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A decade on from its triple core meltdown, we take stock of the mammoth task of decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, an undertaking fraught with both technical and social challenges. The Japanese government maintains the process will take up to 40 years, but the schedule has already been revised 5 times, with pivotal elements postponed. Meanwhile, as people return to their homes in surrounding areas, disposal of unprecedented volumes of radioactive waste has become a point of contention between residents and the government. We look back on the 10 years since the nuclear disaster and explore the choices that will shape Fukushima's future.

A failed drug deal turns into a spiral of violence in the search for the money.

A combined version of Ultraman Taiga and Ultraman Z stage shows, released digitally.

Relationships with mothers who live together and fathers and siblings who live apart. During a period of dizzying changes, such as finding a job and moving to Tokyo, she confronts the world as she sees it now, with her own camera. We want to cheer her on as she heads into the future beyond. Goodbye!

A film about the disappearance of something that seemed as though it would always be there: the long-established Maruhachi Yatarazuke pickling company, a shop that bore a key role in the food culture of Yamagata. The Komian Club to which it was attached had supported the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival since 1993, offering a venue for free social interaction. But in April of 2020, it was suddenly announced that the shop and restaurant were shutting down. As the curtain closed on 135 years of business, disappointment spread, along with questions. This film looks at the proprietor who made the painful decision to close the business and at the people who lent support to this space of interaction. It asks what the YIDFF, and what Yamagata itself, meant as experienced through the Komian Club, by filmmakers and audiences from Japan and abroad.

Tsukaguchi, a comedian, is disliked by the public for his bad behavior and vile style, and shows no signs of selling at all. He and his partner, Kunimatsu, spend their days doing MANZAI (comedy dialogue) at a small theater. One day, the two receive an offer to appear on TV. However, Tsukaguchi has a big problem with his girlfriend, and in the midst of the mixture of reality and delusion, he soon finds himself involved in an irreversible situation as a comedian.

During my 12 years of schooling, I often asked questions like, "Is this school rule necessary?" I thought that students should be respected enough to exercise their basic rights as human beings. However, society and schools seemed to say that students can only be guaranteed their human rights when they are decent students. From then on, I started finding ways to promote student human rights. And I found out. There is no "Student Human Rights Ordinance" in "Daegu" where I live. Why? Daegu students are no different from Seoul students!

At Deoksan elementary school under Woelaksan (Mt.), there are 15 children who have been in the same class for 6 years. They don't sit quietly in class like other school kids. After school, they gather at a hidden secret spot by the river, and they whisper, saying that the homeroom teacher is an adult who can't even control his emotions. Yoonjae, a new teacher who imagined that children would sit quietly in the classroom, is bewildered when he sees the children different from what he expected. The changing seasons with the children, and what will their sky be filled with?

Summer of 2020, Hanna gets a phone call that she wins a prize. However, she needs to pay KRW 240,000 as public utility service tax.

In this absurd world, everyone is doing things in opposition to their heart, doing jobs they don’t want to do, hiding their passions, and hurting others to bury their pain. Ah Shui (Aqua) and Zhang Niao (Bird), a cross-dressing girl, get tangled up in each other’s worlds because of a green dot of light. This green dot becomes their guide, allowing them to meet in their dreams.

Short documentary about Chinese rapper Masiwei.

2021 release

An old Japanese mother, Haruko comes to Tokyo from Osaka to see her 30 years old son, Shuji. Her purpose of the visit is setting up a matchmaking for him because he is still a single man. However, Shuji already uses a matching app to find his partner. On the other hand, Haruko cannot trust the app, so she tries to convince him quit using it. There is a huge gap occurs in between the parent and child.

The film portrays the author's fear of how Hong Kong has changed and how she faces her emotions. It feels like the soul is broken into many pieces, but if we survive, depths of night will eventually pass.

There are different kinds of sounds coming from an empty town where demolition is in progress.

On the day his grandparents are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary, Long finds evidence of his father's affair and reveals it to the family. Contrary to what he expected, exposing his father’s faults did not make things better, and further secrets will be unveiled, fragmenting the three generation family…

23st installment in "Zokuri. Kaidan Yowa" film series.

Directed by Yo Ota.

In 1948, two Korean soldiers from a Chinese People’s Liberation Army division flee Changchun during the Kuomintang–Communist civil war. Some 150,000 civilians died in this little-known siege, mostly by starvation due to the military blockade. The Jeju uprising of 1948 gradually seeps into the soldiers’ time and space. Notable for its extreme violence and casualties but long suppressed in official histories, it was a harbinger of the Korean War. Meanwhile, a famished scholar in Changchun returns in his mind to the May Fourth Movement of 1919.

"Blinded by the Light" is a two-channel video installation commissioned by Thai Film Archive in celebration of 124th anniversary of the birth of Thai cinema. The film aims to interrogate double- sided effects of how cinema itself has changed and developed through time, and how it affected both workers in film productions and its audiences along its journey.

"sub vid heap" is a visceral and compositional study on domination, shot a year after the birth of a first child. An exhausted ego and a needy id, the sensory and the lingual, desire and duty, horror and humility vie it out in a haunted hall. Captured at Headlands Center for the Arts, screams of a baby are muted out while the process of portraiture claims space for a body craving autonomy. Actions of pushing, vacuuming and rocking conjure the rickety bones of downtrodden ancestors, calling the laboring body from the periphery to the center, moving the rage through the body for joy to inhabit the space it vacates.

Hino Mitsunari runs evening classes at a high school attended by foreigners, the elderly, and students struggling with various difficulties. The lessons are called “Community Ball” and involve everyone, including the teacher, sitting in a circle and thinking together on a question under the rule that no one should argue while someone is speaking. The various perspectives of the students all inform the film.

2021 release

2021 release

The forces of the Dark Castle are stirring, as a conspiracy quietly takes shape. What awaits magic mouse in the future remains to be seen.

"Destination" recording scene + special movie

The 17th installment of the "Leaked Psychic Video" series containing Psychic images leaked for various reasons. A video taken to leave evidence of stalking damage. When a woman is scared in the room, the intercom rings...

WAGAKKIBAND 8th Anniversary Japan Tour

A visualisation of cyber bullying.

In the summer of the third year of college, Naoya vaguely heads for job hunting. One summer night he meets his friend Yasu and talks with him about fears and hope for the future. As the night grows late, their conversation gets deeper and deeper.

The Dink couple have an unwanted pregnancy. And they meet a broker who helps with real estate subscriptions

Commissioned for S-AIR’s 2020 residency programme, Letter from Sapporo (2021) is a collage film offering a glimpse of daily life in the Japanese city of Sapporo. The film is the product of approximately 16 participants capturing material with their smartphones. Focusing on moments of stillness, intimacy, labour and humour, disparate material is wedded into a compelling and coherent whole by Quaintance’s subtle editing, original music and vivid sound design.

Following a morphing blob of flesh through an artificial landscape of urban textures we take part in a process of creation and adaption. From a simple square to increasingly complex moving patterns, the organic seems to get lost in the artificial which begins to dominate rhythm and structure of the world.

Takarazuka Flower Troupe 2021 production of "Gin-chan's Love", based on Tsuka Kouhei's "Kamata Kōshin Kyoku". A human interest tale of the kind you've never seen before. It all starts when the egoistic actor Gin-chan's girlfriend Konatsu gets pregnant, and he forces his underling, the stunt actor Yasu, and Konatsu to get married against their wills....

2021 release

As part of a workshop run by Nele Wohlatz at the University of the Arts Hamburg, this series of video letters was sent from April to August 2020 between the filmmakers’ respective hometowns of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Fukushima, Japan. Their contents extends from the artists’ somewhat restricted daily lives during COVID, to their dreams, anxieties, and explorations of their local environment. In Suzuki’s case, his hometown of Fukushima sustained severe damage in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, which is a recurring subject in his wider work. “All of a sudden, I found myself participating in an attempt to make a video letter without leaving my room,” he writes. While the letters are mostly filmed in a single location, they in part take place in digital space, building up an impression of three-dimensional intimacy with their “writers.”

Upon learning that her mother has been missing for years, An Yanzi sets foot on the homeland she parted long ago. She sells her inheritance and rekindles her relationship with her first girlfriend. The strange love poems in her mother’s secret diary lead her to believe that her mother once had a lover… The island is driving her mad, it is hurting her and has left a scar on the broken memory.

My father's attempt to reminisce by his childhood seaside became one of the most inexplicable experiences of his life. The film strips were buried for 28 days in vinegar, mud, cheese, nato beans, beer, and kimchi. The disintegrated imagery produced by the decomposition is reminiscent of the fragmentation of memory.

A closed circuit created by self and extended anti-image. Eventually trapped.

A series of videos that are not available to the public concerning crime scenes and accident sites. A property is rumored to be a place where people commit suicide in the bathroom whenever they live there.When a real estate agent comes to check the property to restore it to its original condition, what does he see?

"Battery Dad" is in charge of every corner of the house, such as children’s toys, remote controls, and door locks. One day, "Battery Dad" and goes on a trip to a valley with others.

A humanoid fish is walking down the street and saw this sushi stall by the roadside. He decided to order the dish of the day. The chef and owner of the stall is an octopus, and he served a dish shortly after the fish ordered. The dish was delicious, but the meat was made of humans.

Shaojie wants to go to Shanghai to perform and his father is about to remarry. A huge misunterstanding is on its way. At the same time, the grandfather sees everything in his eyes.