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A wandering monk who strays far from the Buddha’s teachings—that is Gedobo (Hitoshi Ozawa). His eyes see only the fate of evil festering in this world. Masuba (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), working tirelessly as an underboss, grows weary of a world where even his boss has abandoned honor for money. Dissatisfied with life in a clan without jingi (duty and humanity), he drifts further into frustration. One day, Masuba encounters a monk begging on the roadside. The monk warns him: “Be careful. Darkness is trying to swallow you whole.” At that moment, Masuba’s destiny begins to shift…

Chiyo is a poetic exploration of the suburbs in Japan through the filmmaker’s reflection on the life of her grandmother. With a series of everyday moments in Yashio from a summer fair to Buddhist rituals, the film embodies micro-narratives, seeking cinema’s ability to offer a contemplative space.

2019 release

This is the 47th installment of the “Posted Grudge Spirit Footage” film series.

Short film directed by Shinichiro Ueda

A comedy about a couple who are about to open a curry shop and the turmoil caused by their guests.

A brash kid must enroll into a high school known for its violent student body after the police get wind of his impending duel with a crosstown rival.

Clocking in at roughly four minutes, the short teases the story's most baseline elements: giant bugs trying to eat people who tend to lose their clothes.

Kalafina 9+ONE at Tokyo International Forum Hall A Kalafina Release Date: November 1, 2017 Product Details Catalog No.: VVXL-16 JAN/ISBN: 547366328691 Product Type: Blu-ray TV Standard: NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Label/Distributor: SACRA MUSIC Region: free Subtitles: none Description Release of Kalafina live held at Tokyo International Forum celebrating 10 years career anniversary. Also comes with bonus footage from live held in Hong Kong and Singapore.

The sixth 'Daimon Graveyard' film.

Hikari is a new idol who dreams of becoming a top idol. In order to reach as many fans as possible, she spends her days communicating with them through live selfie broadcasts. One day, when shooting a music video for a new song, she become friends with two new idols, Hinako and Ai, however, a girl called "Chi-chan" appears on set, causing chaos that forces them to stop filming. Hikari pours out her feelings during a live stream, and mysterious events begin to occur around Hinako and Ai. Jealousy, hatred, admiration... What are the girls' feelings that are reflected through the live stream?

Sequel to SUPER Horrifying Story.

Soichi Haruta is 33 years old, single, and works in a company's product development division. He wants to get married, but he isn't popular with women. One day, he finds his senior at work, Musashi Kurosawa, saving a lot of his pictures on Musashi Kurosawa's cell phone. Soichi Haruta is scared. One day, Musashi Kurosawa confesses to him that he likes him.

Loan shark Ginjiro Manda meets an old friend, banker Imamiya. Harassed by his manager and pestered about past mistakes, Imamiya commits suicide.

The story of a young married couple who were exposed to radiation during the meltdown at Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactor.

The school has its own softball team. The trouble is that there are nine of them and several of the girls are too weak, too small, too fat, too inexperienced, etc. They are in trouble. What is more, their manager is a janitor. The girls want to win in this adaptation of a popular manga in Japan.

Documentary of the Usuki Soil Cultivation Center, pioneers in organic farming in Japan

We all find the summer heat unbearable, and Natsuko is no exception... On the way to school, exhausted by the heat, she kicks an empty can on the floor, and this sets off a chain reaction that makes her even more enraged. Meanwhile, aliens planning to visit Earth look on in amazement.

Ryuji Higashiyama, a yakuza underboss, was once a legendary mahjong player known as the "Dragon of the Land." Determined to retire after his daughter Kyoko’s wedding, his plans are shattered when he is murdered by Nambara and Nishikawa from the Kugisaki gang. Fueled by vengeance, Kyoko decides to confront the Kugisaki gang alone, challenging them to a high-stakes mahjong showdown. But when she faces crushing defeat, everything begins to spiral out of control...

Power Struggle (2016) was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on November 5, 2016, in Osaka, Osaka, at the Edion Arena Osaka. It was the sixth event under the Power Struggle name and featured ten matches, main evented by Tetsuya Naito defending the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against Jay Lethal.

A film about rice cultivation that depicts the most beautiful rice field landscape in Japanese cinema history and the most realistic depiction of modern rice farmers.

On days I don't want to leave the house, I enjoy watching TV and videos on my smartphone. I'm supposed to be at home but the screen keeps taking me elsewhere and I lose my grip on my whereabouts and reality.

A man thinks he is an actor. He has a part-time job and likes a cute girl at work. He grabs the chance to have sex with her. Premature ejaculation hits, however, as he is taking off his pants. Angry at what has occurred, he decides to train in order for this not to reoccur. He shares an apartment with a friend. The flat-mate is going to help him with his training.

Reiki Beni (Tomonori Hirose), the second head of the Beni Detective Agency, along with his partner Shoji Ai (Gentoku Aoki), underground idol Saori (Asuka Kishi), and Yayoi (Reiko Yakima), Reiji's grandmother and the owner of the detective agency, spend their days searching for pets and investigating cheating at the detective agency they inherited from their grandfather.

Symbolic of the era, termed the "Roaring Twenties," a party is being held one evening at an elegant home in the well-heeled Upper East Side of Manhattan, attended by socialites. The man who lives here is named Alexandre Volskii. Purporting to be a scion of Russian nobility, this young businessman has amassed a huge fortune. Just as the party hits its peak, a gunshot rings out.

5st installment in "Zokuri. Kaidan Yowa" film series.

Motomiya, an older Japanese man, narrates the story of his life in Tokyo with Raquel, a university student from Spain, several decades his junior. He calls Raquel his "Typhoon" and as they travel through the fast moving city together, her explosive love for life reminds Motomiya that joy can be found in even the smallest of tasks.

Every day, we receive numerous submissions of psychic images. This is the second installment in the series in which Daiichiro Natsume, the director of numerous horror films such as "Shinrei Shokudo" and "Jyu-Gyaru," conducts serious in-depth interviews with the submitter of the submissions! He thoroughly pursues the truth about haunted places where evil spirits lurk, and people possessed by evil spirits! Director Natsume takes on the most terrifying ghosts with great gusto! What is the horrifying end result! Includes 8 episodes.

Musical by the Takarazuka Revue. In modern day France, an exhibition is being held at the Palace of Versailles of the "Necklace of Marie Antoinette". The necklace had been used in a fraud case that marked a chapter in French history and later went missing. It has been reproduced using real diamonds. Fujiko has sneaked into Versailles, as has the gang of Lupin, Goemon, and Jigen - all with the intention of getting their hands on the necklace, which is valued at over 3 billion yen in today's money. But they bump into Inspector Zenigata. Lupin is the one who manages to foil Zenigata and grab the necklace. Yet the instant he lays hands on it, everyone is enveloped in a mysterious light. When they regain consciousness, they notice they have gone through a time slip to 1785, before the French Revolution when Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were around.

The second survival action horror film about the fate of a high school student who steps into a game of death. Miyuki, a high school student, is saddled with a large amount of debt due to the accidental death of a family member. One day, a cell phone arrives at her home, and she finds herself participating in an absurd mobile game in which life and death, as well as a large sum of money, are at stake...

Ten years ago, the Kogures moved from Tokyo to a satoyama area (an area where traditional sustainable agriculture has been long practiced) in a snowy mountain village in Echigo-Tsumari where they repaired an old thatched farmhouse and began growing organic, pesticide-free rice. Their life may appear unrestrained and free of worldly cares but they cannot make it alone. All the work is done together with their cheerful neighbors. Then, in the spring of 2011, an earthquake strikes on the border of Nagano and Niigata prefectures. The Kogures’ house is destroyed, but they decide to rebuild. An adventure told in a fantastical tone that expresses the joy of living with a sometimes harsh natural world.

This documentary was filmed at Maki, a small commune at the foot of Japan’s Northern Alps in Nagano Prefecture. Maki is deep in the mountains, inaccessible to vehicles. The residents have to walk a narrow mountain path for 90 minutes to get in or out. Various kinds of people with varying mental and physical problems live alongside their healthy fellows in a grand two storied thatched house. They eke out a living by growing their own food and bartering for essential items.

39th entry in the Japanese horror found footage franchise, "Not Found".

Takarazuka Moon Troupe 2013 performance of Me and My Girl, based on the Broadway musical of the same name, with book and lyrics by L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber, music by Noel Gay.

19th entry in the Japanese horror found footage franchise, "Not Found".

Domo-kun and Charo meet a strange girl in the hustle and bustle Tokyo. Since "that day", she has not gone back home. When Charo gives the girl a wreath of Gerbera plants, she accidentally sneezes. A burst of magic came out of the Gerbera, and a flower train emerges from the middle of a flower garden. As the three board the flower train, it starts moving toward the girl's hometown. However, what awaits them is a ferocious storm! Animated short to support the reconstruction of areas hit by the 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake.

Spirits that infest videos of mundane everyday life and harm people are revealed after 321 warning counts! The series that pursues the horror of videos as they are, including "My Baby," in which a woman who talks to herself in a shopping center is encountered and filmed, revealing a surprising reality..., includes not only videos that have been used on TV, but also many ghostly videos with warnings that cannot be shown publicly.

A live concert in the Love Live franchise held at Hakodate Arena, Hakodate, Japan on April 27-28, 2018.

In a small town with a big red bridge, a run-down apartment, which everyone calls a haunted house, stands still. A few days before the summer break begins, two high school girls, Kaede and Azusa, find a boy living in the abandoned place by himself. Naming him "Mon", they take care of him without being noticed by anyone.

This is the first horror film starring Luna Amemiya a gravure idol. A secret government experiment results in the birth of a cannibalistic race, the Eater. Tetsuro, who suffers from cannibalistic urges, begins living with his girlfriend Maki deep in the mountains of Saitama, and they have a daughter named Hikari. One day, Hikari eats and kills Tetsuro, who tries to attack Maki...

Sequel of Mori no Densetsu (Legend of the Forest - 1st Movement & 4th Movement)

The top monopoly in the psychic horror documentary. A video was taken to post the railroad crossing rumored to be a ghost on a video site. Six other videos posted.

She wears a white mask to keep her sadness hidden from others. How can she free herself from the darkness of her mind?

The largest yakuza organization in Kansai, the Tenma-kai, has broken the agreement and begun advancing into Kanto. Enomoto (Yasukaze Motomiya), the assistant underboss of the Takeda Family in Kanto, is approached by the Tenma-kai with an offer to join them, but he refuses. However, due to a scheme by the Tenma-kai, the Takeda Family’s boss, Takeda Masaki (Nishioka Tokuma), is suddenly arrested on charges of extortion. Additionally, the family’s underboss, Miyamura (Jiro Okazaki), is ambushed and murdered. Enomoto suspects there might be a traitor within the family and begins an independent investigation. The suspects that emerge are the headquarters director Ishibashi Masayuki (Kawamoto Junichi), assistant underboss Sakai Takahiro (Miyamoto Taisei), and the young boss Makabe Mitsuhiro (Takanori Higuchi). One of these three is the betrayer...

High school junior Hagi (17) quits school and is spending a lot of time at home when his father reveals that he has another house with a mistress. His father wants to end the relationship and asks Hagi to get the woman to move out. Hagi gets to know his father's mistress, and grows up in the process-

Samejima (Riki Takeuchi), a member of the Igarashi group, thwarts a plan by Yano (Takashi Matsuyama), a member of the Hanamori group, to crush the group. Yano asks for an apology, but Samejima is reluctant. Meanwhile, Dojima (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), an executive of the Hanamori-kai, plans to expel Yano after his plan fails, and falsely tells Kurata, a group member who admires Samejima, that Yano is plotting to assassinate Samejima. Kurata (Go Ibusuki) is seduced by this plan and carries out the assassination of Yano without Samejima's knowledge...

The opening night of New Japan Cup 2017 took place on March 11, 2017, at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, and featured four first-round matches.

Included are "A floating spirit floating in the ruins of a hanging" and "A spirit tied to the ground caught in a family vacation video", among others.

In-depth look at the twilight years, spent training apprentices, of temple builder Nishioka Tsunekazu, who was called the "devil" as he devoted his life to temple architecture. His insistence on the gargantuan timescale of linking life to the next millennium emerges from people who knew him. Remarkable as well for showing the unknown backstage of temple architecture. Nishioka, known as "the last temple carpenter," handled the major Showa-era repairs of Horyuji temple, and in 1990 was at the scene of the reconstruction work for Yakushi temple.

A video produced by Tezuka Productions for the title track "Fire Bird" performed by Miyavi.

In a present, Asako, a housewife, lives with her 5-year-old son in a country side, separated from her husband who runs kindergarden. When she was young, she lives with her mother and young sister in a tiny and dirty apartment. A scar on her thigh, underwear, smell of those places... One day, those elements of her two different times comes cross strangely.

Hello! Project concert held at Nakano Sunplaza Hall.

Hikari is a compassionate female high schooler who protects the bullied. Yo is engaged to the woman with whom he's been involved for three years. Kenta and his older sister, Mana, spend time volunteering in disaster stricken regions. They all believe their happy, daily existence will continue until one day when each of their lives completely changes.

A film club at S Women's University was investigating a bizarre incident. However, the reporter suddenly disappeared, leaving only the tape behind. What kind of insane and terrifying footage is captured on this tape...?