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Security camera footage from an elevator showing a woman's trip to the basement.

“HANABIE.” is a girls' metalcore band whose innovative and hybrid sound—rooted in Metal and Loud music while incorporating dance music and traditional Japanese elements—has been generating buzz. Their major debut release showcases a style so striking that listeners might doubt whether it’s truly a girls’ band. Their January digital single “Osaki ni Shitsurei Shimasu.” gained rapid popularity on TikTok and other social media platforms, drawing attention from early listeners. Beyond appearances at major domestic festivals, the band is set to embark on an overseas tour starting in August, with confirmed performances in Europe and the United States, including spots at prominent international festivals. The limited first edition includes exclusive documentary footage closely covering the band’s journey through member departures and additions, along with rare bonus videos revealing the offstage, personal sides of the members—moments not usually seen in live performances.

This is a video that captures the process of collaborating with a woman who is both a person with a mental illness and a psychiatric care worker, as we discuss her "things she wants to try" and bring them to life. She tells me, an artist, that "artists are skilled at playing in society's miniature garden, but I want to break that "miniature garden." While I cannot eliminate all the oppression she experiences from her "miniature garden," I decided to explore ways to look at her miniature garden together and play without breaking it.

East Of Eden brings a live video. This band consists of Ayasa, Akane Minato, Yuki, Wakazaemon, and MIZUKI. Compiles all the song performed in their first live performance held at Zepp DiverCity on October 8th.

In 2022, the group performed for the first time at the FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL, and the audience went into a wild dance frenzy with their Japanese style festival music which is played entirely with electrical appliances. Now, the first video piece by such an exceptional project is here. Complete recording of the performance they hosted at Kanda Myojin Hall in Tokyo in the fall of 2022.

A rapid overview of the Keihin-Tohoku Line, traversing north to south through the metropolitan area, spanning one metropolis and two prefectures.

Diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, Akiko Shirasaki signed a hospital document stating that she would possibly die within a week. She goes though a remission after a long hospitalization. Her husband Seiji worries about recurrence, but Akiko has started helping other patients in the hospital with anxiety.

Salut is the ship's cook. When he is not sailing, he cooks in the Brasserie Salut on the hill. Today his friend Cumin is coming to visit. Let's cook a special feast! Enjoy the delicious food and the music!

47st entry in the film series "「Iru.」~ Kowasugiru Tōkō Eizō 13-hon ~".

46st entry in the film series "「Iru.」~ Kowasugiru Tōkō Eizō 13-hon ~".

Mercy and Kaori from Mtv, a popular video channel in the psychic world, visit haunted and abandoned places across Japan to verify ghostly phenomena in this series. This time she went to an abandoned village in Miyazaki Prefecture. As they explore the ruins, which remind them of how people used to live, mysterious phenomena begin to occur...

This is the 95th installment of the “Posted Grudge Spirit Footage” film series.

This is the 100th installment of the “Posted Grudge Spirit Footage” film series.

A self-portrait and a tribute to the director’s daughter—in landscape form.

The 63th 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 60th 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 59th 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.

This is the second compilation of a series of videos related to crime scenes and accident scenes that are not available to the public. The footage captures a trip between friends. However, the filmmakers do not seem to be having much fun... In addition to "Accumulating Memories," a total of 30 films were carefully selected from "Crime Scenes, Haunted Accident Properties".

This is the fifth installment of a special program in which guests also bring their own cursed objects. At the beginning of the second half, Mr. Yasuhiro Hayase, prince of the occult world, introduces "Curse Masks. The bizarre masks have even scarier and more mysterious stories than they appear... Moreover, it is said that when Hayase showed the mask at a previous event, several women in the audience complained of feeling unwell.

Toshiyuki Tanaka explains the haunted objects he has brought with him. The first cursed object in the second half of the fourth session is a "cursed wooden mask. The mask, which was entrusted to him by the famous ghost story-telling monk Miki Daigumo Shonin, is said to have been used by a famous celebrity couple who suffered terrible misfortune after wearing the mask on a TV program.

One of the objects that appeared in the latter half of the third episode was a "monkey skull. It is said to be the skull of a monkey used in a folk belief called "Umaya-saru-belief," which is said to be common in the Tohoku region.

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“eternal return / op.1 wonderful world” is an experimental film work, provoking a sense of obligation for the time being. The center of the work is an installation artwork of an Ape represented as an AI, indicating our biological and technological development. Along with the symbolic metaphor, the title pays homage to the philosophical theory of recurrence to navigate the imagination into an unbounded perception.

This is the sixth installment in the new series of psychic video submissions! This work contains 10 of the most terrifying ghost videos that have been caught on film at properties where incidents or accidents have occurred in the past.

Escaping from a pool and running away to the sea.

Shocking video of 5 straight sportsmen dripping semen with real manly sex! Man x man, serious sex in the dorm room, behind the club room. A man's screaming and twisted body. All 4 powerful anal fucks!

Ahmed Alian, Ertuğrul Yunus, and Mamoru Hasegawa are three Muslim men living in Japan, in a journey of self-reflection. Their various perspective and differences in religious practices brings out important discussion about an everyone's specific experience of one single religion.

Here we meet a Japanese immigrant who traveled across the world at a young age and paved a unique path to success.

The fifth of five brand new video vignettes from Maywa Denki, a Japanese musical toy company and art initiative, using MIDI and animatronics to bring their popular Otamatone device and its assortment of associated kawaii noisemakers to life

Reporter Uto has a strong sense of justice and hates lies. When he receives news about an alien abducting a university student in Hakui, Ishikawa, aka UFO Town, he begins an investigation to uncover the lies, but is drawn into a swamp of unexplained incidents

The focus shifts very slowly from the room’s interior to the outside. During this long and steady journey of the gaze, the sounds and sceneries of the indoor and outdoor settings blend into each other, until it becomes difficult to discern which is which.

In the artificial environment of the reed fields, wind and fire—elements of nature—follow the rules of the artificial. As a result, nature is made abstract, giving rise to a new form of beauty distinct from the natural state. For the twelfth film in the series The Stream, I did not limit the stream to liquids, but extended it to include the air. I shot wind, flames, smoke, and clouds as motifs representing the air.

2023 release

2023 release

Live performance using a hand crank projector presented at the retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker at the 2023 Image Forum Festival.

Live performance using a hand crank projector presented at the retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker at the 2023 Image Forum Festival.

2023 release

2023 release

2023 release

2023 release

2023 release

2023 release

2023 release

2023 release

2023 release

2023 release

Documentary on the film Punk Samurai

The people of a certain village were living their normal lives, but everything changed when a humanoid crocodile appeared at the village's only bus stop. The crocodile's name was Kuroko, and she had a special reason for coming to the bus stop: to make friends with humans.

Mo comes to Kobe to visit his old friend Tsuke. Around the same time, Uma, who is being chased by debt collectors like Maeda, is running through the city and accidentally collides with Tsuke... Cause and effect, reaping what you sow. Their misdeeds and the consequences that follow.

One day, Takuhiko Kitamura returns to his parents' house in Gifu. He notices a postcard sent to him by a classmate from his high school days and visits the place pictured on it. This is a drama depicting an exchange through postcards.

A woman looking at a picture on the beach is forced to leave her long-time boyfriend for one reason or another. She quietly leaves home without telling him as she pursues her dream in Tokyo.