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The 8th DVD release of the new series with even more power!! Contains 6 psychic images.

In the early afternoon of the 11th March 2011, Japan was rocked by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake that caused widespread damage to the country’s eastern coastal region. Just after the earthquake, TV Iwate’s phones had been ringing off the hook with people wanting to know if their families are O.K. As a local broadcasting station, TV Iwate got name lists of evacuees from evacuation centers, took video messages and broadcasted it on their news programs or information programs every day. The length of footages that TV Iwate has shot this region reached approximately 1,850 hours for 10 years. Each victim lives out their life in their way with unresolved grief. Sachiko couldn’t find her husband in the end and took 6 years to accept reality. It was necessary for her to have kept writing countless letters to him. On the other hand, Kayoko and Daisuke couldn’t have a wedding, but they raise twins under the coronavirus crisis. 10 years of progress, we’ll never forget it.

Starting from the beautiful Yokohama at twilight, we will introduce the Bay Area with the silhouette of Mt. Fuji in the background and the sky dyed akane red. As night fell, we flew downtown, looking out over the Keihin industrial area and Tokyo International Airport. The container terminal, Odaiba, and Rainbow Bridge are all beautiful with lights shining on the water. Tokyo Tower is decorated in Christmas colors and Shibuya is illuminated. Shinjuku, Ginza, and Tokyo Station are all full of urban atmosphere. You can enjoy expressive aerial night views of Yokohama and Tokyo, as well as the best visual beauty such as the Tokyo Sky Tree towering over a carpet of light.

The work of mutual transformation that takes place when the self and the other face each other in an endless continuum.

Using a matte box, multiple exposures, and only three rolls of film, Three Cities Winter '19 shows brief but dense portraits of Tokyo, New York and Paris in the same time period approaching the year 2020. While filming the final section in Paris, the camera finally gave out after being rewound dozens of times, leaving the map incomplete. The project was postponed until the artist could return, but going over the footage in 2021 it became clear that they shared a period in time that couldn't be revisited.

A kaiju comes to Earth from a meteor. It is the Great Beast Barrigular!!

An old man is lookng forward to catching a fish and cook a delicious meal. However, he is unable to catch anything and it is now dusk. Just when he was about to give up...

A high school student, who retired from club activities, now start thinking about his future. He has no idea what he would like to do, and worries about his future.

A demon has emerged deep beneath Tokyo. The governor of Tokyo and his escort unit go to inspect but are trapped underground. Surrounded by darkness with nowhere to go, people lose their reason and become consumed by the demon.

BUGAKU is "Samurai Art" --- With a theme of “Bunobi; beauty of martial arts and Samurai cultures” lying underneath, Bugaku is the dynamic and stylish cultural art that combines Japanese traditional martial arts and Japanese traditional samurai culture like Noh-theatre or tea ceremony, both of which Samurai actually practiced and loved.

There was a deaf coiffeur in a small town lined with large ironworks. One day he was called by a gentle owner who runs an ironworks and asked to cut his daughter's hair. The coiffeur did a favor for the owner and went to his house.

The Last Page documents the final days of a bookseller Polan Shobo, specialising in antiquarian books in the Tokyo suburbs. Kyosuke Ishida, the owner, decided to close down his shop after 35 years due to the recession brought on by the pandemic. In the week before the closing day, the shop saw an unexpected surge in visitors.

In this performance, Imai remediates photographic images appropriated from popular magazines into a series of line drawings superimposed on each other. Photographs that Imai took with his camera from female fashion magazines and weekly photography magazines are projected one by one on a large white paper attached to the wall using a 35mm color slide projector which displays each image for fifteen seconds. During the fifteen seconds, Imai traces the contour of selected parts of the projected image with a marker pen. Repeating this process for about twenty minutes results in an accumulation of line drawings overlaid on top of each other. Through the process of fragmenting and taking apart each image, Imai seeks to objectify the information environment shaped by today’s mass media.

A short movie featuring all main Kamen Riders, from 1971 to 2021, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the franchise.

Directed by Kazuhiro Abe.

Despite forming a natural part of the life of half the world’s population, menstruation is still a taboo in many countries. The film A Bloody Taboo shows just how stigmatized it is in Japan. The intimate testimonies of a large sample of women reveal that the unwillingness of the patriarchal society to lead an open dialogue about the monthly menstruation is just a symptom of a bigger problem that is gender discrimination.

Theatre company actor Kikutaro Oyamada makes his living providing a proxy service in which he pretends to be whatever role is asked of him. One day, a woman named Utsumi requests he play her wildlife photographer husband who has gone missing and spend time with her father-in-law over the New Year holiday.

A group of four girlfriends stash a letter in a time capsule when they were 15 years old. In ten years they would see each other again at Christmas and open the capsule again. But things turn out differently when one of the four falls seriously ill.

Ayaka has not been going to school for a fortnight. Her environment has a lot of good advice regarding the importance of going to school, but Ayaka needs something else.

This video series is based on Shasei-cho, a sketchbook by Okyo Maruyama (1733-1795, Japan). The Shasei-cho was copied by various other artists and became a fundamental reference for how Japanese perceive and record the natural world. 蝶 Butterfly was created by photographing actual butterflies in super-slow motion with reference to the composition and drawing style of the Shasei-cho. Each movement is a reflection of the butterfly's behavior, characteristics and personality at the time. This work is a modern-day Shasei-cho that I observed and recorded based on the techniques of the great painters of the past.

We, creatures, just live and die. That's really enough, wonderful and shining. I expressed such an image in this hand-drawn animation. I spent about a year working one-on-one with this work, and was able to produce it successfully.

A tiny life takes on a life or death challenge amid the majestic grandeur of the Tateyama mountain range. Can a swan muster the courage to survive if it is unable to fly? A story sure to deepen your appreciation of life’s power and wonder.

2021 release

2021 release

2021 release

2021 release

2021 release

2021 / Japan / 5 minutes 57 seconds / HD video / black and white / 4:3 / stereo). Short film by Shuhei Hatano.

This is the sixth volume of the "Psychic: Pandemic" series, a compilation of psychic and bizarre phenomena.A man claims to have received a message from outer space.

This is the 70th installment of the “Posted Grudge Spirit Footage” film series.

This is the 74th installment of the “Posted Grudge Spirit Footage” film series.

This is the 77th installment of the “Posted Grudge Spirit Footage” film series.

The 40th 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.

The 34th 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.

The 33th 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.

The definitive collection of terrifying images! Over 80 titles in the series! This documentary horror film series is a milestone in the field of horror filmmaking, with over 90 titles in all, and has been collabolated with various genres such as TV personalities, magazines, and news sites! The contents included in this collection are truly a collection of horrifying images that can be described as a curse unleashed.

This is the second in a series of the most terrifying true-life ghost stories by four popular ghost storytellers. The theme this time is "school". The ghost storytellers actually visit an abandoned school and hold a ghost story session.

A carefully selected horror video supervised by psychic researcher Taketaka Karasuma.

A training potty and a boy are very good friends. One day, however, the training potty realizes that the boy will one day grow up and leave the training potty behind. With me, you will never grow up, for your sake, I'm leaving you.

Nika returns to her hometown Kiryu to announce her upcoming marriage to her family. Since her grandmother has passed away, her father and mother are alone at home. Nika wants to bring a bit of cheer to the family, but their thoughts and feelings are at odds with each other. Then, her mother suddenly disappears...

A night of intersecting love and friendship between four men and women, centred on Minami, a university student who is seeking relationship advice at her senior's house. This film vividly and honestly depicts the day before the earthquake, a time we once experienced, as someone's everyday life, and stimulates the audience's own memories.

During the homeroom in June, the class was informed that Rina was caught up in a incident and can no longer come to school. “Whose fault is it” and “who is to blame?” This is a coming-of-age story of boys and girls who are swayed by youth.

Hazuki works part-time at a movie theater. Though she lives at home with her parents, she no longer even exchanges greetings with her father. One day, Hazuki is invited on a trip to India by a co-worker, but she is less than thrilled.

The name of this film refers to the lectures of two Japanese writers Yasunari Kawabata and Kenzaburō Ōe. In their Nobel prize speeches, directed at the Western audience, they meditate on the Japanese identity and how it correlates with their oeuvre. Tomotosi plays up this classic heritage. The artist delicately intervenes in city rituals via six performances and records his fellow citizens' reactions. In this way, he dissects daily life and the unwritten rules of social interaction in Japan.

Once upon a time, an eyeball born from a tree embarked on a journey of adventures!

Mother and daughter know that gin with oolong tea was their father's favourite drink, but they only learn that he obviously also had a very big heart after his funeral, when they go to his bar and meet all kinds of people there.

Small miracles happen. It is helpful to go through the world with open eyes and to help luck along a little if necessary.

Short film by Ryushin Suzuki

A tribute to the films of Itō Takashi

Short Animation by Huanzi Liu

The protagonist is a glass artisan who has undergone a transplant of an organ generated in an animal’s body. While hospitalized for the transplant, he is asked by his friend A to ‘make a glass vessel out of window glass from [A’s] old house’. After a successful transplant, various things go through the protagonist’s mind while he is making the glass piece.