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High school student, Ryoichi, hasn't gone to school since he injured a classmate. He kills time playing videogames alone everyday. One day, Uncle Kiyoshi comes to the house to recover after having tried to kill himself. During the daytime, only Ryoichi and Kiyoshi are in the house. Ryoichi can't stand his uncle’s eccentric behavior; however, he gradually starts to enjoy Kiyoshi's company. From their conversations, Ryoichi learns that perhaps there are second chances in life...

A short essay on the hidden realities beneath the surface of Shanghai.

Dazhongli is one of Shanghai's oldest neighborhoods. Shu Haolun's family has lived there for three generations, enjoying a close-knit, communal way of life with their neighbors. Now Dazhongli and its surrounding neighborhoods are in the process of being demolished to make way for gleaming skyscrapers, towering apartment complexes and luxury shopping centers. In NOSTALGIA, Shu relays vivid details of growing up among narrow alleys and courtyards murmuring with neighborhood gossip, back when Shanghai was still closed to the world. While sharing a wealth of memories, Shu uses his camera to capture the everyday details of his home before they are wiped out forever.

This is the second installment of the psychic documentary series in which Nobuhiro Yamashita and his assistant Yoshimi Nozaki travel to haunted places in Japan in search of spiritual encounters.

Lawson is a magazine editor. His fair and strict personality makes him expose injustices to his heart's content. As a result, the sales of the magazines he work for have soared. In one report, he offended the gangster. He wants to find Ma Hui to buy insurance. Ma Hui found out that Rosen's wrong report led to the suicide of a female student. Driven by a sense of justice, Ma Hui decided to refuse to accept this business...

This extravagant review presents the elegance and grace of the male roles and the delicate beauty of the female roles, all presented with Takarazuka's unique flair.

In 1985 Hokkaido, Akiko gets close to a record store clerk after he lends her his copy of a Yutaka Ozaki album.

In November 2008, a live concert of Macross Frontier's music was performed by May'n, Megumi Nakajima, and Yoko Kanno.

Oosumi, a dummy artist, makes the figure of Mari who is the wife of a gangster called Kurokin. Oosumi decides to run away with Mari, but Mari disappears. One night, Kaako, a musician's wife, meets a ghost cat and she is possessed by Mari's spirit.

Independent film "TUTU" was selected for the "Pia Film Festival".

Taiwan has 20 million inhabitants, and 12,5 million motorbikes. My 747 is the directors personal story, about his motorbike and their life together over the last eight years.

2005 release

Anthology film with 3 stories. Jisatsu Misui (Attempted Suicide), Keiri Onna (Accounting Woman), and Fukushu (Revenge).

Concert film featuring the stars of avex trax on the stage during the a-nation festival held every year in August. This was to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the label avex trax in the music industry.

Tei, a former sailor, is desperate for money. He reluctantly teams up with a group of thieves to rob a pawnshop to gain money for his daughter's school tuition, but the thieves betray him and brutally murder him by decapitation. Fortunately, Noom, a young and cunning thief discovers his head; it's still fresh, alive, even talking.

Hong Kong movie

Ken is an advisor to several companies and is determined to carry out Hitler-style ruthless personnel matters. Therefore, he has earned the resentment of many people, and he has his secretary and mistress Miri, who is a master of Kempo, as his bodyguard. He was obsessed with his ass, and it was his pleasure to tie the string of gut to a boiled egg, put the egg in his anus and have Miri play it with a violin bow. His younger brother, Tohru, was the exact opposite of his older brother, and the only time he was happy was when he buried his face in his lover's ass and cried. One day, Tohru comes across Miri practicing the Cresic Ballet. Fascinated by her graceful appearance, he projected his fantasy of "being reborn from a woman's anus" onto her. Tohru confessed his feelings to Makoto while crying. Meanwhile, Ken is attacked by Akiko, who is after him. The two fall in Miri's response, but Ken, who was lustful for Akiko who was unable to move, raped her.

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.

2004 release

Indie film by Fujiwara Sho, 2001.

In an old photography studio, an old man and a group of young men meet. The old man has seen everything, but is determined to live a full life until the very end. The young men have just begun their lives, but feel aimless, lost and insecure. One man's story is ending, while the young men's stories are just beginning. Between their differences, a lesson on life is found.

Three not-so-bright thieves decide to get rich by attempting the most audacious heist imaginable. Their plan? To raid police evidence lock-up and make off with small fortune in cash. Complications arise from the against-all-odds romance between thief Woo-Jin and lady detective Yun-Ah, computer game rivals since childhood.

2004 release

Erotic straight to video comedy

2009 release

2003 release

A girl called Zero stands in a crowded street, her occupation an assassin. As she completes her tasks one after another, Zero has been feeling uneasy lately. As her code name suggests, she has nothing to prove her existence. She overlaps herself with the vanishing landscape and begins to wander in search of the meaning of her own existence. At the same time, a young man named One is also wandering the streets, and like Zero, he is an assassin. Surrounded by a sense of emptiness, he is unable to find the value of his own existence. One day, the two of them meet as if they were led together. They sense each other, and by touching each other, they regain their existence and humanity. However, the organization feels that contact between assassins is dangerous, and decides to dispose of them. They call in a highly skilled assassin. Their battle for their own existence begins now!

Touring Issey Miyake's design studio and factory as well as spotlighting his garments on the runway, this program presents a total look at one of the world's leading fashion designers. Half innovation, half invention, Issey's use of pleats and twists has opened up a whole new world of possibilities in fabric by exploiting texture and wrinkles. The process of folding and twisting the fabrics by hand, then baking them, is captured on film. Miyake talks about his background, training, and some of his favorite projects, such as designing costumes for William Forsythe's Frankfurt Ballet and outfits for Lithuania's 1992 Olympic team.

This documentary includes footage of KOKIA's tour throughout Europe, starting in Paris, then going around to all the counties and concludes with her returning to Japan. It also includes various clips of her performances throughout Europe. This documentary was filmed between April 2009 until June 2009.

8-channel video installation, 35mm b&w film transferred to DVD. Music by Jin Wang. A freeze-frame tableau in which seven young men and women, dressed in a haberdasher’s ？nest, look outward from a rocky outcrop; boats slowly drifting across placid waters; lush, unpopulated landscapes dominated by mountains. Like all of Yang Fudong’s work, the narrative is loosely structured, favoring centripetal forces over linear paths. Here, glamorous young men and women are slowly pulled together as, alone or in pairs and quartets, they wend their way toward the eponymous bridge to catch a last glimpse of winter snow; the rabbits, parrots, and stubborn goats on leashes that accompany them hint at the dandyish excess of a bygone era.

Idol Lulu begins to feel danger for herself. At that time, disturbing clouds swirling in the sky of Akihabara... Araki was performing a ritual to revive the evil god Arahabaki. For that purpose, the power of Lulu, who was a female Onmyouji 1000 years ago, was indispensable! Now is the time to protect the world as a female Onmyoji!

A behind the scenes featurette with director Ryuta Tasaki on the making of Gamera The Brave

A powerful and emotional documentary about Korean women forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, Silence Broken dramatically combines the testimony of former comfort women who demand justice for the "crimes against humanity" committed against them, along with contravening interviews of Japanese soldiers, recruiters and contemporary scholars who deny the existence of comfort women or claim that these victims "did this for money." In the film, these women demand an official apology, admission of moral as well as legal guilt, and compenstion from the Japanese government. They want human dignity and justice restored to them. The individual testimonies in Silence Broken, combined with unusual archival footage and dramatized images, shatter the half-century of silence and create a collective story filled with soulful sorrow and amazing resilience of the human spirit.

2007 release

1st installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

A psychopathic killer known as Egg Man has been caught, incarcerated and is awaiting his death sentence. Karen, a beautiful and brave police woman, is assigned to the "Egg Man" case to find the whereabouts of a missing dead body. Egg Man meets his cellmate, Prisoner 205. Who is Prisoner 205? Is Prisoner 205 another in-mate awaiting his death sentence as well or an android utilized by the police to collect information about him and his knowledge of the corpse? Who is really manipulating whom?

In a village where black magic is widespread people are haunted by a ghost that they cannot get rid of. One day a black magician came to the village and helped to get rid of the ghost. After that the villagers respected him and called him Ajarn (teacher) Kong the great magician. A rich man hired Kong to kill the murderer of his daughter by using black magic. Not only did he do that other strange things began taking place. The police began to wonder about all of this and hired their own black magician, Ajarn Pan, to assist them in their investigation...

This film is a psychic documentary that uses "Onmyoji" as its subject and focuses on the real-life stories of inexplicable horrors that occur in this world of universal science. Do curses really exist? Is it possible to put a curse on a third person? Is it possible to kill someone with a curse? See the truth with your own eyes.

Hitomi Kogure, has decided to drop out of high school. Deciding to tell her e-mail penpal "Ayumi-chan", her online friend reveals she is joining a cooking class. In order to meet her friend, Hitomi decides to join as well. What happens when she realizes "Ayumi-chan" is not who Hitomi had in mind?

With Siao-lu’s classmate Yu-Tin’s (played by Gigi Lin) help Siao-lu finds coach Chang who trains disabled player. Siao-lu happens to know coach Chang is Jie’s father. Even though she wants to help them to reconcile, she couldn’t find a way. On the other hand, she has her own thinking towards her dream. On her 20 years’ old birthday, she announces her plan of receiving training to her family. Although her mother is against it, with her sister’s help, Xiao-Lu finally convinces her mother with doctor’s approval; her mother approves her request reluctantly Flinging into the training completely, Siao-lu doesn’t pay attention to the change of her body condition. On the eve of the competition, fate forces Siao-lu to compete with time. Can Siao-lu accomplish her dream? Can Jie and Coach Chang reconcile? Can Siao-lu complete the training and the competition with her love and courage in her heart ?

Hong Kong movie

Deng Nan-guang (鄧南光, 1907–1971), Chang Tsai (張才, 1916–1994), and Lee Ming-tiao (李鳴鵰, 1922–2013) are regarded as three of the most important prewar-generation photographers in Taiwanese photographic history, collectively known as the “Three Musketeers of Photography”. Directed by Chang Chao-Tang (張照堂), this documentary revisits their artistic trajectories, photographic styles, historical contexts, and contributions to the development of documentary photography in Taiwan. Particularly valuable are the interview segments featuring Chang Tsai and Lee Ming-tiao themselves, which preserve rare firsthand testimonies from two pivotal figures in early Taiwanese realist photography.

Fei and his companions were arrested for accidentally killing a police officer after taking cocaine. During the interrogation of the police station, he was injured and sent to the hospital detention ward for assaulting the police and disrupting the interrogation room. Yafei's series of atrocities should have been sentenced to death, but she was seen by Inspector Wu of the Intelligence Department's Secret Service Group and thought that she had great potential, so she recommended her superiors to exempt her from the death penalty and let her join the secret service team to carry out the death mission. After Yafei completed Inspector Wu's hell-style training, she was named to destroy the drug lord Jinhao.

Xiu Xiu was abducted from her hometown in Hunan and taken to rural Fujian and raised to be a bride. Twenty years later, she tracks down her biological parents and finds they have fallen on hard times.

Koko, whose constitution improves her competitiveness when she soaks in hot springs, and Tamano, a plain virgin, are rivals about to compete in the Women's Shogi Championship. However, Tamano's skills improve after experiencing a man for the first time, putting Koko in a difficult position.

The making of anime "Paprika" (2006), focusing on its adaptation from Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel.

The movie is about a normal family living in the southern area of Beijing,China. The mother of the family is a elevator worker and has no passion for life, every day she works in the elevator taking the people up and down. After work she goes go the resident of the building to clean to make some extra income. The father of the family was “bought out from the national factory”,-the national factory is not responsible for him anymore- after that he started working in a restaurant as a chef’s assistant. What he like to do is date with his gayfriend. The son of the family is in middle school, who doesn’t like to communicate with other people much, including his mother, father and the rest of his family. The only thing he likes to do is to sit in the internet bar all day long. At first sight this family looks like a very normal family,but because problems often arise the family gets more and more frustrated.

The second original video work following Miki Nakatani's "BROKEN HEART". As with the previous work, Ryuichi Sakamoto's music is directed by Atsuro Watabe. Shot in Paris and composed mainly of "AIR POCKET" and "CHELSEA GIRLS". In the previous work, the film was built with the PV image in mind, but this time, including her private scenes shot in Paris, Miki Nakatani's charm as an actress is fully revealed.

Youyou does not want to take the dance and piano lessons her mom arranges for her. Instead, she wants to perform Beijing Opera just like her aunt.

In this black comedy about the disintegration of a love affair, a young woman's loneliness in the midst of Kuala Lumpur's metropolitan sprawl triggers a tenuous relationship with a naïve salesman who has a tendency to please and over-emote.

A live concert film documenting Schadaraparr's nationwide tour held in support of the album 11. In addition to capturing the excitement of the performances on stage, the film adopts a documentary-style approach, featuring backstage mishaps and candid glimpses of the band members offstage. It also includes interactions with guest artists such as bird and HALCALI.

The back-story of Unicorn Ryuji from 'Kamikaze Girls'