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HKNY was inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities. Garcia draws on the concept of in-betweenness to construct a story of an individual (the filmmaker) reflecting on his position between Hong Kong, his birthplace, and New York, where he resides.
Experimental short by Visual Brains.
Akiko graduated from university's English department and got a job at Kosan Jitsugyo. She worked as a private secretary. Although her managing director, Kayo, is a woman, she is actually a career woman who runs the company. Masako, who works for Kayo, has a hard job, and she sometimes stays up all night.
Sawano married Satomi, a distant relative of his boss at work, Fujimori. Fujimori has a wife named Akiyo, but also a mistress named Rio. Fujimori is being transferred, so he asks Sawano to take over his position so that Rio won't cheat on him while he's away. Sawano has a woman named Hagiyama Ayako, whom he keeps a secret from his wife. She is a seductive married woman. When Fujimori's wife Akiyo finds out about her husband's affair, she seduces Sawano to get revenge... This film, written by Futami Rei and directed by Fukamachi Akira, is a passionate drama that depicts the pleasures of an affair between a married man and a married woman.
The second student film made by Shinya Takeshita at the Osaka University of Arts. This serves as a Godzilla fan film where Takeshita reuses his concept from his previous short, and portrays every character as an homage to classic kaiju egia as well as the jidaigeki drama series.
In a small Thai village, a man turns into a werewolf-like creature during full moons and proceeds to rape women before ripping their hearts out and eating them.
A prep school student who has been dumped by his girlfriend is approached by a middle-aged man and goes on a treasure hunt on a remote island, and wanders into a mansion in the woods where vampire brothers are said to live.
Special performance of Snow Troupe.
Recently, young men and women gather on the "Neruton Tour" which has become very popular, in search of their ideal partner. The overnight hot spring Neruton tour was planned by the travel agency where Ryosuke works. As a tour conductor, he gets to look for beautiful women and peek into their open-air baths. This is Ryosuke's greatest pleasure. Unaware of this, Reimi is working hard to improve her body.
Uno, who was enjoying peeping with his friends in the forest as usual, approaches a couple and steals their panties, Yanase, whose friends are punishing him for going against the law of lewdness, and Uno tries to help him. He gets beaten up. One day, Uno is approached by Yanase to sleep with her..
A story depicting the encounter between a traveling health driver who delivers prostitute gals and the woman who works there, and the subtleties of their minds and bodies. One day, a traveling health driver picked up a strange girl who was hungry. He was fascinated by her beauty and trained her as a prostitute. Although he was attracted to her hard work, he continued to work with her as a member of her staff. However, when she moved to an exclusive club and they no longer met, she realized that there was a hole in her heart...
The Yakuza has two investments in Thailand. One is a factory polluting the environment in Pattaya. The other is smuggling heroin with Thai partners from Burma. It is transported to Pattaya by placing it inside blocks of ice. Once there it is removed and surgically implanted into the “boobs” of transvestites for onward transportation by air to Japan. Unfortunately for them the Thai police know all about their operations…
Kot-ji is born by an affair between a hostess and president Kim of a trading company. Living with her mother, she is unusually smart but envies friends with both parents as she plays alone with dolls or watching TV. One day, on her way home, Kot-ji runs into a woman who offers to take her to her father and follows her. All has been planned by Jin-ah conspiring to make money out of her situation. Dong-jin who is secretly in love with Kot-ji's mother threatens Kim about Kot-ji and get money from him but things do not work out the way he thought. Dong-jin stabs Kim unintentionally and in panic takes Kot-ji into woods. While he quarrels with Jin-ah, Kot-ji makes her way to escape feeling danger. Kot-ji's pure heart moves Dong-jin and he returns her to her mother.
Recorded live at Shibuya ON AIR WEST on December 13, 1996.
The true story of Muen, a Thai woman living in the 1800s under the rule of King Mongkut. At that time, women had no rights. Wives and daughters were bought and sold as if they were cattle. Muen is regarded as being the first Thai woman to stand up for women's rights.
Jack Wilkins is a news writer who prefers to go by his pen name, Ernest Milton. He receives a mysterious invitation to the Cheshire Cat Hotel and takes a week off in order to go check it out. The hotel is a lively if somewhat strange place with curious staff members, and at first Ernest is wary about staying. The hotel manager eventually persuades him, though, offering Ernest free services if he does a favor for another patron. They want him to help break up the engagement of a certain couple, Mary and Charles.
Based on the original novel by Tetsuya Asada, this is the sequel to the legendary mahjong novel, now adapted into a film. Masahira Hino stars as ‘Boya Tetsu,’ a former mahjong player who has given up the game, but returns to the world of mahjong once again.
The missing heir was a blonde! A sexy operation around a phantom blonde girl! A bizarre cautionary game that unfolds over a fortune of 1 billion yen!
Fujiko Yamamoto and Yoko have the same name as a famous person, and as a result, they are quiet sisters who are not good at asserting themselves. Only the youngest sister, Akemi, has an extreme personality, and at the young age of 21, she is divorced and has two children. One day, Yoko is threatened with a knife by a molester on the train and raped in the toilet. Meanwhile, Fujiko is engaged in an affair with her boss, Matsushita. The two feel envious of Akemi's free-spirited nature...
Standing in the way of Hojo and Asami is Secretary-General Isaoka, and a new enemy, the Russian Mafia. The magnificent war between front and back society has finally reached its climax! What is the incurable disease that hit Asami when the secret bond between the two was revealed? Two men work to transform their lives and reshape Japan.
Tsukiko is an elementary school teacher bitter about her students, parents, colleagues, and her best friend who enjoys a shotgun marriage. Tsukiko has only one path left to take.
This is Amsterdam, the city of pleasure. Where there's a front, there's also a back. This documentary captures the bizarre adventures of Yuji Kitano and his undergarment-clad companion, Tsubaki, over roughly one month, primarily in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Neither husband and wife nor lovers, this odd couple infiltrates various hair-raising danger zones in a foreign land, gets involved with shady characters, and somehow ends up attending secret parties... 90 minutes of cold sweat, laughter, and shock.
Meili, who worked at a karaoke bar in Beijing, came to Japan to meet Chiba, a businessman she met there. At the airport, she was mistaken for a migrant worker and a stranger gave her his contact information. To make matters worse, Chiba's attitude when she finally met him was cold, as if her fun life in Beijing had never happened. Furthermore, Chiba had a wife and children. Desperate, Meili contacted the man she met at the airport...
1930s Shanghai. The past is like a fragment of a dream; a painter also uses their reveries to transcend barriers of time and space, approaching or entering dreams. A girl in a cheongsam appears and seem to float, like a dream; she leads the painter out into the morning sun of the old city...
A taxi driver becomes the hostage of two bank robbers. During the getaway the bank robbers have a dispute and kill each other. The taxi driver is left with the loot. In the tradition of "Ground Hog Day" and "Run Lola Run" he makes 3 choices. First, what would happen if he took all the money without telling a soul? Then, what if he only turned in half? Finally, the outcome of turning the money all in.
Kurata, a migrant laborer, works at a construction site. His mother and younger sister, Yasuko, are back home, but Yasuko is practically ill from the shock of being raped. His entertainment is watching underground videos in his cramped apartment, and one of the women featured in one resembles Yasuko. One day, after receiving a telegram informing him of Yasuko's death, he gets drunk and wanders the streets, where he meets Momoko, a prostitute at a shady bar. He is attracted to Momoko, who looks just like Yasuko. However, when he learns that Momoko has been captured and raped by a gang of yakuza, he rushes to the scene...
Mimi-ko, who lives in a housing complex near Tokyo, holds jazz dance classes for housewives in the complex, making use of the dance she has learned since childhood. With her dynamic body, it is hard to believe that she is a married woman. One night, Mimi-ko is initially hesitant to her husband Kiichi's proposal for a night crawl...
A law student receives a phone call from a mysterious woman asking that they meet. When he arrives at the appointed place, he finds the woman dead and he is the only suspect the police have. The student learns however, that events in his deceased father's past will provide the identity of the killer
An anthology film consisting of six stories that seem to capture fragments of everyday life, shot entirely on location in Romania.
Junji Inagawa guides you through a "funeral" how-to video in a drama style. From choosing a funeral home to issuing a cremation permit, we show you everything you need to know about funerals!
Hong Kong movie
The 1998 Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe's production of the Viennese musical Elisabeth
When Fahfad stayed in scout camp, he disrespect the nymph. In return, he was cursed and given the pills whic can reduce human age. He decides to give it to his father. His father’s mistress plan to abduct the child and demand ransom. After that, the story was haywire.
Chang, an international killer, is inflamed by dark tissue, so he clears his past and lives a peaceful life as a dentist. To such Chang, the criminal organization Triyard wants to borrow his power to find drugs that have evaporated in Korea. However, in resolute refusal of the car, he kidnaps his lover, Wing, and offers a condition of exchange for drugs.
The story is about Tsukamoto Yuuji, a young buisnessman and great swimmer, and Matsui Takahiro, who is still attending school and is also a beginner in swimming.
Run for home base. Cross the city and defeat the enemy. In the future, baseball has become a murderous game in which cyborgs, enhanced for baseball, fight for their lives. Today, in a city abandoned by humans, the game is played on the entire city. He literally defeats the traitors and the players of the opposing team who stand in his way, and then he runs, looking at the corpses of the killed players of the same team beside him. He runs for home base. No matter how many people he kills, no matter who is killed, the cyborg player does not scream, does not shed a tear. No, he may just hide the tears that flow behind his artificial eyelids, the cries that are born in the depths of his artificial throat. In order to fulfill his mission to step on the platform. There is a style that can truly be called "near-future baseball hard-boiled".
Kenji Onishi's 35mm feature film.
Countless dwarves appeared from the omelet that the skinhead man tried to eat. They infiltrate the man's brain and finally explode his head. Short animation by Keita Kurosaka for MTV Japan.
A compilation of Kawanaka's representative "Shishōsetsu" series. "The title of my film series, 'I-novel,' is easily misunderstood. The 'I-novel' is a traditional Japanese literary form in which the filmmaker depicts his or her life as if poking around in a box. That's why I didn't shoot it like a regular documentary film. I'm filming everyday life, but it's fictionalized into a scene I've never seen before." -Nobuhiro Kawanaka
Pachinko-themed film directed by Makoto Tsuji.
Misako, dressed in black, sits on a chair at the podium and monitors her students' tests. Her husband, Shinichi, who is also a teacher, had just died the other day, but she had come to school to take an important exam for the third-year class he was teaching. When the test was over, she sat in a daze in front of her husband's portrait. The things that came back to her mind were the acts of love she had made with her husband. The days of her youth when she gave deep throating to Shinichi, her high school homeroom teacher. And the many passionate sex experiences they had after they got married. While thinking about these things, Misako puts her hand under the hem of her kimono...
An obsessive fan stalks and kidnaps his idol.
The life story of Ch'oe Hong-hui. Also known as General Choi, he was a South Korean army general and martial artist who is a controversial figure in the history of the Korean martial art of Taekwondo. In 1972, Choi went into exile in Canada and lived in Toronto until his death in North Korea in 2002.
The Ryuna group's gambling ground was devastated by the Todo group Kishibe group. Tatsunami Ayatsu, acting leader of the Ryuna group, was prepared to fight with the Kishibe group, but responded by arbitration by Masaki. At that point, Kishibe, the leader of the Kishibe group, is killed by someone, and suspicion is turned to Masaki. A conspiracy theory drives Masaki into a corner.
Chronicles ten days spent at a seaside town; five of them with a visiting boyfriend, and five more after the boyfriend's departure.
Based on the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.