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Colored Umbilical Cord

Since childhood, Song Jiale has dreamed of becoming a girl and aligning her body with her identity. Leaving her village at 14, she worked in cities but couldn’t escape her gender dysphoria. For three years, she traveled between Shanghai and home, gathering documents and seeking her family’s acceptance for surgery. Rejected by her father and relatives, she decided to proceed on her own. In the hospital, she found solidarity among other transgender people, sharing care and hope through their transformations. But upon returning home, she faced rejection and hostility, leaving her to confront new uncertainties about her future.

Colored Umbilical Cord

NR 2025
Numakage Public Pool

For over five decades, a beloved Tokyo suburban pool affectionately called “the ocean” offered health, joy, and belonging to elderly swimmers, families, and the local gay community. But when urban development forces its demolition, a wave of grief sweeps through those who called it home. Through powerful, intimate moments, this deeply human story explores loss not tied to death, but to place, memory, and identity. Guided by the five stages of grief, director Ota invites us to reflect on what it means to say goodbye not just to a building, but to a vital space of connection, healing, and shared life.

Numakage Public Pool

NR 2025
To Set a Spirit Free

Inspired by a true incident rooted in Taiwanese folk beliefs, To Set a Spirit Free begins with a religious fish-release ritual that takes an unexpected turn—someone brings a fish home instead of setting it free. Days later, an elderly man named Sheng-Bo mysteriously disappears. A local temple deity declares that he may have blocked a wandering soul’s path to reincarnation—and has been taken by a ghost. What begins as an act of kindness spirals into fear, accusation, and superstition. As rumors multiply and blame shifts from one person to another, the community slowly confronts an unsettling truth: sometimes, there is no one to blame. When facts fail us, what do we choose to believe—and why? With dark humor and quiet spiritual tension, the film explores faith, folklore, and the stories people create to make sense of the unknown.

To Set a Spirit Free

NR 2025
Yakiniku ToRaJi

After graduating from Joseon school, ✕✕ enters a South Korean university. Jihoon meets ✕✕’s family and friends, sharing meals, drinks, and songs together. Through these interactions, he naturally grows closer to ○○, △△, and ◇◇, listening to their memories of Joseon school and their lives in Japan. These exchanges erase the space of everyday life and question the sense of mission imposed in its place: For whom is it really when we label those living ordinary lives with ‘identity’?

Yakiniku ToRaJi

NR 2025
Aether

Kawaguchi's Aether follows on from his earlier film Air (1992), in which he enlarged 8 mm film material, breaking down the image to the level of individual grains and transforming it into a painting. Now he replicates the experiment through a different medium: a digital camera captures a girl walking away in slow motion, and artificial intelligence transforms the enlarged image, finding patterns in the visual noise and thousands of faces in the blurred image. The immortalization of a single happy moment is transformed into a meditation on digital visuality.

Aether

NR 2025
Tenryu Genichiro Retirement 10th Anniversary Event

The Tenryu Genichiro Retirement 10th Anniversary Event: Revolutionary Soaring was a professional wrestling event promoted by Tenryu Project to mark ten years since Genichiro Tenryu’s retirement. It took place on November 4, 2025, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and featured talent from New Japan Pro-Wrestling, All Japan Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling NOAH, DDT Pro-Wrestling, and Dragongate. The event honored Tenryu’s legacy in All Japan, New Japan, and WAR, highlighting his influence on Japanese wrestling.

Tenryu Genichiro Retirement 10th Anniversary Event

NR 2025
ALBERT 7

On a sunny day in the park, Albert, a man deep in thought, suddenly begins a strange form of self-therapy. He asks himself, "Are you sleeping well?" Then, as if moving to the other side of a desk, he answers his own question. Where will this bizarre therapy lead? This story portrays the struggles and solitude of a man grappling with mental health issues. Official Selection, Nasu International Film Festival 2025.This is the first short film officially released by director Yuki Sakakibara (榊原侑希).

ALBERT 7

NR 2025
Taste of Tea

In the summer of 2044, as the “Drone Medicine Delivery Project” was set to launch in the remote mountain villages of Northwest China, the lonely Mr. Ma detained a drone, compelling Doctor Li – on the verge of moving to the city – to make one last visit. On this final mission, Doctor Li delivers medicine to isolated patients. Mr. Ma, in turn, offers him a cup of hot tea. In the quiet of their shared prayer, they silently understand each other’s concerns and bid a final farewell.

Taste of Tea

NR 2025
The Lost Princess

Kingdom of Chiang Mai has been annexed into the centralized country of Thailand in 1894, Chao Doungduen - the princess, now without a kingdom, has staunchly held onto her royal status through her own means. Now, at 89 years old, She diagnosed with Alzheimerʼs disease, her symptoms cause her to live further in the past. She live in a bubble without much interaction from the outside world, while her family move out to live in a big city. Her niece, this documentary filmmaker visit her from time to time. It become somewhat surreal experience like walking into living museum. With her memories fading, will her belief in her superior ʻbloodlineʼ and ʻtitleʼ bring Chao Doungduen any solace in her final years?

The Lost Princess

NR 2025
SEAGNAL: The Ocean's Last Call

The ocean is the beginning and end of all life. Yet now, this vast cradle of life is collapsing. SEAGNAL follows the final signals from the ocean, leading us on a journey to confront the truths we’ve long ignored. From marine debris and ghost fishing caused by abandoned fishing gear to overfishing that pushes marine species to the brink of extinction, and coastal villages sinking due to rising sea levels... Our oceans are dying due to humanity’s unchecked greed, ignorance, and indifference. SEAGNAL follows seven individuals who have sensed the ocean’s warning, asking not just to heed the alarm but to reconsider how we coexist with the sea. The ocean’s final signal, SEAGNAL. Are you ready to listen?

SEAGNAL: The Ocean's Last Call

NR 2025
Prince of Legend

Kanade Suzaku, a student at Royal Phoenix High School, is the heir to the Suzaku Group, a corporation estimated at a worth of several trillion yen. Kanade’s late mother raised him to be intellectual and have an aristocratic nature, the perfect “prince.” Among his peers Kanade is known as the “Celebrity Prince,” adored by members of his entourage Seiichiro Kuon and Gen Kaburagi and many other students. One day, Kanade sets out to check on Kanon Naruse at the request of his father, Toshiya Suzaku, who lives in New York. Kanon is the daughter of Toshiya’s first love, left behind after the death of her mother. She has been saddled with the debts of her own father, working at part-time jobs to make a living. Kanade goes looking for her at St. Brilliant High School, where Kanon is a student. He sees in her the spirit of his own mother, the embodiment of a princess for a prince to love.

Prince of Legend

NR 2025