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The MARZA Animation Planet original short movie "Ghost Tale" is here! 15 years after the release of "Sonic: Night of the Werehog," the ghost are back!! We hope you enjoy the updated CGI and the story filled with laughter and tears (from laughing?!).
From the music of South Korean composer Jung Jae-il, Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante crafts a story of a native woman invoking the spirits of fertility in a Guatemalan forest with ritual fire. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.
A heartwarming story in which samurai, enemies, zombies, and monsters become allies and face something even bigger.
Eunjae, a nurse, reminisces about the days at the hospital while having tea at Seoun’s traditional Korean tea house.
During the seed harvest season in Ban Rabue Village, Ngern is responsible for collecting and storing seeds for the upcoming year. Unfortunately, a group of black-faced thieves attempt to steal the seeds, and Ngern unintentionally kills them. Wanting to avoid any trouble, Ngern, along with his two friends, sets out to find guns and bring them back to protect the village.
An alcoholic and his wife explore a beach site in a strange afterlife. Here they meet a number of odd characters who remind them of their past.
One day, 11-year-old Kaede suddenly collapses during class. After tests, she is diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, beginning a long and painful battle with the disease. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy are nothing but harsh for young Kaede, but her only emotional support is Yoshi, who is battling the same disease in the bed next to her. Around the same time, IT company owner Kengo Yanai loses his beloved daughter to leukemia. As a business owner, Kengo has no choice but to prioritize his work, but the loss of his daughter sends his once happy family spiraling into disintegration. Having lost his family, Kengo's only pride in life is that he became a bone marrow donor.
In modern-day Tokyo, Hayato and Ami, high school students who are in a relationship, get into a fight over Hayato's lack of commitment to their relationship. After they break up, Hayato gets into a traffic accident and falls into a coma. Ami, who furiously blames herself, suddenly picks up the copy of Victor-Marie Hugo's "The Beautiful Pecopin and the Devil" that was in Hayato's bag, and reads it at Hayato's bedside. As Hayato sleeps, he lives out the adventures of Pecopin from the novel with Ami and other figures from the real world taking the place of the book's characters.
An amnesiac old man Zarlyk who after twenty-three years of ordeal in a foreign land, returns to his homeland. Events take place in a village in Kyrgyzstan, where he is brought by his matured son Kubat. Much has changed during his absence: the morals of the villagers, mired in the realities of a changing world, radicalization of Islam, growing crime, and moral corrosive corruption began to consume... Zarlyk’s wife Umsunai, having lost hope of his return, went into religion, married the local authority Jaichy. The bright past invades the already accustomed Umsunai’s life. But nothing touches Zarlyk. An inexplicable passion for collecting garbage replaced him everything. Will the memory return to him and will Umsunai gain lost happiness when they are pressed by tight attitudes and immorality of the clergy, when love has eclipsed recklessness?
Khaotom thinks back to the time he and his grandfather were together again.
A mysterious giant organization attacks an ordinary junior high school student... Who is the boy who is being chased? Why did the Assassin "Moo" save the boy? Can these two escape?
Unaware of his death, Mr. Wu arrives at "Hell Airport" but can't be reincarnated as his daughter hasn't cried for him. To help him, hell messengers visit a film set and try to make his stubborn daughter cry, or he'll be trapped in hell forever.
Juhee, a professor of theater, is diagnosed with a possible malignant tumor at the hospital. She goes back to school and tries to settle her affairs but many people come to her lab out of the blue.
Film director Geum Tae-kyung always thinks of films. Even now, his mind is full of cinematic thoughts.
Unlicensed lawyer, Wan Ting, helps the domestically abused Wen Xiu with all her power. In a society where gender imbalance occurs, these two try to get the law on their side.
Miwa lost her mother in a traffic accident and wanders the streets of Shibuya. Trying to sort out her feelings for her mother, she feels alone wearing her mother’s earrings. Meanwhile, Takako, a high school student who is constantly moving, can’t meet anyone she likes and spends her days lonely and alone. These two meet and communicate while dancing between fantasy and reality. People are alone, but these two find each other. We are never alone.
The true story of Mong Thongdee who won the paper airplane competition in Japan.
In an incredible interplanetary adventure, three young boxers learn how to enhance their individual powers by connecting to each other and to the legendary fighters that came before.
Remake by Quek Shio Chuan
In a Southeast Asian country, the Chinese geomancer Chen Wuji, in his quest to find a cure and save lives, fell victim to the trap set by a tomb-robbing syndicate and lost his life. After Chen Wuji's three disciples, Xiaoman, Dashu, and Bailu, learned the truth behind the scenes, they devised a strategy to unravel the conspiracy of the tomb-robbing group. In the end, they collaborated with the police to bring the tomb-robbing syndicate to justice.
This film takes place during the Republic of China period and tells the story of Mu Yuan, who is on the brink of death. In his mind, he creates a new identity for himself as the police officer, Zhao Ren. As Zhao Ren uncovers the truth of a series of thrilling and bizarre events, Mu Yuan also completes his inner redemption before his death. This is a philosophical story with a gripping plot and about spiritual redemption. The message they’d like to convey to the audience is that only by bravely facing past mistakes and hardships can we truly resolve our inner turmoil and emerge from the shadows, and begin a new life. (Source: iQiyi)
An ecological film that took 17 years to film directed by Ma Jue-ming, producer of "MIT Taiwan Chronicle," documents the research and investigation of Taiwan's endemic mountain salamander species.
THE IDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS 5thLIVE If I_wings. was a two-day live concert event that took place at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo on March 18th and 19th, 2023.
Post-war Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Adults who are swayed by the US military stationed in the country and swayed by US intentions cannot afford to care about children who should be protected. The war orphans, who had no choice but to survive on their own, were used to shining shoes for American soldiers, picking up cigarettes, and sometimes committing crimes. However, at some point, they came across a "cleaning" job. They work hard instead of committing crimes and earn money by being appreciated by people. The orphans begin to regain their smiles through experiences that make them feel like they should be alive. The children started to have a modest dream of "renting a house and living" with their own earnings, but they were attacked by an even harsher reality...
On the Train captures from the birth to the last moment of the railway, 98.2 kilometers long and opened in 1992, crossing southern Taiwan.
To Joo-young, Korea’s first Olympic gold medalist in women’s curling and the skip (captain) of the team, the Olympic medal was everything. She quits curling with a sense of responsibility and guilt after her teammate’s suicide. Living as a high school curling teacher, she accidentally meets Hyuk-soo, the coach related to her teammate’s suicide. After the encounter, Joo-young can’t stand Hyuk-soo anymore as he even threatens her students. She decides to disclose who he really is and starts a new plan with a helper…
Jung-woo is a part-timer at a bookstore. He has a crush on Seo-yeon who works with him. One day while preparing a book gift with her heart, Seo-yeon’s old lover appears in the bookstore.
The discharge of the nuclear sewage has brought great crisis to the environment. A particular mermaid becomes victim to it all.
A coast guard rookie, CHANG, was on patrol when he found a tunnel. He encountered ghost in it, so he ran away in fright. WEI, the senior at the sentry post, was smoking cigarettes calmly. The lights started flashing until the power went out. During the time when they took the shift, a corpse floating on the sea brought all kinds of strange things. It seemed that some kind of force was intervening, and it became more and more out of control...
What will happen to the seesaw affair between five troublesome men and women? The latest masterpiece by director Kimura Satoshi, a new master of romantic ensemble dramas.
“Was last time this hardcore?” Long and Tan, both couldn’t afford the rent anymore. The two went to negotiate with the landlord, only to find out he’d already died on the sofa, with loads of money hided under his bed. So why not just bury Mr. Landlord? Bury him, maybe all the problems will be buried as well. Or...did they just get themselves into a deeper trouble?
Fifteen-year-old So-min is upset that her family has to move after her father’s business flops. Her family arrives at their new home, but even before their possessions are unloaded, So-min and her younger brother head to their old home.
Junior high school student Yuki, a member of a travelling theater troupe, changes schools every month for performances. Because of this, he does not expect to meet people at any of his schools and does not try to make friends. However, when he attends a new school, his homeroom teacher asks him to deliver something to a classmate who hasn't been coming to school, but has excellent grades. By chance, he becomes friends with him, and Ken's ex-girlfriend Maya joins them, and as the three of them spend more and more time together, Yuki begins to wish that they could see him on stage as an actor.
University students Ryoko and Akane get lost on a mountain road on their way home from a hike. They finally reach a bus stop, but there is no sign of a bus coming. Furthermore, Ryoko has an injured leg, and Akane's boyfriend is at a drinking party and cannot come to pick her up. The two decided to hitchhike out of the goodness of their hearts. It seemed reckless deep in the mountains, but as luck would have it, a camper pulled up. From the driver's seat...
Two college best friends, Mitsuki and Umi, sneak out of a party and head to a public bathhouse. In that intimate moment, Umi openly shares her love life, unaware of Mitsuki’s feelings for her. Struggling to contain her emotions, Mitsuki decides to confront her feelings for Umi.
In Northeast China, Shenyang is a city decaying. Xu Lingling is a 25 year old girl suffering from uremia and her life has collapsed. In the height of her illness, her dissolute father has returned, with her best friend Tan Na and former classmate Zhao Dongyang, to take care of her. Though her life is suffering, facing the issues of family affection, love and friendship, she feels she still deserves to live. One day, Xu Lingling decided to for a trip, with Tan Na and Zhao Dongyang, they hit the road.
In Joseon-era Korea, three childhood friends face forbidden feelings as Yoon Ho falls for someone he can't confess to—testing love, loyalty, and tradition.
Making use of her Chinese that she had picked up while living in China, Han-young obtains her tour guide-interpreter's license and starts working as a guide in Korea. She gets used to her new surroundings and gains good results at work. However, she is forced to face challenges and changes as she loses touch with her brother In-hyuk, and the number of Chinese tourists decreases due to political tension between Korean and China.
The children's film "Little Girl Like A Sunflower" is adapted from the novel of the same name by author Shua Shua. Set in a school in Jiangsu, this contemporary coming-of-age story focuses on youth mental health and the cultivation and practice of core socialist values. It tells the story of Mo Li, a “child of the stars” (a term often referring to autistic children), who transfers into Class 5(3). With the care and support of her homeroom teacher, Ms. Milan, and her classmates, Mo Li gradually emerges from her lonely world through a series of heartfelt school experiences: the "Ten O'Clock Appointment," sheltering flowers in the rain, an open class on love, saluting the national flag, a long rope of friendship, and the dream of the sunflower.
Kevin, a young theatre director from Hong Kong, is searching for ideas for his next play with his team, hoping to get funding for an overseas production. Frank, a middle-aged hairdresser in Berlin, is performing his daily routine. Coincidences bring them together, though their friendship is dictated by the parameters of the smartphone. Kevin decides to adapt the stories of the Berlin Wall to the stage, as old memories of living in East Berlin come flooding back to Frank. Shadows, in their literal and metaphorical sense, become the third wheel which silently alters their lives and turns into a story that transcends the boundaries of reason. Through this experimental work, director Terence LI sheds light on the inner space-time of the queer and the displaced.
A singer who has no desire to go to a venue to sing once released a hit song, but then fell into disgrace. He is touched by a message written on a bench he is sitting on in the park... Each director has created a work with a completely different feel based on the same scenario.
Six teenage girls in China learn to ride horses, compete in matches, build friendships, and deal with loss, all seen from a mother’s eye.
A promotional short film showcasing police’s commitment to safeguarding Hong Kong.
Jay, a promising young writer, is about to publish her new book. Geonwoo, Jay′s roommate and lover, works as an English instructor at a private institute and silently assists Jay. Both of them care about each other and are happy as they are. However, Jay’s unplanned pregnancy brings huge changes, causing conflicts between the two.
The 13th sequel to the popular series "Yakuza Emblem Legend".
Aki lived her young life with a baby monster, but got separated from it for some reason. Thirty-five years later, a big earthquake hits her home. As the shaking grows stronger, a giant monster emerges… no longer a baby kaiju, the creature has grown…