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I am a cleaning woman. My hair has turned white, and the days simply pass by without meaning. Then, the ghost of my mother appears before me in her youthful form. She laments that her daughter never bore children and lives in solitude. But the daughter fiercely argues back… A performance of song and physical expression borrowing the form of mugen nō. When it repeats once again, human figures are no longer there. Strange box-like humans writhe and move, and the theater transforms into CGI…
The Cleaning Woman Ghost
The documentary takes us on a journey to Sinje`s hometown of Alor Setar where she grew up with a strong sense of freedom in nature that shaped her into a fearless and positive person. Sinje reflects on the importance of childhood freedom and how it impacts character and outlook on life. Sinje shares her experiences of living fearlessly and embracing her passions as a modern working mother of three. Through her story, we explore the joys and challenges of motherhood, finding the balance between career and family, and prioritising self-care.
The Journey of Sinje (Dear Child, How Are You?)
Mystery of the legendary tales! A collection of psychic images that closes in on the darkness!
Psychic Yuranbon 22: Honjo Seven Mysteries
Han Ji-yu is an employee on the marketing team of a liquor company. Park Ki-hoon, on the other hand, is a devilishly charming, skilful chef of a famous restaurant. When Ji-yu is asked to contact Ki-hoon's restaurant in search of a potential collaboration, he runs up against a few walls—namely, Ki-hoon's flat out refusal to sell any alcoholic drinks in his restaurant. But Ji-yu is not ready to just give up. What will he do to break the stubborn chef?
All the Liquors The Movie
Set in an ice castle amid a sweeping frozen landscape, “Windersweet on the Snow” expresses spiritual longing and connection as two dancers embody the flowering of a new dawn. Through the oblivion and desolation of the snow field, their flowing flame lights the journey through seasonal change and mystical evolution.
Wintersweet on the Snow
Girl group 4EVE takes the stage at a packed Queen Sirikit National Center in Bangkok for their first concert in front of adoring fans.
4EVE The 1st Concert Friends & Family
친구 여진 이 내 물건을 만졌다!
My heartfelt sympathies go out to the political prisoners and victims who have suffered under the Thai state during the three periods of Thai political history.
Cremation Ceremony
One weekend at the studio shooting site, actress Ji-woo and director Ha-na meet. Ji-woo wants to finish filming quickly and go home. What does one do?
Think? What's That?
The End of Paralyzed
A young woman of Hmong, living with her friend. They are unexpectedly confronted with a challenging situation that involves a longstanding practice within their tribe. The situation presents a difficult ethical and emotional dilemma for them.
Traction
A girl who grew up knitting starts to knit her memories into a story.
Queen's Crochet
In a world where no one greets each other, a child says hello to the world.
Hello!
Sano and Miyata, two childhood friends, are on a trip together in a resort hotel facing the Pacific Ocean. Miyata is devoted to conspiracy theories and he tries to get Sano to believe this idea. But Sano doesn't believe it, and they fight. As Miyata's phone keeps ringing all day, Sano loses patience and takes the call. It was a phone call from Miyata's father, who was saying unintelligible things, probably from dementia. Sano hangs up the phone in confusion and tries to go home with Miyata.
Two of Us
A man finds himself at the end of his rope. He travels to a small Island to contemplate life and possibly end it. As he is building up the courage to jump, he is interrupted by a young and unusual girl trying to fly her kite. In an attempt to make her leave, he agrees to help her fly the kite. They begin an awkward conversation but soon realize that there is beauty in life worth living for.
Feng Zheng
An older sister gets concerned when her younger brother’s obsession with aliens goes too far. After she discovers his plans to try to rendezvous with the aliens on his birthday, she attempts to interfere with his plans and, in the process, reveals her protective side and their deep love for one another.
Rendezvous
After 40 years, a retired actress from the 1960s Chinese propaganda play “Wedding on the Execution Ground”, decides to reunite with her first love, the lead actor from the play.
Wedding on the Execution Ground
My Dear Friend
Horrifying and frightening images recorded in posted videos! The definitive collection of real-life psychic footage from urban legends! This is the 43rd volume.
Psychic Manjara 43
“Nice To Never Meet You” draws inspiration from the single “L.U.S.H”. The film is directed by the young cinematographer turned director, Bhurin Treetampinich. Starring the multi-faceted Thai-Chinese actor, singer, and model, Thanapob Leeratanakachorn (Tor), who plays Ray, and model and rising actress Care Panisara Rikulsurakan who plays Aye. The movie follows the ups and downs of romance—and the difference between the good and bad kind.
Nice To Never Meet You
This story is set against the backdrop of a same-sex love murder case during the Japanese colonial period and contemporary Kaohsiung. It pieces together various "dual-sided" symbols from Taiwan's history, reconstructing a completely new narrative.
The Night Mist at the Harbor
Set in a world in which, through a special device, people can see the memories of the dead. A family decides to enter the memory of their father, who has been killed in a car accident in a seaside town, to learn why he had to hide his destination from his family.
Don't Go
With a rabbit's dead body in hand, a glove puppetry performer reenacts the movements of rabbits as imagined by humans. The project was initiated by the death of a laboratory rabbit, and was inspired by the artist's family memories. The artist's grandma served in an animal laboratory for thirty years, during which, due to the particularity of her job, she had to dissect living animals for observation and experiments.
Rabbit 314
A NHK Music Special episode which retraces the life, wide-ranging talents and creative works of Yukihiro Takahashi, internationally known both for his solo-artist works as well as a member of YMO and the Sadistic Mika Band. This documentary consists of various archival footage and is narrated by Miu Sakamoto.
Yukihiro Takahashi - Trail of Creation
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived alone in a small village in the high mountains. And one day, her worst fears came true. So she runs away and decides to go into a forbidden forest to die. In the forest, Okyoen meets somebody- her friend who got married and moved away years ago. Okyeon soon realizes something was off with her friend. Because she was wearing the same wedding attire from the day she got married. in the midst of all the secrets being revealed, what choice will the little girl make?
Forest of Echoes
The Secret of Time
Interviews in 10 cities (Tokyo, Shimonoseki, Kyoto, Fukushima, Okinawa, Sapporo, Nara, Hiroshima, Shizuoka, and Nagasaki) on the day of Shinzo Abe's state funeral
State Funeral Day
Love Live! Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club OPENING LIVE EVENT ~Bloom the Dream~ (ラブライブ!蓮ノ空女学院スクールアイドルクラブ OPENING LIVE EVENT~Bloom the Dream~) is Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club's debut live concert event that took place at Pacifico Yokohama National Convention Hall in Yokohama, Kanagawa on June 4, 2023.
Love Live! Hasu no Sora Jogakuin School Idol Club OPENING LIVE EVENT ~Bloom the Dream~
The story revolves around an elderly farmer tending her fields on the border between the two Koreas. Living on the other side of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), she struggles to reclaim the land that was taken from her by the local government. The aged protagonist has already experienced the heartache of losing her homeland to the ravages of war. A poignant memory from seventy years ago resurfaces - during the Korean War, American soldiers suddenly entered her village. The subsequent division of the Korean peninsula and the course of development took away everything she held dear.
The Land of Frogs
A teacher is looking out of the window
Looking Out of the Window
Documentary film chronicling the protests in Thailand between 2020 and 2022 shortly after the accession of the country's new head of state. It is an uprising of people from all sectors, especially students, against the use of power by the government of Prayut Chan-o-cha, the Prime Minister, which has come from the coup. There is mismanagement of the country and abuse of power in dealing with political dissidents. This includes the arrest of internationally recognized Thai political activists.
Songs of Angry People
Yuki, a social worker, supports orphaned teenagers in becoming independent adults. He meets Wataru and later adopts the now 20-year-old. While Wataru dreams of a career in the entertainment industry, Yuki advocates gay rights. Ryuichi SHIMADA’s film documents their unconventional relationship, raising questions on defining family in a blood-tie-focused society.
A Son
The sleep-inducing viruses become active when humans fall asleep. One of the viruses, V, wishes to dream like a human.
Sleepy V
The voice of the curse of misfortune! The 41st volume of this spectacular collection of psychic images! This series has been featured in numerous media outlets! Once you see it, you will be cursed!
Psychic Manjara 41
Fill the goblet of lapis Iazuli With the life, joy, sorrow, death of this whole universe. This goblet must scoop up all. Who drifts in the isle of hollow. Mothers, babies, Sick women, filthy women, Those who praz, those who surfei, and those who accompany them. The moon goes around and attracts everything. Let us give a toast, Till the earth in the goblet turn inside out.
Goblet of Lapiz Iazuli
"We passed an empty field, in which a person was standing motionless, head down, and soaking wet in the pouring rain. The rain and darkness made it impossible to tell if the person was male or female, no less determine why he or she was standing there, but the ambiguous gender and loneliness of this image still drift through my mind from time to time."
In a World Losing Multiple Worlds - I & II
2023抖音美好惊喜夜
In 1973 the Kino Arsenal – then in its Welserstraße location in Berlin-Schöneberg – showed a programme of videos by the Japanese artist Takahiko Iimura. At the time, it was not yet possible to project the video images on the screen at the Arsenal, so employees brought in their own televisions from home, which were then synchronised to facilitate a collective experience of the then novel medium.
Time Tunnel: Takahiko Iimura at Kino Arsenal, 18. April 1973
The stubborn girl and the supernatural boy embark on a magical youth journey to find the ghost father who accidentally died! Whether we want to or not, whether we see ghosts or not, there are always some invisible and unspeakable ghosts closely following us... Perhaps falling in love is like being haunted by ghosts, so this "ghost" story and "love" story is staged lively.
Haunted Love
After realizing he will soon not be able to take care of his intellectually disabled son, Li Da, a middle-aged man embarks on a journey to his estranged brother’s home.
Twenty
Lily Chou-Chou LIVE U-Next 2023
Documentary with Tahara Soichiro and former Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro.
Not For Broadcast
Packages may have gone through some incredible things before the courier reached us. The film is inspired by the author’s real experience of losing a courier. Made using stop-motion animation techniques.
The Lost Courier
Nine years ago, Liu and her family were asked to move out of the place that they rented for ten years in fifteen days. This documentary examines how they become separated and the importance of home to the family.
Eviction and Beyond
In the serene embrace of sacred nature, trivial thoughts dissolve away. A profound silence engulfs the mind, stifling even the breath. It is the rediscovery of a lost emotion—'awe,' flowing like a stream. A mother, mourning the loss of her only son, embarks on a daily ritual of mountain hikes. In the ascent, she seeks solace amidst the sacred silence that nature provides. For her, the journey becomes a poignant exploration of the profound and the mundane. A 70-year-old haenyeo (traditional female diver), wise from a life intertwined with the sea, asserts that materiality is both our everyday reality and our path to paradise. Their lives, like the ebb and flow of water, find meaning in the continuous stream. Following the currents, one discovers mountains beneath the sea, whereas within the mountains, the sea continues to flow. Ultimately, the boundaries of the world are revealed to be nonexistent, echoing the profound interconnectedness of all things.
No Boundaries
2023 李宇春“周末愉快”中国巡回演唱会 北京场 一
A mysterious figure known only as "Q" navigates a dystopian society where individuality is suppressed. As Q uncovers hidden truths, they must choose between conformity and rebellion.
Q
This is the 93th installment of the “Posted Grudge Spirit Footage” film series.
Posted Grudge Spirit Footage Vol.93: Starvation Edition
Junjun, a 50-year-old cab driver who had devoted his life to the job, found himself forgotten by society. Struggling to make ends meet and care for his half-paralyzed father, Junjun became an illegal driver. After the governmental transportation department issued warnings and fines, Junjun scrambled to become a certified online ride-hailing driver, but his car’s poor condition disqualified him. Desperate to purchase a new car, Junjun sought out his old friend and boss, Hou San, to collect the wages owed to him. Yet, as he ventured to reclaim what was owed, Junjun encountered a new set of complications.
Mr. Junjun
In August 2016, one year after graduation, Albert returned to New Asia College to end his life. Ching-yi and Raymond met because of Albert’s passing, and organized his funeral together with some other friends. Six years later, they occasionally get together to chat about this forever young, handsome, and stylish friend.
Twenty-Two
By examining the Frontier Danceland’s 1998 archival dance piece under the lens of 2023, residency filmmaker Jiekai Liao explores the concept of time and metamorphosis. The present dancers rehearse and improvise motifs from the past work and put their senses through transformative processes. Inspired by the older generation, the spirit of the former piece is rejuvenated, while the young ones carry on their legacy. The dance film project is especially meaningful while the company just announced their transition out of full-time dance company operation by 31st March 2024, after 32 long years of artmaking in Singapore.
Time Pass, Years Past
A man's physical pain prompts him to reminisce about an unborn child from his past relationship with another woman.
The Physical Realm
A documentary that chronicles the daily life of Yuzuna Suzuki, a nurse who was diagnosed with stage 4 tongue cancer at 27 years old.
Care o tsumuide
Blu-ray release of character rap project “Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle - Rule the Stage [Rep LIVE side B.B]”.
Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle - Rule the Stage [Rep LIVE side B.B]
THORNAPPLE FIRE WATCHING 2022 LIVE CONCERT FILM
A kung fu boy has to defeat a murder karate man in this action packed fight choreography heavy martial arts film.
ICHIMONJI KEN Prologue - Kung Fu Boy VS Murder Karate Man
I'll see those two again! A sequel to the short film "Veils".
Kazokunokyori
Toko is a woman who lives her life casually while working part-time at a telephone club. One day, he meets Yokkun, the guitarist and vocalist of a popular band about to make its major debut. Yokkun falls in love with the charm of Toko who doesn't stretch out, but when it comes time to talk about something important, Toko avoids it by humming. In the depths, there is Toko who is elusive. Heart broken in childhood. A heart that can't trust people. A coming-of-age ensemble drama depicting Yokkun and his friends who are toyed with by Toko, who has a small darkness.
Humming
After finishing a grueling shoot, Jun-sang heads to Mongolia in search of inner peace and tranquility. The journey to the desert is not easy, and Jun-sang struggles to figure out where he is going and which direction is the right one on the many roads he encounters. Upon hearing the sudden death of someone he met the day before he came to Mongolia, Jun-sang falls into deep thoughts about life and death. Did Jun-sang find peace when he reached the summit of the windy sand dunes? Boom Boom Boom, Did I find peace on the bumpy road?