Discover Movies

38st entry in the film series "「Iru.」~ Kowasugiru Tōkō Eizō 13-hon ~".

Livestreamed performance from the group where they celebrate their bass player Hiro-Chan's birthday

2021 release

Minami Maito's dinner show.

40st entry in the film series "「Iru.」~ Kowasugiru Tōkō Eizō 13-hon ~".

This is the 79th installment of the “Posted Grudge Spirit Footage” film series.

A parasite that breeds on worms and crows. Disgusting, harmful but kinda’ fascinating.

A Japanese indie film by Motoki Nagahama.

As a budding director, Ren has not yet achieved anything proper. It was only the death of his great-grandmother that prompted him to deal with his family on film.

It's a background that I haven't specifically mentioned in this film and that no one can know, but last year a family member who had cancer had part of her body surgically removed. I created this film based on my experience of indirectly feeling that pain as a stranger. I think it was a psychological pain I felt from the painful appearance after her surgery, but for me it was an inexplicable sadness. Practically speaking, we cannot feel the pain of others, though if you physically connect the nerves in your brain to each other, you might be able to feel it. My simulated experience of this pain seemed to me as if some complex neural transmission was taking place which could not be interpreted. While watching the white objects in the film spin and fall, I hoped that time and wounds would melt away, and that someone's physical or emotional pain would heal.

It is said that a god resides in a hundred-year-old tree, and manifests itself in form.

2021 release

Special livestreamed concert due to COVID restrictions

Animated videoclip for the song "Blue Berry Honey" by WurtS.

The 56th popular horror documentary series! ! The contributor's older sister is a housewife. I was troubled by a salesman who visits me in the daytime almost every day, and I tried to shoot it as evidence, but it led to an astonishing situation!

An imaginary exploration of the primitive beauty of fire and light that would have been reflected in the eyes of primitive people.

A student film by MATSUOKA Honoka (Musashino Art University)

A documentary following the Yokozuna Hakuho in the wake of his retirement.

The first year after the devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan.

A boy practices baseball alone against a wall. Then another member of the baseball team appears. The film depicts the delicate relationship between these two baseball boys, team-mates and rivals, in a wordless manner in the unhurried rhythm of hitting the ball against the wall.

When he visits the home of a friend from his university days, he begins to speak passionately about 'giants in Tokyo at night'... Honda's belief in the existence of invisible 'giants' and his withdrawal into a world of one recalls various conspiracy theories in contemporary society. Are the giants his delusion?

data-verse is a data-driven audio-visual trilogy by artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda which marks a two-decade culmination in the artist’s research. The trilogy addresses the layered dimensions of our world, from the microscopic, to the human, to the macroscopic. Through Ikeda’s process, massive scientific data sets have been transcribed, converted, transformed, de/re/meta-constructed and orchestrated to visualise and sonify the different dimensions that co-exist in our world between the visible and the invisible. Each variation immerses visitors in the vast data universe in which we live, capturing hidden facets of nature and the vast scientific knowledge underpinning our existence. This large-scale data-driven trilogy is generated by extremely precise computer programming and features a minimalist electronic soundtrack, harmonised with Hollywood-standard, high-definition, 4K DCI video projections of scientific data onto a large screen.

A series of videos that are not available to the public concerning crime scenes and accident sites. A property is rumored to be a place where people commit suicide in the bathroom whenever they live there.When a real estate agent comes to check the property to restore it to its original condition, what does he see?

A CGI-animated short movie featuring Godzilla and Gamera.

A humanoid fish is walking down the street and saw this sushi stall by the roadside. He decided to order the dish of the day. The chef and owner of the stall is an octopus, and he served a dish shortly after the fish ordered. The dish was delicious, but the meat was made of humans.

“HOPE” is a film about the encounters between three groups of men and women in a public bath in a corner of Tokyo. The public bath in Japan is a special place. It is a public bathing place for cleanliness, but also a place where the local population can meet and socialise. In addition, land prices in Tokyo are so high that poor people do not have baths in their homes. Public bathhouses also act as a kind of social security system, as welfare families are given tickets for bathing in the public baths, allowing them to soak in a large bathtub at a low price. Public baths attract a truly diverse range of people. Local residents of all ages, men and women, sento lovers, foreign workers, LGBT...... attributes are difficult to see due to the nature of bathing naked, so a community of equals of the socially vulnerable is formed in the baths.

55th entry in the 'Sealed Video' franchise from the production team of 'Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video'.

In the summer of the third year of college, Naoya vaguely heads for job hunting. One summer night he meets his friend Yasu and talks with him about fears and hope for the future. As the night grows late, their conversation gets deeper and deeper.

One day a girl and a boy set off to reach their ideal place. However, the girl comes to realize that the place they had arrived was not what she had really wanted. As the scenery around them changes, they find their minds too exist in gradations.

The 41th in a chain of horror ghost stories! Ghost stories are the art of telling ghost stories and spinning tales of terror. A ghost story told by one person stimulates the brain and brings back the memories of another person.

Rika, a young Japanese girl lives with her new French​ husband Isaac in Paris. She finally manages to renew her residence permit after the long struggle through chaotic French administration. However, a man from the Japanese Embassy brings a cruel reality to her and menaces: we have to deal with your parent's situation. She faces the Cornelian dilemma.

“I might be gay,” Rei is told by her friend Kento. In April 2020, a state of emergency was declared due to the coronavirus, and four people, deaf and hearing, are forced to change their lives, but lead a university life. A human drama that depicts a complicated quadrangle relationship where their sweet and painful feelings intersect. Kento likes Atsushi. Jun likes Rei. But Rei is kissing Asuka. And Asuka likes Kento! ? What will happen to this quadrilateral relationship?

Grandfather has suddenly passed away. The relatives gather at home for the viewing. The boy, Yuito, is unable to look at his grandfather's face because of his guilty conscience. Grandpa, I'm sorry. He takes a small step forward to say just one word to his grandfather.

Short by Noriko Koshida.

Yuya is sacked from his job and sets off on a journey with Kaito, an abandoned schoolboy. Through encounters with kind people and a reunion with his mother, Yuya begins to look at himself in a new light. A powerful portrayal of the warmth and bitterness of living with others.

Entombed in a single frame of each second of Super 8 film is the corpse of an ant, illuminated by a small burned-out hole, much like the tunnels within an anthill. A haunting miniature tragedy.

When I was a kid, my big brother became obsessed with the 90s Japanese subculture of teenage guys who were known as "Gyaru-o." His odd appearance totally mystified me so I started to sneak into his room to look for his secrets.

This is the 71th installment of the “Posted Grudge Spirit Footage” film series.

A city where there is no sign of human life at all. When a man wakes up in a park in a corner of the city, he has lost all his memories of the past.

This film is the 5th work of "grained time" series. What I want to express with this series is disassembling and restructuring the human sense. This time, I constructed a series of actions by extracting one frame from hundreds video material. The video materials are shooted in another time, another person of another place. I focus on what is different and what is the same in each frame of the film, and ask what the film is and the boundaries between montage and animation.

Contemporary Japanese painting animation using painting materials such as mineral pigments, mud pigments and metallic foil. It sensuously depicts joy and anxiety, daily elusive emotions and the subtleties of interacting with people.

This animation film proves that a fascinating story can be told with simple means, provided the narrator's fantasy is without limits. The young artist lives in the wooden house at the city edge; among his neighbors are a dead yakuza, a quirky old custodian, and a lady with a son, who hides in boxes all the time. The trouble starts when the protagonist finds a naked girl called Otohime who says she is from the distant future. In 20,000 years, everything is dead on the planet after the nuclear war, but giant computers still produce content using genetically modified dinosaurs for aliens' entertainment...

The tragic life story of a young woman whose chameleon-like character becomes her undoing.

This is the 69th installment of the “Posted Grudge Spirit Footage” film series.

It depicts a third-year college student who is trying to find a job, growing up through an internship to challenge Bosch's autonomous driving technology, and confidently challenging the final interview.

Nao a third-year college student, is troubled by a”hole in her heart” that she cannot fill. Although she is aware that she is spending a reasonably enjoyable life. Nao finds herself surrounded by friends and students, although her mind is overwhelmed by feelings that she cannot express in words.

Envy played only one show after the worldwide release of their critically acclaimed new album, The Fallen Crimson. In February 2020 – before COVID-19 effectively halted all live music worldwide, Envy performed a crazy, sweaty, sold-out hometown show at LIQUIDROOM, the Tokyo venue that has become sort of an extended living room for the legendary band. “We were lucky that we were able to play this one gig before all live shows were canceled“, says vocalist Testu Fukagawa. “The performance itself is a bit rough and we could probably have performed better, but we wanted to send our fresh feelings to our fans by means of this performance, while they can't see Envy live.”

Defensive Momo hunts down "Oni", monsters and demons in human form, with her sword. Together with her clueless friend Kaori, she must prevent the creation of an army of immortals.

Commissioned for S-AIR’s 2020 residency programme, Letter from Sapporo (2021) is a collage film offering a glimpse of daily life in the Japanese city of Sapporo. The film is the product of approximately 16 participants capturing material with their smartphones. Focusing on moments of stillness, intimacy, labour and humour, disparate material is wedded into a compelling and coherent whole by Quaintance’s subtle editing, original music and vivid sound design.

An unexpected snowfall interrupts a hot summer day! What will three friends do when they discover the source of the flurry is a Pokémon in distress?

2021 release