobu in order to get close to a precious drum made from the skins of his fox parents. But his mysterious activities throw suspicion on the real Tadanobu and finally the fox reveals his true identity. In the end, he joyfully goes off with the drum.

The pilot for GR: Giant Robo. However, there were significant changes between the pilot and the actual show, including a different writer and a different director. Thus, the special is less a promo for the series than an alternate version of how the series might have looked.

A documentary following a homeless man who has lived on the streets of Shinjuku for more than twenty years. Director Motoharu Iida met the man, known as “Ashigara-san,” while volunteering to support homeless people in Shinjuku beginning in 1996. Wanting to learn more about his life, Iida began regularly visiting him with a camera and spent three years making this film.

The gaki is a "biwa" player of the ogre, who plays the instrument well. When he starts to play it at the veranda, surroundings transform into the profound and remote world. Characters come out from the electric wire and then they start to dance to the melody on the line. The music turn into the wind and the wind calls the waves. The gaki integrates with the waves.

The horrid stories that remain in many conversations, the chilling urban legends come to life.

A heartwarming drama about an unremarkable man and a giant woman. Kazumi, who runs a struggling tutoring school, sneaks into the franchise company as a thief. However, she is stopped by a large female security guard, Bu-yan, and also by Asahi, the son who has followed his father.

2006 release

2006 release

K, a cunning individual, and N, who is shy, live together. One day, T, a self-centered person, joins their household. The three of them expand their daily lives as if they were pieces on a board game. However, one day, one of them suddenly disappears from the house, embarking on an unexpected journey.

A haunted horror documentary in which three young comedians and an actress go to the most terrifying haunted places in existence and present footage of their various experiments.

miniDV diary film by Shirouyasu Suzuki.

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

AKB48's Summer festival Live DVD 2008

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

A film by Takeshi Murata

Recorded live at the Yoyogi Stadium, Tokyo in 2001.

2006 release

Ai-chan's Solo-Angle DVD of the Hello! Project Concert held in Yokohama Arena.

An entry in the Sailor Ninja tokusatsu series and the second part of the Sailor Ninja Force Yukka Taimaden duology

2007 release

The first segment of Pure Girl’s Document 14 embraces a raw and spontaneous approach, carried by the presence of Maria Kurosawa. Between simple moments at the beach and much more directly filmed sex scenes, the film develops an intimate, almost documentary-like atmosphere. The grainy DV texture, the silences, and certain everyday moments give the segment a strange sense of closeness, as if the camera were trying to capture a presence as much as mere eroticism.

2008 release

2007 release

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

A film by Masakatsu Takagi.

A demon is playing the "hunt down the woman and molest her in any way humanly and inhumanly possible" game. However, there is more to that demon than meets the eye. Will the true face of the demon be revealed?

Created by using 16mm blank film and black pigment, which has been manually rubbed into a layer of transparent silicone. In projection, it becomes a rapid and infinitely complex hypnagogic vision. Frame by frame, this film shows 17,000 of these different black and white images through the rapid speed of the projector. Black surface meets white surface, fabricated by the projection lamp.

Short experimental film by takashi ohashi

Stacked Rubbish Grand Finale [Repeated Countless Error] In Kokuritsu Yoyogi Kyogiba Daiichi Taiikukan

2003 release

Featurette included with "Juzo Itami: The Man with 13 Faces" about the creation of the Itami Juzo Museum in Matsuyama, Ehime.

Yuki Terai is a vivacious 17-year-old who lives just outside Tokyo. In most ways she is every bit the typical teen-except she doesn't exist. The invention of acclaimed computer animator Kenichi Kutsugi, Yuki Terai is Japan's No.1 Virtual Star. Capable of unprecedented life-like expressions and movement, she inhabits many worlds: real-life, science fiction and music.

Features Koda Kumi's Live Tour 2006 - 2007.

2000 release

Recorded live at the Tokyo International Forum Hall A, Tokyo in 2004.

2002 release

2006 release

Romanian olympic medalists Lavinia Milosovici, Corina Ungureanu, and Claudia Presăcan perform gymnastics routines in the nude.

A short story with a vivid sharpness that allows a free-spirited female character to swim freely and accurately. From being late to work, to riding a newspaper bicycle and getting fired. The disaster continues...

2004 release

2006 release

Shinjuku forest at night. In the sap taverns of insects and their neighborhoods, the honey dumplings that drive the body crazy have begun to flow. It seems that Club Swallowtail's "Yuko" is involved with the stag beetle gang leader "Suigyu", who has a crush on him.... Kiri, an informant behind the scenes, and Hitoshi, a silent insect slayer, are on the move. Behind Yuko's back is a bewitching queen bee, and a beautiful butterfly, Ageha, is chasing after her... Money and power, love and hatred turn one midsummer night into a nightmare. The stag beetle, rhinoceros beetle, and wasp families, as well as a group of goldfish, are all caught in the middle of the bloodshed. What will Hitoshi and the others see? Hitoshi's blade shines and roars in the dark night where not even the moonlight can reach!

Short animated recap of the One Year War from the perspective of LCDR Garret Schmitzer.

THE TOUR OF MISIA DISCOTHEQUE ASIA is the fifteenth video release by MISIA. It contains footage of her THE TOUR OF MISIA DISCOTHEQUE ASIA divided in two DVDs.

2006 release

A film diary shot in 8mm and 16mm over 10 years, from 1997 to 2007. A man with a camera runs from Sapporo and Ishikari in the north, to the Amami Islands such in the south, and as far as Jordan and Iraq in the west. Encounters with poets, anthropologists, Russian literature scholars, Ainu ethnic activists, nationalists, folk dancers, musicians, Amami singers, dark dancers, cameramen, shamisen players, and more are captured in dazzling images and sound. The title comes from Atsushi Nakajima's poem "In the darkness of Nubatama's universe, there is something bright about human culture."

Combining elements of multimedia, dance and fragmented narrative, memorandum explores the hazy dimensions of recall that ground and disquietly erode our experience minute-by-minute. The set is simple - almost an abstraction. A bare stage is bisected by an impenetrable but translucent wall, a screen onto which will be projected a barrage of images. Amidst a cascade of white noise and REM-speed visual flashes, the performers break down the motions into displaced gestures in silhouette. Penetrating deeper beneath the surface of moment, dancers drift in a slow sensual subconscious slidestep through the "forest of memory" haunted by voices and desires.

A drama depicting an office lady who is not good at communicating with others, but changes after reuniting with her high school classmates.