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Ayumi Hamasaki's annual New Years Countdown held at Yoyogi National Stadium 1st Gymnasium on December 31st, 2022.

Love Live! Sunshine!!" AZALEA First Lovelive! - In The Dark /*himitsu no Monogatari*/

Jade, a Korean-born art student, writes in her diary about encountering anti-Asian racism, sexism, and homophobia in France. Her disillusionment with France, her rage at racists, and the lack of understanding from others all prompted her to reconcile with reality through art.

43st entry in the film series "「Iru.」~ Kowasugiru Tōkō Eizō 13-hon ~".

Seung-soo visits Min-ji's funeral home, his younger sister's friend.

When two opposing forces collide, a whirlpool occurs, and in that misaligned operation, homeostasis is not a static state of stability and neutrality, but a struggle for survival. In the midst of that whirlpool, something that cannot be reduced to previous elements emerges.

A boy named Noddy, who likes to play games very much. His favorite is hide and seek because everyone likes it. But Noddy is always the first one to get caught. Every time he gets caught, he puts up a long face. Because once he gets caught, he can only stand aside and look at everyone else playing. Noddy hates to lose so he tries to observe carefully every time. Learn to run like everyone else, to cheat like everyone else, to fool around like everyone else and not to get caught. Gradually, Noddy plays hide and seek better and better. One day, he finds the safest place and hides inside quietly and patiently without making any noise. He sees other kids getting caught one by one. Noddy finally succeeds; no one can find him.

On the 1st of February, 2021, Myanmar’s Military launched air strikes against the Karen minority group. The news reminds K of his time in Karyn State 4 years back. K thinks of General Neda who wanted to build a community for Karen refugees, Khun from Thailand and the village children who helped him. He promised to fight for peace when General Neda sang “Wonderful Tonight” for him. Reminded of his forgotten promise, K roams the street aimlessly. Still, time eats away at his memories.

Ayano has returned to her parents' house. My parents' house is a house in a shopping district. However, the town was lonely due to the epidemic, and his parents' home was gone. Many stores were closed. A postcard arrived from a flower shop run by a childhood friend. The florist changed its shape and continued to operate.

I was heading to junior high school one day when my maternal instincts suddenly kicked in. After being held hostage to those urges for a decade, I started to wonder if this feeling was really about motherliness. Virgin birth, genes, pregnancy... I journey through 10 years in search of the maternal.

Ryukyu Buyo was created in the era when Okinawa flourished as the Ryukyu Kingdom. It was the classical dance forms of that time that laid the foundation for a tradition that continues to this day. Why has this tradition been carried on for so many generations? We explore how ‘Chimugukuru – Sincerity’, the soul of Okinawan culture, has been inherited through dance.

In 2020, young Thais protested outside ther German embassy in Bangkok over the activities of King Rama X in Germany. In the same year in Chiang Mai, students demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut Chan--cha. In 2022, Weerasethakul filmed the "Rio Madre de Dios", while travelling in Peru. These three situations prompted the artist to examine the philosophy of Krishnamurti, who posited that reaction to things belongs to the past and cannot help humankind advance, while action is performed in full consciousness, without making a choice nor being influenced.

Sachiko and Ming are living together, perhaps they are a couple. They discuss everyday things, slip into different roles and thus tell each other about their relationship.

Newly commissioned short film, starring Tomona Hirota and Sumire Ashina.

Five Chinese workers recount their dreams. Their nocturnal suffering reflects their difficult and precarious professional experiences. ZHAO Xu builds a deft and disturbing mise en abyme that conveys a surreal sensation, comparable to that caused by a science-fiction film, overtaken by reality.

Isabella, a washed up former girl group idol who's suffering a dual crisis of career and age, decides to make a comeback with live streaming. She plans to become a lead influence through selling emerging biochemical funds. However, her live stream goes out of control with the intrusion of a hacker who claimed to be preparing to release a biochemical virus.

Bas is a teenager who feels distant from his family. He believes that owning a motorcycle will change the way he feels about his life.

Live music performance at Nintendo Live 2022, a gaming event in Japan. It includes an opening act of DJ KK, followed by Deep Cut (Shiver, Frye, and Big Man) and some special guests!

23 Cents Soldier is shaped around the memories of four Turkish and three Korean war veterans. The interviews begin with the lives of the veterans before the beginning of the war and continue with memories of the war and post-war era.

Su shot The Magnificent Levitation Act of Lauren O at Hong Kong’s Shaw Studios. She came up with the character after she came across American science fiction writer Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, which followed protagonist Lauren Oya Olamina on a quest for freedom. Su’s character belongs to a fictional activist-anarchist group called Laden Raven which was founded in the 1930s. Composed of circus performers—often viewed as social outcasts—and other marginalised members of society, the group attempts to change the world as did the 60s counterculture movement.

In a small temple in a mountain, a Buddhist monk and a boy monk devote themselves to practicing asceticism every day. One day, some confucian scholars trying to suppress buddhism come to the temple and make a commotion and threaten them. the monk is at a crossroads of dangerous choices to protect the temple and the young monk.

Eunha is a high school student but skips school today. She visits her aunt and overhears a conversation on the phone between her mom and aunt. Lately, her mom often says she can’t bear the sight of Eunha. But Eunha is eager to enter her mom’s heart.

A movie about the Spring Festival Gala, the homesickness and New Year customs of Chinese overseas. It records a group of Chinese who carefully prepared a Spring Festival Gala for their beliefs. However, there are many difficulties in the process of preparation. A series of funny stories have taken places.

A young woman dreams of seeing God guiding her to the day her parents will leave her.

Joo-yeon accidentally finds out that there is a woman who has disappeared from within her family. Along the way, she encounters women who have disappeared without a name.

Nozomi Fuuto's concert.

The 62nd installment in the "Sealed Videos" series, investigating the truly dreadful in horror videos.

In 1987, Su Ping-kun was found guilty of armed robbery and attempted murder, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In the era of Martial Law, he endured abuse and torture from the authority. In 2000, Su received a presidential pardon but still remained guilty in Taiwan's legal system. He refused to have a tainted name and continued fighting for over 30 years, just to clear his name.

A short film by Yuki Makabe.

A 14-year-old boy, Tasaki, is fed up with his depressing life in a rural town. He wastes time with his friend, Eda, who’s all talk and no deed, and also suffers from bullying by a classmate, Takiguchi. He feels happier only when having a chat with a pretty girl, Sakura. One day, he hears about an old tank left decayed deep in the lake. Driven by the idea that the tank can break through his days, Tasaki sets off on the quest. It’s an internal journey where he faces with himself in puberty.

The ultimate collection of horror videos that carefully select and introduce the psychic images that are about to be born from the darkness and buried in the darkness! " A friend and his wife who posted "Living in the countryside" bought a second-hand house in the countryside and moved from the city. But the house may have been a house that should never live in... / The lover of the contributor of "The Monster of the Business Hotel" decided to stay at a hotel on a business trip, but when she felt a sign of people in the room while sleeping at night and woke up, she had an amazing experience! / "Things lurking in the pond" A young couple exploring the pond that is said to be a haunted spot. Therefore, it is said that even women and children died tragically due to the war of samurai... In addition, several horror psychic images are included.

A day in the life of a little ghost imitating human beings.

Through an intimate journey involving the filmmaker and her aunt, we see what remains and what is transformed with the passing of time.

A young boy named Prakai Dao, who died in 1947, travels through time to the year 2022. His journey begins in the same city he once lived, but it feels unfamiliar.

A quiet, atmospheric portrait of an elderly store owner in the small town of Yagi, Kyoto Prefecture. Yu Araki’s camera carefully observes the curiously named Mr. Yagi’s daily routine and interactions with local customers during the last autumn season for his shop, which is no longer in business. Documenting the passage of time in parallel with processes of depopulation, the title Tempo conjures a double meaning; playing on the Japanese word “tenpo (店舗)” which means “store”.

Tang’s son was stolen when the child was three. Twelve years later, the Chinese police found him but that joy was dampened by a new reality.

In April of last year, the mother of a child voluntarily reported child abuse to the police. Monitoring for over a year, a mother who confessed her wrongdoing, the film acts not as an investigative agency, but as a disinterested party which records the point where daily discipline turns into abuse.

A documentary about a Taiwanese poet Wu Sheng.

Atsushi Suwa, a realist painter, undertakes the work of drawing a portrait of a medical college student who victim of sudden death.

One cold and damp morning, two weasels were wandering the quiet streets. They get separated at one point but are reunited. Just then, bells and alarms began to ring through the city, and dawn came.

For a kid to eat with an open mind, parents must also be open to changes. Opened is an animated short film about picky eaters. The story shows how parenting and environmental factors influence a kid's eating behavior.

A film correspondence between Yuri Obitani and Ming-Yu Lee, between Tokyo and Taipei, starting from 2019 to 2021. In the era of the pandemic, they communicate and understand each other through letter films.

Sol Badguy. This video depicts more than 20 years of the world of Guilty Gear and half his lifetime.

This is a story about the elderly and caregiving, about the life of a 98-year-old father and 90-year-old mother (*at the time of filming) who suffered from dementia. With the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, the cheerful mother, who had always been a whiz at housework, gradually lost her abilities to do everyday things. Meanwhile, their daughter chronicled the heartbreaking reality of their lives with as much love and humor as possible.

Black Jack: A Lucky Bet is an original script based on one of Osamu Tezuka's masterpieces, "Black Jack". It was first performed in 1994 by the Flower Troupe led by Anju Mira to great acclaim. In November 2022, at the start of the 50th anniversary year of the "Black Jack" series, it was performed again in a nationwide tour by the Moon Troupe. Kanato Tsukishiro plays the role of Black Jack, an unlicensed surgeon with divine skill, dramatically expressing the message of Tezuka's works, such as the deep love for humanity and the preciousness of life.

A little girl finds small friends one day afternoon.

A group of friends who haven't seen each other for 10 years reunites at the funeral of a friend who died of depression. A dead friend has left a mystery for them to go on a journey to find something.

Tokyo is suffering from a once-in-a-century pandemic. Yet the morning commuter trains are as crowded as ever. Toki is fed up with the suffocation of the mask covering her mouth, and the men who take advantage of the fact that their face is hidden by the mask to molest her. One morning, Toki orders a Toki (Japanese Crested Ibis) mask from a friend who makes masks of animals, and when she puts it on and gets on the train, she does something unexpected.

A short film by Tetsuji Muraoka.