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Maeda decides to have an operation to cure his color-blindness, but he becomes afraid that after the operation, his world is not going to be the same.

Living with little wants in the countryside, Zhiren and his mother expressed their love and support for each other in a simple way — by exchanging little notes.

A cynical, divorced intellectual has a bizarre life-changing (and life-saving) encounter with a stoic evangelist, who turns out to have his own problems. From amusingly varied viewpoints, the two bond and start to take a stand against the oppressing forces in their lives.

Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow commuter who she observes regularly. While the two never speak to one another, the girl captures her appearance and life changes during the years through various means such as photos and drawings.

That morning, Rinko, who lives in Tokyo, sent her husband, Masanori Uemura, off to work as usual and was cleaning the house. Then she got a call from her husband's stepfather, Tokunobu, who lives in Shizuoka...

In a dilapidated apartment, lives intertwine: a lonely, voyeuristic landlady, college student Wan Li, and a provocatively dressed female tenant. Wan Li rents the place for privacy with his ambivalent girlfriend, who later falls for his visiting junior. Ironically, while kissing her, the junior fantasizes about Wan Li himself—sparking a tangled web of unspoken desire and fractured loyalties.

With just one punch, a foreign merchant named Ronny (Mahbub Alam) knocks out In-Ho (Yu Jun-Sang) during one of his Taekwondo training classes. In-Ho then goes to find Ronny to recover his dignity. However, what comes next is separation from his wife and being imprisoned..

Pink film directed by Satoshi Shimomoto.

Chinese movie

Interview with world renown cult director Shinya Tsukamoto. This interview will tell you how and when he started creating his own world of cinema exactly the way he thought it should look. Also he is an accomplished actor appearing in many films directed by other directors like Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer). The interview includes very rare footage of never released films like "10000 Channels" his TV commercials and rare footage of live shows at the Kaijyu Theater in Tokyo System.

In an international high school in Shanghai, there are a group of children from different countries in the world. Although they have different languages, different living habits, different religious beliefs and different cultural backgrounds, they live together in the process of learning and learning. Overcoming the differences brought about by these differences, they have established a deep friendship with each other and learned to respect others, unite and love each other and help each other.

Straight to video film.

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

Set against the social turmoil of China's Cultural Revolution, 12 years old Yue Haiyang is forced to leave the swimming team despite his dreams to become the greatest swimmer of his generation. In a quest to fulfill his dream, friendship and loyalty are tested as three friends wade through the waters of personal struggle and social unrest.

Suddenly Mickey says, ‘The era is comedy’, and the three start talking about what role they should each play as comedians (‘What should I do?’). [Contents. Mickey's talk is on top form again today. But Jumbo and Matsun look at him... (‘This is now, isn't it?’). (‘This is now, isn't it?’).

Shinjiro Iijima (Hakuryu), an executive of the Tairyu family Giseikai, is a blackmail specialist who can mercilessly drive any opponent to the bottom. For the first time in a long time, he reunited with his younger brother Mitsuhide (Miyamura Yu), and decided to ask him to keep a large amount of property for a while. However, due to this, Mitsuhide is killed by someone. For revenge, Iijima delivers a divine punishment called blackmail. However, a gigantic organization wriggling in the dark appears... In front of an unprecedented formidable enemy, what is the perfect blackmail method!?

Queer Boys and Girls on the Shinkansen brings together ten filmmakers and artists who consistently affirm what it means to be gay or lesbian in their work. Habakari chose ten filmmakers to make a five-minute work each, developed around a gay or lesbian theme, and compiled the resulting shorts in random order to create this omnibus film. The result is a queer film, by queer filmmakers, for a queer audience. Each short is its own short story, and the styles range from drama and experimental film and animation. (2024 complete version includes all eleven films, 65 mins.)

"Movie Hustle" collects five short films by up and coming directors and starring idols.

Ping, a young nobleman, has retired from the service of the crown in order to become a musician. He becomes a student of Master Duang, a famous musician. Master Duang owns a mysterious drum called Perng Mang, which has the power to bring success or death to people.

Chiaki is a cute girl adopted by Souichi. She works with her father in his bar and becomes the attraction of the bar. Souichi loves Chiaki not as an adopted daughter but a woman with his passion suppressed. One day he asks her to leave the bar to work outside…. Yoshie comes to the bar to fill the vacancy. She looks exactly the same as Souichi’s dead wife. Souichi treats her as his wife’s substitute to release his passion.

The story takes place in the alternate world slightly different from ours. In United Republic of Great Japan; which has become the world’s strongest nation; it is reported that a new breed of athletes is setting a phenomenal new world record, winning every sports game. Prompted by the pressure from other nations, the organization that supervises the country’s sports events, decides to look into the matter; but the entire investigation team goes missing just when it started the mission. What the investigation team witnessed was “Athlete-roid. Koumoto executive director of Great Japan Heavy Industries is planning to dominate the world market for special military-use robots by promoting the army of invincible “Athlete-roid.”...

Xiao-Li is a devoted housewife and an active member of her local Catholic church in the farmlands of southern China. Her faith is put to the test when her husband is hospitalized with respiratory illness caused by unsafe working conditions.

The second installment of this rousing entertainment series, depicting the chivalry, loyalty, and fiery human spirit of the tekiya crews! Riki Takeuchi’s new world of manly honor explodes onto the screen!

Hong Kong movie

A flood breaks out and the coastal towns need to be evacuated. The prison in the city decide to transfer the prisoners. A retired policeman alone has to transfer three dangerous prisoners, who find it a rare opportunity to escape.

In the 1990s HIV/AIDS came to Wenlou through a blood purchasing program. To supplement their income many poor villagers sold their blood and 60% of those who sold blood contracted HIV/AIDS from unsanitary equipment. Many have died from the disease. In his documentary film, To Live is Better than to Die, Wiejun Chen tells of the impact AIDS has had in parts of rural China by showing how it has affected the Ma family. It is spring when the film takes up the family’s story.

The tenth installment in the series of fantasy swordplay action movies starring Riki Takeuchi.

The second volume of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost Story Shin Mimibukuro,” based on the real-life ghost story book “Shin Mimibukuro,” includes the final series. It features notable actresses such as Mari Hoshino of “Sayonara Midori Chan” fame. It includes all 10 episodes.

To honour his father's dying wish, a man goes in search of his old friend and along the way he experiences love, betrayal and revenge.

Hong Kong movie

Based on Edgar Snow's "Red Star Over China"

Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" goes goth in Mari Terashima's screen adaptation of the children's classic. Terashima brings together Goth Loli performance troupe Rose de Reficul et Guiggles, doll maker Mari Shimizu and magician and actor Mame Yamada to create a macabre trip down the rabbit hole. The film appears animated, but the gothic characters are as real as can be.

A young girl named Sumire disappeared 5 years ago after being assaulted by a suspicious photographer Midorikawa in the forest, leaving behind only a severed right arm. Her brother Fumizuki and childhood friend Keisuke are both looking for her.

Explores the strange similarities between two cases: The Sugisawa village incident, which is said to have killed all the villagers by one young man, and the Tsuyama incident, which is known as a model for "Hachihakamura."

When a celebrated Chinese opera troupe loses its sponsorship funding, the laid-off performers must seek out temporary jobs in a wide spectrum of fields. But all along, they yearn to reunite their company and perform again.

Recently discharged Chan-Woo receives a letter of will from ex-acquaintance and leaves for her hometown carrying her ashes with him. As he starts to reminiscent about the girl and prepares for her religious service, he meets mysterious innkeeper Jin-Kyung. He senses genuine love from her, discovering matured self in the process.

Lah is a mahout who works his elephant at an illegal logging site in Burma. When they're about to get busted, he sends his son Saeng and his elephant to relatives in Bangkok. Saeng ends up begging the streets of Bangkok with his elephant and he comes in contact with the local mafia who wants their cut or else.

An independent film made on a budget of 80,000 yen

2008 release

The tenth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.

Musashi is a play by Hisashi Inoue. It is set six years after the Ganryujima duel, when Musashi Miyamoto and Kojiro Sasaki are reunited at a Zen temple in Kamakura.

Set in a small Nagano village in the 1930s, the film follows Hanji, a young boy captivated by a local kabuki performance. Inspired by Yukio, Hanji learns kabuki with Utako. As they grow, they become skilled actors, performing in a final kabuki before World War II. After the war, Hanji returns to revive kabuki and restore the community’s spirit. In the 1980s, as he nears death, the villagers organise a final performance in his honour, where he performs “Tenryu Koishibuki” for Yukio.

A young fashion fan gets her revenge on the super model who hit her while shopping on the glorious Space Station No. 9.

Uninvolved with the political movements of the time, Ichiro and Sachiko hope for something better, but they’re no revolutionaries; their spare time is spent drinking, smoking, daydreaming, and sleeping—together and at times with others.

Eight martial arts masters trained in a variety of different fighting styles are summoned to the mountains for a fierce competition.

2006 release

A story about a director, who, as a means of grieving the loss of his dog Popee, decides to make a film about his relationship to Popee along with that of other dog/person relationships.