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This is the first volume of the 2005 edition of the annual "Junji Inagawa's Super Scary Stories" series, "Ghost Stories Legend. It will include seven stories in total, including the first story "The Reason There Is No Mirror," in which Inagawa confesses a terrifying experience with a deceased female owner that occurred in a room of a hotel in Shizuoka, where he was visiting on business.

Snow Troupe's shinjin kouen performance of The Rose of Versailles -Oscar-.

Video from Vicki Zhao's 6th album - Angel's Suitcase. Vicki's first self-directed video.

The seventh and final night of the tournament took place on August 17th, 2008 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan.

Zhang Ming went back to hometown to visit his aunt.

The Yanagawa-gumi challenges violent organizations one after another until a formidable man rises to block their path. This third installment depicts their story from their repeated rapid advances across the length and breadth of Japan to the eventual wave of intensified police crackdowns that leads to their disbandment.

After World War II, in Hiroshima, the Yakuza clans start a war for control of the city.

Sentimental first love story with the winter scenery of Suwa in Nagano and the melody of Bach

Hong Kong movie

Afro-Ken, a dog with a rainbow-colored afro, is a happy dog that does not speak. He likes things that look like him, such as cotton candy. There are different types of Afro-Ken, with different hairstyles, such as a mohawk (called Mohican-Ken), curls (Curly-Ken), and no hair (Normal-Ken).

Two Singaporean girls join together to form the Papaya Sisters, a getai group that sings at performances during the seventh lunar month. Big Papaya is estranged from her mother, who disapproves of her performances, whilst Little Papaya is an orphan who suffers from terminal cancer. The two are assisted by Auntie Ling and her son, Guan Yin. The two soon rise to the top of the Singaporean getai scene singing traditional Hokkien songs, but their fame brings along with it the enmity of the Durian Sisters, a rival group of techno-singing Eurasian girls.

The final chapter of director Mukai Hiroshi's trilogy on the theme of aging, in which "Going West" raised the issue of human memory and "Hometown" addressed the issue of the physical strength of the elderly. "Class Reunion" depicts the "gathering" that fills the feeling of loneliness in daily life. A man who left Japan for a foreign country during the chaos of the post-war period returns home for the first time in 60 years to spend the rest of his life in Japan, embarking on a journey with his former best friend to recapture the days of his youth.

In 1920, in the United States of America, a publication party is being held in a luxury hotel in New York for Shannon McNeil who has made her debut as a fairy tale author. Congressional candidate Patrick Gael comes to the hotel to celebrate the start of his election campaign. An immigrant from Ireland, he has the support of influential political and business personalities including President Wilson, an Irish-American. He is said to be sure of election.

He plays the perfect TV show father for 5 small children, in reality two teenage siblings are neglected.

Botan teaches cello at the music school run by her husband, Yamano. Despite their age difference, they are a loving couple. One day, Asami, Botan's admired senior, begins frequenting the music school as a piano tuner. However, Botan is bewildered by his somewhat gloomy appearance. Asami relentlessly pursues Botan, eventually attacking her like a snake stalking its prey. And there, watching the scene unfold with an ecstatic expression, is Yamano…

Jiang Jie is famous throughout China: the “Chinese Joan of Arc,” in the words of director Zhang Yuan, a communist heroine executed by the Kuomintang in 1949, on the eve of the revolution. Zhang Yuan’s film, a passionately engaged tribute to the 1964 “revolutionary opera” based on Jiang Jie’s life, follows the original closely...The Revolutionary melodrama plot, not that different from Verdi’s 19th century versions, has of course a completely different resonance today. The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) enshrined this kind of “revolutionary opera” — based on traditional Beijing opera, but with substantial stylistic and formal revisions — as the epitome of Maoist propaganda art. In the past ten years, Chinese and Western experts have begun to re-evaluate the art behind the propaganda, to find creativity, and even shocking beauty under the layers of kitsch and repellent politics the works have sometimes embodied. —Shelly Kraicer

Fu-yan, also known as Fujikawa, runs a business producing underground videos that are secretly sold by electronics store owner Umeda and his wife Makiko. One day, he receives a request from Umeda to make a new video. The lecherous old man Kikuchi wants him to make an underground video with him as the main character. Lured by the high fee, Fu-yan boards a ferry with Makiko's stepdaughter, Megumi. On the ferry, Fu-yan saves a woman named Yumeko who is about to jump into the sea. Having failed in life and about to commit suicide, Fu-yan takes Yumeko to Kikuchi in order to make her the queen of underground videos. Filming begins according to the script written by Kikuchi, and with Fu-yan's calming, Yumeko completes the film to the end. Before long, a good relationship develops between Fu-yan and Yumeko, but...

A personal and subjective video essay series on the Korean cinema, consisting of 9 episodes. Its episodes include fragments of memory about Korean films and their ‘field’, actual moments of what is happening here and now, and images excerpted from Korean films. [Ep 1] My Chungmuro (2002) [Ep 2] For March of Fools (2003) [Ep 3] Smoking Women (2003) [Ep 4] Kino 99 (2003) [Ep 5] Song of Keumsoon (2004) [Ep 6] The Creative Restoration of ‘An Empty Dream’ (2005) [Ep 7] Reflection on Kim Gu (2005) [Ep 8] Garibong, Again (2006) [Ep 9] A Short Film about Pre-1945 Korean Cinema (2006)

Hi no Sakana (火の魚, Fish of the Fire) is a Japanese novel by Murō Saisei; it was first published in 1960, and was later adapted into a single episode TV drama that was broadcast on NHK Hiroshima in 2009. The story describes the interactions between an elderly author and a young staffer from a publishing company as they collaborate on a book cover design for the author's latest novel.

Suzuka, a member of a theatrical troupe, lives day by day with her boyfriend who is not on the same wavelength as her. On the other hand, Kai, the vocalist of the band "Burst," is frustrated by the differences between him and his bandmates. These two people, who live completely separate lives, meet by chance and feel a strange resonance. A unique love story with an emphasis on sound and music.

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.

2000 release

A mysterious thriller developed by secret love-hate play around women captured in ruins.

2004 release

Mika, who had a crush on surfer Eguchi since her high school days, has remained a virgin even at age 20. Meanwhile, her childhood friend Junichi's surfing club is planning a training camp at Eguchi's pension...

Emi, a university student, was assigned to her alma mater as a student teacher, but she was troubled every day by a delinquent group. However, she had a sad past that she had left behind at this school.

A mysterious story set in a run-down house where an eccentric elderly lady lives alone. One day, a little girl steps inside the house and never comes back. The girl seems to be locked inside the house for 8 days. No one knows what is going on in the house except for a young doctor who witnesses everything.

Special edition of "The Most Fearful Stories - Onnen Gekijō" by Junji Inagawa.

Ali and Xiao Yu are two teenage rebels idling away their days along the banks of a river in Jishou, a quiet town in Hunan province. They steal motorbikes, bully and rob kids, sing karaoke and get into fist fights outside the local internet bar. But their rough exterior belies a deeper romanticism, and a tenderness unfolds between them and their teenage loves. As one day bleeds into the next in this impoverished rural setting, it becomes apparent that these sun-baked days of misspent youth will be the wildest, freest time of their lives

Probably the first film by Sandy Ding, experimental filmmaker/musician from Beijing, China.

Rinken Band represents the Okinawan pop music world. Director Aoyama Shinji (Eureka), one of those attracted to the band, focuses on the band's vocalist, Uehara Tomoko, in this documentary. The film is made up of her performances at live houses, scenes from recording sessions and interviews in between.

Hong Kong movie

Japanese filmmaker Li Ying directs the documentary Aji (Dream Cuisine), a portrait of master chef Hatsue Sato. In her late seventies, Hatsue is one of the last chefs who honor the traditional cooking style of China's Shandong province. She and her husband, Koroku, run a restaurant in Tokyo, but she really wants to move back to China where she was born. The filmmakers follow her to Shandong, where she does a television interview and meets culinary college president Liu Gwangwei. When the modern chef can't seem follow her old-fashioned recipes right, she decides to stay in China and cook them herself. However, husband Koroku doesn't want to change his location.

A young Japanese girl discovers that she cannot die. From then she will explore the moment of death by killing herself repeatedly.

13th installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

A documentary which follows a group of siblings who eke out their existence from the offerings and other goods found in the sacred Bagmati River.

Hong Kong movie

Rolling Bomber Special is a Web Original that tells the story of Katori Shintaro, and his quest to destroy the world...if the "heroes" of this story are to believed. See, a Sentai team calling themselves Earth Defender Freshman is onto his schemes and will stop at nothing to protect the world and everyone in it.

Satsuki (Tsubaki Nakagawara), who is poor at cooking, collapses after eating nothing but instant food while her husband is away. Regaining her energy by drinking vegetable juice at a greengrocer introduced to her by her friend Naoko (Hotaru Hazuki), Satsuki recovers. The next day, the greengrocer is closed, but when she peeks in from the back entrance, Naoko and the shop owner, Tanaka, are entangled with each other. When Tanaka’s eyes meet Satsuki’s, he gives a suggestive smile…

Episode II "Rum's Squad" (Part 1 & 2) As a result of a childhood cock-up, Naoko has the ability to hear the voice of a man who hates this world directly in her head. With an amulet provided by a friend, that voice became inaudible one day... Naoko grew up and became a female detective in the Jonan Police Department, investigating random bizarre murders. The moment she learns from her mother's phone call that the amulet is broken, a man's voice rings in her head again. The voice leads Naoko to the scene of one murder after another. Is it the voice of Onuki (Kanji Tsuda), who has been committing indiscriminate murders...?

Fight fiercely with a duo of hitmen to protect the witnesses of the trial!

A kaleidoscopic video essay exploring the state of contemporary Thailand.

A man finds a stranded mermaid and brings her to his home and takes especially good care of her.

Mika works as Shogo's housekeeper, unaware of his identity or past. One day, an acquaintance of Shogo's comes to visit her, and she learns about his past and destiny.

Liu Wenhu, the owner of the Liu's Martial Arts Hall in Mount Tai, sets up competitions every year with big money as bait. For several years in a row, he defeated the martial arts masters who came to challenge. So he dominated the country, ran rampant in the village, oppressed the people, and seized the people's daughters. Shi Xiaoyi, the successor of Taishan Stone Art, saw it in his eyes and was angry in his heart.

A young man writes a novel about his forbidden love with his sister, who works overtime in the office on a holiday. Based on the manga of the same name by Naoki Yamamoto, and covering the manga's inspiration source, Juro Kara's "Anjuko's Shoes" and Ogai Mori's "Sansho Dayu".

3 friends look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the trio begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.

A girl who suddenly loses her home ends up moving in with a male classmate (who is actually a cross-dressing internet idol) and tries to escape poverty.