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xxxHOLiC: Shunmuki is a two-DVD original video animation, entitled (xxxHOLiC 春夢記, lit. "xxxHOLiC Spring Dreams Chronicle"). The first DVD for this OVA was released on February 17, 2009 with the volume 14 of the Japanese manga. The second one was released alongside volume 15 on June 26, 2009. xxxHOLiC Shunmuki is divided into two parts. The first part is called Zenpen, and the second part is called Kōhen. Watanuki and Domeki enjoy meal and drinks with the fortune teller, where Kohane is staying. There, it's explained that everyone changes with every meeting they experience with others, and that all four there, and even Yuko, have changed from meeting Watanuki. Later on, Haruka and Watanuki meet in a dream, in which Haruka asks Watanuki to look for something in the temple's storeroom. However, as they look around, they seemed to have stepped into the realm within the book by accident.

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Live experimental film. Music played on a projector? The film is a string, and the projector itself is an instrument. Feel it on your skin and hear it? It's a movie. W8mm film passes through a 16mm projector and uses an optical sound reproduction system to produce sound.

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Masako, who had an ordinary marriage, suddenly finds herself struggling with her husband Kenji, who is afflicted with early-onset dementia. Torn apart by the sudden advances of Asai, a man who crosses the line, Masako begins to take an irregular approach: binding each other without touching each other.

"Live House" is a Japanese phrase for a truly Japanese phenomenon-cramped, smoky, nondescript concrete boxes hidden away in basements, where music makers and music lovers congregate, away from usual society norms. With over 1,000 venues throughout the country, live houses are the birthplace of a Japanese subculture that is set to take its place on the global stage. Although bands on the live house circuit operate below the radar of celebrity-obsessed mainstream culture, through time-test D.I.Y. methods and the Internet, they build fan bases both at home and abroad, and cross borders in a way that glossy pop stars could never dream of. Coming from the opposite direction, Mike Watt, one of the founding fathers of punk, takes breaks from worldwide stadium tours to soak in the Japanese live house atmosphere.

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Sunrise at Mt. Artsonje (2007) is an 8mm film by Shimabuku, transferred to HD video, documenting a site-specific performance on the unused rooftop of the Artsonje Centre, Korea. Inviting museum staff to watch the sunrise and cook cutlass fish together at 5:30 am, the work transforms the museum into a mountain peak, exploring overlooked customs, daily rituals, and the creation of new languages and aesthetic experiences.

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This film was made using the same method as “KAGI”, but I changed the scale and motion of this film into smaller than those of “KAGI”. I used a video to make this film, but the method is the same when I used 8 mm. It means that I have not used the computer graphics or any special methods　effect. The camera moves inside a room in a semicircle; on the contrary, the outside view from a window moves differently. As a result, the spatial images of viewers will grow.

Sō, an aspiring mystery novelist, began working part-time as a waitress at a hot spring inn. There she met her idol, the popular author Yamada, but then someone stole the manuscript she had just finished writing...

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Short film by Ryusuke Ito.

Watch the video! The image is flickering. The sound is choppy. The black dots are developer. The white spots are the fixer. I paint the developer and fixer directly onto the raw film. I produced this work with the slogan "Bring darkroom work to light". I approached the appeal of developing and fixing with my own unique aesthetic.

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Live performance at ON AIR EAST in Shibuya, Tokyo on January 12, 2001.

Shinobu, who lost her husband, runs a small restaurant with her stepson Ryuji. However, Ryuji has feelings for his stepmother. Hiromi, who claims to be Akihiro's father's new wife, appears before Akihiro, a university student. Hiromi is a lecturer at Akihiro's university.

The filming took place in the same red brick warehouse at Chikkō as HEIDI 44. The warehouse, no longer in use, had been cleared of its contents, revealing the original space. What might have transpired inside this aged warehouse over its long history? A temporary resting place, the warehouse briefly serves its purpose. A child playing the violin opens the door to the story. This piece is an homage to Heidi’s mother, whom Heidi lost at a young age, dedicating the "shadowed time" she carries to her mother, using the warehouse as a "container for allegory."

Chatmonchy's second DVD is their first Live DVD!　The DVD includes all songs from the July 7, 2007 “Chatmonchy's Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall Tanabata Live ~Heaven Awaite Hibiki! ～The DVD includes all songs from the main event and encore. The live includes “Love Spirits” which Hashimoto sang a cappella in front of 3,000 people, “Bus Romance” which had the audience shaking their shoulders, “Tobi Fish Butterfly” in which the hula dancers who appeared in the video clip appeared in glossy costumes and excited the audience, and “Tobi Fish Butterfly” in which the bright rays of light emitted by a mirror ball were used to illuminate the audience's eyes and ears. The bright rays of light emitted by the mirror ball transformed the field sound into a different space in “Shangri-La! The menu screen will also feature a previously unreleased song as the background music!

Terayuki, the most popular virtual idol made with CG. Her live-action composite image video is finally here. Her appearance of her to show off her swimsuit etc. is a real idol.

A snowman teaches traffic safety for slippery icy winter roads.

An educational film about compassion. The story follows a class trying to break a jump rope record and one student is terrible at the task. The issue causes a divide in the classroom.

Jun, a 26-year-old man deeply obsessed with his older sister, is devastated when he learns that she is getting married. Overcome with shock, sorrow, and a crippling fear of being abandoned, he takes a drastic step-tying a rope around his neck and attaching it to his mother’s moving car in an attempt to end his life.

A young man with a habit of daydreaming lives off his parents. One day, he suddenly loses their support and becomes homeless. Faced with harsh reality, he retreats even further into his fantasies to get through daily life. However, as time goes on, events begin to threaten his grip on reality…

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.

Bhotkhola is one of the 20 beyul, which is what Tibetans call the sites of paradise in the Himalaya. The local people and the monks believe Bhotkhola was tucked away among the mountains by the gods so that it would not be disturbed. That is why, they say, it should be preserved and protected from human defilement. Yet, the people have turned to destroying trees that take a hundred and fifty years to mature. Caravans bearing timber to Tibet and bringing back foodstuff to Nepal is a common sight all over Bhotkhola. This film deals with the pro-conservationist tradition and people’s compulsion to cut down the priceless Himalayan forest which will not regenerate once it is gone.