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Graphic research inspired by photos and travel souvenirs made with oil pastels.

Tiny little objects that suit a certain purpose and meet other's demands were also something that had their own space and time before they became objects.

Being trapped in the United States and self-isolated, I had a video chat with my family in China. Back in January, I shot a roll of film recording the sunset at Santa Monica beach, and rewatching it now, I decided to prolong the dusk as an attempt to erase the decisive boundary which separates night and day.

Koutarou an ex-convict and a ex-professional wrestler who has sentenced little time left to live, but his days remain unchanged. However, he begins to spend time together with his colleague Kondo and his neighbor Ryohei, a high school student. Because of the crimes he has committed and his impending death, Koutarou begins to keep a distance himself from them.

To celebrate becoming the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage, Taiwan threw a big wedding banquet in front of its Presidential Building in Taipei. About 20 couples participated in the mass wedding officiated by a lesbian film director - marking the biggest victory in Taiwan's LGBT movement.

On the Matsu Islands, young wrestlers enjoy the moment of victory or defeat and use wrestling to fight against their boring life. But "finding a way out" is always the most difficult issue just like Matsu in the middle of the troubled strait.

ANGERME Concert 2020 ~Kishoutenketsu~ Funaki Musubu Sotsugyou Special (アンジュルム コンサート2020 〜起承転結〜 船木結卒業スペシャル) was ANGERME's special one-day autumn concert at Nippon Budokan, where 6th generation member Funaki Musubu graduated from the group and Hello! Project. It was held on December 9, 2020. The concert was broadcasted live on TV Asahi Channel 1 and on SKY PerfecTV! On-Demand,[1] and was available for live viewing in 30 different cinemas across Japan, and in Taiwan through Vieshow Cinemas Taipei Hsin Yi; standard coronavirus prevention measures applied for all cinemas.[2] A DVD and Blu-ray footage of the concert were released on April 28, 2021. The Blu-ray also includes Funaki's special graduation TV show "Funaki Musubu no ANGERME BIG LOVE", making footage and a live photobooklet.

A beautiful 7-year-old girl Fuyao is devastated when her parents are arrested and thrown into prison for their faith. Bullied and humiliated, Fuyao refuses to be crushed by the gigantic repressive regime. She and her mom find extraordinary means to connect through the iron bars and grow together.

Four people appeared in different films with their memory of the May 18 Gwangju Democratic Uprising. They now take photos in the same place they used to be four decades ago, with similar facial expressions. Forty years later, how would they feel about the memory of the day and the films that tell their memories?

This is a story that takes place at night, with street corner restaurants, streetlights, a rain, and people coming and going, witnessing the missed and missed experiences of a father and daughter.

An experimental documentary which opens with a story of my family: my American aunt found a painting of my grandmother by chance, in a random Chinese restaurant in the middle of nowhere - she said she cried. By tracing this story and reproducing its meaning, the film wonders through different topics: the construction of the Cold War, USA and Taiwan relations, different generations of Chinese diaspora since the 1950s, contemporary immigration and cross-nation fluidity, family romances, religion, and ancestors...

2020 release

Lovers Na Young Ha and Cha Do Hee. The two broke up for practical reasons and lived different lives for more than a decade, and one day they were contacted by Cha Do-hee and met at a beach with memories of each other. However, the two break up without saying a word at the sunset beach, realizing that they have lived too different lives, even though they met while reminiscing over the years.

A young woman who lives in Canada travels back to her home country, only to complete a long-time wish to take a special "couple portrait" with her aged Grand father.

Zhang is an undertaker in a small town. His wife, Lee, has an affair with Wang. Lee is pregnant and asks Wang for advice. In order to keep the baby, Wang plans to murder Zhang. Then he hires two hit men on the Internet.

In Chang'an, a fire broke out in the Qinglou Zuiyue Royal Academy, and the Top 1 girl, Jingyue, was burned to death. What was supposed to be an unsurprising case alarmed Yang Wenxian, the Eunuch of Shen Ce Army. Pei Jun of the Dali Temple (Court of Judicature and Revision) asked his friend Su Yannan to help investigate the case. Su discovered that there was a bigger conspiracy behind this.

2020 release

Kwang, who is moving from Chiayi to Taichung, met the mistress of his father. At the last night in Chaiyi, two people not knowing any thing about each other started a journey together and tried to search answers of their hearts.

The maritime life and the complexity of matters, which include conflicts of interest, in one of the busiest waters in Asia, the Strait of Malacca, are accumulated through bodies. The other side of stories from archipelago was assembled and retold by Irwan and Tita after they conducted visits to several islands in Riau Archipelago, especially to Batam Island, a region that was once planned to be converted into an industrial area in 70s but now is facing the most serious challenges created by social problems.The region is tangling with interests and power centralized in Java Island which has created uncontrolled distortion.

Arm, a young man with a sad past, has returned to a familiar place and met his old friend again named M. The two reminisced about their past together and Arm's memories slowly returned.

Her bright world became dark after losing sight. One day, She met him, the person she had loved when she still could see…During the short conversation, she could feel the temperature, smell, vision and state of mind, in this extravagantly ordinary night.

Video to celebrate Anthology Film Archives’ 50th Anniversary

The 21st in a chain of horror ghost stories! Ghost stories are the art of telling ghost stories and spinning tales of terror. A ghost story told by one person stimulates the brain and brings back the memories of another person.

In Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a handful of residents refuse to move away from their beloved and almost completely abandoned village.

We follow a man of advanced age walking along a misty mountain path in China. In one shot he carries a bag; in others he carries sacks of rice, or timber, or large buckets of water. He’s filmed in the morning, in the evening, and at night. The seasons change as we walk with him, through the bleakness of the winter, or on a fresh spring morning. The low-key atmosphere, the subdued gray-green hues of the surroundings, and the absence of dialogue and music all lend this film a refreshingly understated feel. A space is opened up in which the viewer can listen to the sound of the wind, the man’s footsteps, the birds. There is time to wonder who the man is that we are following, where he is going, and what his life is like. Only at the end of his journey do we find out a little more about him. One Day is a minimalist take on a journey that allows the viewer room to reflect on what we do with our time.

Contemporary Shanghai, summer. Xia Qing, a boy who has been wearing Cochlear Implants due to hearing impairment, has a deep love for dancing. He gains so much joy just from copying Martha Graham’s hand gestures in a dance magazine. A kid with a precocious nature, he sometimes paints his pinky nail red just for that glimpse of beauty. Yet all these passionate pursuits are misunderstood and questioned by his single, deaf mother. Given the opportunity to audition for his favorite dance company once in a blue moon, he has no choice but to return to his body--He seeks his mother’s approval and longs to overcome this obscure self-identity crisis, through the silent language on his fingertips.

Yuki Kajiura LIVE EXTRA～STUDIO Livestream vol.#1 reprise! 2020.09.18

2020 release

Maaya Kiho Music Salon

The 47th 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!

Tour Final held on September 23 at Yokohama Arena.

Poor scholar student Jiang Liu was ordered by the invincible master demon Zhong Zhongwei in imminent danger and assumed the mission of slashing the demon and eliminating the demon to save the world. On the way to kill the demon, the little snake demon has no words to follow the river, and in order to protect the river from being seriously injured, the two people's feelings rose sharply. Eventually, the river grew into a generation of demon masters, in order to save the troubled Silent, sacrificed his life.

Singer-songwriter Vincy explores the meaning of those words closest to their being: music, love, queerness, and Asian identity.

29th film in the "Mystery Horror: Ghost Videos Even Scarier" film series.

Elementary school student Junyoung goes to the playground in the apartment complex with his younger sister Won. There they meet his classmates who lives in the same complex. They are not friendly toward Junyoung, and his excited sister is no help to embarrassed him. “Junyoung, do you live in this complex?” Without putting much thought, Junyoung quickly responds, “Yes.” His classmates dare him to go to the basement to prove that he lives in the complex. To avoid the bullying, Junyoung grabs his sister’s hand and heads to the basement. There, he witnesses something unbelievable. What is scarier than the basement scenery is the reality outside the basement.

Hatsune Miku with the other Piapro Characters performed a live performance at the opening of Nico Nico Net Chokaigi 2020 Summer festival. The event was streamed live over Nico Nico Douga's live broadcast. "UNTITLED 0" is a live band performance with representative songs of passed events such as Magical Mirai, MIKU EXPO and SNOW MIKU LIVE.

A three minutes, 2D animation film, about the protest in Hong Kong. A group of Hong Kong people protesting against the extradition law amendment bill, concerned the bill will damage Hong Kong’s autonomy.

Two people who really wanted to see Michael Snow’s new video [Cityscape] travel to Toronto Island where the video was filmed. They each make a video about what they wanted to see, what it might be like, what they couldn’t see and put these two videos side by side. A friend plays the drums.

One of my dreams is to organize my own funeral.

Unlucky Morpheus's 2019 tour final.

2020 release

In the ancient times the Devil's Cult, led by the traitor Ling Guangzi, attacked the Xiuxianmen Clan. Unprepared Xiuxianmen and the Demon Cult started a desperate fight for Sword of God that sealed in the mountains. Three hundred years later, Qing Qiu, the head of the Shangqing Sect, passes the sword and the leadership to Wu Nian, who leads the Xuxian Sect on a long search for the sword, encountering various obstacles on the way from the remnants of the Demon Sect. A series of intricate plots, schemes and killings are staged between the two sects. Many years later, Wu Nian leads the Immortal Sect to Yunhai Peak, where another fierce battle is fought with the Demon Sect, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries to the Immortal Sect and the bodies of the Demon Sect's disciples.

Set in the second half of the 19th century in Mexico. Maximilian I has declared himself emperor of Mexico with the support of Napoleon III of France, but his government never completely defeated the Republican forces. Albert Casals has sworn revenge against Duke Brasseur.

West Estate spotlights the severe housing problems in Hong Kong, taking the spirit of resistance outside of the protest. The damaged walls in the cage-like tenements reflect the many forms of social injustice as well as Hongkongers’ widespread sense of rootlessness. Connecting three stories from different households like puzzle pieces, the film depicts people’s despair over issues of family, sexuality, love, and freedom.

2020 release

An animated work of pencil drawings produced and provided as a material for the Kanazawa College of Art encouragement research "Study on the possibility of painting-like viewing experience in analog material 8K filmed animation."

“Lio-ma-gou” is the only fresh water in Green Island, In the 1950s, in a political prison concentration camp, held nearly 100 female political prisoners. With the film, let us follow the pursuit and inquiries of the young generation, and approach the two “former female political prisoner.”