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Window, Suzuki

The moment when malice takes shape Three young men and a woman are in a room in a flat. One of the men, Satou, has been shot dead, and the woman is crying, but it does not seem to be out of grief over Satou's death. Suzuki and Yamada are arguing about who should look out the window. They have no idea who has been shooting at this room, for what purpose, or at whom. They don't know what they're up against, where they are, or how many people they have. Did the police shoot at them because they had brought a woman into the room to rape her? If so, how did they find out? It could have been a mistake, but there is no way to be sure, and the reality is that there are dead bodies in front of them, and if they go near the window they could be shot. The leader of the group, Suzuki, is frustrated and Yamada tells him about the feelings he has had for Sato. Suzuki is emboldened by his accusation, but at that moment a second bullet is fired into the room .......

Window, Suzuki

NR 2001
Take the Wind

I went to the company to get up in the morning. And I saw a video taken by a mobile phone. It's a festival to raise the large kite that Hamamatsu festival of Shizuoka. They raise the kite when the first child is born. I was printing the video to OHP. And I cut it to 35mm film. I then projected it. My wife and I went to raise the kite to the park. I attached a camera to thekite. The ground looked like my wife's belly. My wife gave birth to a child. We named her "Nemu". She was born in 2005. Nemu became one year old. She became able to walk. I wanted to celebrate with everyone.

Take the Wind

NR 2008
Until the Day of Liberation: Retracing Korean Japanese History

Shin Ki-soo spent his life collecting visual materials, and drew upon them to make this film about the history of zainichi Koreans in pre-war Japan. From the massacre of Koreans at the construction site of the Nakatsugawa hydroelectric power plant in Niigata Prefecture and the joint struggle of Korean and Japanese factory girls at the Kishiwada cotton mills to the dispute at the Sanshin Railroad construction site in Aichi Prefecture and the strike at the Aso coal mines in the Chikuho region of Kyushu, this film uncovers and assembles valuable testimony from many people who played key roles in the movement to free Korea from Japanese colonialism.

Until the Day of Liberation: Retracing Korean Japanese History

NR 2005
MOTHER OF THE MOTHER AND ALSO THE MOTHER OF THE MOTHER'S MOTHER, AND HER DAUGHTER

Upon realizing my hatred towards my mother, I felt like shedding tears over this inexcusable self-hatred." In order to express and accept the very intense memory of a deathly-ill mother and a grandmother who spent time on a small island in her youth, Setoguti Miki has crafted dolls out of various foods and put a curse on them. This modern-day Hariti (Buddhist Goddess of maternity) tale, uses a collage of conversations and connects the vivid colors of rotted meat with a world of "better mothers."

MOTHER OF THE MOTHER AND ALSO THE MOTHER OF THE MOTHER'S MOTHER, AND HER DAUGHTER

NR 2005
Eizō Sakuhinshū Vol. 2: Live at Budokan +

Eizō Sakuhinshū Vol. 2: Live at Budokan + is the second video release by Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation, released on April 20, 2005 by Ki/oon Records. The two-disc video was also the band's very first live DVD, as the first disc contains live footage of the entirety of the final show of their "Tour Suihai 2004 - No!Member, November-," at Budokan, where they performed before an audience of over 10,000 people on December 5, 2004. The disc retains twenty-two songs, with tracks taken from Kimi Tsunagi Five M, Sol-fa, and Hōkai Amplifier. The second disc contains clips from the first concert at the Shimokitazawa Shelter Club on November 2, 2004. It also includes behind-the-scenes documentary directed by Toshiaki Toyoda and filmed at Kanto Gakuin University, where AKG was originally formed, as well as outtakes from the music video for "Kimi to Iu Hana." Upon its release, the video managed to top the Oricon DVD charts for an entire month.

Eizō Sakuhinshū Vol. 2: Live at Budokan +

NR 2005
Imagination Practice

The description of Suwami Nogami's minimalistic line drawing piece, Imagination Practice, calls it an unending "thought loop". It depicts an artist sitting in front of a window with a self-portrait, like a miniature mirror image, on the desk in front of him. The window frame and the blue sky filled with moving clouds are in colour, but the figure of the artist is not coloured in. The soundtrack sounds like a skipping record that is punctuated by humourous springing noises (a la Bugs Bunny) as the image 'bounces' in an unending loop from the establishing shot into the "drawing." A philosophical piece, Imagination Practice considers the circular dialogue between an artist and his work.

Imagination Practice

3.0 2003
Gang

Odaiba, on the Tokyo Bay waterfront. The Odaiba Boys—a gang based here, comprising Sancon, Shu, Zaza, Jiji, Muzzle and the rest—were hanging out as usual. One day, a woman named Rei appeared before them, claiming she was searching for their leader, Nao, who had gone missing two years earlier. Around the same time, a masked man calling himself Nao appeared before rival gangs—the Kawasaki Security Squad and the Tsurumi Cruise CATS—and ran riot. Was this really Nao’s doing? Behind the scenes, a grand scheme was unfolding, orchestrated by a Member of the House of Representatives seeking to line his pockets and the Kōryū-kai, the yakuza organisation that controls Odaiba.

Gang

NR 2001