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When hit KBS drama I'm Sorry, I Love You aired in 2004, it recorded high TV ratings, won the acclaim of critics, and quickly became one of the flagbearers of the Korean Wave. The tragic love story of Mu Hyeok (So Ji Sub of What Happened in Bali) and Eun Chae (Yim Soo Jung of Lump Sugar and I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK) made stars out of its leads and attracted an enormous fanbase throughout Asia. Two years later, G&G Entertainment released a 35-minute animated version of the drama, Between of One Year, consisting of highlights from the drama and new scenes dealing with the final moments of Eun Chae and Mu Hyeok's relationship. The script was supervised by the writer of the original live-action drama, Lee Kyung Hee.

To make sure he gets the right ghost photos, Yumei Hirayama, a guide of the bizarre, visits haunted places and birthplaces of urban legends scattered throughout the Hokuriku region. The ruins of an actual inn in Toyama Prefecture... Gravestones in Ishikawa Prefecture, where an urban legend-type curse has been handed down... Tojinbo in Fukui Prefecture, a famous suicide spot... The island 'Ojima' where the bodies of Tojinbo suicide victims always wash ashore. ...How is the result of the ghost photography tour that visited places where the probability of taking ghost photos is abnormally high based on local interviews and information on the Internet?

Faceless Things shows two acts of gay sadomasochistic sex—one acted, the other not—with such bare-faced cheek that some viewers will be repelled.

A special version of the popular horror series that introduces spooky ghost photos. While introducing a number of ghost photos, the true nature of these paranormal phenomena will be thoroughly verified.

When Gina Kim turned twenty-two, she decided to leave her home in Korea and not return. Taking advantage of an opportunity to study abroad, she was anxious to escape her mother’s authority and avoid a similar fate as an overweight, underappreciated housewife. Traumatized by her decision, the filmmaker began to develop symptoms of anorexia and proceeded to document her mental decline and eventual recovery. Combining video performance art with an intimate home-movie diary, this self-documented coming-of-age story demonstrates how video technologies can be used to capture the most intimate, confessional voice of a filmmaker.

A film that reconsiders the modern state of Japan in relation to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S.

Part time worker at a cafe investigates a stalker case that turns into a murder case.

Satoko Yokohama's debut feature and graduation project at the Film School of Tokyo.

Gerard is a playboy novelist in New York, living off of his father and friends' money because none of his novels sell. He's a confirmed bachelor. One day, he gets a letter from his father in Monaco. His father is a very successful hotel owner, and the letter basically states that Gerard is to come home, buckle down and learn the business, and marry a woman of his father's choosing.

Short film about a man who tries to con an old woman.

There are two guys are sitting face to face in a basement; Kyung-sin who was caught from intervention in student movement, and a police officer, Joo-joong who’s in charge of torture. The student doesn’t confess what he did and who else involved in the movement and the officer keeps on torturing him. By the way, the police officer spoke out how he’s been working as an informal worker at a police office, which he must work over time without any special bonus and any insurance from work. He’s consoled by the one who he’d arrested.

A mysterious man, wearing a mask with eyes on it, is unable to go anywhere because he is plugged into an electrical outlet. He sits in an alleyway while various people visit him, curious about who he is and why he is there.

Pedro Costa's segment from the Jeonju film "Memories".

The latest installment in the popular series, which investigates the messages from the spirits that linger in the area, takes place on the Izu Peninsula, where there is a "death road" that is rumored to lead to the afterlife. Minori Honori, a young psychic of the new generation, and Takeo Ikeda, a psychic organizer, take on the challenge of visiting extremely dangerous haunted places.

Ryoko hides herself in a closet after a patron in her restaurant becomes ill from food poisoning & she is held responsible. Her husband and co-owner Daichi attempts to lure her out of the closet. After a violent argument with Daichi, Ryoko seeks out old friend Yuka...

2005 release

2004 release

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.

With the opening up of the economy, grassroots democracy has come. But since the land is owned by the state, the local government actually has absolute control. The so-called democratically elected village chief quickly learns that his role is to cooperate with the government in using land to develop the economy. Power-to-money transactions are open secrets. Due to the uneven economic development in the villages, each has a different story, but the use of land for profit is a constant theme. The filming location is a rural village in the outside Beijing. Less of focus is how villages elect than the mutation after. Faced with huge land assets and overseeing relationships between land, power, economics, social systems, how does a hard-working, upright peasant conduct himself? This film documents the pain: the experience of soul sublimation and degeneration. We see 'birth defects' in this "democracy" — one without checks and balances, grafted onto autocracy.

"The New Book of Mountains and Seas" is composed of a large number of ink paintings, which are finally produced into animation form. The title of the work is taken from the ancient Chinese mythology classic "Shan Hai Jing". In addition to studying the interaction of ancient and modern Chinese culture, the "New Mountain and Sea Classic" and similar works have a dreamlike effect: the clearly depicted images composed of incredible narrative techniques faithfully present the illusion of the world around people. The work strongly condemns environmental degradation, social collapse, and large-scale urbanization. The connection with reality strengthens its political significance.

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 the wake of his father's death, Jinsheng is forced to quit school to support himself and his elderly grandmother, taking a job as a teacher in a poor village. But the only salary the elders can afford to pay him is a black-and-white milk cow. Actual money would, of course, be much better, but the young man refuses to become discouraged. Yang Dazhe, Guan Luancang and Yang Dongjing co-star in this inspiring drama from director Yang Jin.

Should women be ashamed when they breast-feed their children in public? A female film about women's problems and men's taboos.

Two girls, Shinobu Suwa and Tenon Kai are suddenly entrusted with the ability of “Soul Guardian”.

Hana is a woman who works at a CD pressing factory. As usual, she went to work at the factory, where she quietly packed the CDs, and in between, observed the various human patterns that were unfolding in the corner of the factory. On this day, I happened to see a scene where a loan shark-like collection rushed in and questioned the president and his wife. "Hanada is a tutor." On this day, on her way to her home tutor as usual, she met a high school student, put her on the back of her bicycle, and headed home with her. At her house, she begins to put her love motion on Hanada more than usual. Hanataro is a struggling manga artist. A man lives next door who doesn't know what he's doing, but he's interested in a beautiful woman who visits there. On this day as well, he held the cup up against the wall to eavesdrop on the conversation. The three of them were living their usual, unchanging lives, but on this day, they began to feel that something was about to change. (autotranslated)

Gimura, Zenji, Ryuhei, Kakuzaimo, and Bonzo form a punk band called The Armortellus, and they're about to get their chance to debut in the big city. One day, Gimura's sister-in-law, Yuki, moves to Tokyo. She starts living with Gimura's girlfriend, Kyoko, rent free, but she seems to be hiding something. Meanwhile, The Armortellus start recording under the supervision of the director of Sunny Records, Shiro Okida. Shiro speaks highly of Gimura's talent, but Gimura is planning to drop the band and start a solo career one day. Shiro tells Gimura, "If you want The Armortellus to get a major label debut, you have to win a battle of the bands competition and sell out every seat for a performance at Zepp." This was a film collected on a special DVD for Japanese pop-rock band, Beat Crusaders, who all play original characters.

In 20XX, the people who grew giants because of the by-effect of drugs got human experimentations in the Asia defense forces

This human drama follows a woman who sets out on a journey across Japan in search of the heart of her loved one. When Makiko learns that her fiancé, who disappeared three years ago, has passed away, she sets out on a journey to trace his footsteps.

Taking his camera and microphone to the heart of the megalopolis of Japan, the director combines scenes of the Tokyo with on-screen commentary and questions to articulate his vision of a city or to ask questions about it in spite of an audience which may think the questions are already answered and need not be asked or commented on.

A young man called Piroyan has set up a worldwide collection of ghosts for specified jobs. When you want to haunt someone, just tell his company and they'll deliver the ghosts. This movie shows a modern revision of traditional ghosts, i.e. Kuman Thong, Kraseu, Phop... Ghosts are beautiful and wear modern clothes. Kuman Thong wears a superman tee-shirt! A new boss takes over the ghost company ghostkey.com A lady ghost is helping Piroyan and a love affair starts between them. Hopefully Piroyan can use a mysterious ghost book to neutralize the evil ghosts.

Sailor Moon - Decisive Battle / Transylvania's Forest (Kessen / Transylvania no Mori) was the second installment of the Dracul Musical Arc.

This short film shows a quest of two homosexual couples for understanding from the people in their surroundings, through meetings and exchanges on a square in the heart of Beijing.

The second 'Jitsuroku Dainippon Kikusuikai Soryuden' film.

Tin Gin and Ming Li were a poor couple living happily in a village. Tin Gin found an ancient box while he was cutting wood in the forest. Tin Gin brought the box home and opened it. A beautiful genie was released and granted them 3 wishes every month. All they can think of were some stupid wishes (related to sex of course). Tam and Kam Chi were a rich couple living in the same village. They heard about the box and stole it. Tam used their 3 wishes to be the master of the village and all villagers to work for him; and all women to be his sex slaves…

Kano, who has been appointed chairman of the Matsuura Rengo-kai, swears an oath of brotherhood with Kikuchi, a former member of the Kinosaki-gumi, but Kikuchi dies in Kano's place. This incident further intensifies the conflict between Kano and Sunagawa.

Hong Kong movie

2003 release

Sixth film of the yakuza series starring Hiroki Matsukata.

The exciting life of Takashi Iwasaki, the fifth president of the Black Emperor, a legendary fugitive tribe that made its name roar throughout Japan.

A film about a popular neighbourhood in Beijing, and what happened there in relation to the 2008 Olympic Games. Qianmen is a popular neighbourhood in the very heart of Beijing, just south of the Tiananmen Square. In the perspective of the 2008 Olympic Games, the city decided that the six hundred years old neighbourhood has to be “rehabilitated”. It is now in the line of fire of the promoters, and the 80000 people living there are facing drastic (and dramatic) changes. The film follows the rapidly changing life in the neighbourhood for more than a year and a half, from one reality to another, completely different one. Little by little, fragment per fragment, the film is drawing a portrait of a neighbourhood, recording memory of a soon disappearing reality. A story of China today.

This documentary compiles a series of Noam Chomsky's interviews and lectures that address the events of 9/11.

Iki mixes old and new technologies to create a film that evokes both the sights and sounds (hum of cicadas) of a hot Japanese summer. Black and white photographs of a Shinto shrine, summer landscape and an old Japanese-style house provide the backdrop and CGI technology adds the visual interest in the form of an unusual little girl and her ghostly frog companion. The ghost in this story is more a curiosity than something scary, and the use of a fish-eye lens and other distortions suggest both the sweltering humidity of summer and also imply that the frog is an imaginary creation of the young protagonist

The installation is divided over two spaces. The first comprises an audio artwork. It is a light space in which the visitors can change the sounds of the countryside and jungle of Thailand with buttons. While the first space evokes a general picture of Thailand, the second space is dark and focuses on the image, looking at a specific recent event. Here too, the visitor can intervene using hundreds of illuminated buttons, but now he changes the picture. The pictures are borrowed from clandestine recordings of the so-called Takbai incident. A dramatic incident from the recent history of Thailand in which many demonstrators in the rebellious south died when they were transported piled up in military trucks. The event took place on 25 October 2004, but the images are still subject to censorship.

Expanded DVD version of Inagawa Nijusseiki 'Kai' Kanzen Hozon-ban (2003) with a extra recording of the live performance at Sumiyoshi Shrine Noh Theater in Fukuoka.

Based on the manga of the same name.

A collection of short comedy dramas depicting the gradual growth of nurses as they struggle with incidents that occur in the field.

Set in Osaka, Oishi finds himself gay because he couldn't sleep with Kaori, the girl he was dating when he was in high school. Now he is secretely in love with his colleague but that guy is straight. One day he meets a man who claims sleeping with him will give better luck. His popularity does start increasing as he continues his manzai comedy work. However, his colleague wants to quit comedy and marry Kaori since the two were secretely dating.

An omnibus of real-life ghost stories and dramas told by Inagawa himself. Includes "The Girl in the Neighborhood" and three other stories.

A unique horror film from the staff of "The Legend of Sugisawa-mura". Based on requests from the general public, the team decides to conduct human experiments to find out if it is possible to escape from the sea of trees, and if torture really works.

This documentary follows one of the creators of the japanese dance Butoh, Kazuo Ohno, 95, and his son, Yoshito Ohno.

There's a strip called Moebius strip. It seems like a ring, actually, it has only one surface. If putting an ant on the strip, it will never stop crawling. All the beginnings are also destinations on the strip. Humans seem alike the ant on the strip. Worldwide 60 billion people walking on a Moebius strip. Sometimes, men congregate on one side, while women congregate on the other side. However, there are strays keep walking in the middle. They don't belong to anywhere. They walking alone and continuously.

High school Seniors Mok-Lyeon and Byung-Hee have their first sexual intercourse at a cramped and non-soundproof study-room at goshiwon. While Byung-Hee is out buying snacks for Mok-Lyeon, the neighboring man enters the room where Mok-Lyeon is alone...

In this video appreciation, created in 2009, we present filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda’s observations on THE HUMAN CONDITION and director Masaki Kobayashi.