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Just Like Snakes is a reinterpretation of the popular Chinese folklore The Legend of the White Snake. In the traditional story, a white snake transforms into a woman and falls in love with a man. When a monk discovers their transgressive romance, he punishes the snake by imprisoning her in a pagoda. This tale has been celebrated across Asia for centuries, evolving to reflect the changing morals of each era. Commissioned by CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) in Hong Kong, Just Like Snakes responds to the city’s first Chinese musical based on the same legend, created by the iconic Chinese diva Rebecca Pan. Through music and dance, the film questions the limitations of story archetypes. Revisiting the folklore as a metaphor for contemporary society, it proposes: now that the pagoda—representing restrictive societal constructs—has collapsed, how might we observe and adapt to a shift in paradigms that calls for new orders in our world today?

After Four Seasons LIVE 2020, the series go to Act 2! The troupe will welcome the long-awaited new member, Hyodo Kumon, and tell the story of the new Summer Troupe's fourth performance.

In 2016, Cheng Hsing-tse walked out of the prison as the first death-row inmate pending a retrial requested by prosecutors. Cheng was acquitted at last. Yet he cannot forget the kid he met on the day he was led in shackles by the police to pay respects to the kid's father at the mortuary. The kid must have grown up by now. Cheng wants to meet him again to forget about each other.

139 years after being devastated by a disaster, Japan faced a crisis. The NEORIGIN company took a stand by constructing a new city, naming it after themselves. In that city lived Shota, who, against his sister Mariko's objections, made up his mind to escape to the outside world...

The lonely princess Tashen, by chance, establishes a connection with a foreign girl named Aila through a pair of twin flowers, and gradually opens up her heart while chatting with her. However, at this time, the shadow of war looms over them…

One ordinary Sunday, the husband woke up from sleep, had lunch with his wife at noon, the wife went out in the afternoon, the husband fell asleep again, a director came to see him... In this ordinary day, the husband, wife, and director look like they care about and communicate with each other, but they are actually talking to themselves, and the most important thing is the end, the wife asks the husband to get up to eat. So is this husband's experience a dream or a reality?

The fantastic and romantic story of a boy from the rooftops and a girl from the basement.

Su-hyun, a courier who stopped acting, had a contact accident with Ji-young, an acting student, while delivering at a university. Ji-young, who had rejected Su-hyun's offer to take her to the hospital, asks for another request. In that way, the two go to Ji-young's audition in Su-hyun's truck.

Zenkichi made a living by performing "Utsushi-E" to entertain the common people in early 19th century Japan.

In "Rest Day," Woo-yeon, an ordinary student, receives a text message one morning that her class has been canceled. From that moment on, the most cherished parts of her life that she remembers clearly—from school to her best friend—begin to disappear one by one. An intriguing and mysterious short film that explores the value of memories and the fragility of reality.

There are people whose lives are not rich. Yoo and Jun have to empty the house they lived in together, and move to a narrower, more unstable place. One sleepless night, Yoo asks Jun to go out together to find a place to throw out the sofa that occupies one side of the house. The two start to float through the night streets, while other people sleep, and bring up conversations that were absent from one another.

What do these creatures kept by humans think about in their lives? And how do we humans feel about the situation?

This is a horror film about a yokai "Zashiki-do" who is said to bring happiness. Mikako goes to stay at an old house with her boyfriend and encounters a strange but somehow comforting event. A few days after returning to Tokyo, Mikako feels the presence of something again...

He loves Sally. Yet, at times, he finds colors absent in Sally in others and shows curiosity, prompting Sally to change her color.

A poet’s return to his decrepit hometown turns into a carnival of absurdity with equal parts filth, irreverence and melancholy.

Produced during the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover from Great Britain to Mainland China in the wake of cataclysmic regional changes, Simon Liu’s dizzying, claustrophobic Let’s Talk captures the anxiety of an uncertain future.

A Korean university student takes on an unusual tutoring job and encounters a young child who refuses to write in English. As the tutor a;empts to get to the root of the child's reluctance, she uncovers a shocking revela@on about the child and her mother.

Late at night after work, Jun-seok notices that a mosquito net has been delivered. With So-ra's help, he sets up the mosquito net in the living room, but gives up because it's not the right size. In her dream, Sora sees Jun-seok installing a mosquito net in the yard. Sora is happy to be inside the mosquito net that her husband installed. After work, Jun-seok actually installs the mosquito net in the yard. With her husband and son in the audience, Sora begins to play her guitar and sing quietly.

In sweltering heat, a boy comes home from school and looks for water. Only his bedridden grandfather is home; his mother isn’t, and there is no water. After drinking up his grandfather’s water, the boy heads out to fill the water bottle.

A hermit crab, who is held captive by a human, uses its very last strength to escape and crawl back to the seemingly beautiful "beach" through a crowd of protestors.

In the office - in the bathroom - in bed - the women encounter deformities. But it's not them that are truly terrifying, it's the humans.

Balsa, spear wielder and bodyguard, is a wandering warrior who has vowed to atone for eight deaths in her past by saving an equivalent number of lives. On her journey, she saves Prince Chagum and is tasked with becoming his bodyguard. His own father, the Mikado, has ordered his assassination. The two begin a perilous journey to ensure the survival of the prince. Balsa's complicated past begins to come to light and they uncover Chagum's mysterious connection to a legendary water spirit with the power to destroy the kingdom.

My father’s 100-year-old family home may soon be torn down. Filled with traces of past lives, it holds the weight of memory. To preserve those memories, I captured them on film.

2023 release

In Long Sand and Water images alternate between bodily immersion and distance. Film is a form of technologically induced hallucination

This film is dedicated to the house that has anchored a home for my family for over 30 years: Chang Chun, my grandmother’s house. Just like the fate of several old buildings in Taipei, she will be demolished by the end of this year.

One morning Yasuko wakes up feeling very tired and weak. She calls the company she works for and asks them to give her the day off, and the manager gives Yasuko five days off to have a good rest. Intending to enjoy this holiday, the young woman is also dumped by her boyfriend. She starts drinking too much and becomes more and more desperate. Felling vague anxiety, she is mentally cornered. Yasuko's vacation passes without a sound.

If infants were born asexual, they could choose their sex organs: breasts, genitals, or phalluses, according to their wishes. Proposes a new imagination for the human body and reflects the phenomenon of modern society. Nowadays, people have multiple roles and enjoy the right to choose the gender they prefer.

A young man who just got back home from jail tries to fix the relationship with his younger brother so that they can rebuild the family together, ignoring people' judgments.

Ting's hometown was far away, but now she had made her home on Nam Kok Road (meaning "The Southern End") in Kowloon City. Ting wanted to go around and know the area. The various trivial things she saw on the streets invoked many inner thoughts and monologues in her. When the night came, she wrote down “words about staying”. While she was wandering on the street, she walked past countless walls of silence where time had left marks on.

Ten years ago, while my dad was suffering from depression, my mom hid all the truth from me. Years later, she entered a marriage again, and I found that she gradually became happier, and the void created by Dad’s death seemed to only trap me. So, with a little anger and a lot of confusion, I began to try to talk to her.

A stranger makes one suggestion to Misuk, whose wish is to return home from a nursing home. If Misuk brings a young person’s hair, she will send Misuk home.

In 1995, an astronomer proposed a peculiar project. It was to use the Hubble Telescope to capture a small part of the universe that was then known to be a void. In 1447 in Chosun Dynasty, Prince Anpyeong had a dream of walking through a peach blossom forest shrouded in clouds and mist, and he asked the painter, Ahn Gyeon, to capture it in a painting. Through the juxtaposition of the two historical anecdotes, the film examines the images of ‘the far and near’ through printing, transforming, and distorting the photos from the NASA Image and Video Library.

At the end of 2019, Cheng Gong and his wife had a big fight over their household duties. His wife was fed up with Cheng Gong choosing work over his family. In anger, she left him a divorce agreement and took their daughter, Qiqi, to her mother’s house. Cheng Gong, taking the advice of his good friend Qiangzi, decided to go to South Korea to relieve his stress. Despite enjoying himself in South Korea, Cheng Gong still missed his wife and daughter. However, after failing to reach his wife several times, Cheng Gong began to collapse emotionally and started drinking to drown his sorrows. Under the influence of alcohol and the atmosphere, Cheng Gong gradually lost consciousness. When he woke up, he found himself alone on a bench in the park, having lost all his money and belongings while he was drunk at the bar. At first, Cheng Gong thought he simply got lost. However, he soon discovered that he was about to face a world-shaking change.

At the basketball camp, 15-year-old Fang talks about her dreams. But life never stops, it moves too fast. Her phone fell into water. There are too many stairs to climb. The adults seem to decide her future. And the rocket keeps being launched every month.

Spooky Scary horror 12

The 68rd installment in the “Sealed Videos” series, investigating the truly dreadful in horror videos.

This is a story about individuals from small, geographically marginal communities who still maintain a connection with nature, illustrating how they honor their ancestral hunting culture by reinventing and reinterpreting it.

Ye-eun's boyfriend cheated on her. Her best friend Da-jung wants to take revenge. She practices shooting.

In the months that follow the seventy-day citywide covid lockdown, three couples in Shanghai meet to talk, and to manifest their traumas in acts of fantastical violence.

Fake Documentary "Q": Passengers

Uncovering Japan's hidden poverty, The Ones Left Behind: The Plight of Single Mothers in Japan gives a voice to the people who need their voices heard the most, the everyday, hardworking, single mothers of Japan.

Memories of an absent loved one assume a form of their own as they emerge from a forgotten old video camera in this gorgeous, wistful work of austere graphic minimalism. – Rupert Bottenberg

Li Yi-Fan’s What Is Your Favorite Primitive (2023) narrates “a death match” between the artist and their software while grappling with the production process. In a fight between social and ethical concerns, it also raises questions of image production and communication.

Soonok, a senior living alone, reunites with her daughter Eunryeong who lost contact with Soonok for a long time and her granddaughter, Yeonji. With all the emotions built up after all this time, for whom the lullaby from someone's mouth was sung that night?

Experimental short by Yuta Takehiro.

76th installment in the "Shinrei Yami Douga" series, the successor to "Yami Douga".

Three siblings, Somin, Changmin, and Hyunmin, live in a two-story suburban house inherited by their father. All three are unemployed and have no intention of getting a job. One day, the youngest gets startled to witness the specter of his father on the second floor and decides to sell the house.