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Yuka, who had been a mid-level gravure idol, met the young entrepreneur Takafumi at an industry group date and married him five years ago. It wasn’t that she had no lingering attachment to her work, but if she were to continue a job in which she could see no prospects beyond gravure, she chose that it would be better to marry Takafumi, who is called a revolutionary figure in the IT industry.
It is the year 1965. Yu-jeong and Hak-song reaches the marriageable ages. They have the 4th date at the ostentatious Kukje Jungang Cafeteria and feel awkward to talk to each other. Now they find a common point in their ideas.
Hashizume Ladies Clinic in Tokyo. Misako, a female doctor, performed an abortion on Masami, a female college student. This was Masami's second abortion, as she always ended up falling for bad men. Misako advised her to take better care of herself...
Pink film directed by Tarô Araki
The film was shot in two periods. Initially, during Kuo's visit to Ching-wen rebuilding his parents' home, unplanned as a documentary. Later, funding came, but Ching-wen left for Taipei. Kuo returned to Orchid Island, capturing memories of Ching-wen.
Aroka Jom-Ya-Kub-Ya-Jai is the name of the episode of the 7th Bird Bird Show concert, held from 15 - 30 April 2000, performed at the main auditorium, Thailand Cultural Center, Huai Khwang District, Bangkok, for 20 shows. Number of spectators: 40,000, a bird's-eye concert. The first and only time that there will be a musical throughout the concert, with Nat Myria, Nicole Therio playing the lead roles and taking turns performing each round.
Sakai, the chairman of the Ichienkai, has collapsed. It brought great ripples not only to the Kanto region but also to the gangster organizations nationwide. The fierce men of each Ichienkai organization who have lost the restraint of Sakai and reveal the original fangs of the gangsters. Among them, the one who exposed the most ambition was Kurobe, the chairman of the largest organization "Tama Union" in the Ichienkai.
#59 in the series.
Yuto Kawasagi works at a bookstore. She also lives as Hideko Katsuki, newly wed to renowned author Dai Katsuki. She is also Charon, a high-class prostitute working for her lover, gangster Michio Jigen. When Dai discovers her secret life, she disappears, and both Michio and Dai set out to find her.
Setting stage at 1930s London, William (Bill) is a young man brought up in the villages and the next heir to the Earldom of Hareford. This is the story of how Bill grew as a proper gentleman, and the romantic comedy masterpiece between him and his lover, Sally.
Set in modern-day Shanghai, the film follows Lu Min (played by Xiao Bo), a high school student facing the pressure of the college entrance exam. Without a privileged background, his hopes for a better future rest entirely on getting into a top university. His mother, Fangfang (played by Song Dandan), is a thrifty housewife obsessed with winning prizes from TV quiz shows—nearly every appliance in their home comes from her efforts. His father, Dayi (played by Fu Biao), struggles to find stable work after being laid off, failing one re-employment program after another. After briefly landing a job as a bar companion, he ends up in the hospital due to poor alcohol tolerance. Each member of the family is caught in their own test of life, navigating hardship with resilience, like countless ordinary families striving to hold on.
Short animation from Takeshi Koike for the SMAP 2000 Concert Anime
2005 release
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Set in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, the tragic theme of the film is the destruction of millions of lives in the 13 years before Manchukuo collapsed with Japan’s World War II surrender in August 1945, and the years of suffering it brought in its wake.
Based on the comic book by Fuji Mitsuru. There was a direct-to-video sequel released the same year.
11th installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.
Set in war-torn feudal Japan, the Iga ninja make a final stand as the overwhelming armies of Warlord Oda Nobunaga and the deadly Koga ninja approach. This is the ultimate battle to the death where surrender is not an option. Blood-soaked, ninja-powered mayhem from cult director Seiji Chiba (ALIEN BVS NINJA). Stars Ben Hiura (ZATOICHI) & Kentaro Shimazu (TOKYO GORE POLICE).
A young woman works as a waitress in a diner. Her relationship with her boyfriend is unfulfilling and to further complicate things she is obsessed with a large hemangioma, or benign vascular tumor, on her hip (one that we actually never see). One day after she encounters a mysterious man wearing a hood and playing a clarinet she discover a small shack built out of cardboard. She crawls into it and suddenly we are transported to this young woman's interior world, a place where she meets her own doppelgänger in the form of a large doll who bears the same birthmark on her hip.
Atom rescues Bem, a robot soldier who has escaped from a rubbish planet floating in space and is on the brink of death. A warm friendship develops between Atom and Bem, and it continues to grow. But one day, the rubbish planet suddenly begins to approach Earth. There is only one way to avoid a collision with Earth. Only this is... What will Astro do? Will he be able to protect a peaceful Earth as well as his friendship with Bem?
Sugisawa Village in Aomori Prefecture, where a massacre of the entire population occurred during the war. This documentary-style film depicts the horrors experienced by a TV crew on a trip to the village, which is feared as a cursed village.
A witty and heartwarming portrayal of humanism during a life-threatening crisis, the film tells the story of a soldier set against a little girl on the enemy's side during a war.
Five stories of terrifying UFO experiences have been visualized, submitted by the viewers.
Failed in business, Ma and his family go to a strange mountain village to open an inn. No guests arrive at the inn for several days. Finally, some guests come to stay, but they are all found dead the next day. Helplessly, Ma's family choose to bury the dead bodies and continue the business. Soon, more guests come to the hostel.
This tokusatsu action series follows four beautiful female agents who tackle difficult missions using bizarre gadgets and sexy combat suits.
Original video.
Trying to break out of his shell, he forms a baseball team to communicate with the people around him. He posts an ad for the team, “Frustrations” on the company’s bulletin board but no one joins him. Bito swings the bat alone for days until he meets a half-naked woman sunbathing on the grass. He is fascinated with the woman, Mitsuko, and they make love right there. After that, they get married but to Bito’s shock, Mitsuko refuses to sleep with him unless it is outside under the sun.
The story of an odd creature called the Speakerman, who served duty in a small mining village by sounding the siren/megaphone that is his head to tell the workers when it was time for lunch and to alert people in case of a mining accident. When the mine closes, Speakerman ends up lonely and in search of new friends and meaning in his life.
There are two guys are sitting face to face in a basement; Kyung-sin who was caught from intervention in student movement, and a police officer, Joo-joong who’s in charge of torture. The student doesn’t confess what he did and who else involved in the movement and the officer keeps on torturing him. By the way, the police officer spoke out how he’s been working as an informal worker at a police office, which he must work over time without any special bonus and any insurance from work. He’s consoled by the one who he’d arrested.
A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers, who are "always expecting the impossible from the doctor," and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything.
#32 in the King of Minami series. When the failed president of a recruitment company turns to offering fake job titles for a fee, he is targeted by the yakuza and forced to borrow money from Ginjiro Manda. Despite his attempts to escape his debts by declaring bankruptcy, Manda has other plans.
Yuko, Takahiro and Manami share a room, under the rule that they will not get into romantic relationships with each other. The three agreed, but Manami came out as a lesbian. During the welcome party, Yuko gets drunk and gives in to Manami's advances...
The Film in commemoration of the 10 year anniversary of Shinich Hoshi's death and the 50 year anniversary of his debut as author.
When unexpected trouble arises with an account Hama-chan brought in, he's sent to Toyama with his beautiful colleague to fix the problem.
Hong Kong movie
After World War II, a small aristocratic family in Japan has lost all of their money.
Miki works hard with coach Kazama to aim for the world championship, but suspected of doping, the judging committee sets out to investigate.
Taeko, a widow, runs a hot spring inn on her own and raises her daughter, Shigemi. Genjiro, a tough chef, and Miki, a former delinquent, work at the inn. The two have had a long-standing physical relationship. One day, Okada, the managing director of a trading company, arrives at the inn. The night before, Taeko got drunk and had sex with him. Okada aggressively approached her, saying he was divorcing his wife and asking if she wanted to join him. Taeko took a bath to wash away the dirt from Okada's embrace, and Genjiro asked her to use his savings to pay off her debt. However, Taeko could not accept the money. Shigemi, who was listening to the conversation outside, discovered that she was not her real daughter...
A behind the scenes featurette with director Ryuta Tasaki on the making of Gamera The Brave
A beautiful piece of aesthetic work with sweat as a thread. But no one sweats for the same reasons. This ode to sweat, in slow-motion shots with a rhytmic musical accompaniment, presents the daily cycle of a man (and a woman), which is at a certain level also a cycle of life.
Tae-wook and Bo-young, high school classmates who met for the first time in five years, are reminiscing about those distant times.
The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". His movie draws the Tsai Ming-Liang's face during the shooting of his movie Visage, which itself is also a movie within a movie.
This program features three digital short films by Asian filmmakers. Singapore veteran filmmaker Eric Khoo's NO DAY OFF (39 min) records the life of a maid who leaves her husband and baby for Singapore. Darezhan Omirbayev's ABOUT LOVE (38 min) is a bitter love story based on Anton Chekhov's novel, in which a lonely math teacher falls in love with her married university classmate. Pen-ek Ratanaruang's TWELVE TWENTY (30 min) depicts the encounters of a man and a woman on a long haul flight, where they spend the next twelve hours and twenty minutes reading, drinking, eating and watching movies and sleeping by each other's side, as if they are a married couple.
Chinese movie
Born the son of a yakuza boss, Yūmi Izuhara grew up amidst constant brawls. Though he aspired to become a respectable gangster, his impetuous nature proved his undoing, leading him to commit murder detrimental to his group. Consumed by guilt and beginning to lose his way, Yūmi encountered Morita Kōkichi, a chivalrous man who lived by honour.
In the final scene of my last work, A SILENT DAY, a girl was filming herself with an 8mm camera on a railway bridge. Although the film doesn’t depict the incident, she later jumped off the bridge in an attempt to kill herself. Two girls witnessed her attempted suicide, and in this film I am attempting to depict the broken state of their psyches. In this piece, various images have been generated as a result of my professional interaction with a number of young people with mental illnesses, and the unstable state of mind which I have often experienced in recent days - Takashi Ito
