Three factory workers in the countryside lead ordinary lives, marked by the melancholy of everyday life and by small, meaningful gestures. A slice-of-life film about the beauty and sadness in the most inconspicuous moments.
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Three factory workers in the countryside lead ordinary lives, marked by the melancholy of everyday life and by small, meaningful gestures. A slice-of-life film about the beauty and sadness in the most inconspicuous moments.
In 2018, Hin takes an accidental fall. Upon awakening, he finds that he has time traveled back to 2013 when he was studying at university and first met his girlfriend, Joyce. Hin believes that this time rift is a heaven-sent opportunity to help him prevent his father from indulging in gambling and making a life-changing mistake. He also views it as a chance to save Joyce and change his destiny.
Story of two best friends, a cool young engineer and a restaurant owner who has to fight for her. Let's grab the heart of a young heartbroken nurse. In this event, the two young men leverage various ways to make the young lady look up.
Concert film featuring Otsuka Ai's "Ai am BEST, too tour 2019-Yes! Kokoga Iessu!-" held on May 2, 2019 at Zepp Diver City in Tokyo. This was tour was in support of her 'Ai am BEST, too' album that commemorated her 15th Anniversary in the music industry.
A middle-aged man with a half-year to live unexpectedly starts to live with a group of young rock band members. The unlikely mixture inspires each other's lives.
The "Hometown" tour of the Japanese band Asian Kung-Fu Generation in 2019 featured a wide range of cities in Japan, including Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, Fukuoka, Omiya, Sapporo, Kanazawa, Niigata, Ichikawa, and more. The tour also included dates in the UK and France, with a show at Dingwalls in London on November 24, 2019. The "Hometown" album was the inspiration for the tour.
Limited edition comes with a bonus DVD featuring a music video for "Gioncho" and its making-of. DVD 01.「祇園町」(Music Video) 02.「祇園町」(Making of Music Video) Bonus DVD 「Gionmachi (Making of Music Video -Another Version-)」will be enclosed on a first come first served basis! Bonus DVD for preorder [Regular Edition]
This is a story about the other side of the world. A daughter grows up without her father, who was a photographer. However, she and her mother only have one photo of him at home. She sees how much her mother misses him and goes on a social media app called “ROBIN” to find special gifts from all over the world.
Thirty-year-old Zhihong, who is still living with his sister, is a useless young man in the eyes of everyone. His daily pleasure is to peek at his sister's girlfriend Li Yifan through the crack of the curtain. A turmoil about Yifan's relocation gave the two a chance to spend time alone. As their relationship progressed, Zhihong gradually released his long suppressed desire
In 2030, TOKYO. A.I. assistant service robots for practical use are increasing in human lives. They are now able to support humans for schedule management and communications. They also help humans as parts of functions in social media application services. Providing companies data such as personal hobbies, preferences, behavior analysis, A.I. is used in common for the development of technologies. Living in an era that A.I. and humans coexist, what problems do humans face?
Popular voice actors x real-life ghost stories! Seiyu Kaidan (Voice-over Ghost Story)" is a program in which voice actors, who play various roles with their voices, read and act out real-life ghost stories. Iori Nomizu, a voice actress who is also a horror fanatic, reads true ghost stories by author Yumei Hirayama, sometimes bewitchingly, sometimes violently ! The professional "voice" breathes life into the tales, and the horror is amplified to infinity!
Takarazuka Snow Troupe 2019 performance, based on a novel of the same name ("Mibu Gishi Den") by Asada Jirō. It is a time of turmoil in the last days of Tokugawa shogunate... Yoshimura Kanichiro, a low-class warrior born the son of a foot soldier in the service of the Nambu clan, the lords of Morioka Domain in northern Japan, is a master of both the martial and scholarly ways.
Jeong-seop, a college student who has no interest in studying. Her mother Eun-ju decides to give her pathetic son a part-time job at a karaoke room run by her friend in order to give her social experience. However, surprisingly, he does a better job than expected and is popular among young girls. However, Jeong-seop falls in love with Hee-jeong, his mother's friend, rather than the young girls. He confesses to Hee-jeong and Hee-jeong accepts him...
An in-depth look at the full-cycle breeding program for bluefin Kindai tuna pioneered by Kinki University’s Aqua Culture Research Institute.
In Taiwan, there is a group of people participating in this race against time. They are hidden inside the film archive of New Taipei City’s “Singapore Industrial Park”, where the 17,000-plus film reels and over a million film artifacts have become their spiritual nourishment. Day after day, they shuttle back and forth inside, carrying their doubts, their learnings, and their faith. What they are doing is awakening these long-neglected film reels, then piecing together the no-longer-existent social atmospheres and lives of distant pasts recorded on them. And spending time in this archive has become everyday life for these film archivists and restorers.
Ko-Ching, an innocent-wannabe girl suddenly went viral due to the help of her BFF Jia-Ling. The over night sensation pushed Ko-Ching closer to the top streamer Hsiao-Hsuan. The fame Ko-Ching got from streaming grew her vanity, but the price to pay is her bound with Jia-Ling, which causes Ko- Ching gradually loses her life and identity.
In 2019, Kiyoshi Hikawa, the prince of the enka world, celebrated the 20th anniversary of his debut. This is the first solo performance of Osaka-jo Hall on September 6th, his 42nd birthday.
The 38th installment and collection of horror videos that carefully select and introduce psychic images that are being born from darkness and are about to be buried in the darkness!
A failed actor found his wife is cheating with a failed director.
Since 2007, Ongals, the Korean nonverbal comedy team, has traveled the world and gained popularity. They have yet to make their way across the ocean to the biggest stage in the world… Vegas. But their journey isn’t easy, since one of the old members suffers from cancer while a rookie doesn’t seem to adapt himself to the team.
Jia and Man meet in a stairwell instead of studying on Saturday at school, but when the secret of their shared romantic feelings are put to the test, they must decide what to do and how that will change their lives.
Cheng (Andy CHOI), who goes to college in Boston, returns to the muggy Guangzhou on his final summer break. To his dismay, his maternal grandfather has died but no one in the family, including his mother (Crystal LEE), is willing to talk about it or their feelings. His elder sister Yam (Isabelle CHAN), locks herself every day in her room and smokes. His father (James AU) is always busy on the phone to take bets from sports gamblers. The family of four will soon move to a new place, but a shadow of estrangement looms above them. Getting drenched in sweat, sometimes by rain, Cheng discovers a melancholy reality, both old and new, in a city he calls home.
An art center located in Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Ume Nakazono, a freshman at university, participates in a workshop called “DNA Encyclopedia of Yamaguchi” as an intern. Participants walk around various places in the city where they live to find out what kind of plants grow there. Ume takes teenagers Take and Shun to explore nearby forests...
Tadao Ando (b.1941) is a world-renowned architect, and a recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. His calm, minimalist architecture with elegant concrete designs reflects the Zen principle of simplicity. In the film he reveals the experience a building should evoke, as he discusses a number of iconic designs, such as The Row House and The Church of Light.
Two-disc Blu-ray release capturing the final of "Minori Chihara's Live Tour 2019 -SPIRAL-" held at Nakano Sun Plaza. Also includes backstage footage, interview footage and making-of.
Weaving together footage filmed and broadcast by little-known Chinese live-streaming anchors, who struggle with real-life face-to-face social interaction because of their identity, disability and social-economic status, this cinematic collage explores how individuals satisfy their cravings for human connection through virtual togetherness, and how these virtual relationships challenge standard definitions of companionship.
In the snow-capped Guandi Temple of Mengjiang County, the deputy commander of the Nanman crusade against the Japanese Kanto Army, Changde, led his subordinates to make a "solace offering" for General Yang Jingyu.
The latest unique human drama from Hirobumi and Yuji Watanabe portrays, in black and white and without words, a man who lives with his aging grandmother and works silently in a pigpen.
Inspired by the real-life story of “filial youth” Chi Kailin, the film follows her childhood vow: “We lost Mom. We can’t lose Dad” driving her to save her disabled father and broken family from despair through unyielding love and community support.
BABYMETAL - ARISES - BEYOND THE MOON - LEGEND - M - is a special Blu-ray and CD box set capturing the essence of MOAMETAL's birthday concerts held in her hometown of Nagoya, Japan, in 2019. The concerts, which were exclusive to members of THE ONE fan club, offer a unique glimpse into the world of BABYMETAL with MOAMETAL taking center stage.
“S” is working in his own car repair shop and has a hobby with good techniques for modifying cars with accelerators. One day, his brother Alex returned after being disconnected for many years, which caused him to join a mysterious group called WANTED. Alex only trusted his brother and asked him to fix his car and tell him what has happened during these years. Unfortunately, Alex has slipped into a coma after a car accident.
Working as a designer for a clothing company, Song-mi, feeling skeptical about her heavy workload and repetitive daily life, decides to quit her job and become a freediving underwater performer. As she went deeper into her sea, Songmi felt that her body and mind, which had been weary of her, were healed. In order to return this 'gift of healing' she received from her sea, she challenges a special underwater performance with installation artist Boseong and aqua aerobics instructor Doui. Youth campaigns in Jeju, Palau and Cebu. The silent cry of a mermaid trapped in a plastic forest in the middle of the Pacific Ocean now throws a strong warning to our oceans.
A documentary feature film about an anarchic political activist, Kunio Suzuki. He is close to both right and left wings, and ex-Aum cult members.
A short film by Deming Chen.
A queer culture festival has been held in Daegu, a city of conservatives, for ten years, which comes second after Seoul. When people were ignorant of "queer," they began reckless ventures. Despite the disapproval of authorities and the interruption of hostile groups, the festival has become a significant human rights festival in the region. The story of a festival who broke through hatred and discrimination.
The twelfth night of the 29th edition of the G1 Climax featuring B Block matches. Taking place at the Fukuoka Citizen Gymnasium in Fukuoka, the show is headlined by Tomohiro Ishii vs. Hirooki Goto.
The beginning is the death of unnatural!! The 19th collection of psychic images involving hatred!!
This unusual documentary follows director Hideki Kojitani as he follows Tetsuro Shoji, a man who claims to be able to summon UFOs, and depicts the events that led to his attempt to film a UFO. While he seeks the opinions of various UFO researchers to determine the authenticity of UFOs, the sudden disappearance of Shoji leads to an unexpected turn of events.
Spirits that infest videos of mundane everyday life and harm people are revealed after 321 warning counts! The series that pursues the horror of videos as they are, including "My Baby," in which a woman who talks to herself in a shopping center is encountered and filmed, revealing a surprising reality..., includes not only videos that have been used on TV, but also many ghostly videos with warnings that cannot be shown publicly.
Every coming outs are hard. Especially coming out to the family is the hardest one. Can love make coming out to the family?
Gukdo Art Cinema located in Daeyeon-dong, Busan is one of the most representative cinema in Busan for independent films and arthouse films along with Cinematheque Busan (currently moved to Busan Cinema Center) and Art Theater C+C. Gukdo opened in 2004 in Nampo-dong and moved to Daeyeon-dong in 2008 and has been a home for cinephiles in Busan and nearby areas for the last 10 years. The theater closed its operations on January 31st, 2018 after the building owner had refused to renew its contract. The last month of the theater is recorded in the movie Last Scene.
Jan, an office girl, becomes the guardian of her brother, Bank, when he moves to study in Bangkok. Bank is obsessed with the social media world. He chats all the time and socializes with his friends from these social networks. He becomes close to Fy, a drug-dealer. One day Bank gets arrested by the police when he has a small talk with Fy. Jan bails Bank out with the support of Captain Best who falls in love with Jan. Bank is banned from using his smartphone. Nevertheless, when Bank goes to see aunty Orn, he meets aunty Orn’s son, Keng, who just moved from Chiangmai to study in Bangkok. Bank likes Keng as he is very funny. People usually mistakes Keng’s caprice as flirt, including Noon, Keng’s online ardent fan. Bank and Noon become rivals to win Keng’s heart, but what would Bank do without his smartphone?
The Republic of China was the era when the martial artists wre at their peak, and it was also the most pessimistic era. Xuantong abdicated, and the current situation was turbulent. Tianjin Wuxing took advantage of the momentum to rise. Mo Shoucheng, the owner of the Xingyi Boxing Gym of the Mohist School, is open-minded and cares about the country and the people. Dissatisfied with the martial arts do not teach the real boxing skills but the art of pleasing the strong ones, so he broke the rules and taught the true skills which made him against his peers. The big disciple around Ji Rufeng hides his indentity, and he is used by the military to set up a terrifying trap by joining forces with martial arts.
A general hospital in Gyeongsang-do in 1990. Woo-sik and Jae-gu are working at the hospital as a receptionist. One day, an AIDS patient enters the hospital. Woo-sik and Jae-gu are instructed to bring the bankbook and the young daughter, Tae-bun, from the home of the AIDS patient who did not pay for the hospital. They head to Tae-bun´s house in fear of getting AIDS.
Although Tsi-an and Yi-rui are an invincible duo in table tennis doubles, Tsi-an’s technique is in no comparison to Yi-rui’s. Tsi-an, frustrated by her sense of inferiority, beseeches the coach, Yi-rui’s father to give her additional drill. During an one-on-one training session, she develops a crush on the coach. Ping Pong Coach adopts Tsi-an’s point-of-view to narrate her romantic fantasy in an understated manner, which in the event gives rise to her bewilderment, joy, disappointment and growth. LIN Yen-chen, who plays Tsi-an, captures the capricious behaviour of the teenagers in her delicate performance, Yi-rui and Tsi-an’s grandmother also leave behind a vivid impression during a brief screen time.
Miwa (Kawakami Nanami), who has trouble communicating with others, hides behind the offering box at the shrine, distancing herself from the world and spending her days drinking. One day, she meets a middle-aged man who comes to pray at the shrine. The two, who are drawn to each other only through conversation without showing their faces, eventually develop a mysterious relationship, and Miwa gradually begins to feel more confident about life. Meanwhile, Miwa's coworker Kaede (Aizawa Yurina) at the same part-time job is having an affair with the store owner, but one day she suddenly comes to visit Miwa...
Can a life size doll, an avatar or an artificial intelligence truly love you? Through unilateral love stories between humans and non-humans, the film explores different attempts to be in the world and draws a picture of Japan’s future.