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Animation by Zhijie Wang. Music by Tatsukiamano.

The spotted dog in my hometown went missing, which started my thoughts...

Leave all the messages for the future⋯ Hamasen is one of the first modernization regions. Since the Japanese colonization era, there had been many scenic postcards recording images of Hamasen. Some of the architectures still remained in the same places as they had been in the postcards. Over hundreds of years, this piece of reclaimed land carries memories of fishing men, customs declarers, and local elders from generations to generations. Sceneries in people's memories intertwine with different time layers of maps of Hamasen. What kinds of messages do we intend to leave for the next generation?

Advisor Kazuya Nishiura investigates a strange video with many orbs! Tanishi Matsubara examines the ghost stories of ghost storyteller Toshiyuki Tanaka! Yuji Okayama examines a haunted photograph owned by ghost storyteller Issei Kunizawa! Psychic detective investigates ghosts from various places The latest work in the Kitano Makoto's We Are Psychic Detectives' series that rushes to the spot and thoroughly investigates it!

Winter, Urban Villages in Beijing. Daqing is a fool, Daqing Family and three young people living in the courtyard together. Daqing always mends the sky on the roof, Laishun likes to stay on the roof and read books. Daqing’s dog has been barking. Xiaofei and Ajun couldn’t sleep.

2019 release

2019 release

2019 release

2019 release

The Chinese government announced that 319 people died in the Tiananmen Square incident 30 years ago. The details of why and how the citizens were suppressed by force remain unknown. In an attempt to uncover the truth, NHK visited those involved in the incident in China and around the world, and unearthed new historical materials. What emerged was a carefully deployed military force and part of the power struggle within the government. We will reexamine the 50 days that decided the fate of China, and unravel the mysteries of the many incidents.

A road where many unexplained accidents occur. A surveillance camera installed on the road captured the image of a passerby who was not a person.

If These Letters Reach Your Eyes captures the voices of children who survived the tragedy at Okawa Elementary School.

The 17th 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. Welcome to the ghost story club that can be called a chain reaction of such weirdness!

The 14th 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. Welcome to the ghost story club that can be called a chain reaction of such weirdness!

Meili is a woman with a cleft lip and palate. Because of her physical defect, she never went to any public places. But this time her daughter is about to get married...

A gay guy who lives a loving life with his partner and his mother. He gets involved in the family troubles of an old friend he met after a long absence and stares at what loneliness is.

On a deserted island lives a desperately lonely Cyclops. Time passes, the seasons too. One summer night, he discovers an egg from which a bird hatches. Very quickly a fusional relationship binds them, until summer came back ...

They are obsessive, insatiable and extremely imaginative. Meet the Japanese Star Wars fanatics and their passion for collecting items of this epic saga.

Cute, pop, comical and funny colorful animation. Cute food character "Lemon-chan" fights!

The female protagonist was originally an ordinary female teacher. In order to share some of the burden of family life with her husband, she did tutoring and tutoring for others. At first, she really enjoyed this kind of life until she found out that the person she tutored started plotting against her!

Mysterious events occur in a residential area near Hiroshima that preserves its natural environment.

A short movie submitted to GEMSTONE Godzilla contest.

A story of a little boy and his troubles in the school.

Rise of a man from the lower castes of society to become a "Big Brother", managing prostitution and gambling businesses.

She is young. She has a son. She falls in love with a married man. Between family and love, there is no way to go.

2019 release

A struggling father, Yun, tries to spend time with his daughter on her birthday but nothing goes according to plan.

A lonely old lady arranges her whole life with an old robot.

Yoo Hunyeong is an unknown director. Video Mail is a testament to the infinite potential of this director who has not received any formal education in filmmaking. Following the narrow imagination of an excavator driver, the film brilliantly depicts an outdated look on love. Mocking the stubborness of prevailing film grammar, the film leads the way with its own rhythm.

20th film in the "Mystery Horror: Ghost Videos Even Scarier" film series.

From this popular series that counts 37 works, the 6th compilation of episodes carefully selected by the staff.

2019 release

You can almost feel the rough cedar wood with your hands when Mikio Hagiwara talks about his craft. He is the third generation to manufacture wooden barrels. He sees his job as a vocation that is closely interwoven with family life.

Daijiro Mizuno's & Kana Ohashi's short film.

It’s about an old man, who had a rather hard life. He started off poor, then wealthy; from wealthy to unwell; And from the illness arises his determination to write.” This is what my father told me, the director to say about this film. And as the director, I documented his life which could be missed 9 years ago, and his journey, from where he lived now to his hometown, from life to death.

They say, "bury" is for the deceased to find a peaceful mind place, and the place of heart returning of the departed mother has always let her daughter cruising. The abstraction of thoughts in daily life, the conjecture of mothers in different time and space, and the endless search for the dead also are indexes of daughter’s heart. Where on earth has mother gone? How does a daughter perceive a distant relative? Through the mouth of the mysterious people, to explore the unknown space.

Left in the village by parents who have emigrated for work, a young girl dreams of becoming a dancer and escaping rural village life. Her grandfather forces her to sign up for swimming lessons instead of ballet class where she uses buoyancy of the pool to help her practice ballet positions. When she realizes her skills at full gravity are not what she imagined, her relatives cobble together a crude space for her to practice.

Dancesport has been big in Cebu since the year 2000, and especially for kids from unprivileged families, becoming dancesport athletes means opening doors to their future. This documentary features kids training to win at world-class dance competitions, sharing tears and laughter while learning about survival, defeat and victory.

After seven years, singer Irma Osno returns to her hometown of Ayacucho in the Andes.

"Making a Perfect Donut" is a video work focused on US military base issue in Okinawa by Kyun-Chome who works as a contemporary artist in Japan. This film is a project documentary that started from the question “If one was to combine an American donut with its hole in the center, and a round shaped Okinawan donut; wouldn't that be a perfect, holeless donut regardless of which side of the military fence it is seen?”

The twelfth and final night of New Japan Cup 2019 took place on March 24, 2019, at Aore Nagaoka in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan, and featured the final match of the tournament.

In April 2018, 15 Chinese people set foot at the base camp on the south slope of Mount Qomolangma in Nepal in a last-ditch effort to realize their Everest dream. They are civil servants, workers and bosses, men, women and children from all over China. Why do they want to climb Mount Everest? As we slowly approach the top, we also step into their hearts.

Kaede, Ryota, Mana, Asahi, Haruka, Soshi, and Tatsumi were friends in high school. When they turned 22 years old, the six of them get together to visit their alma mater. They stop by the library and find a book on séance techniques, and then begin to perform "Kagome" necromancy. Kaede, who is the least enthusiastic, has a secret between her and Tatsumi, who died before graduation.

On an island not far from the mainland, the young father seagull is anxiously guarding the new born gulls by the nest and awaiting the return of the mother seagull. The mother seagull has given up everything she has, but the baby seagull is still hungry. The father seagull had flown away in search of more food...The main diet of black-tailed gulls is pelagic fish in the sea, molluscs and aquatic insects in coastal wetlands and estuaries. However, with the overfishing of offshore fish and the pollution of the marine environment, seagulls can catch fewer and fewer small fish in the upper layer.