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2023 release

Animation short by Masa Kudo.

As farmland vanishes and neighbors sell their land, one family faces the same fate. Through conversations with an elder left farming alone, the filmmaker explores the quiet struggle of letting go and the deep values rooted in the land, seeking to preserve something before it inevitably disappears.

Security camera footage from an elevator showing a woman's trip to the basement.

In 2022, the group performed for the first time at the FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL, and the audience went into a wild dance frenzy with their Japanese style festival music which is played entirely with electrical appliances. Now, the first video piece by such an exceptional project is here. Complete recording of the performance they hosted at Kanda Myojin Hall in Tokyo in the fall of 2022.

Watch out for the girl you met on the overpass.

Over the ten years, Ino has been passing down the Atayal culture with real actions, imparting all he learnt from the forest to children in Cinsbu. The audiences can feel his natural philosophy of life in his words and deeds. He makes people realize that there exists genuine, pure and beautiful relationship between human and myriad elements of nature.

The artwork presents three scenes: the Paju factory where the books are made, a French professor reading in a lecture room, and a forest landscape. These images are projected simultaneously on three screens arranged in a triangle, allowing viewers to move around and experience the installation from different angles.

This piece explores the unique dynamics and communication that arise from the inability to fully connect and understand each other. In our daily lives, we form various social circles through interactions with friends, acquaintances, colleagues, and family. With the prevalence of social media and online platforms, people can create even more diverse social circles and connect with individuals from all over the world. Through this artwork, the faint boundaries that emerge from individual communications and relationships are contemplated, with the hope of sparking thoughts about our future existence and how we interact with others.

Mercy and Kaori from Mtv, a popular video channel in the psychic world, visit haunted and abandoned places across Japan to verify ghostly phenomena in this series. This time she went to an abandoned village in Miyazaki Prefecture. As they explore the ruins, which remind them of how people used to live, mysterious phenomena begin to occur...

This is the 92th installment of the “Posted Grudge Spirit Footage” film series.

The definitive collection of terrifying images! Over 80 titles in the series! This documentary horror film series has been collabolated with various genres such as TV personalities, magazines, and news sites, and has over 90 titles in total! The contents in this collection were filmed at sites where spirits are said to be frequently sighted.

“eternal return / op.1 wonderful world” is an experimental film work, provoking a sense of obligation for the time being. The center of the work is an installation artwork of an Ape represented as an AI, indicating our biological and technological development. Along with the symbolic metaphor, the title pays homage to the philosophical theory of recurrence to navigate the imagination into an unbounded perception.

Ji-won, she is from Goryeo, has another name, Yuliya. To call him, they must choose a name for convenience: Ha-pyung chooses Ji-won, and Sun-woo chooses Yuliya. They are just two words, two names, with the same weight. The world draws a line between them and calls them different names, but Ji-won and Yuliya, along with their friend Ha-neung, cross the borders of their Korean village, between Ji-won and Yuliya.

Fear of the stage becomes a young violinist's struggle. She falls into a world without music. Will she find her melody again?

‘Out of Place’ revolves around a fictional concept of escaping the earth. Surviving as Korean women, we try to escape with a novel voyage from this Earth to another planet. When the bizarre statistics on us gather on this new planet, the voices from the ones who breathe here with one another form echoes, which continue as a round. There, the voices that this society has taught about us, and the voices we speak out for ourselves, coexist like a twin. At the moment of those two voices intersecting and colliding with each other, an unexpected scenery could be found throughout this entire film.

Jireh has a hard time working part-time and studying at the same time. She prays to God for money. And she accidentally picks up someone's wallet. Is this God's answer?

Yuji, who is unemployed, is regularly plagued by dark future prospects. During a walk with his dog, he meets a mysterious stranger who turns his life upside down. Suddenly, Yuji begins to understand that life is about much more than just productivity.

SILK & RUSHES tells of the clash between an innkeeper and a yakuza.

A voice from the ocean floor awakens the forgotten protagonist. All creatures in the ocean current carry a mark resembling a black hole. In an instant, they are swept to an unknown place — the deepest part of the North Sea.

Paradise revisits South Korea’s era of authoritarian development (1970s-1980s) through the lens of queer livelihood. Despite the harsh realities of successive dictatorships, compulsory military service, and expectations of marriage and childbirth, six elderly gay men reveal how they converted second-run theaters and nearby bars into popular sites of erotic liberation, same-sex friendships, and romantic encounters.

After her boyfriend is discharged from the military, Surim goes to the flower market for him. She wants to save money. However, she can't hide her feelings when she sees her boyfriend.

Cheddar is a cat who works in the packaging department of a cheese factory. Cheddar, feeling skeptical of its role at the cheese factory, which does not include chasing after mice, takes a reality check and decides to leave.

5639/5640 Green Leather Slow Train, the "mountain bus", has maintained low fares during more than 20 years of operation. You can get a rare income in remote mountainous areas.\r This film reflects the humanistic care of Train 5639 by showing the deep friendship between Wu Wenzhen and other vegetable farmers and the people and things on Train 5639.\r This trip The train serves as a bridge for the Miao villagers to communicate with the outside world, and it carries the desire of the mountain villagers to live a happy life. It is not the speed that is slow, but the patience to keep pace with the low- and middle-income people.

Amai Bouryoku's live.

Always, anywhere, may you never break down FOR THE KIDS FOR THIS WORLD

East Of Eden brings a live video. This band consists of Ayasa, Akane Minato, Yuki, Wakazaemon, and MIZUKI. Compiles all the song performed in their first live performance held at Zepp DiverCity on October 8th.

College graduates from Zhangjiakou, Hebei with associate degrees try to find jobs.

A modern movie featuring Perfect Young Lady , who is active mainly on SoundCloud! A three-day journey in Shizuoka with a childhood friend over the summer, where there are reunions, meetings and farewells, in search of the "perfect young woman." Submitted to the Tokyo student film festival.

Takigawa Yori (29), who left her hometown to work in the city, was spending her days in a gloomy state due to the intense workload, loneliness, and a vague sense of anxiety about her life. One night, around 2 a.m., she saw 'someone with an invisible face' standing at her feet. Since then, Yori began to hear 'sounds that others cannot hear'..

A woman and a man quietly advance their relationship while eating at a restaurant.

Mobilize undercover ultra-kawaii action playmates Piyomaru, Sweet, and Rainbow Yah! Activate battle mecha romper suits! Assume fun-time fight formation! Super techno toddler trio Baby Force is go

Xiao Feng despised her backward hometown and her parents and did not want to stay at home for a moment

Yu-jin, a 9-year-old girl, has a nightmare every night of being abused as a member of a peculiar circus troupe. Yu-ho, Yujin's brother, feels discomfort with Yu-jin's frequent bed-wetting after being haunted by horrible dreams. Yu-ho advises Yu-jin, who is full of weak thoughts, to become a warrior and dispose of all the enemies in the nightmare.

The piano is an instrument without which it is impossible to imagine the musical world. But how did it first make its way from Western civilization to areas where it was traditionally unavailable, and what were the consequences? In her short film poem, the author becomes an archaeologist of sorts through evocative images of the piano amidst natural scenery and questions about the Korean adoption of the chamber note A, which is a tuning standard in music, as she uncovers historical, social, and cultural layers in relation to sound.

2023 release

Hong Kong horror film.

A special gathering was held to celebrate the important milestone of the 120th anniversary of Yasujiro Ozu's birth in 2023. The programme includes the broadcast of the event. ◆TANABE Ichika: Kodan: ‘The Story of Yasujiro Ozu’ (storytelling) ◆Yanagitei Kochiraku: Rakugo storytelling ‘Kozutsutsu Nagaya’ (A tale of a tenement house) Director Yoji Yamada, actress Takae Nakai and Yanagitei Kochiraku are invited to a round-table discussion entitled ‘Memories of Director Yasujiro Ozu and Chishu Kasa’, facilitated by Yoko Sakurai. Nakai Takae's father, Sada Keiji, and director Ozu will talk about episodes of their unknown interactions. Recorded 1 December 2023 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space Playhouse (Medium Hall), Ikebukuro.

<(Welcome to) The Planet of Orchids> is a cinematic anthology exploring the fascinating lives of orchids and their intricate relationships with neighbouring species. In this film, orchids are portrayed as indigenous beings who have thrived despite humans' indiscriminate colonization of ecosystems. Orchids take centre stage as protagonists, unfolding their unique or ordinary narratives from a plant-centred viewpoint. As such, the diverse and multidimensional dynamics of the transhuman community, which all ecosystem members belong, are revealed, and human audiences finally encounter 'Planet Orchid'.

When the time comes, he will come to pick you up.

A girl struggles to find herself in a corporate career in the capital. Receiving a package of produce from her mother, she decides to take a brief trip home to Akita Prefecture.

Braised pork balls with brown sauce, boiled chicken, some fish, a lot of side dishes, pricey fruits, steamed sponge cake, red bun...and mom’s favorite cake. Okay, we’re all set!

The confrontation between human emotion and technological development. In a distant space station, four scientists are trying to discover a chip that annuls human emotions. When they think their goal has been achieved, everything changes.

The second series of psychic video submissions! This work includes simultaneous viewing and subsequent impressions by two ghost storytellers. They are professionals in the field of ghost stories with a career of over 10 years! What do they see in this most terrifying ghost video?