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Moe Nagata, one of Japan's leading illustrators and picture book writers, visualizes the fairy tale masterpiece "Oyayubi-hime" while keeping the charm of her original picture. An image-rich fairy tale video.

A history club member commits suicide by jumping off the school building. Hazuki is curious about the mysterious message, so she consults her father, a detective. She infiltrates the club and begins investigating her. The granddaughter of the powerful Hatsune holds the key to the incident. Hazuki is whipped by Hatsune and lured out by her homeroom teacher, Junko, who indulges in her pleasure. Hazuki is then raped and abducted by Hatsune's men. Hazuki had begun to touch the core, but the tragedy and humiliation had only just begun.

Set in 1951 at the height of the Korean War it tells the story of a group of soldiers who are being replaced in the front line after serving their rotation. But on the way home they find enemy troops are about to make a breakthrough and it is up to them to pull together to save the country.

Liu Talu Fah AKA: Young Angel Dir: Panna Rittikrai THAILAND - 1992

Maeng-Ku, a naughty boy of Man Se middle school, gives up going to school and departs somewhere. When he tries to save a little boy who jumps into driveway to pick up his ball, Maeng-Ku loses his life. As he realizes he is dead later, Maeng-Ku reminds what he has done so far.

Original Video directed by Teruyoshi Ishii

A Film by Hideaki Sasaki

With the implementation of the 1988 government policy to shut down and combine small schools around the nation, Doomeal Elementary School in Doomealee Village, Gapuyeong-gun, is designated to be closed.

Experimental short by Jun Miyazaki.

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

"Bye-Bye for Tomorrow See You Again P/SI LOVE YOU " is Hikari GENJI SUPER5 's last concert video. The VHS was released in January 1996. The publisher is Johnny's Family Club .

A psychedelic animation that starts with an irregular ink spread and develops while increasing the degree of confusion.

A boy has been aware of the presence of a girl beside him since he was a child. However, he does not know who she is. One day, a nuclear missile is accidentally launched at Japan. The children play innocently as if they have no idea of the fate that will happen in a few hours. Then the boy meets the girl again... The film tackles the heavy theme of nuclear fear, but instead of shouting hysterically against nuclear weapons as in previous works, it speaks poetically and dreamily. It is a requiem for children who have never known war to continue to be a generation that has never known war.

One day, Matsuo comes across his classmate, Nanao Okuda, as she is about to jump off a footbridge. She explains that she was driven to attempt suicide by the overwhelming weight of her father’s debts and a break-up with her boyfriend. Deeply moved, Matsuo and Saga resolve to do whatever they can to help her. Just then, word reached them of a mahjong match between the Tenma-gumi and the Shuei-kai, with control of their territory at stake. Matsuo and Saga take on the role of stand-ins for the Shuei-kai and throw themselves into this life-or-death showdown!

Short film by Yukie Saito.

Chisato Moritaka 6th Live video 1 Opening 2 LUCKY 7 BLUES (INSTRUMENTAL) 3 {TE-O TATAKO}: [Clap Clap] 4 Rock'n Roll {KENCHO-SHOZAICHI}: [Rock'n Roll prefectural capital] 5 Fight!! 6 {JIMI-NA ONNA}: [A modest woman] 7 {TOMODACHI-NO KARE}: [He is my friend's lover] 8 {Writer SHIBO} [She is aiming to be a writer] 9 {MICHI}: [A road] 10 The Stress 11 {WATASHI-NO NATSU}: [My summer] 12 {KAZE-NI FUKARETE}: [Blowin' In The Wind] ) 13 {WATARASE BASHI} 14 {SAYONARA WATASHI-NO KOI}: [Good bye to love] 15 I LOVE YOU 16 {HAEOTOKO}: [The disgusting man] 17 {WATASHI-GA OBASAN-NI NATTEMO}: [Even if I become a middle age lady] 18 TERIYAKI burger 19 {AME} [Rain] 20 Memories Chisato Moritaka 21 {KONOMACHI}: [Hometown] 22 {Concert-NO YORU}: [The night we went to the concert] 23 {WATARASE BASHI}

Based on the life of Hollywood actor Rudolph Valentino.

Short documentary film for Oriental Time • Living Space directed by Jiang Yue. This was a "demo" that Jiang made for Living Space's new producer, Chen Mang, after the departure of the original producer, Lu Wangping. From the example set by this film, Living Space thereafter developed the slogan: "Telling the stories of ordinary people.”

This is an earlier version of the film A River Stilled (静止的河). It's a documentary film about a young couple who live on opposite sides of the river at a time when their houses are about to be demolished as part of building the dam for the Three Gorges Dam project.

Japanese erotic horror movie from 1993.

A brave little weasel tries to prove its innocence when it's accused of stealing mother hen's eggs and attempting to harm her baby chicks

What is Cosplay? Well, Cosplay is short for costume play, and it occurs when thousands of anime fans crowd a convention center dressed as their favorite anime characters. This encyclopedia gives Western anime fans a detailed experience of this slightly bizarre phenomenon. Features characters from series like Magic Knight Rayearth, Sailor Moon, Sorcerer Hunters, and Evangelion.

Stage play.

This film was the first acting experience for a woman in heels and a tight skirt, who ran, climbed over walls, opened manhole covers and walked endlessly through sewers in eighty-odd shots. It is also quite unusual to have a heroine who does not laugh at all, but she responds well to the demands, which must have been mentally and physically demanding. There is no spectacular action, but rather the endurance-style escapades convey the seriousness of life. The opening episode, in which Kay discovers that her lover is cheating on her, is a fairly well put-together romantic drama, although it is often forgotten because the second half of the film is entirely an escapade. Note that the director's name, the Yokogawa brothers, refers to one person, not several.

As demonstrated by the film's title, Kawanaka has been exploring the theme of “Shishōsetsu” (“realized” fiction) for some time. For the author, there is a personal tension which develops between the self which experiences life, and the self which attempts to record images filtered through time and imagination. (Karen Keane)

"The sulphur-iron mine is located at the common boundary of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou province, with an area of 1774 square meters. The Yong Ning River originated from here, flowing northward 108 kilometers into the Yangtze River. The mine was established in 1950 and its products are mainly exported, with some concentrated uses within in the county. We found this place in the newspaper by accident; it's called Big Tree County. Many years ago, it was part of the forest along the Yangtze River. A sulphur-iron mine was discovered in the 1920s, which started large-scale sulphur smelting. Now the old way of sulphur smelting is ranking first in the country[sic]. On our second day there, in this remote valley in the southern part of Sichuan province with hundreds of thousands of people living there, we met a boy named Tan Cong. We then got to know his family, as well as a local school teacher, and some of the locals smelting the sulphur."

Japanese erotic horror movie from 1995.

A super8 film sketch of a summer in Nagoya, at the beach with an independent film group.

Jun Miyazaki sees himself as a film-maker-hunter. On the frontier between where one ends and another starts, he tries to get hold of his film prey. Waiting patiently and watching minor changes is the motto.

Hyeong-Do and Chang-Min went to same school. Chang-Do is a young man who keeps his hometown while Hyeong-Min leads a twisted life in Seoul with ambitious dream. Using fund of Madam Min, a bigwig, and her friends, Hyeong-Do buys home land a lot to take the margin. As his father dies during this turbulence, Chang-Min determines to take revenge and goes upto Seoul. While he wanders about downtown in Seoul, Chang-Min happened to meet Madam Min's friends and chases them one by one to take revenge on Madam Min.

A lady came back to home. While rest in home, she fell in a phantasmal dream. A dead man's soul came to her and she witnessed his death. She felt sympathized to him and recognized his death.

Experimental short by Jun Miyazaki.

The title of the film, is a symbol of "something easily understood by children but completely forgotten by adults" in Saint-Exupéry's famous novel, The Prince of the Stars. Due to their child-like small vocabulary, today's young people seem to have poor communication from an adult's perspective. However, they know how to feel happiness in their ordinary daily lives and how to share it. The film depicts the theme that happiness is not something to be searched for, but something to be felt, in a soft narrative like a girls' manga, within the three days of four women.

Masayoshi Yamazaki, a Japanese folk singer, walks Mississippi, trailing Robert Johnson's footsteps. Getting a Mojo hand, playing the blues with real blues men, singing in King Biscuit Time, at last he meets Robert Johnson... at his grave.

A man who had diarrhea after eating an expired potato salad wanders into a strange personal space.

Sol Ok is in love with Chol Young. when they ask for his parents' acceptance for their upcoming marriage, she is denied by Chol Young's sports obsessed family for being a mere musician. Can she learn the DPRK state sport of basketball, and win over his family?

Experimental short by Jun Miyazaki.

A normal day turns into a day of adventure when an elevator that carries a boy does not stop where it should.

A woman is crying and falling, torn apart by the lightning of masochism.

8mm film by Tachibana Kaoru

Snce the late 1950s, the state has invested a lot of manpower and material resources to protect the basic life of the Dulong people. At most, there are more than 500 mule horses. They belong to the state-owned "State Horse Caravan" and transport about 600 tons of food and other production and life every year. The materials entered the Dulong River basin to rescue the Dulong brothers. In April 1997, the road leading to Dulong River finally began to be built.Two years later, in 1999, the whole highway from Gongshan to Dulongjiang was opened. At the end of the year, the state-run caravan, which had been established for 40 years and had been managed by the Gongshan County Transportation Bureau, was officially disbanded. All the last more than 150 mules were auctioned.

“I created this film using my favourite motifs and techniques - the surface tension of water, the image of night and time permeating the stone, vertical movement in space, and action cutting to transcend distance. I took my time with it, like bonsai or gardening as a hobby. I repeatedly made and remade it, and there were parts I was still unsure of, but I presented it anyway a year later. That's when the filmmaker Kanai Katsu spotted it. I had an idea based on what he pointed out to me, so I remade that part and the work took its final form. Maybe because I enjoyed making it, I'm fond of this work.” (Isao Kota)

This is a documentary of a trip into the Sacred Mountains of China with Red Pine (Bill Porter) to meet Buddhist and Taoist monks and nuns who live as hermits and practice their religion. These are some of the people about whom Red Pine wrote in his book, Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits.