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Directed by Ryusuke Ito.

Directed by Masaru Ohashi.

Seek and you shall find. Mobile phones are everywhere.

Mrs. Lin has thousands of photos of herself and has photoshopped herself since half a century ago. She is Lien Lin, the Retoucher. This film is about her life as a female crafter as well as the vanishing art of retouching.

A short film that uncovers the story of Tasara Taksinapan & Kanpuchit praditthaen, Thai representatives of World Pride 2019 in New York City. As we get into a headspace of two friends discussing about the struggle of growing up as gay in Thailand and the importance of self-loving.

Five exhibitions were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the end of March 2020, I left the house in Shinjuku where I lived for 6 years. I could not arrange a mover because my income was gone. I decided to carry the luggage myself. This is a documentary video of my six-hour move to my new home in the suburbs.

Winner of the Grand Prix in the Short Film Competition at the 31st Tokyo Student Film Festival. The story of pets. "Forgetting is healthy."

The tastes of the audience change rapidly, and in the end they are trapped in this trap of human civilization, exhausted, and even forget who they are...

A writer faces something in a tent which his girlfriend bought from her friend.

A 15-year-old kampung girl who works as a babysitter for a British family must save her younger sister from the Bukit Ho Swee fire.

Young Eriko makes house calls as a prostitute. But even her first customer turns out to be more than sinister. He asks her to wear various items of clothing belonging to his daughter, who died in a suicide. After a short hesitation, she accepts, because in an irritating way the man reminds her of her own father.

Kasumi, Lemon and Ranmaru are always there when they sense injustice. Together they are Ninja Girls Kagechiyo! When they see the mean Akane beat up poor Yumeno, they decide to do something. So take Yumeno under your wing to train her in all of the ninja techniques. Help for self-help, supported by their master Hattori.

Escort girl Serena's first client dies. The body has to go. Together with her colleague Sayama, a surreal, almost synaesthetic road movie begins.

A bee flies out from the "blooming flower" dynamic wallpaper of the smartphone, and then flies into the front camera of the phone. After that, the bee flies in the operation interface of the phone and finally flies out from the rear camera. The director structures the film in the way of association, by building up an orange indoor space and imaginatively processing images of "flowers", "snow mountain" and "orange", which are derived from the smartphone UI.

Joe begins his day in absolute misery as he gets attacked by pigeons. Joe meets a few more rude people during the day. Joe rushes to his car but finds he just received a ticket and loses his temper. Joe drives in fury and does not mind being unkind to others as they have treated him the same. Joe soon realizes he is just like everyone else that makes this world a worse place.

University film by Ryushin Suzuki

Tanya is a Vietnamese working in Japan, who has found that a drug called “Tanuki” essentially a sheet placed on tongue, can transform the user into looking and sounding Japanese.

High school teacher Kanamoto decides to visit a Japanese-Brazilian school with the members of the International Exchange Club, of which he is the advisor. Meanwhile, at the Brazilian school, students who were supposed to have transferred to the Japanese school have returned after being bullied. The Brazilian pupils have been discriminated against by the Japanese on numerous occasions...

A new student named Kanade Kikuhashi comes to school one winter day. His highly individual style with a strong interest in flowers gradually changes the attitudes of his classmates. Rather than preaching the importance of accepting diversity, this little gem of a film gently reminds us that it is okay to like ourselves with our different ways.

Short animation by Ryota Yuno

In the Dabao River basin, where the Llyong Topa indigenous community used to be, stands a 'ghost temple' where hundreds of Atayal people were buried. They fell victims to Japanese government's first wave of indigenous genocide during its colonial rule of Taiwan. The massacre occurred much earlier than the Wushe Incident (1930), yet it is still rarely known to the world. The filmmaker visited the mountains over a hundred times, seeking clues to fill in the blanks of history.

As the movie exits the black box, it realizes that the experience in the theater was material. I'm going to make a movie and reenact that property. He sits in front of the screen and recalls the sense of wiping out his body. But this attempt continues to run up against strange losses. The journey of losing something as it embodies it. The ghosts of the screen outside the theater sink slowly into the light.

Memory eats into his dream. With the disappearance of that batch of wood which comes from the Southwest border, Li Guang, who is at the age of knowing destiny, realizes that this bizarre and motley reality is only built of the extension of memories.

Day after day, collecting garbage in the corner of the city. One day his younger sister...

You are feeling uncomfortable. You don't seem to feel alive. At that time, my uncle disappeared...

A film made to accompany artist Yang Zhenzhong’s exhibition, “Exposure,” showing the conditions in which the exhibited artworks were made. The workers in the factory were told to pause and stare at the camera from time to time. The interruption was the artist’s denial of the totally automated creating process and his intention to show human reflection on the use of new technology.

An age-old ethnic group is known to the world as “Mosuo” inhabits the region around Lugu Lake, which borders Sichuan and Yunnan. While they called themselves “Na” since ancient times. Our documentary team went deep into the Mosuo settlements such as Lugu Lake in Yunnan, Yongning, and Muli in Sichuan, and the camera focused on the ordinary Mosuo people.

Set in 1960 Incheon, South Korea. As a young country is struggling through rebuilding after the Korean War, two young Koreans struggling to find their place in a hard world, find love in an unexpected and unlikely setting. Showing what is possible in life when two people happen to cross paths.

An ordinary old herdsman living in the pastoral area in tibet who became a vegetarian in his twenties. He never got married,while he used to live with his brother who died later. He usually treats domestic animals like life's best friends. Many people even think that reincarnation into his house to be a yak is the result of a good deed in his life.

After the death of their band lead singer, Amelie, Wen Shun, Long Long and I-Ping drive through the Gobi desert for an ultimate journey with him. A road movie that echos with the hopes and disenchantment of a youth in China today.

Silent moments in the different spaces of the city, long and boring elevators, meeting rooms that can't communicate, and alienated people. However, as they move through these spaces, they gradually realize that the city has more than one appearance.

The film is about two stories that I dreamed of on the train trip to the east of Taiwan. Connecting two fictional stories and reality, they refer to the dilemma of creation and the birth of the spirit. ​From the train to space, then the space to the deep sea, finally back to the train on the shore. The story talks about how humans evolve during times and how they separated from the sea to develop their inner sea.

​Dry Stream Crocodile Co., Ltd. holds the soaring race on the Baby Island and encourages people actively participating this event to win unexpected prize.

A phobia. An adventure, a subject lost in time and space. Lost in a fog, lost in oblivion.

In a town filled with old houses. A kid’s cry breaks through the silenced filled town, causing the dogs to join with their barks. In one dark and narrow alley, stands a girl filled with nervousness.

This is a story on human desire and acrid smoke. When Myanmar opened its borders in 2010, there was an incursion of foreign capital into these unclaimed lands, with China the most aggressive of them all. Determined to also stake their claim within this fever rush of Chinese cash, Yung-heung and his comrades have set ablaze large swathes of forest alongside northern Myanmar to be turned into farmland.

"Would you like to write a song with a ghost?" A strange letter arrives in the mailbag of a radio show. The two radio personalities head to the most terrifying haunted places to record the best spirit vocalists they can find.

Elusive narration, read by the filmmaker's maternal grandmother, encounters dreams and wishes.

The graffiti of a cat is seen everywhere in the small town in Tamsui. The artist is a middle-aged man always dressed in volunteer firefighter uniform. Driving a van, he delivers gas cylinders to the residents while maintaining the vivid colours in the graffiti.

The daughter brings a puppy to her mother. That night, the puppy wets the bed and gets expelled into the yard. She doesn't like the short chain. One day, she disappears.

'A', a female film undergraduate, starts making documentary about female film undergraduates. 'A' gets caught up in the strange thing about the ball, while playing catchball with the wall.

Animation by Oh Chearin. Music by Suzuka Fujimura.

Reiwa's first "Super-Hero Festival" will be held at Yokohama Arena for the first time ever! "Super Hero Festival KAMEN RIDER × SUPER SENTAI LIVE & SHOW 2020" filmed on January 22, 2020 ! Kamen Rider Zero-One & Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger cast interviews and special events followed by luxurious live music by artists who bring the Rider & Super Sentai series to life!

Animation and music by Hana Ozeki.

A single shot, taken during a confrontation between police and demonstrators in Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po neighbourhood, transforms a street confrontation into something transcendently beautiful. The voice of Louis Armstrong adds a level of almost unbearable irony.