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The short film shot within the movie "Ritual" (2000)

Short animated film by Tomoyasu Murata.

Direct-to-video documentary special about the 1966 series Ultra Q. It is mainly comprised of interviews with the original staff and cast alongside stock footage of the show. The main cast reprised their roles for short in-character segments that are framed as interviews about the series' events.

Mysterious psychic phenomena attack the girls as they tour the haunted places with a psychic, Yuko Sou, and others.

There is a certain hotel which caters to people who have lost their way. People trying to get their lives back on track, or simply trying to find out where they went wrong. One of the people staying at this hotel is Wolf, who playfully follows the self-absorbed young Anna around the hotel. No one knows what he did before he came there, though he used to joke that he was an assassin. Anna is a one-hit movie actress who now spends all of her time cultivating "patrons" to support her.

2002 Original Video.

In November 2008, a live concert of Macross Frontier's music was performed by May'n, Megumi Nakajima, and Yoko Kanno.

Extra, behind scenes from Hideaki Anno's film Ritual (also known as Shiki-Jitsu).

Versailles performing at CC Lemon Hall in Tokyo, Japan on December 23, 2008.

The time of the restoration of imperial rule, some 20 years after the French Revolution. Gerald, who lives in the remote countryside near Paris, hears from a traveler that he is Louis XVII. Imprisoned with his parents Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette at the Tour du Temple, it is believed that he was killed as well after his parents were executed, but he is now told that he was secretly saved and brought away, and the body of the child in the Temple was a substitute. The traveler is wracked with illness, and after passing over a ring bearing the seal of Louis XVI, he dies. Being ambitious, Gerald decides to make use of this piece of evidence. What fate awaits this young man claiming to be Louis XVII...? Rallying against callous fate, he rises up in a world where he is surrounded by people of ambition and treachery, and amidst that callous fate the one ray of light comes from Anne, the girl Gerald loves.

On a country road, a young girl meets her classmates.

Takarazuka Revue Snow Troupe 2007 production of the Viennese musical 'Elisabeth'

A psychic, whose child has been kidnapped and murdered, and the staff of a video company who cover haunted places are about to experience terror. Is it real or is it staged? Here is a new form of psychic horror! A found footage film.

Concert film featuring footage from the final show of her JAM PUNCH TOUR 2015 at Tokyo International Forum A on June 1st 2005, the supporting tour for her first two records LOVE PUNCH and LOVE JAM.

A pilot of Wata no Kuni Hoshi made in the early 1980s but released only on the DVD of the film in 2007. Features entirely original animation without any dialogue.

Set against the background of the Spanish Civil War, the plot centers on socialist playwright Katherine McGregor and renowned photographer Georges Malraux, a Polish Jew who fled his homeland for Paris. The two first meet in Hollywood at a party announcing the film adaptation of Katherine's play Tempest in Spain, based on the opera Carmen. The two are reunited in Barcelona, where they unexpectedly find themselves falling in love as they become embroiled in a battle against fascism.

Setting stage at 1930s London, William (Bill) is a young man brought up in the villages and the next heir to the Earldom of Hareford. This is the story of how Bill grew as a proper gentleman, and the romantic comedy masterpiece between him and his lover, Sally.

Saotome Rinko was an excellent female doctor, but after surgery she always wanted a man..

"AA" is a documentary about Akira Aida (mostly known as Aquirax Aida), a japanese music critic who introduced free jazz, improvisation, and progressive rock to Japan. It's based on interviews with 12 critics and musicians who had connections with him. This is a documentary that considers the past, present and future of improvisation.

2003 release

Image video for Asumi and Hitomi Miwa's second photo book "Double PLATINUM".

A horror drama in which a young man is struck with fear by a female ghost. Toshio, a video rental store employee, is in love with Mayumi, a regular customer, but she soon dies mysteriously. One day, Mayumi appears before Toshio wearing mourning clothes. Since that day, Toshio has been losing his vitality...

Eight years after the shocking documentaries A and A2, which examined the Aum Shinrikyo affair that shook Japan, director Tatsuya Mori finally returned to filmmaking. Documentaries Tell Lies, broadcast on the TV Tokyo network in 2006, was an extraordinarily provocative work that challenged conventional assumptions about television. Watch it and read it, and the way you view television may never be the same.

Based on the Maicching Machiko-sensei Manga.

Third installment in the "Junji Inagawa no Reidan" film series.

A film crew visits a mountain-top pension for an idol's photo book. Sudden heavy rain that night. The film crew is left alone in the isolated villa. Then tragedy strikes...

Kazumi is at a punk concert and bumps into Yuko. Yuko is a girl from another dimension. Kazumi invites Yuko over to her apartment. There Yuko's robotic sidekick and stead Face comes from out of the t.v. The wall opens up and Yuko and Face enter into different dimension. Yuko seeks to kill the creator of the dimension to end the suffering of it's people. Yuko meets Kazumi, who claims not to be from Earth, at a rock concert, and they become instant friends. Yuko invites her new friend to come live with her. However, onces Kazumi gets to Yuko's apartment, she leaves through the wall with her trusty cybernetic steed and into another dimension to face evil.

Costa Rica is one of few countries in the world to abolish its military. This documentary focuses on education, children and a co-operative in the Monteverde nature reserve.

This is the 25th installment of the long-running OV series, which delves into the dark side of society that is often overlooked. This ambitious film sheds light on the ruthless, unknown side of sex-related businesses such as host clubs and brothels, which target people indulging in unbridled desire. Maejima (Bonchi Osamu), an ice shop owner who falls in love with a woman working at a restaurant in Toyota Shinchi, borrows 2 million yen from Ginjiro (Takeuchi) to help her out of debt, but falls into a clever trap set by the greedy host club owner, losing both the shop's land and the building.

A coming-of-age road movie that sometimes humorously and sometimes seriously depicts two men's journey to their hometown in a provincial city.

Yumiko, a bored Japanese housewife, visits a swingers' club for some excitement. She meets Bobby, who calls himself the owner and informs her the club is under alien surveillance.There may be more to this swingers' club than a romp with a stranger.

Based on a true crime case, the first installment of our documentary crime series arrives! Men and women, sex and desire... That sensational case is finally brought to the screen!

Ichiro Sasaki, 35, is working for a small training school in Tokyo. Though his work and his life are rather dull, he at least gets along somewhat well with his young daughter. He recieves a phone call one day, informing him of the sudden death of one of his colleagues. Shortly after this shocking news, his wife who is now living apart cuts him down further by telling him, "You don't see anything." While walking in the night, Ichiro is struck by an idea: why don't we go there? He heads off holding his daughter's hand. And thus begins a strange little tale of an ordinary father and his daughter.

Animated with drawings that are a collage of pop and grotesque. The surrealistic design and the generous viewing experience give the impression that it is a "picture book for adults", but the thoughtful storyline, poetic narration and songs that suddenly appear are pleasantly unrestrained as if the film were aimed at children. However, this unrestrainedness is accompanied by a high degree of perfection, and although it is a flat animation that seems to be the opposite of the latest CG, it gives the impression of possibilities for expression that may even broaden the definition of cinema.

A high school teacher, Masato Saito, is told by his best friend, police officer Shinya Saito, about a strange murder case. The incident was that a woman broke through her belly and had an umbilical cord popping out of her belly, and at the same time three men were said to have blew bubbles from their mouths and died. One day, Shinya's wife, Junko, receives something called Baby Mail. The baby mail says, "I have a grudge against someone who is trying to have a child. I will raise my child." When she opens the attached file "@", the baby cried and the LCD of her cell phone cracked, which was creepy. A month later, she was found in a condition similar to the bizarre incident. However, she was diagnosed as four months pregnant when her body was found, even though she had her period a month ago.

Set in a prison, this fifth installment of the Mahjong Horoki series follows amateur gambler Tetsu and his companion An, both jailed after a confrontation with a death-row inmate. There, a warden secretly brings a mahjong table into the cell, leading to high-stakes games where prisoners wager meals and status to survive.

This is the first volume of a series of one-part horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various regions, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV in July 2003.

A hangout next to the 'boiler room' in the basement, offstage at a theatre in Osaka. The comedians who visit there and the people who surround them. Their respective agendas are soon exposed.

A bounty on the neck of Hitoshi Kamibayashi. A conspiracy swirling underworld! Someone put a prize on Jin's neck and scattered photos of Jin in the underworld around Shibuya. Sunagawa, who saw the situation seriously, advises Hitoshi and Yoshiro to be careful. Yoshiro searches for a mastermind aiming at Hitoshi's neck and finds out that it is the work of Kuroki, the leader of the tent group. The Tenmankai was also known as a war hawk in the Musashinokai, which manages the area around Shibuya. Kuroki's ambition to assassinate Jin re-engages his former minions, who were trying to return to Katagi, into the world of Shura.

College student Nana loved to play Mahjong with her boyfriend Kazuya in Mahjong Gambling Club. One day they joined a Mahjong game with professional player Nishioka. Kazuya totally lost. He left nana and ran away. Nana agreed to give her body to Nishioka to pay the debt for Kazuya. But Nishioka did not take advantage of Nana. He only asked her to do housework for him. He admired her character and even passed his secret Mahjong technique to Nana to train her as a professional. Nana’s fate was thus changed by that single gambling game…

He plays the perfect TV show father for 5 small children, in reality two teenage siblings are neglected.

The main character finds a ticket and a small box in "a room in an apartment" on the boundary between dream and reality. I wake up after sleeping, and when I fall asleep again, I'm on the "Sannokan Railway". A ticket transports him to the city of fantasy, "Sannohako Peninsula". Products of the past and scenery seen somewhere. The main character is led to a nostalgic place where he saw someone at the Hyakushiki Ryokan "Soran no Ma", which overlooks the sea. Full of sorrow and full of hope that they might be able to get it back. Through the journey, the man faces his deep sorrow.

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "No Regrets for Our Youth" (1946).

After dying in battle, Japanese soldier Akira Kageyama (Karato) is resurrected as a ‘mirror demon’ a supernatural agent capable of growing to enormous size. He uses his new abilities to defend the Manifest Realm from evil spirits.

In the course of the wintry period under the socialist regime which froze all freedoms, there was an ephemeral but lively spring called the Prague Spring. This is recalled as an important page in modern history.

A psychic series that sequentially visualizes the experiences carefully selected from the numerous horror stories submitted by the general public! (9th installment in Broadway’s “Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi” series.)

Kano, who has been appointed chairman of the Matsuura Rengo-kai, swears an oath of brotherhood with Kikuchi, a former member of the Kinosaki-gumi, but Kikuchi dies in Kano's place. This incident further intensifies the conflict between Kano and Sunagawa.

The continued adventures of fishing master Rei Kurokami, as he tries to protect his local lake and friends from yakuza and land developers.

Indie film by Fujiwara Sho, 2001.

Seizaburo, an elderly man hospitalized in a hospital, peeks at the beautiful nurse Noriko as she gets changed in the dressing room, but she finds out and chases him out. Noriko, outraged, consults the doctor about Seizaburo. However, he tells her that she is a lonely old man...

2005 release

The third and final 'Heron Master Ippei' film.