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A 17th-century folk tale about four thieves trying to survive in a corrupt world during the Song Dynasty (10th-13th century) is the unusual source material for this blinding debut. The timeless sources that director Ma Lanhua mines also comprise French comedy, Chinese opera and contemporary (performance) art. Ma also utilises cinema's history, particularly the early, silent era with title cards, colours reminiscent of hand-coloured films and special effects from the arsenal of film pioneer Georges Meliès.

2019 release

FINAL FANTASY VII is a timeless classic, originally released in 1997 and boasting over 11 million units sold worldwide. Utilizing cutting-edge technology that defined an era, FINAL FANTASY VII featured an epic, emotional story and a cast of captivating characters that captured the hearts of fans everywhere. Now, we are pleased to bring you a “revival” soundtrack to enjoy both the sounds and in-game footage of the beloved FINAL FANTASY VII! This album contains all 85 songs composed by Nobuo Uematsu, the composer of hundreds of songs throughout the FINAL FANTASY series. In the enclosed booklet, you will find special comments from the developers of the original game. We have carefully selected gameplay footage and visual presentations out of countless memorable scenes, and packed it in to one Blu-ray Disc for you to enjoy. Let Cloud, Aerith, Sephiroth, and the rest of the crew bring back fond memories from back in the day.

This is the 50th installment of the “Posted Grudge Spirit Footage” film series.

BJ Cherry Jang 2019.8 Shorflim by Ryu Sung SIl

A girl wakes up in chains in a room she doesn't recognize, held hostage by a terrifying stranger who claims to know her but he says he wants to play a game.

Kizuna AI is known as the world's first and most popular Virtual Youtuber, and now she headlines her first concert: a two-day event titled "hello, world." Held during December 2018 in Tokyo and Osaka, it was put together by AI and the producers behind the nine singles she had released over nine consecutive weeks. With over 37,000 passionate fans in attendance, this concert is considered "the beginning of a new legend." A truly stunning and unique experience you cannot miss!

Short animation by Tian Yulin

Kinta and Ginji are best buddies. Sometimes they get on each other’s nerves, but they don’t hold a grudge for long. They are way too straightforward for that. Every other day, they meet up and roam the fields and forests, lie around in the grass, or make music. Just two normal guys – but one of them is a tanuki (racoon dog), the other a robot. Things get even more curious when other talking entities and objects appear!

There are always some moments you don’t want to say a word. The world is silent and you turn silent.

Features LOVEBITES' gig held at MyNavi BLITZ Akasaka held on January 27. Contains 17 songs in total. 1 Clockwork Immortality 2 Addicted 3 Bravehearted 4 The Crusade 5 Pledge Of The Saviour 6 Rising 7 Scream For Me 8 Break The Wall 9 Shadowmaker 10 Above The Black Sea 11 Empty Daydream 12 M.D.O 13 Journey To The Otherside 14 Edge Of The World 15 We The United 16 Epilogue 17 Don't Bite The Dust 18 Under The Red Sky 19 The Everlasting

When a reporter visits a temple to interview a folklorist about a local legend, strange events begin to occur.

Live-streaming is a casual activity that people from all walks of life engage in. The mysterious Verite, who appears during the streaming, causes strange experiences one after another. Who in the world is Verite? A collection of five mysterious and scary stories related to live-streaming!

21th film in the "Mystery Horror: Ghost Videos Even Scarier" film series.

This is the fourteenth installment in the "Psychic vs. Human" Series.

We can see things differently when we see things from different angles.

A3! BLOOMING LIVE 2019

In Lengshuijiang, balanced in a space made up of official images, an audiovisual program presents itself as a taciturn witness of rigid, modulated, even aberrant moments in which China constantly tried to demonstrate its success through its own fresco, an atypical form in tone of virtual reality.

In a chronically stressed society, a teenage spree killer is born. Based on a true story.

Image: light movement on the water surface (Tennozu isle, Shinagawa). Sound: sound of wind-bells and noises of people on a street (Asakusa).

Shao Qui has painted with her close brother Shao Kai all her life, not knowing the hidden secrets of her brothers private life. After her brothers suicidal death, she is forced by fate to live with her brothers male lover Fang Zhou. Through her brother's lover she learns the lesson of the Chinese proverb "The love of the house extends even to the crows perching on the roof".

A film about a mother and a daughter who each fall into a complicated relationship.

Video essay ‘Rock and Cliff' investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and centre of large scale tourist development, and the experiences of rural residents moved there through government-led displacement. Horn Town is located in Wulong, a rural district near the Three Gorges Dam administered by the Chongqing municipality (a city of 30 million people). Narrated in the style of a science documentary but using local Chongqing dialect, the video brings a geological and topographical perspective to types of 'rocks' found in the area,from mythological stones from a mountain cliff, to ruins of the original settlement, to a stone sculpture from a dubious 'Land Art Biennial', in order to address issues of land acquisition, top-down development and spatial politic.

Ayano is out of step with other people her own age. The growing obsession with fruit connects them to Satoko, who tends to the trees. A missing pear and a frightening item left behind may mean something else is near. Perhaps something sinister.

A Serial killer who copycats famous thriller films, is in town. … is the storyline of a film where actor Jung is playing a detective role. He’s not sure about the director, who seems to be both an artist and a con-artist. Soon after, an accident happens and Jung now has to deal with a single mom detective who resembles his movie character. What will be his fate, in both sides of the film?

Features Chihiro Onitsuka's concert held on December 11, 2018 at Tokyo Dome City Hall

2019 release

2019 release

Video work concerning the censorship of Oura's print series Holding Perspective and the following trial of 1986-2000

39th entry in the 'Sealed Video' franchise from the production team of 'Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video'.

Japan is a close but distant country. The film tells the past and present of Zainichi Koreans and pro-North Korean schools in Japan. Through the close-down order, protests, and withdrawal of the order, the schools remained steady for 70 years. The film doesn't focus only on the past, but calmy depicts the lives of Zainichi Koreans. What is different today compared to 70 years ago? ​

Short animation by Haruka Suzuki

On Chinese New Year's Eve, a 19 year old boy tries to reconnect with his mother after going to kung fu school against her will.

In rural Japan, a mother and daughter attempt to reconnect after dealing with the loss of a loved one the previous year.

A film sixteen thousand splices in the making. E-Ticket is a frantic (re)cataloguing of a personal archive and an opportunity for rebirth to forgotten images. 35mm photographs and moving pictures are obsessively cut apart, reshuffled then tape spliced together inch by inch in rigid increments. My photographs may have all been cut up and mixed around, but at least they’re all in one place now. A retelling of Dante's Inferno for the streaming age; a freedom of movement reserved for the modern cloud.

"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door ..."