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A polar bear who is very bored with various marine animals in the deep blue sea. It continues an ancient tradition of "Caricatures of Frolicking animals" in scroll painting-style; this time, "Frolicking Sea Animals," in animation form, with a play on Japanese and English language word-plays: "Hokyoku-Guma Suggoku Hima. / Polar bear bears boredom", "Kawauso Kawaisou./Other otter, poor otter," etc.

Chang-hyeon, a transgender prostitute encounters a visitor who seems both familiar and alienated to him.

Heavy rain has been hitting the facades of Tokyo. Masahiro is alone in his office. He calls his wife, who doesn’t seem to be excited about her husband’s overtime. He falls asleep on the computer during his monotonous paperwork. He has a nightmare. When he wakes up, nothing seems the way it used to be.

The story of "Monsters" begins with an expert surgeon seeking help from a psychologist. To solve the nightmare that has haunted him for 20 years, Liu Hao comes to the private house of the secret doctor Lee for assistance. But, with Lee getting closer to Liu's darkest soul, he is getting a diagnosis that he can't even control.

I read a fairy tale called "The Girl Who Destroyed the World." The girl's name is Marin. The word means "sea". Marin was born as the daughter of the king of Aska. She was supposed to live a bright life as a lovely princess, but she soon closed her heart and began to wish for the end of the world.

The boy’s father devoted his whole life to this old movie theatre, and now it’s about to be destroyed.On the eve of the destruction, the boy crosses the demolition zone barriers and walks into the abandoned and desolate movie theater that was once so full of voices. For this one last time, the son and his father watch a film together in this cinema that holds so many memories.

The protagonist escapes Earth after a global nuclear destruction to find a new planet to live on but finds that he/she always returns to it to learn life's profound lesson.

Lu Jingsheng, a young analyst from the China Securities Regulatory Commission, who was going to study in the United States was sent to Lankao to help the poor. He didn't want to become an "enemy" with Fan Zhongzhou, the deputy secretary of the county party committee. The young man, who is determined to find a way out of China's rural areas in academia, runs into a "dirtbag" top boss who came from the grassroots step by step, and who accompanied the old secretary to Beijing 12 years ago to wear the "poor county" hat. Lu Jingsheng volunteered to go to Bazhuang, the poorest village in the county, as the first secretary. The emotional crisis between him and his girlfriend also broke out, and Lu Jingsheng was on the verge of collapse.

This film about an expert griller working at one of the original and oldest Robata-yaki restaurants in Japan subtly refers to indigenous Ainu culture, as well as envisages the environmental movement in contemporary society

24 follows the journey of a deceased sound recordist through twenty-four diverse environments after his death. These include a forest, a theatre, a cinema, a temple, a cemetery, a truck carrying migrant workers, an apartment bathroom – and the set of a gay pornographic film.

In the era of 7.2 million baby boomers, nine female high school alumni from 1958, Year of the Dog, have lived different lives for 40 years after their high school graduation. After 40 years, they meet at a girls’ high school reunion to realize their dreams, and to fulfill those that they have not achieved.

FFF - Ludwig van Beethoven instigated a musical revolution of such historical proportions that we still know his name today. And yet the man bearing that name was visited by misfortune of all kinds: lost love, loneliness, hearing loss... Even so, he was able to produce his Ninth Symphony featuring the singing of "Ode to Joy." But how? Silk Road - From west to east, from east to west, the Silk Road, a trade route carrying culture, civilization, and people, connected Western Europe with Asia over land and sea. A bandit preying on merchants traveling the route obtains a blue diamond. However, it is in fact the lost eye of the Indian goddess Sita. The jewel has changed hands on countless occasions, at times bringing good fortune to its owner, at other times tragic doom. Having roamed the Silk Road since the long distant past, the Eye of Sita invites the bandit on a journey through the copious memories dwelling behind its dazzling facets.

This documentary follows a public housing complex set to be demolished in 2017 to make way for the reconstruction of the National Stadium in preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Primarily a housing complex for the elderly, the residents average 65 years of age or older. Many live alone, and for decades they had lived together in harmony, helping one another through daily life.

Following an accident that the grandpa of the family slipped in a public bathhouse and couldn't be cured, an ordinary, modern Chinese family - composed of four generations from grandma to great granddaughter - struggles to confront their respective challenges at different life stages.

In a neo-futuristic Japan, humans are able to mass-produce clones as “commodities,” which are stripped of emotions. But one female clone living with a man starts to develop emotions and feelings…

A lonely traffic warden falls in love with a mysterious delivery boy and found out they are sharing the unusualness of synesthesia. The mysterious delivery boy believes that all the five senses are intimately connected in one pattern, if he could find a person who shares the same pattern with him, he could fall into the other side of the reality. The traffic warden has to choose if she is going to take a leap of faith or staying comfortably in this lonely boring reality.

A Day of Trans is a groundbreaking, intimate look into the lives of four individuals – across three generations set against the backdrop of China's rise on the global stage. The short documentary film explores their lived experiences, professional career paths, community involvement, social barriers, and their unique approaches to life as transgender individuals across the generations.

A Taiwanese woman's journey to America reveals her fantasy of love and an identity entangled with beauty, sexuality, nationality and two languages. Through the protagonist confronting her own image and her failure at communicating, Wild Grass tells an unusual love story that is deceptive yet revealing.

Using a variety of animation techniques, including egg yolk as paint, filmmaker Wu-Ching Chang creates a stirring tribute to her grandmother who, as a T'ung-yang-hsi, was sold as a young girl to another family and raised as their future daughter-in-law. Forced to perform the household chores and denied an education, this hardworking woman found freedom through financial independence.

We will have a total of 5 ghost storytellers, ranging from old-timers to young ghost storytellers who have been very active recently, performing a variety of their own stories. What kind of chemical will happen in this fusion of old and new generation ghost storytellers ?

In the summer of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Qin Huai, who will soon be 10 years old, accidentally learns that his good friend Xiaohe's father is seriously ill but can't afford the treatment. To help his good friend, Qinhuai and Xiaohe embark on a journey of growth together. However, things are developing in an unexpected way.

46th entry in the Japanese horror found footage franchise, "Not Found".

A family who believed there were once seas on the moon.

8mm FILM Documentary 1979-2021 final version. Directing and script by Minoru Shinojima. Filmed and edited by Kenji Onishi. Cherishing the sadness of Mt. Buko, whose destruction still continues even today...

How to make this mysterious cake? The ingredients include blue eggs, cookie flowers, pillow stuffing and much more.

“Have we ever been to Matsu?” Does this question trigger some mental images, such as flashing postcards inside our mind, or memories of shared photographs through social media? How do we build a landscape of an island? By modifying the geography or by spreading its visual representations? Let’s replace the first inquiry with another one: “Have we ever listened to Matsu?”What would we listen to first? Who would we listen to? What do people in Matsu listen to? As islanders, do they listen to the sounds of the sea or to the sounds of the neighboring country? Is there any document we can listen to about Matsu? Just like images and the internet conspired to transform our vision and memory, may recorded sounds could alter our listening, and therefore our perception of these islands?

LOVEBITES: In The Beginning (Limited Edition Bonus)

The protagonist “Thread man” lacks self-confidence, has shrunk to a thread-like existence. One rainy day, the thread man is walking down an alley when an empty can falls in front of him.

Song Hae 1927 is a documentary about the character all Koreans know. Song Hae is the oldest active celebrity at 94 and the longest-running host of the ‘National Singing Contest.’ He has been a singer, comedian, actor, and radio DJ, but never a star. Song Hae 1927 shows a backstage face we’ve never seen. His closed eyes and serious look seem like a good place to hide sadness and pain. Song Hae is a man of few words. To the death of his wife, he only said, ‘I wish I had had a chance to say goodbye to him.’

A man and woman are taking part in a One Coin English Cafe where participants can casually enjoy English conversation for a small price. Miki lies about her work and background while participating in the conversation to satisfy her need for approval. Kenji is a young actor who plans to work in the U.S. but is restricted from traveling there. The two of them start playing a game where they act like different people. There are two rules: “Stay out of each other’s life” and “Don’t lie in Japanese.”

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The juxtaposed movements resonate with each other, filling the conflict between continuity and fluctuation.

A making-of documentary that follows veteran writer/director Sadao Nakajima as he returns to the director’s chair to bring the jidaigeki Love’s Twisting Path (2018) to the screen.

All images by participants of online workshop by Takashi Makino "Structure of Universe". Edit by Takashi Makino (in 2 days).

--The Kawagiri Bridge-- In the middle of the Edo Era in Kayamachi near the Sumida River lived a childless couple, Minokichi and his wife O-chou. Minokichi was a master carpenter who worked for a large company called Sugitaya. --Dream Chaser-- "Dream Chaser" is one who chases their dreams. A passionate theme of single-minded dream chasing, with each scene presenting a different world through music and dance — this revue show will introduce you to the varied charms of Moon Troupe members.

Mr. Lai, an extra in a film, wakes up coughing on the set and gets notified he is going to play a dead body lying in a coffin. Teased by other background actors and mistreated by the film crew, he finds a perfect way to lie in the coffin.

ayumi hamasaki MUSIC for LIFE ~return~ is a concert DVD/Blu-ray released by Hamasaki Ayumi. It was performed for two days in Chiba, for fanclub members only. It's the first live concert performed in almost a year and a half.

What kind of truths lie hidden in mysterious dreams and psychic phenomena? Keiji Kamiyama, a counseling psychologist and Aoi Ueno, a college student investigate the truths of this invisible world.

The definitive edition of a serious and scary psychic documentary brought together by the staff of two popular series! Born as "Cursed Psychic Video XXX_NEO" that inherited the DNA of "Cursed Psychic Video XXX"! Release of the 10th DVD of the new series with even more power!

Amumo98 introduces their next series that delves even deeper into the world of psychics.

Japanese bondage is still commonly associated with the image of a man tying a woman but recently, women are at both ends of the rope. Shibari is not about tying, it's not about technic, ropes are only a tool. A tool that women use to create art, to heal, to communicate. A tool to express themselves.