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First installment in the horror mockumentary series by director Unno Yoji.

Ways of Seeing is a film about the transformative, healing power of both nature and female wisdom as expressed through movement. The film focuses on the ways our inner world is expressed in how we move — particularly subconscious movement. And, based on this, investigates the healing effects of liberated movement. “I wanted to bring attention to the courage it takes to sit with the inevitable pain we experience as we seek to grow,” Furth shares. With this approach, the film further draws on a fascination with nature’s capacity to humble and inspire us, as well as the ways through which we can become more aware of, and receptive to, that innate strength.

In the 1990s, Chinese composer and educator Bao Yuankai began composing Western-style symphonic pieces rooted in traditional folk music. One of his acclaimed pieces is Sketches of Taiwan, which Bao was inspired to write after falling in love with Taiwan’s people and culture. Tsui Yung-Hui follows as he retraces his musical journey, decades-long love affair with Taiwanese culture and how he came up with brilliant, groundbreaking work that artfully bridges East and West.

Twelve-year-old scuba diver Ema sets out on a quest to find out why corals around the globe are dying, but are somehow more resilient in Hong Kong.

Intense interest in Japan by the West made it a favourite destination for filmmakers from the earliest days of film. This selection of films from 1901 to 1913, newly restored by the BFI National Archive, takes us on a fascinating journey through Meiji Japan.

When the moon is close enough to the earth in its orbit, a UFO will come and take our two protagonists with it. So it is important that everything is prepared for this. And if it doesn't work this time, it will do the next time.

Yoon Jeongho, 27-year-old, is tired of city life. One day, he gets a phone call asking him to come to the reunion. Jeongho, who is in agony after the phone-call, goes out to the city once again, recalling his painful memories.

On the way up Yushan takes the journeys of Mr. Wu Rong-Fu and Mr. Lin Chang-An as the axes of narrative. The two individuals had some "modifying" on the top of Yushan. Their lives are intimately tied with Yushan. The personal narratives branched out along the way, the unexpected events on the halfway, and the anonymous landscapes, the mountain of memories via hands and materials as well as imaginations and recollections. Though they never meet, through the film, they'd have a chance to walk aside.

Reon Yuzuki's concert.

Burdened with Yugoslavia's rise and fall, an old editor in chief sticks to the state-owned publishing houses and bookstores that were once brilliant but are now on the verge of collapse. A young curator tries to use daily objects from old Yugoslavia to explore how the old way of life sustains life today. This is an Odysseus tour of the cultural heritage of Belgrade. A traveling Chinese writer passes through the area and sees the lives of the two characters from an outsider's perspective. The film records what she sees, feels, and her pain. Though mountains and streams separated them, they face each other spiritually.

A little fish was looking for food freely, but inadvertently witnessed cruel hunting of other marine creatures by a capture fisherman. And at the moment when the capture fisherman and this little fish face each other, a crazy hunt begins… Underwater monster is the common name for capture fisherman. Of course, they are humans, but to marine creatures hiding in rocks and water plants, they can be described as real monsters.

The conversation is between a young man and a young woman who are now sex workers. The end of a past relationship still lingers in the young man's mind.

During the Second World War, Japanese film editor Chounosuke Ise made numerous propaganda films in Japanese-occupied Indonesia. Their purpose was to justify Japan’s hegemony in Asia, claiming liberation of these countries from colonialism. Chounosuke Ise’s son, filmmaker Shin-ichi Ise, traces the path taken by his father, who barely spoke about the war or Indonesia, and was seemingly reluctant to discuss what he had done there.

1976 was an important year for China - Chairman Mao dies and the Cultural Revolution ends. In Chengdu, five young women find 2 Yuan on the street. They treat themselves to ice cream and decide to take a photo in a studio. Every 10 years they take another photo in the same position. Although their lives have taken different routes and their political views don't align, they remain close friends.

A young boy with horns on his head becomes the guardian of the forest and its animals after the birth of a new forest on the Korean Peninsula.

A Music Video made for Lucky Old Sun’s song ‘马马虎虎‘ (Ma Ma Hu Hu) from their new album ‘‘うすらい“. A group of young girls and boys having their summer fantasy with a few daydreams, romance and kungfu actions!

The Ushiku immigration center near Tokyo mainly holds people seeking refuge in Japan. Using a hidden camera, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Ash interviewed inmates there from late 2019. His film publicly accuses Japan’s uncompromising refugee policy through one of the country's biggest human rights scandals. Ushiku has been making international headlines for years.

2021 release

Chisato Moritaka Live 2020 (森高千里ライブ2020, Moritaka Chisato Raibu 2020) is an upcoming live video by Japanese singer/songwriter Chisato Moritaka, scheduled for release on July 28, 2021 by zetima. It is a compilation of three online concerts she hosted after her Kono Machi Tour 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1][2]

A young girl visits her grandparents’ Pokémon-filled home and bonds with a shy Slugma!

A woman waits in a café. An amateur baseball player enters, goes to meet her, and asks her to forget him. But how can you forget the superhero who saved you from the rubble of a collapsed building? After dazzling moviegoers with many memorable performances, actor Cho Jin-woong (THE DEVIL'S DEAL, A HARD DAY, ME AND ME) gets behind the camera and delivers a spectacular film with subtle touches of humour.

This is the question posited by director Nakamura Yutaro at the start of his latest film, a series of vignettes that bleed into each other. Memories? dreams? Whatever they are, they belong to highschooler Hikari who, along with a friend named Yujiro, get involved with an emotionally unstable man named Takaya. Flash-forward a decade or so and they are all 20-somethings bumbling around on New Year’s Eve night. Hikari has picked up an admirer, Kotaro, while Takaya is shacked up with a young woman named Anzu. A tumultuous night together leads to a quarrel and a truly bizarre New Year’s Day. It’s not a straightforward experience as we surf through these experiences and question whether they are imagined but the feeling of airy freedom and endless possibilities at the end is pleasant.

Xiaomei, a factory girl played by Xiao Wen Ju, spent a long night looking for her lover but he never shows up.

Miyazaki artist Komatsu Takahide stumbled upon a painting of a Taiwanese indigenous girl in a local antique shop. He discovered the painter Shiotsuki Toho had made significant contributions to the Taiwanese art scene although remaining unknown in Japan. Toho arrived in Taiwan as an educator under the colonial government in 1921, harboured a deep love for Taiwanese indigenous people and cultures. Komatsu embarked on a journey to trace this century-ago fellow artist, pondering what "freedom" means to an artist.

Two young queer Chinese men who have feelings for each other connect over the phone just as one of them is preparing to be married to a woman.

As time goes by, places stay the same, but people change. What have we been through and learned over the last 10 years?

⁣In ancient legend, "NOMINO SUKUNE" was the creator of Japanese Sumo wrestling. He also aborted the live human sacrifices in the tombs of the emperor and made terra-cotta clay sculptures instead.

Azusa Makabe is a magazine editor who lives in Sapporo, a snowy city located in northern Japan. She has an alcoholic father who gave up on himself because of failure in his career. Keeping a distance from her father and striving to live a different life, she tries hard not to rely on anyone despite. Is she simply self-disciplined, or is she afraid of something?

The third play in the "Rusted Armors" series.

Even today, actors struggle for acting by themselves. Can they fulfil their long-awaited acting dreams?

For the first time in two years since the death of her grandmother, Hatsuka came to her parents' house where she begins to live with her siblings and a boy that was close to the grandmother.

Chi Soo is struggling to survive medical school life due to his family situation. In his school days, Chi Soo lived in his old friend Song Eun Cheol's house, but naturally became close to Song Eun Soo, Eun Chul's younger sister, and they got married. However, love too is brief... In his second year of marriage, Chi Soo experiences a period of ennui and meets Monica Jeong. Monica Jeong impersonated herself as an international lawyer in the United States and came to Korea, and introduced herself as the only child of a wealthy family.

Crossing through reality and dream, find the meaning of your life.

A personal story about brotherly love and betrayal. Two brothers, Derek & Jeremiah, reunite. But they have taken radically different paths in coming to terms with their sexual identities as gay men.

When I was a kid, my big brother became obsessed with the 90s Japanese subculture of teenage guys who were known as "Gyaru-o." His odd appearance totally mystified me so I started to sneak into his room to look for his secrets.

The world is made of essentials and non-essentials. However, the more essential a thing is, the more we can’t have it. Instead, we carry unnecessary burdens, just like Satomi. At such a time, her brother comes back as a sister.

1. OIRAN 2. 雷霆 -RAITEI- 3. SORAI 4. Life 5. DISSENSION

Dance teacher Lin Maomao suffered from schizophrenia because her husband Wu Hao left him. He went to the station every day to wait for her husband to return. Former boyfriend Chen Guang accompanies Lin Maomao every day regardless of return. Wu Hao finally came back and reunited with Lin Maomao. Chen Guang also gained a new love.

After surveying the ruins of an abandoned building, a man is plagued with an unshakable presence that follows him everywhere.

After the outbreak of the war with Japan, all Beijing universities were closed or bombed. A group of young students, aged 18 or 19, set off in a hurry, moving south on foot, crossing Xiangqian and Yunnan, and eventually forming a temporary university on the Kunming plateau - the Southwest Union University, a joint venture between Tsinghua, Peking University and Nankai. They crossed a city to listen to the "best Chinese language class ever", to listen to Toselli's "Serenade", and to join the Flying Tigers. For these "post-90s" seniors, who are now in their nineties, SWU is not a dusty piece of history, but a memory of youth that is still as fresh as ever. Yang Zhenning, Xu Yuanchong, Pan Jiluan, Yang Coix, Wang Xiji and Ma Zhitu - 16 students of the University with an average age of over 96 years old are cast together to take you back to a time when war was raging and stars were shining.

I tried to discuss the stirring and emotional states in human life, like a touch or a physical state of behavior. We expose ourselves to a vast event that creates a state of smallness and vulnerability, We are so vulnerable, so powerless to extend our thoughts or intentions.

TV shows, manga, music, movies, plays, pop stars and cartoon characters. I watch videos on my phone with the TV blaring and music in the background. I’m swimming in media... Is this the other side of the screen?! Awesome!

A woman in mental distress comes to the beach, has a dream, and then departs.

Animated videoclip for the song "Blue Berry Honey" by WurtS.

On what seemed like a typical day in a turbulent time for Hong Kong, Vivian will slowly lose everyone around her.

When homosexuality was depathologized in China in 2002, it still remained a taboo for the most. Homosexual lovers lived in the shadow of marginalization, defending their silent love against the prying gazes. It is also in this year that Xia Gu and Amber Zheng, two lesbian lovers, choose to adopt the 10-year-old Ellie from the orphanage. Yet facing the strong opposition from her traditional parents, Xia is torn in halves and forced to rethink what a family truly means to her. At the same time, her self-doubt also stirs up insecurities inside Amber and Ellie. When she decides to return to hometown to take care of her suicidal mother, the tension in this newly formed family mounts up once again.

When he visits the home of a friend from his university days, he begins to speak passionately about 'giants in Tokyo at night'... Honda's belief in the existence of invisible 'giants' and his withdrawal into a world of one recalls various conspiracy theories in contemporary society. Are the giants his delusion?

High school student Minjae wants to die. He jumps out of a classroom window, but instead of dying, he is forced to see the school counselor.