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Reimu, an office worker, has been having strange dreams lately and is not feeling well, so she takes her junior from college, Ariya, to her favorite gay bar...

Part of the Insight Asia series, 'Asian Corridor in Heaven' is a six-episode documentary series about the world's oldest trade route, the "Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road". Pre-dating the Silk Road by 200 years, the Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road crossed from the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of Southwest China over mountainous terrain into Tibet, Nepal, and India.

The story of 11 contestants who sign up for a scary reality show which forces them to confront the supernatural and their innermost fears. They're brought to an ancient war museum in Cambodia, which was used as a Khmer Rouge prison twenty years before. Thousands of innocent people were tortured and killed there during the Cambodian war in the 1970s.

Lawson is a magazine editor. His fair and strict personality makes him expose injustices to his heart's content. As a result, the sales of the magazines he work for have soared. In one report, he offended the gangster. He wants to find Ma Hui to buy insurance. Ma Hui found out that Rosen's wrong report led to the suicide of a female student. Driven by a sense of justice, Ma Hui decided to refuse to accept this business...

Akuto, the main source of energy is running low and the Heavens, a world of islands, hidden beyond time, floating above ours, has united against the Magical Kingdom whom uses the most energy. To save both the Magical Kingdom and the Heavens and restore the flow of akuto, the Magical King Munto must follow a vision and find the girl Yumemi in the lower world. Yumemi herself is just a normal girl except that she is the only one who can see the islands of the Heavens floating above. When Munto appears before her she starts thinking about hers and others responsibility to the world.

Junji, the protagonist of FM89.3MHz, must become the principal of a nursery school in Kabukicho after the death of Okawa Clan's boss.

Mangchi is a young boy with few problems and an easy disposition. Living on a building in the middle of the sea, he flies around on his little flying bike looking for adventures and longs for the day when he's finally an adult. So, when a princess named Poplar is being chased by two fighter planes, he rescues her. Little does he know that he will be pulled away from the city he has lived all his life, and dragged by Poplar into an adventure smack dab in between two countries at war and the evil plans of Moonk, usurper to Poplar's throne, who seeks world domination.

In a scene from “Robber South” (2001), which tells the story of a young man in the city making a living as a fruit seller while dreaming of becoming a businessman, the protagonist watches as a subway train pulls into a station, and in an instant the focus of his attention switches seamlessly to a deep blue sky. Compass in hand, he walks from house to house, tracing each door and wall with his fingers, a metaphor for his search for his own place in the city.

This wild comedy pokes fun at the world of pro-wrestling by placing its accomplished wrestler protagonist Koji Taguchi against a giant squid known as the Calamari Wrestler. The Calimari Wrestler not only proves to be Koji's most difficult opponent yet, but also has an effect on several people's personal lives when he becomes the unlikely object of a young girl's affection.

Sheena Ringo's secret live house tour held from June to July 2000, performed under the band name of "Hatsuiku Status." The band and the songs performed on this tour were named after words relevant to child-care, botany, or gardening. Unlike normal live video works, it was recorded with direct sound quality without stereo processing because Sheena wanted listeners to feel the live atmosphere as it was.

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8-channel video installation, 35mm b&w film transferred to DVD. Music by Jin Wang. A freeze-frame tableau in which seven young men and women, dressed in a haberdasher’s ？nest, look outward from a rocky outcrop; boats slowly drifting across placid waters; lush, unpopulated landscapes dominated by mountains. Like all of Yang Fudong’s work, the narrative is loosely structured, favoring centripetal forces over linear paths. Here, glamorous young men and women are slowly pulled together as, alone or in pairs and quartets, they wend their way toward the eponymous bridge to catch a last glimpse of winter snow; the rabbits, parrots, and stubborn goats on leashes that accompany them hint at the dandyish excess of a bygone era.

Ryuji is a fisherman that has brought up his daughter Ryoko single-handedly. Ryoko and her childhood friend Kazuya have fallen in love. But when Kazuya dies in a tragic accident while diving for coral wood, Ryoko is overcome with grief and, emotionally destroyed, retreats into silent mourning.

2001 release

Cui, a young Korean mother living on the outskirts of Chinese society, has a husband in jail and a son to support. She barely makes a living selling kimchi to workers along the side of a bleak, industrial road. A love affair with a fellow Chinese-Korean leads to tragic consequences as Cui struggles against the vulnerability of her position.

The game-changing earrings will change your life. But Mickey is scared to get his ears pierced (‘I'm not getting carried away!’). (The story is about a young girl who gets her ears pierced. Where will you go when you get your driving licence? Jumbo thinks of a family restaurant far away (‘Will you finally get one?’). Jumbo is not happy at all.

TV sports host Ren Xiaoyu (played by Li Xiang) happens to pass by a fast-food restaurant and spontaneously interviews diner Wang Dashan (played by Li Chengru). Though usually critical of the city team, Wang boasts on live TV that he'll form his own "Baozi Team" to challenge them. His drunken claim is broadcast live, sparking huge excitement among local fans. What started as a bluff quickly spirals into a public spectacle. The station, along with Xiaoyu, is forced to turn the joke into reality. Cultural department chief Qian Ning (played by Li Junfeng) and Xiaoyu scramble to recruit the restaurant’s owner and staff as players. They shut down the shop and begin training with the motto: “We won’t steam buns, but we’ll fight for pride!” Meanwhile, a rival team—the well-funded “International United”—also takes up the challenge, vowing to crush the underdogs. A fierce showdown is about to begin...

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Amon, a private detective specializing in affair investigations, is asked by a man named Koga to investigate the conduct of his wife, Misako, who is a housekeeper. It turns out that Misako is addicted to an affair with her employer, Kiriyama. Amon reports this to Koga, but in fact, Misako's affair was arranged by Koga to promote her divorce. Before long, the incident takes an unexpected turn... This is a story about a humble private detective and a married woman who falls for her husband's tricks, and is a hard-boiled Eros work that intertwines lust and lust. Mayuko Sasaki plays the ill-fated married woman well, and Motoko Sasaki and Shoko Kudo are also very sexy.

A live event to mark the first anniversary of THE SanMei-sama. Takashi Tsukamoto, Ryuta Sato and Yoshinori Okada, as well as sub members such as Kotaro Shiga aka Parfait Oyaji, appeared on stage to recreate ‘Late Night at the Family Restaurant’ live. The loose, goofy groove remains the same in the live performance!

Tenshi no Hashigo 2006 (Japan), also known as Angel's Ladder is Japan drama premiere on Oct 22, 2006 on TV Asahi

A university professor's secret passion: a fetish for "blonde hair." His fantasies gradually escalate into reality.

A short film by Naoko Ogigami.

An action in which a former CIA female operative captures a revenge drama that unfolds against a huge secret organization.

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A documentary concerning Tokyo Jihen's first concert tour, which supported the band's debut studio album, "Kyoiku", and the only tour to feature the band's original members Mikio Hirama and H Zetto M. Featuring backstage footage, as well as performances of "Dynamite", "Koi no Urikomi (I'm Gonna Knock on Your Door)" "Tōmei Ningen", and the "Sigma~Crawl" medley.

Seong-chan, aka Lucas Fedora, rejects his girlfriend's proposal to get married and start a family of their own and leaves her to return to Korea and find his biological mother. He checks into a run down motel owned by two widows who have demons of their own. Seong-chan's dreams and his past intermingle with tragic results.

A documentary delving into the mysteries of unidentified creatures (UMA), produced by the team behind ‘True Urban Legends’. Featuring shocking footage including a woman who claims to have been attacked by a kappa, the 1.5-meter-tall monster “Hibagon” said to inhabit Mount Hiba in Hiroshima Prefecture, and the “Skeleton Worm” living in a hoarder's house.

Donghwan is unemployed. One day, he applies for a quiz for a no charge airline ticket on the Internet. The next day, he receives a phone call asking him to come to an office in Jongno-gu, Seoul because he has won the quiz, where he will receive the free round-trip ticket to Thailand. But for getting free tickets, he has to pay a high price there...

Yoake Sudeo, a former elite detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, now works as a taxi driver. One day, he picks up Michiko Takanezawa, a university assistant professor recently acquitted of murdering her former lover. Hounded by the media and the victim’s wife at her home, Michiko pleads with Yoake to drive her to her hometown, Aizu-Wakamatsu. But the next day, the wife of the murdered professor is found dead near Tokyo—turning the case on its head.

A woman whose life has been ruined by mahjong eventually climbs out of the depths and establishes herself as a female mahjong player. Mirei Asaoka, who has a passionate fan base, plays a sexy female mahjong player and delivers a performance full of energy.

2007 release

The final day of Sheena Ringo's tour held at Saitama Super Arena to commemorate the 10th anniversary of her debut.

"A woman is born to give her body to men; her father or strangers should make no difference." Respectable Police Commissioner Josephine reinvestigates an insignificant murder case of a 11 years old girl. The murderer is the mother of the victim, Becky. Under intense interrogation, Becky refused to admit that she knew all along that her boyfriend was raping her little daughter at home. The harsh interrogation drives Becky into killing herself. What is the truth that the raging Commissioner is trying to find out? What is the seemingly defenseless mother hiding? Or is she acually telling the truth? Is the phrase, "A woman is born to give her body to men." the whole truth?

The fifth 'Road to New Don' film.

A young couple played by Takizawa Hideaki and Fukada Kyoko get's married because the girl is pregnant. Their son is healthy until they find out he has cancer at the age of five. How does the young couple deal with that?

The story in "Snake Charmer" is about some mystery murders that take place in Hong Kong where the victims are found poisoned by a very rare and deadly toxin. A single woman (played by Marsha Yuen), who works as a night club called Club Medusa, is tied to the murders, as she is the last to be seen with the victims in every single case. Inspector Chi-Wai Man (played by Jackie Lui Chung-yin) is assigned to the case and is working on a tight deadline to crack the case.

2007 release

The Kurosu clan has made a huge profit through stock trading thanks to the skills of Hakuryu. The Kurosu clan leader, Kosuke Kurosu, receives an invitation from Namihiko Unno, a member of the House of Representatives, to a party for the purpose of raising political funds. At first, Kurosu is reluctant to attend the party, but finally does so at the urging of Hakuryu and others.

Concert film featuring Sachi Tainaka's LIVE 2007 ~Dear...~ tour filmed at Ebisu The Garden Hall on April 21, 2007.

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Episode 1: "A Love Awakened in a Soapland" Mikiko, a married woman, runs away from home after discovering her husband is a womanizer. She ends up at "Hanazono," a reverse soapland that's a haven for women. There, Mikiko meets Takuya, a former classmate. Mikiko, who once had feelings for Takuya, finds herself in a complicated state of mind. Where will this married woman's wavering heart lead her...? Episode 2: "A Guide to the Prostitution World for Married Women" Taeko, a married woman, is a struggling actress who has settled down into domestic life. Her husband, Masanori, is also an actor and is having an affair with actress Marie. Marie sets a trap for Taeko to break them up. Marie tries to get Taeko to have fun with men at a reverse soapland and have Masanori witness the scene. And Taeko falls into Marie's trap...

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This is the third volume of a series of one-episode horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various regions, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV in July 2003. Included are "Apartment in Chikusa-ku", "Love Hotel in Ichinomiya-ku", and four other episodes.

Photographer Suga (Kenji Mizuhashi) aiming to win the photo contest and Lulu (Sakura Mizutani), a girl who works as a model. Two people who are drawn to each other while maintaining the relationship between the photographer and the model. One day, a mysterious woman, Sayoko (Yoko Kashiwagura), appears in the viewfinder of Suga. Eventually, Suga and Lulu win the long-awaited victory.

Shintaro works at a publishing house and leads a seemingly smooth life, yet hides a secret: he is gay and lives with his bartender boyfriend, Tomotsugu. His busy schedule keeps him apart from Tomotsugu, while his heart still yearns for his first love from college, Yoichi. One night, while working overtime, Shintaro is cornered by his colleague Mika, who drunkenly confesses her feelings and forces him to reveal his sexuality. Just then, a phone rings. Mika mysteriously vanishes, and on the other end of the line is Yoichi's voice...

Six animated shorts about discrimination and being different. “Daydream” talks about dealing with people with disability. It homes in on the daily life of a father with a daughter whose hands and feet are deformed. “Animal Farm” relies on the rough-and-ready feel of stop-motion clay animation to create a satire of bullying and mob dynamics. “At Her House” paints a devastating picture of gender inequality within a marriage. “Flesh and Bone” gently pillories superficiality and the obsession with outward appearance. “Bicycle Trip” focuses on the discrimination experienced by foreign workers in Korea. “Be a Human Being” looks at the way young Koreans are barely treated as human beings before they get to university.

Pink film directed by Yutaka Ikejima