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Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

8mm film by Koga Tomoko. She is an underground experimental japanese fimmaker.

A man who vaguely traces his memories. The things and events he met, and the women. Short film by Yasunori Ikeda.

The year is 200X, and the DESTRUCTIVE FIST, an artificial fist modified for combat, has become the only weapon and weapon of choice. There are three people who once spent the same youth, but their fates were divided. Akutsu, who abandoned his heart to protect his beloved and acquired the strongest fist, Kagan, who believes in kindness over strength, and Chirico, who was Kagan's sister and Akutsu's lover. A fierce battle begins between Akutsu, who wants to get Chirico, and Kagan, who wants to bring Chirico back, with either of them fighting to the death.

Recorded live at Kichijoji Manda-La2, Tokyo on September 8, 2007. The Chamomile pool DVD documents concert footage from Ai Aso from 2007 in Tokyo. Hypnotically delicate, angelic and minimal in structure Ai, accompanied by her band, and with guest appearance by Wata and Kurihara for a portion, craft her unique blend of songwriting and psychedelic musicianship. Produced by Atsuo, of Boris, and edited and directed by Ryuta Murayama

8mm film by Idei Hiromi

A bonkers tale of paranormal investigators on the trail of a crazy Christian cult.

Short film by Shizuko Tabata

Investigates the patterns and forms found in a large apartment building. Utilising both macro and micro views of the structure, Saito creates grid-like patterns that are further emphasised by the video’s monochromatic colour scheme. The video’s rapidly changing symmetrical images eventually transform the monotonous architecture into a study of pure geometric forms.

Short film by Mitsuo Toyama.

Short film by Chieko Oki.

Yuri’s daily life after her marriage and building a home. She cleans, does the laundry, cooks and does household bookkeeping. In the repeated daily life, suddenly the snowscape appeared in front of her, and the girl who wears a red coat crouched there. Her eyes were stuck by nails and hurt. A boat floating on the lake of yellow-green semen. Pregnant Yuri dozes on the boat.

The "Spirit of the Wind" is the wind that blows high in the sky. He finds a mother and her baby playing on a small hill in the mountains and swoops down. The wind spirit greets the mother and takes the baby from her. Holding the baby in his arms, he flies high into the sky and begins his little adventure in the world of the sky. He goes through many clouds and plays in a park above the clouds...

The fifth Sakura Wars Summer Kayou Show - “Kaijin Bessou” A stage musical based on the Sega/Red Company game series “Sakura Wars,” and starring the voice actresses from that franchise. It is split into two parts: act 1 is an adventure starring the members of the Flower Division, and act 2 is a play within a play Izumi Kyoka’s The Sea God’s Villa (Kaijin Bessou)

Kimi to Boku (You and I) is the story of an aspiring mangaka and his cat, told from the cat's perspective. It follows the friendship between the cat and the young man from when they first meet up to when they must part.

Another animated short from the Angelique series, this time featuring the Holy Beast Guardians!

A little kid follows a mysterious cat around the city to a magical journey.

A dramatization of the Miike miners' strike.

Recap special following Cellaria and Nanami.

One day, a strange monkey with a golden helmet drains out the insides of another monkey by kissing him. Hikaru, Spike's brother, goes out on an adventure to find this strange monkey. He soon befriends the monkeys and runs forward. But it isn't easy when every boss from the former games tries to block his path...

A documentary about the underground hip-hop culture in Japan as of 2003. It capture a thriving underground hip-hop scene, touching on a diverse range of artists including graffiti writers, rappers, beat-boxers, breakers.

At 3,776 m high, Mt. Fuji is Japan's highest mountain. With nothing comparable surrounding it, the beautifully shaped Mount Fuji towers in splendid isolation and has become the symbol of Japan. But do you know the real beauty of Mount Fuji? NHK knows Mt. Fuji as well as anyone. Masterfully capturing Mt. Fuji in high-definition, this program presents Mt. Fuji as a splendid visual poem. Sheathed in orange, red, brown, blue, white, black and sometimes shimmering like a diamond, Mt. Fuji shows her many faces, which change with the time of day, season and weather. In this program, you will see and enjoy Mt. Fuji as you never have before.

A small Japanese fishing village is home of a unique community for people with schizophrenia and other long term psychological and developmental disabilities.

A Place Where There Are Moths depicts the conflict between drab concrete block apartment living and the natural environment in Japanese cities. The forces of nature are represented by the motif of a tree whose leaves metamorphose into orange moths and take over a middle-aged woman's apartment, pushing her room higher and higher within the building.

A documentary about the band Buck-Tick's history from 1986 to 1991, released on the third disc of boxset.

Human eye adjusts the brightness of the light automatically, but Camera eye can control the brightness freely. Camera eye can see the darkness in the light of day, and can turn the dusk into the morning sunshine. When the white room is getting darker and lighter, you surely witness that's form is sublimated.

While the spot of water soaked into the tablecloth has disappeared holly -7min 30sec-, the spot repeats contracting and expanding like a surf. Technically, I recomposed the arrangement of time by editing, and piled scenes several times. In this film, the physical and real time of evaporation coexists with the operated time in the film, The aftertaste and the blank are also important matters for this film.

Ryuichi Sawazaki, a cleaner and former employee of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, happens to bump into his former colleague, Masahiko Yoshioka. Sawazaki is disheartened when he compares himself to Yoshioka, who has risen to become a senior official at the Defence Agency, but one day, Yoshioka finds himself on the run from the police on suspicion of bribery…

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Liu-Ming's father died in 1995 in an accidental explosion of a bombshell left by the Japanese Imperial Army in WWII. The debt left by his father's unsuccessful medical treatments left the teenage Liu-Ming no choice but to drop out of high school to work. Li Quan was a victim of the Japanese military's poison gas when he touched a mysterious container while working on a ship at the age of 29. Blisters covered his body and his genitals and internal organs were injured. Still suffering from serious aftereffects, he has fallen to a life of extreme poverty and twice attempted suicide. New accidents keep occurring. Sixty years have passed since the end of the war, but many potent weapons remain buried deep in China.

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