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A wolf chases a pig around a room.

Actress Ai Yoshizaki and psychic researcher Yuji Kiba go to the most terrifying haunted places in existence and encounter startling psychic experiences in this real-life documentary of terror.

An experimental animated short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.

Experimental 16mm short by Takayuki Ogihara.

Experimental 16mm short by Masaru Ohashi.

Experimental short by Akira Mizuyoshi.

Experimental short by Akira Mizuyoshi.

AKB48 concert in NHK Hall held on April 25 and 26, 2009.

Tokyo Garage Scene 2003.05.10 - Shijuku Loft and other Tokyo Clubs in 2003

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

A compilation of thirty girls wearing their uniforms.

Gravure Idol DVD released in 2007.

ART-SCHOOL live at C.C. Lemon Hall, Shibuya 2007.

A couple eating at a restaurant. When I left the store and tried to go to the amusement park, I suddenly hit a passerby with a car. However, the two run away without stopping the car. I continued to drive while having a casual conversation, but I lost my way, perhaps because I was upset by the hit-and-run. On the way, they put a hitchhiking man in the car. A self-proclaimed novelist, he tells the story of "the story of the biggest fat in the world" and disappears into the deep forest.

NINE DIRTS AND SNOW WHITE FLICKERS is Onitsuka Chihiro's third live DVD and her first live DVD after signing on with Universal Music Japan. It is a recording of her one-night show on April 26 of the same year at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall. The setlist featured songs from both her Toshiba-EMI and Universal Music era, as well as two covers and one piano solo by HAL-Oh Togashi. For the concert, Onitsuka was backed only by the piano and a quartet.

Absolute terror strikes an unlucky man.

Documentary style short film following three Japanese performance artists at a festival.

Short film compiling performances by the punk musician and performance artist, 悪霊おばけ. Also includes candid videos of the artist with similar performers and various artistic edits.

The Eggy Robot project aims to synthesize a robot of which artistic appearance and emergent behaviours make us feel and imagine the emergence of primeval organisms. Of all the computer animators that pursued the goal of wild, virtual exotica, none could equal the overwhelming, needlepoint visual intensity of Kawaguchi’s work. One of the world’s leading researchers into 'blobby organic modelling, he depicted a world composed of molten, shape-shifting organs without a body.

Film by Yoshi Tomoku, 2000. The meeting is in a dream.

Short film by Omori Hiroki screened at YIDFF 2009. A drunken lover. An anti-romantic friend. The soliloquy of a cat. Fragment gleaned from time to pass away is keeps obtaining the place on the film, and asking the meaning until the future. The camera works everyday to collect fragments of usual daily life. This film was made with usual days.

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (B&W, 8mm).

Karakami is a decorative Japanese paper used to ornament interior sliding doors during the Edo period. Woodblock-printed motifs, such as cherry blossoms and dragons, are said to have inspired several prominent European artists in the 19th century. This program examines the history of karakami through the work of a family in Kyoto that has preserved this traditional art form for nearly 400 years.

A man and a woman who continue to drive while following the strange "suicide note" of a former colleague who is in the hospital

Underground cult film by Saruyama Norihiro. Octopus or human? Due to close-up photography followed by a huge amount of shortcuts, the two subjects overlap and confuse in the film and can no longer be distinguished. The eerie image creates an extremely grotesque world that invites curiosity like a freak show. "Prison Festival" (1996-2006)

Short film by Hiroko Kobayashi

Short film by Shigeo Arikawa

An animated video for the song “Umi” by Kuchiroro, from the album Everyday Is a Symphony. The video was directed and animated by Yoriko Mizushiri.

Three unbroadcasted exclusive Special shorts of Gregory Horror Show (presented as bonus videos on the first series DVDs volumes 1-3 in Japan only), containing stories featuring Gregory himself as a guide, giving his commentary and thoughts on each of the guests in the hotel, also displaying paintings based around the said guests.

My grandparents left the house they had lived for many years. It contains their memories as well as mine. (Maki Satake)

The memories of my elementary school days came back to me with the warmth of my precious hometown. I tried to recall memories from my old school days.

The virtual dinner series from Japan's K-Network aims to offer lonely guys lessons in dinner date etiquette in the privacy of their homes... or Mom's basement, as the case may be. Features a variety of everyday-type attractive women enjoying a meal and making small talk at the camera, er, at the viewer. The view is face-to-face, as if you were really sharing a tabletop with the sweet young thing. Fortunately you won't have to pick up the check later, but unfortunately she won't be inviting you up for coffee even more later. You win some, you lose some.

Three friends entered a tunnel on a bet...they came out with something...unimaginable.

A three-minute travelogue of a film based on a clear concept and minute calculations. The stills in the filmmaker’s hand and the color of their background… These two images, one inside the other in the frame, are looped together and metamorphose. The lags and flickers of live animation entice as well. It’s the appearance of “the origin of film” through a series of stills.

Often sexy, sometimes profane-but always provocative-Vermilion Pleasure Night is a variety show that stands out even by the offbeat standards of Japanese late night television-required viewing for the Japanophile, the college student, and the urban hipster!

A short story depicting a fierce pursuit of a mouse, a dog, and a fully automatic pest control machine.

The nine guardians take a break from their daily lives and go on a little adventure together.

When we are in the dark, we can see only the sign of the space. The moment the light comes into the room, we can see another space. This space is the incorporated like smoke construction that is composed of the dark, light and time.

Composing images of destruction of huge housing projects by film techniques like panorama, multiple exposure etc. With field sounds.

Mini DV + 8mm film by Masaharu Oki.

Single 8 film by Masaharu Oki.

Single 8 film by Masaharu Oki.

Recap short of the To Heart 2 anime series.

Chibi side story of Koihime†Musou.

This nonsense short drama was created for the film festival "Very Very Short" at the Tollywood Theatre in Shimokitazawa. At that time, the condition was (1) two minutes, (2) insert a date, and (3) within the film include the word of "Sa-yo-na-ra".

monochrome animation

Short experimental film by Takashi Ohashi

Rock Musical BLEACH - Saien, centers around Ichigo Kurosaki becoming a Shinigami, Rukia Kuchiki going back to Seireitei, and the trio of friends arriving in Seireitei, ending when Renji Abarai is defeated by Ichigo. The events that take place are practically the main events that concern said characters in Bleach until about half of the Soul Society arc.