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The title refers to three “female-to-male” men. Ko has been taking hormones for 8 years in the belief that he must become completely “masculine” to be accepted; Han has her breasts removed as part of a process of becoming “ungendered”; while Kim finds that his new male legal identity only opens up new confusions.
Teenagers sneak into a closed department store to explore its haunted house attraction, and are attacked by someone wearing a Chinese doll mask. Is it the mall's legendary ghost, or something else?
A theatrical version of the laid-back CG animated series HAL & BONS, which gained attention through its serialization in the DVD magazine Grasshoppa! beginning in 2001. Hal and Bons, a pair of dogs living on the planet Himadama, spend their days happily drinking beer and enjoying a carefree life. One day, a talking piece of mochi named Mochi-kun arrives to interview them and ends up staying as an unwanted houseguest, leading to a series of unusual events.
Portrait of a relaxed and friendly gay bar in Taiwan in the weeks before it closed due to police harrasment.
This is a documentary on "Tai-ke" male-bonding, and a story about the lost and found of life. The director uses black humor in depicting the lives and encounters of each person through out a period of ten years.
Times were hard in Taiwan after 1949. Thousands of refugees fled to this mountainous island escaping the communist army. Still, Taiwan became a fully self-sufficient country in, for example, rice production. This documentary follows the daily life of old farmers, whose lifestyle and rhythm has not been affected by any of the turbulent changes in the Taiwanese society. tradition, hard work – an almost lost world, which has been keeping the entire society alive for almost 60 years.
2002 Original Video.
Ryu travels around the country visiting mahjong parlors in search of a certain man. In one town, she is taken care of by Yoichi, the second-generation owner of a steel mill, and agrees to play as a substitute in a mahjong match to repay a debt to the yakuza.
Their cerebral arteriovenous veins were invaded by parasitic pests. The children become "merciless zombies" and " kill" their parents and other people related to them in order to take revenge on the adults who have controlled their lives.
The life story of two generations of rural grassroots cadre.
A team of an entrepreneur, an athlete and a student from Taiwan arrived in the Arctic Circle. Through their participation in the 2008 Polar Challenge – a 600 km race to the Magnetic North Pole, they’ve realized their dreams. They experienced hypothermia and attack from polar bears en route.
2005 release
All sorts of people gather at a Korean barbecue restaurant for different reasons. Twenty pairs of shoes are left outside. Because of one person's mistake, the pairs are all mixed up, and...
Color short film shot in 8mm
A serial killer terrorizes a town, stabbing people on the street. The killer hasn’t been caught yet. Shiori Ayakawa, a high school girl, aspiring to be a journalist, dares to investigate the case. She stumbles upon a strange fact. A sad voice was always heard on the crime scene. It’s like a woman singing. Shiori discovers that the song is the same as an idol singer’s. The singer, Mika Shiratori, was singing it several years ago. She went missing after her promising career ended when her face was permanently scarred by an accident. People avoided Mika, leaving Mika hopeless. Losing her sanity, she slit her mouth with a knife and deformed her face horribly. Murder is her revenge on the people who betrayed her as well as the only way for her to escape from the reality. All the people who saw her ugly slit mouth were brutally murdered.
DVD accompanying Juri Ueno's photobook "ao akua" including a short film, documentary, and interviews.
After losing her parents, Kanako moves in with her grandmother in a town by the sea.
On the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, Shawei Village faces harsh living conditions but thrives on a shared love for football. Children play daily in the sand dunes and poplar forests, and the sport brings joy to villagers of all ages. The peace is disrupted when Maimaiti, a reluctant county official, is mistakenly assigned to the village. Hoping for a quick promotion, he falsely claims that if the kids win the regional tournament, they’ll perform at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This well-intentioned lie sparks a wave of excitement. The entire village unites around the dream, turning a simple game into a symbol of hope, pride, and determination.
Hong Kong movie
Hong Kong movie
Photographer Suga (Kenji Mizuhashi) aiming to win the photo contest and Lulu (Sakura Mizutani), a girl who works as a model. Two people who are drawn to each other while maintaining the relationship between the photographer and the model. One day, a mysterious woman, Sayoko (Yoko Kashiwagura), appears in the viewfinder of Suga. Eventually, Suga and Lulu win the long-awaited victory.
Rina Sakurai, a popular model of Koakuma Ageha, a hair and make-up magazine for gals, makes her actress debut. Abandoned by family and betrayed by her boyfriend, Haruka Ichinose comes to Tokyo with her pet turtle, Jimmy. With heaped up blonde hair, flashy fashion, beloved Jimmy, and no fixed address, she takes interviews. But she has no luck on job hunting and becomes a net cafe refugees. One day, she finds a flyer and she jumps into a cabaret. What kind of future is waiting for Haruka?
Pink film directed by Mamoru Watanabe.
Eight years after the shocking documentaries A and A2, which examined the Aum Shinrikyo affair that shook Japan, director Tatsuya Mori finally returned to filmmaking. Documentaries Tell Lies, broadcast on the TV Tokyo network in 2006, was an extraordinarily provocative work that challenged conventional assumptions about television. Watch it and read it, and the way you view television may never be the same.
2004 release
Every 10 years, the duel between the Bat Demon Lord and Chomyuth Mam will be held by appointment But this time, the tournament ended faster than expected when the Demon Lord's beloved disciple attacked the Demon Lord Mam. Causing this tournament to stop And the two made an appointment that they would meet again in the next 10 years.
Nippon Budokan A.I. is AI's second concert DVD, and third overall video release. It contains footage from the last show of her 「What's goin on A.I. Japan Tour」 at Nippon Budokan.
The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.
Moi dix Mois second live DVD contains a full concert filmed in Paris (2005/03/28) as well as other extra videos from the Europe Tour 2005.
Rayca is a girl of the 31st Century where individuals exist only as computer data. She comes to the 21st century to learn about our sub-culture.
In a scene from “Robber South” (2001), which tells the story of a young man in the city making a living as a fruit seller while dreaming of becoming a businessman, the protagonist watches as a subway train pulls into a station, and in an instant the focus of his attention switches seamlessly to a deep blue sky. Compass in hand, he walks from house to house, tracing each door and wall with his fingers, a metaphor for his search for his own place in the city.
Concert film celebrating Otsuka Ai's 5th Anniversary since debut in the music industry. This was held at Osaka-jo Yagai Ongaku-do on September 10th, 2008.
A woman commits a violent suicide in a bathroom, involving the use of Harakiri. "I wonder how it feels to cut your own stomach open. Even though it is very scary, I dream about it as if someone deep inside me is provoking me. Just thinking about what would happen if I had to have my stomach cut off makes my heart pound in my chest. The self-deprecating desire of an office lady who dreams of the pleasure of hara-kiri."
Denied the coaching job he really wanted, a star footballer accepts his wealthy aunt's offer to assemble a ragtag team in a neighboring country.
2005 release
Terrifying tales never told on TV, radio, books, or manga—and ghost stories only partially shared—are finally unsealed! I won't be responsible for whatever happens...
Shy clerk Douglass is ridden by bad luck. He would like to be rich, but his work bores him. So does his lifestyle. One night in his dream, he sees six numbers which are to change his life. The lottery with the highest jackpot in history is about to close the ticket offices...
Risa, a female student who is sexually abused by her stepfather, stays at Tomie's house, a new teacher. However, the gap between Risa, who had lived a selfish life, and Tomie, who was steady, was too large. One night, when Tomie sees Risa having sex with a male friend in bed, she finally loses her temper. Risa, who learns about Tomie's secret love affair, plots an insidious revenge.
Hebei origin, air-force officer retiree, Mr. Chou, now diligently learning Taiwanese, met “Chang Jiang No. 1,” China’s top secret agent during Sino-Japanese war, on a Peking opera’ seminar. Chou’s flat moon life has then been sparkled. He started to talk around about the heroic accomplishments this “Chang Jiang No.1” had done. This person, “who contributes most to China,” gradually becomes Chou’s only mark on the Moon. Is “homesickness” a gene? Inheritable? Transplantable? Can be parted or chosen? Contagious? Needs regular purging like computer viruses? … Through the story between Mr. Chou and “Chang Jiang No.1.” the film uses lively rhythm to represent the interesting homesickness issue. The director adopts a humorous way to re-present these new Taiwanese in Taiwan. As for whether “Chang Jiang No.1” is a real person or not is up to the audience to decide.
Makoto, who doesn't get along with her boyfriend, family, or friends, goes camping with a childhood friend she meets again, but... "We're just bored," Makoto murmurs, and the way she lightly and deeply empathizes with her overwhelmed heart is exquisite.
A musical number starring a hand puppet named Junior. The puppet is controlled by the drunken Professor Dan Petory who explains in puppetry the answers to such questions as why the Earth is blue and why UFOs fly in a zig-zag pattern.
Pink film from Daisuke Yamanouchi.
It was an innocent time, a time for pastel dresses, jukebox music and Elvis worship. Life in Bangkok then was a very different from now, when the boys did their hair like James Dean and the girls wore outfits with an eye towards prudence. At one of the local dances, attended to by all the young people in town, a boy meets a girl. As they dance together for the first time, a love is born. And first loves, in a way, always last forever. But is everything as it seems in this idyllic place and time? For, as she is soon about to discover, looks can be deceiving, and the young man she has just become devoted to may be a lot more vicious, and dangerous, then she ever could have imagined. Is an era of peace and innocence about to end?
To earn money for her daughter’s education, Kei throws herself into her regular delivery runs. When she learns that the driver who did this job before her was Yuta, an old gang buddy, she decides to pay him a visit. Misaki, jealous of their reunion, challenges Kei to a showdown on the road. Before long, the two find themselves caught up in a major incident…
Tia arrives on the island of Marcleida with her trusted sword 'Grandeek,' which holds a spirit within that helps her on her quests. She is soon turned away however. Determined to get on the island, Tia searches for a way past the fences that guard the entrance, as another stranger arrives on the island to take on a mysterious job. Someone has been killing the inhabitants of the island and has the ability to appear and disappear at will. Seems the sword 'Aihorn' has been stolen and the spirit that resides within it seeks vengenance on those who killed its master 50 years before.
A vengeful spirit targets the girls who ridiculed him prior to his suicide.
Aya Kanzaki, a secondary school teacher, was the object of admiration for her male pupils. One of her pupils, Masaomi Odagiri, had viewed her with hostility ever since he was caught shoplifting. One day, irregularities in the teacher recruitment examination were uncovered at the school where Aya worked, and a colleague was arrested. The deputy headmaster, Murakoshi, informed her that her own examination marks had also been inflated.
A large number of letters have arrived at the Curse Video Production Committee. The sender is a person who calls himself "black fox". We can no longer ignore the threatening content and try to contact. It's finally time to put an end to the black fox's curse...
Singer/ actor Jordan Chan showcases his greatest hits in this DVD Jordan Nightlife Concert. The set records the live concert held in Hong Kong Coliseum February 27 and 28, 2004. Centering on the theme of the prosperity of Hong Kong and Jordan's nightlife, the concert features guest appearances by Chapman To and members of Jordan's previous pop group Wind-Fire-Sea. Recall the familiar songs of Jordan including Days of Friendship (track 4), Unhappy separation (track 3), Disqualify (track 2) and God! Save me (track 25).
Chinese movie
Shanju was abducted by human traffickers and bought into the mountains. When he escaped, he met old man Zhongby chance. Old man Zhong brought Shanju home, and his son Shi Gemistakenly thought that Shan Ju was the daughter-in-law his father bought for him, who knew that Shan Ju, with a strong personality, would rather die with poison than get close to him. The misunderstanding was resolved, and Mr. Zhong's family took good care of Shan Ju who was ill in bed, and then contacted Shan Ju's family to pick her up.