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A documentary on the filming of the movie Red Cliff

Arakinema KaoRi Iro Injo by Nobuyoshi Araki. A labyrinth of overlapping colors. KaoRi and Araki's dance.

This deluxe two-disc set captures the entire performance from the 2005, January 4th Yokohama Arena show of the 『 KAT-TUN Live 海賊帆 』 tour of 14 shows through Nagoya, Yokohama, & Osaka. The live disc is packed with their “unique” singing & dancing, & the bonus disc features exclusive interviews. A complete package of the group as they accelerated their momentum!

Because his style was similar to that of Yasujiro Ozu, who was already active at Shochiku, he moved to PCL (currently Toho) in 1933, where he appeared in the talkie works "My Wife, Like a Rose" and "Tsuruhachi Tsurujiro." It got attention. There were times when he was unable to make as many films as he wanted due to wartime film regulations and post-war Toho disputes, but in 1951 he revived his career with Meshi. Since then, he has released masterpieces one after another, including "Okaasan," "Lightning," "The Couple," "Wife," "Anii Mouto," "Sounds of the Mountain," and "Bangiku." The pinnacle of his work, "Floating Clouds," is Kenji Mizoguchi's "Wife." Even director Ozu was impressed, calling it a masterpiece of Japanese cinema, on par with "The Sisters of Gion." He depicted ordinary people in everyday life with an everyday realism that was not influenced by lyricism, and he consistently sought out women as his subjects.

A documentary film-maker gives two virgins each a video camera so that they can film their lives in modern Japan.

Short animated film by Ryo Okawara.

Kiriya Hiromu's dinner show.

Junji Inagawa, a "psychic guide" with a unique storytelling style that doubles the terror of the audience, has confessed for the first time in the media his first psychic experience in his life. What was the hair-raising experience that triggered his many terrifying experiences?

A mysterious clay like figure was found in a construction site. It's actually a space creature in hibernation. F Gang steals it and makes it huge to destroy the city, while sending reborn androiders to fight P-Man...

24 daily suburb stories of a fictional morimotesque town. No real animation involved, the camera unveils through tilts and pans these B&W moments of intrapersonal conflicts and situations where the dialogue gets the star role.

Color short film shot in 8mm

The film explores the hidden face of poverty in one of the world's most affluent and capitalistic cities. Directed by CHEUNG King Wai (KJ: Music and Life), the film follows five Hong Kong families of different backgrounds that receive government subsidies. How do the poor get by in a glossy city that flaunts conspicuous consumption and hides poverty in cavernous public housing estates? All's Right With The World shares the different stories of these low-income families, their daily living conditions, and their ways of celebrating Chinese New Year.

Documentary with reenactment sequences aired on Beijing Television program Documentary in 2001. The personal story and confession from the Japanese lady Hanako Kodama (児玉華子), who once served as the personal secretary for Daisaku Komoto during the Sino-Japanese war.

A love story about a young man with disco music taste who aims to win a dance contest. In the back-country of America, the recently graduated Dennis spends every day fooling around. His only interest is disco dancing every night with his friends. Then one day he hears from a disco friend about the famous TV show "New Years Dance Contest", and resolves to get on it and win.

Third and final installment to the "Grudge Map" series. The scream is fully visualized. A nationwide comprehensive version of Japan that includes all 35 horror episodes, including the latest ghost stories from the 2004 edition.

AGENT ORANGE is one woman's personal journey through Vietnam to try to understand the ravages caused by chemicals in the Vietnam War, and to come to terms with her husband's premature death. Her observation of the way in which Vietnamese families and health organisations are coping with ongoing deformities in children, even after all these years, is an extraordinary revelation, deeply moving and deeply disturbing.

Hasegawa is writing a sequel to his previous novel, based on a true character who murdered 9 people on the street, with the premise that the killer had a brother. The main character in his new novel, Harumi, drops out of high school and leads a quiet life, unable to understand his brother. He is scared that the same blood runs in his veins but is also enraged by the fact that his brother’s life is consumed as material for novels by many writers. A novelist, Hasegawa faces limitations in making being able to make fiction as real and cruel as it is in reality. Hasegawa hears from a witness how a murder happened but he cannot be sure if it is a true event or from her imagination. One day, Hasegawa encounters Harumi… This is an obscure yet attractive film that extends its style from Kurosawa Kiyoshi to David Lynch. The title, A Bao A Qu, comes from a shapeless being that earns its shape as the pilgrim of a true heart near him featured in Indian religion and The Arabian Nights.

2006 release

Firefighter Shi Peng learned that Zhou Yu, the captain of his safety fire brigade, was the hero who rescued himself alone in the fire seven years ago, but at the same time, Shi Peng also learned a fact from others that made him difficult to accept. The hero who gave his fire faith was a "coward" in the fire. What Shi Peng did not expect was

Based on the psychic photographs selected by Ms. Yuko So, who is a psychic and a well-known appraiser of psychic photographs, we will shoot on location in the Izumo region, the sacred land of the gods. An abandoned hotel, an old pond with a legend of water burial, a railroad crossing where there are many accidents of unknown causes, the remains of a graveyard, a cape where corpses wash up, a suicide spot, and so on. Indescribable fear, and bad weather of snowstorms, thick fog, and hail that attack the film crew. Were we drawn to an unknown entrance to the underworld? Or have you touched the wrath of the gods? A shocking psychic photo captured by a camera at a psychic spot.

Using the format of music videos, Zhao films an actor running through the remnants of a traditional Beijing neighborhood that is in the process of being destroyed as a result of urban economic redevelopment.

ANIMA is a dance animation movie representing a human "life."

Naruse Yuzu, the only daughter of the soba restaurant "Naruse," falls in love in secret with Teppei, who works there. But then her father, Gajiro, suddenly passes away, and in his will he says, "If the quality of the food deteriorates, close the restaurant immediately," which worries Yuzu. She works hard to become a master of soba, but things don't go well. Then, Gajiro's illegitimate daughter, Akiko, arrives from America. She's skilled at making soba, and she even exudes her American-trained sex appeal towards Teppei, which makes Yuzu anxious, but...

Chinese movie

Casting a sword with one's bare hands may sound like a crazy idea to many in the high-tech, digital 21st Century, but not to Fung, a stock broker, who welcomes the assigned task that bears special meaning. When Fung is bequeathed a tattered notebook by his father Lang on his deathbed, his life is turned upside down. Tasked with a heavy undertaking, Fung has to think and look out of the box before rolling up his sleeves to forge the sword. Through the tedious process of annealing and tempering, grinding and cutting, he begins to contemplate the meaning of casting a sword, and of the elusive father and son relationship.

Is the path I am walking on now part of a dream or reality? This is the first animation film that is largely motionless.

In the near future, in Adachi Ward, Tokyo, a ‘Welfare Cutoff Squad’ is formed to plug the gaps in the deteriorating public finances. Their objective is to strip welfare recipients of their entitlement to benefits. However, as these recipients would rather live on welfare than work, concepts of ethics and morality are virtually non-existent. Thus begins a sordid battle between the Cutoff Squad and the residents…

1. Hitohira no Hanabira PV 2. Namida no Mukou PV 3. I do it PV 4. Seishun ni, Sono Namida ga Hitsuyou da! PV 5. DOCUMENT SXSW '09

This horror documentary features Yuko Mune, one of Japan's foremost psychic photo appraisers, and Kenjiro Kamijima, a Johreishi, filming on location at Mount Osorezan in Aomori Prefecture. They challenge themselves to take hair-raising psychic photographs at numerous haunted spots that are said to be the closest to the spirit world on earth.

Takarazuka Revue's stage play based on the manga The Rose of Versailles.

Ghostly photographs that lure the viewer to death. Is this really a curse? What did Yuko Sou, a psychic photo appraiser, find in the frigid winds of the northern lands? A documentary of horror!

Taiwanese movie

2004 release

A girl sees every day a woman on a cycle who might be a ghost.

The long awaited visualisation of the original manga

The film is about the life of farmer workers in Beijing, including search the “outlander” how to been in Beijing.

Porn magazine writer Akane has come to attend his niece Yuri’s funeral with his daughter Haruko. He is feeling nervous because the deadline for his articles is approaching. When Akane finds Haruko flirting with Yuri—or what must be Yuri’s ghost—the three of them start playing hide and seek, but soon the innocent game takes an unexpected turn… Drama with an air of immorality taking place behind the closed door of a closet.

Concert film featuring Ayumi Hamasaki's A MUSEUM ~30th single collection live~ . This tour celebrated Ayu's 30th single, forgiveness and included 23 performed songs. All recordings were taken from her eight performances in two different cities over the span of October 11th through October 31st, 2003. This was compiled and released as a film theatrically with limited ability to celebrate her 30th single.

Based on "Psychic Detective Yakumo", which has attracted the enthusiastic support of core fans, this film is a new genre of 'mystery horror'! In this new mystery, Yakumo Saito, a detective who can see the souls of the dead, takes on a murder case.

A psychic, whose child has been kidnapped and murdered, and the staff of a video company who cover haunted places are about to experience terror. Is it real or is it staged? Here is a new form of psychic horror! A found footage film.

A robot with human intelligence escapes from a military testing unit and wreaks havoc in a shopping mall

Hoshino (Toshiro Yanagiba) is the mob-connected owner of a ritzy Chinese restaurant. One evening he’s sitting down in a lavishly appointed private room to enjoy an elaborate multicourse dinner, when he gets a call from a crooked politician of his acquaintance. A long-meditated money-laundering deal is about to bear fruit and earn him a cool 5 billion yen. The gang boss who backed him on this deal will be pleased. He is, understandably, in the mood for celebrating when an unexpected visitor (Izam) arrives — a tall, husky, mincing fellow in dreadlocks, with a gun. He is a hit man sent to whack Hoshino — but for what? The hit man neither explains nor kills; instead he sits down at the table and asks Hoshino when dinner is going to be served. Coolly, Hoshino calls in Chinese for the waitress, who enters, wearing a red, slit dress and an inscrutable expression, with the first course. The longest meal of Hoshino’s life has just begun.

Roads criss cross our landscape, making it convenient for human beings to travel. However, countless creatures also die as a result of these roads. This piece documents South Korea`s first in-depth study of “road kill.” It shows how drivers, who race along these roads, destroy animals` natural habitats and kill them in road accidents. Adopting an environmentalist point-of-view, this film questions the economic logic that girds development.

Short animation from Takeshi Koike for the SMAnime

Multi-channel video installation (4 overhead projectors, 19 TV sets). Yang Fudong captures the poetic sentiment that arises in moments of individual encounter with the real world, and his own expression of the world inside him. His artistic practice engages in a temperamental dialogue with the traditional culture and literature of China. Yang Fudong constructs a potential platform for dialogue and negotiation between the self and external reality. In so doing, he does not propagate ？xed believes or dogmas. His work is based on process, on what he learns from ceaseless study, observation, and involvement with his social environment and the way it relates to the individual.

A group of Robbie the Rabbits of varying colors move through the corridors of a hospital, calmly riding elevators, pushing gurneys, and sitting in silence.

Suicidal Variations shows a woman in a state of total despair after she kills a man. His decapitated head follows her and she decides to escape by committing suicide.

A warm and engaging documentary about young boys training for gymnastics competition.

Nanako, a female teacher who lost her lover in an accident, receives an eerie prank call. From this point on, her every move is spied on by someone, and lewd images of her are spread all over the internet. She suspects everyone, fellow teachers, students, and Risa, her lover's sister and student...

Versailles performing at CC Lemon Hall in Tokyo, Japan on December 23, 2008.

A heart-warming but yet funny story of a hi-school where boys and girls are merged to study in the same class for the first time. The differences between boys and girls bring such a big headache to the two teachers like Sompat and Kaysorn, so they try to teach the students many lessons of life and living.