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2009 release

Pink film directed by Kyoko Aizome

Special effects makeup artist Inoue Jun meets up-and-coming actress Yamaguchi Rina while filming a movie. Rina is soon cast in the lead role of world-renowned director Akagi Hiroaki's new film, "Eyes of the Forest." However, although filming began 30 years ago, production was suddenly canceled and the project was sealed away by those involved, deemed a curse. Soon, a series of mysterious incidents begin to occur among those involved with the film.

Saeng is helping his friend Nual repay her family debt by once again taking his elephant on the streets. But the money isn't any good so they decide to enter an elephant competition with a prize money more than enough to repay the debt.

Behind-the-scenes production on the 1999 South Korean drama-horror 'Memento Mori.'

Brother Vincent is a successful young Christian man. He seems to have everything going for him with a deep involvement in church, a gorgeous young fiancé, and a flashy new car at his disposal. Unknown to him, his mom Dufie is involved with spirits from the dark underworld and she has promised to deliver them her son's soul. However, penetrating Vincent's faith and succeeding with her evil deeds turns out to be much harder than she thought. It seems as though the only way to get to Vincent is to make him break up with his fiancé and get him involved with an evil spirit in human shape. With her son dating the evil but attractive Natasha, will he fall to Dufie and her spirit companions? His father and the local priest bravely put up a fight to save his soul.

Short film made by Keiichi Tanaami, featured in Tokyo Loop.

Sena, a witch of the Batto tribe who lives in the demon world, one day, Sena is squirming into the human world after a long time coming to the human world after being used by the king! She was in a hurry to finish her errands, but it's hard to come across her hungry monster Yeday!

At an isolated fishing village of Malaysia, a woman’s relationship with her young daughter descends into a path of self-destruction and abuse when she begins to receive a series of strange and mysterious letters from her long-absent husband.

2008 release

Concert film featuring Stereopony's 1st tour A hydrangea blooms on August 22, 2009 at Akasaka Blitz.

35th entry in the popular "Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video" series.

Morning Musume.'s Goto Maki's Graduation Concert held at Yokohama Arena.

A woman who becomes morbidly “clean” by the slightest chance. What is the “last trash” she disposes of...?

Shot while the director was still in college, the film is a remake of the Russian film of the same name. The man's dead ex who had committed suicide appears in front of him. The ghost has a cross-like scar on her wrist.

The popular psychic documentary series "Weird. Unbelievable" introduces submitted ghost photos and explores the haunting truth behind them!

On the island of Okinawa, driven by his kindhearted nature, a boy named Ray determines to stop the destruction of the island's natural forests and coral reef, no matter what he has to give. What will he give to stop a tidal wave from killing the island's people?

Documentary giving a sense of the feelings and attitudes of the residents of Beijing.

Kim Dae-han (a lively, irresistible college student passionate and impulsive) shatters his vow of purity in a single night. The story takes a turn when Go Jeong-woo, a psychology professor well past thirty and still inexperienced, finds herself unexpectedly drawn to her student.

TV special which follows Hakusen Nagashi - Juu sai no Kaze (1999) and precedes Hakusen Nagashi - Ni Juu Go Sai (2003)

2007 release

2005 release

After retiring, Wagatsuma boards a crowded train in the morning, where he witnesses Mia responding to a man's caresses. When the man gets off, Wagatsuma reaches out to her body as if inviting him. Since then, he has not been able to forget about Mia, and while searching for her on the train, he meets Kitamura, who previously knew Mia. Kitamura teaches him the philosophy and rules of groping. One day, Wagatsuma's son, Kazuo, is arrested by the police for groping...

The Advent of Princess Kakyuu (Kakyuu-Ouhi Kourin) was the revision of the previous musical, but it also followed the Sailor Stars arc of the manga.

Michiko and Yukio meet at a bar and spend the night together at Yukio's apartment. As Michiko continues to skip work by faking illness and Yukio doesn't even contact his part-time job, a strange love begins to grow between them as they indulge in their love affair.

Complete the sealing of the dream realm "Nightmare" created by the demonic cult! My name is Yume Kimino. A high school girl living in Tokyo. And "Fool" belongs to "Nai-kei". Code name is "Dream Breaker"

A documentary on stop motion animator Tomoyasu Murata and his work.

The story of a Thai-Chinese couple Yong and Ngak who's been together for 7 years. Yong is a salesman while his wife Ngak is just nothing but boring and old. There're many times that Yong thinks of breaking up, but he swore to his grandfather that he will never leave Ngak or else his life will face bad luck. Later, there is a twist in his marriage life as Yong may has to break the word that he promised to his dead grandfather.

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, a live band active not only in Japan but also on the world stage, began a tour in July 2006 that took them to Europe and Vietnam, performing more than 70 shows in six months. It became the longest and toughest tour in the band's history. This documentary film is a music documentary that follows the 10 band members over a six-month period, focusing on the tour.

Erotic Toku directed by Kazuhiko Matsumoto

Following the release of her best album, this DVD features all 12 of Ami Suzuki’s singles—from her debut “love the island,” the mellow tune “white key,” the iconic hit “Be Together,” and the NHK Kōhaku performance song “Thank You 4 Every Day Every Body,” through to her 2000 release “Reality.” In addition, the DVD includes five previously unreleased performances available exclusively as bonus footage.

The 51st film in the popular yakuza action series starring Takeuchi Riki and Sakakibara Toshihiko.

Visual Kei quintet the GazettE present their Standing Live Tour Nameless Liberty. Six Guns.... Vocalist Ruki, guitarists Uruha and Aoi, bassist Reita, and drummer Kai more than lived up to their image as a high-quality live band during their tour, performing at 34 venues all over Japan. According to the latest news, Gazette will continue their live stroll across Japan during their Decomposition Beauty tour which has been scheduled for November and December.

"Love Matters" is a movie revolving around three main protagonists - 52-year-old Tan Bo Seng, his 17-year-old teenage son Benny and 36-year-old Jeremy, Bo Seng's 'adopted' brother - and their accidental journey in seeking and keeping love and happiness. Bo Seng (Henry Thia) who leads a routine life attempts to revive the passion with his wife Jia Li (Yeo Yann Yann). Jeremy (Jack Lim) lives a colourful life; with "Never to commit" as his motto for love. Benny (Alex Leong) has just started school life and his only distraction is his crush, Jennifer (Natalli) who is his classmate's girlfriend.

"Gekokujyo Xstasy" is a video album by Japanese singer and songwriter Ringo Sheena, released on 7 December 2000 by Toshiba EMI. It contains a live recording of Sheena during her first tour of the same name. "Gekokujyo Xstasy" was the first nationwide tour for Shiina performed from April 17, 2000 to June 7. The live video takes up two performances at NHK Hall and at Fukuoka Sunpalace mainly from this tour. The stage design of the tour makes a hospital a motif like her single "Honnou." The stage setting imitated an operating room, and an ECG Monitor or an anatomical model of the human body, etc. were arranged on the stage, and the synthesizer and the drum set were laid on operating tables. Shiina wears a white dress looks like gauze bandages with which she blinds her body. Four members of the tour band also wear the white coat.

Tired of life, Morita climbs up to a roof with a suicide note. But there he meets the drifter Tommy, who convinces Morita to climb Mt. Fuji with him. Morita begins to learn about Tommy’s past, where he was betrayed by his best friend. The two men, with secrets they cannot tell, decide to face their pasts. -- Nippon Connection

Elton John performs a concert at the Nippon Budokan arena in Tokyo, Japan in November 2001 during his Songs from the West Coast Tour.

This is the latest in a documentary series that introduces authentic ghost photographs carefully selected from numerous public submissions and explores the haunting truth behind them.The film traces the background behind the ghost photos taken and includes unknown horror episodes encountered by people haunted by ghosts.

Never broadcasted feature film by Chinese documentary filmmaker Kang Jianning.

B'z LIVE-GYM 2006 "MONSTER'S GARAGE" is a home video by B'z, released on December 20, 2006. Available on both DVD and Blu-ray, the release covered B'z LIVE-GYM 2006 "MONSTER'S GARAGE" that toured in support of their fifteenth studio album MONSTER. As a bonus feature, the tour documentary OFF LIMITS ~How Two Men Made a Monster~ was included on both editions.

Kakeru, a former elite runner at high school, is chased for stealing food. He is saved by a Kansei University student Haiji, who is also a runner. Haiji persuades Kakeru to live in the old dormitory "Chikusei-so" where he plans to team up with fellow residents to enter the Hakone Ekiden relay marathon, one of the most prominent university races in Japan. Kakeru soon finds out that all of the residents except for Haiji and himself are complete novices.

Set in an old movie theater, this group drama depicts the battle between dying yakuza and salaried workers who have forgotten their dreams.

This work is based on the 2007 Sony Ericsson Foma SO903i mobile advertising idea to extend into a 50-minute fantasy movie with Yuko Takeuchi as Chocolat who's younger sister Noriko met Chocolat's old boyfriend during a storm in a bus stop. They went to cafe and started reminiscing using their mobile phone about Chocolat's death 7 years earlier in an accident...

8mm film by Nobuyuki Yamagishi.

Arhingsaka was born in India to a noble family. Despite his noble birth, his horoscope showed to be born under the sign of thieves, and thus was preordained for a wicked life. On his 16th birthday his father sent him to complete his education and Arhingsaka became the teacher's favorite; the other jealous students told the master that Arhingsaka was flirting with the teachers wife. Deciding to punish his former star pupil, he told Arhingsaka : "You have almost completed your training; there is just one thing left to do. Once you finish your life of suffering will be over, and you will become a Bodhisattva. You must single-handedly kill 1,000 people"

Sanae, a shy and cautious woman, spends her days going back and forth between home and her part-time job, having no experience in love and leading a monotonous life. One day, on her way home she bumps into a woman with flashy looks that suddenly jumped from a side street. Sanae's life begins to change after meeting Ruby, an unconventional woman...

Hu County, in suburban Xi’an, is famous for its peasant paintings, produced in 1958 during the Great Leap Forward. It became particularly famous during the Cultural Revolution, when these works were hailed as model paintings. In 2005, the directors visited the county and interviewed both the painters and their teachers. Comparing different political languages and artistic imaginings across the ages, the film draws on diverse sources: old documentary film clips, new propaganda paintings, Beijing Opera in the local “Qin” accent, and traces of the old amongst the new. All these elements are engaged to help us better understand the painters and the phenomenon of propaganda paintings

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

A woman who has been putting on a facade, not wanting to be left behind by city life, is drawn to a landscape she feels left behind—a ruined mountainside. As she wanders through it, she finds a strange sense of peace, and eventually, she liberates herself and falls into the abyss of sensuality.

Tsai Ming-liang designed this short film as a farewell to his friend Simon Field, who was about to leave his position as director of the Rotterdam Festival after eight years in office. The piece follows two dogs roaming the Tamshui River in Taipei, accompanied by the director's voice-over as he reads a written dedication for Field.

Schaedler's film tells the fascinating story of Tibetan monk Gendun Choephel whose robes ultimately proved to be too constricting for his imagination and intellect. Born in 1903, Choephel left an indelible mark on Tibetan culture and became an icon for young Tibetans today. Because of his political views he was persecuted by the Tibetan government and died a broken man in 1951. The film follows in the footsteps of the rebel monk whose intellect challenged the ancient traditions of old Tibet. Journeying through Tibet and India, “Angry Monk” provides a vivid picture of Tibet that is in refreshing contrast to its often idealized and esoteric image.

Middle-aged salaryman Soichi encounters a strange man named Aoki at a bar he stops at on his way home from work. Aoki is a trainer who cultivates perfect submissive women. Aoki asks Soichi to marry Miyako, a submissive woman he has trained. Though skeptical, Soichi takes Miyako home, but gradually finds himself becoming infatuated with her...