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A shy young secretary is intrigued by her new neighbor.

2012 release

Kenji is the youngest member of a team in charge of building a large shopping center. But, to create the new complex, an old dance floor must be destroyed, and every effort to tear down the building is boycotted by a mysterious power. In fact, there is a rumor that the place is cursed, and the construction team thought about hiring exorcists, but none of them seems to find the solution.

Adapted from a best-selling picture book, the timid Xiao Yi lives with his grandmother, father, and mother, a family of four. One day, Xiao Yi notices that his grandmother has started acting differently, repeatedly asking the same questions over and over again. Until one day, his grandmother runs out of the house without even putting on her shoes and goes missing, leaving Xiao Yi deeply worried.

Living away from his family, a physical therapist sees his father entering the hospital he works at and watches him getting weaker, as his other patients’ conditions worsen.

Makoto Toda was an earnest man who had lived an ordinary life, working as an ordinary company employee. He had built himself an average, but happy home along with his wife and his daughter. Things change however, when a new female recruit named Saya arrives at Makoto’s division. The young woman does everything she can think of to get herself closer to Makoto, and it isn’t long before the two become sexually involved. The affair first seemed as though it would end as a quiet secret only the two would ever know... However, the secret escalates slowly until it spins out of control, and Makoto’s home heads toward destruction...

Set in 2036, famous photographer Fujii goes to a museum near Lake Biwa. He remembers a time twenty years earlier where he had believed that there was a dinosaur, Biwasshi, living in the lake and he had tried to convince people of this.

Nagaoka is a former high school teacher. He decides to start a school with an ideal learning environment. To achieve this goal, he struggles to make money by running a bar and a publishing company.

Suzumoto and Sumi creatively master their independent lives while living in a park in Nagoya. In contrast, a middle-class family is caught up in pressure and routine. The two threads of the story gradually intertwine, until a tragic escalation occurs. Shot with a black-and-white documentary feel, yet highly stylized, the film analyzes the contradictions and pathologies of modern society.

Theatrical release of episodes 19-22 of Space Battleship Yamato 2199.

What is peace? What is coexistence? And what are the basis for them? PEACE is a visual-essay-like observational documentary, which contemplates these questions by observing the daily lives of people and cats in Okayama city, Japan, where life and death, acceptance and rejection are intermingled.

The teacher who shouted a chant during class was forced to resign from the university. Wanting to uncover the truth, the students search for the teacher within the city. Meanwhile, as the theater club rehearses for a revolution, one of its members, Satoko, ends up killing a government official. To judge Satoko, the theater club members hold a trial.

Sakura is a moody teenage girl who lives close to the US military base in the city of Yamato, Japan. She is struggling everyday to become a rapper like the American rappers she admires, but always gets stage fright when she sings in front of an audience. One day, her mother's American soldier boyfriend's daughter REI comes from California to visit her family.

An old cleaner goes on a cleaning rampage in the sewers of a futuristic city, after he lost his job to a robot. The seventh part of GAINAX' "Music is SF" series.

A short Christmas Eve love story which came with the special 30th Anniversary Edition of Tatsuro Yamashita's "Christmas Eve" album.

In the 1970s, a legendary organisation of 6,000 delinquents, a motorcycle gang that was growing in size and intensity, moved to Shibuya's Centre Street. In the 1990s, the delinquents moved to their base in Shibuya's Centre Street, shedding their suicide uniforms and becoming teamers. Numerous teams fought each other, transforming themselves into a group of unruly youths. In the midst of all this, one upright young man, Yasuyuki, in an attempt to reclaim the "legends" of his seniors, takes to the streets, wielding his fists and winning over the bad boys of Shibuya to his ranks.

Riko, who will begin university in Tokyo in spring, journeys there from Hiroshima in February with her father to find a place for her to live. On their travels, they meet various colorful characters. The father remembers his late wife, and raising his daughter alone. Their fun time together is tinged with the knowledge that it is about to end. Rakugo performer Kyotaro Yanagiya appears in his first leading film role, and rising star Anna Ishii plays the sensitive Riko. The eccentric supporting cast includes Romi Park, Akihiro Kakuta, Keiko Yanagawa, Kei Ishibashi, LaSalle Ishii, and Momiji Yamamura.

The third 'Front and Back' film.

Yui Kotani, a second-year junior high school student, is obsessed with men's underarm hair. Her classmate Masato Takeo has the thickest underarm hair in the class.

A giant monster attacks a nuclear power planet before entering its next form.

High school film club member Maki shot a local tourism promotional video with her friends, but she wasn't happy with the mediocre outcome. One day, Maki comes up with a new idea and decides to reshoot the video at camp during spring vacation. The camp starts off with help from Misako, who works as an idol, and former video director Hirokazu.

1st film of the 任侠哀歌 series. Kurosaki Ken (Namioka Kazuki), the son of Saijo Fund executive Kurosaki Hiroshi (Akai Hidekazu), gets caught up in a dispute between the Sagawa and Kawashima groups, both of which are affiliated with the yakuza organization Kiryu-kai, and is captured by the Sagawa gang along with his friends Ando Tatsuya (Kitadai Takashi) and Hanamaki Daisuke (Isaka Tatsuya). Just as they are about to be killed, Ken's father Hiroshi saves the three. After being persuaded by Hiroshi, the three swear to reform, but Tatsuya is tricked by Mikitani of the Kawashima gang and is nearly killed. Ken accidentally shoots Mikitani while trying to stop him, and is arrested and sentenced to 5 years for attempted murder. While in custody, his father appears to commits suicide and Ken becomes consumed with guilt and doubts about the veracity of his father's murder. Five years later, Ken is released, and begins to look for answers ...

After the wild murder of an idol with great scissors, a young woman will acquire the certainty that the legendary lady with a torn smile is responsible for this bloodbath. Accompanied by a friend (who possesses the soft peculiarity of always wandering in miniskirt and sometimes show her panties), she will soon be confronted with the monstrosity made woman ... to the detail that this time the kuchisake onna Maybe no longer alone ...

When Hana falls in love with Ayumi, a girl she meets in her sign language group, she comes out to her parents who swiftly reject her. In an effort to cheer her up, Ayumi takes Hana to a deaf LGBTQ group in Tokyo, as they both find self-acceptance. A landmark film with a deaf cast and crew, this tender and sweet story showcases the beauty found within intersectionality and will warm the hearts of deaf and hearing audiences alike.

A nostalgic human drama based on Dazai Osamu Prize winner Tsujiuchi Tomoki's novella. Set in a declining coal-mining town in 1950s Fukuoka, the story depicts a rambunctious but pure-hearted young boy in love with an older woman. Director Hirayama Hideyuki and writer Chong Wishing, both from Begging for Love (Ai o kou hito), join hands again to make this film. Michiyo (Koyuki) has left Tokyo for Fukuoka with her son Mamoru (Ikematsu Sosuke) after divorcing her husband. The story follows Mamoru's memories of his time spent with the notorious rebel Shinichi (Ishida Takuya), who stood up for him against bullies.

Michishige Sayumi's "SAYUMINGLANDOLL ~Rebirth~" concluded last year with great success. The second installment of the series, a year after the previous one, is now available on Blu-ray Disc, recording "SAYUMINGLANDOLL ~Fate~," which began in March 2018, and is now available for general release! The performance took place at COTTON CLUB in Marunouchi, Tokyo. It's a performance that's neither a "concert," "musical," nor "dinner show," but rather an approximately 80-minute show that weaves together sound, light, and video . This recording captures the performance on Monday, April 16, 2018.

Fear zones and experiences known only to famous drivers, where accidents are commonplace. Whether they are grudge spirits or urban legends, occult researchers have verified and introduced numerous phenomena they have encountered.

Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tokyo only once. Akiko finally finds Matsunaga. However, he leaves her again, warning her not to trust strangers in a foreign country. She tries to follow him, but she is attacked by thugs and dumped on the outskirts of town.

The story of Henri Mitowa, a 93-year old Japanese monk, who wants to make a movie based on his own life.

Satomi and Yasunori are filled with happy expectations for their newborn baby Orine while driving home from a maternity hospital. However, a sudden accident strikes and Orine loses her parents. Nineteen years later, Orine is on the run from the police. While she is trying to escape, Orine is contacted by Yuri Aoshima, a member of a shady organization who offers her shelter in an unmanned experimental space station. However, Orine boards the station to find that it is not as unmanned as she thought: her mother, Satomi, is waiting for her there. As Orine and Satomi make up for their lost time together, the mysteries of Satomi's true identity, Yuri's goals, and a man called "SENSEI" who aims to take over the station continue to deepen.

A young man searches for the killer of a homeless man.

Based upon the novel by Minato Kanae. The story is about three women who all live in the same countryside town but who never interact with one another even though they are all tied by the same tragedy. While newly-unemployed Rika tries to get her ailing grandmother to take a needed surgery, she also struggles to come up with the money to pay for it. A mysterious benefactor known to her only as "K" might be able to help, but her grandmother is steadfast in telling her to decline it. As Rika searches for clues as to who this "K" is, she increasingly finds that she and two other women are linked not only by a tragedy but a chain of flowers as well.

Work life for Shunsuke Osaki has been success after success, but at some point his family began to slip by the wayside. As his elderly father begins to show signs of dementia, Shunsuke takes the family on a trip in a desperate attempt to pull them together before it is too late. Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Masashi Sada's short story of the same name received the awards for Best Director, Best Actress and Best Music at the 1st Asia International Film Festival in Taipei.

A man working for a publishing company becomes unable to force himself to go to work anymore. His wife is about to get fed up with him, when he happens to meet a black stray cat in a park. It's thanks to the cat that his life is slowly starting to change for the better.

Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old homes and lives a peaceful existence with nature. Takumi then meets Kayoko, a woman who went to the same school as Takumi. Kayoko is fascinated with the color crimson. She dyes scarves with the color of hanezu. Kayoko lives with boyfriend Tetsuya, who works as an editor of a PR magazine. They live together. Soon, Kayoko falls in love with Takumi.

A horror documentary that approaches the mystery of the most evil cursed mask that brings misfortune to those involved, introduced on TV. The magazine reporter who was interviewed was seriously injured, and the people involved suffered misfortune one after another, and now the full picture of the cursed mask sealed in the temple in Kyoto is revealed.

Boyatetsu travels to the year 2020 in Tokyo from the year 1945. Tokyo is now plagued by a decreasing population and an increase in unemployment.

Tamaki (Hitoshi Ozawa) and Kudo (Kazuya Kimura) were once senior and junior classmates during their student days. Even after becoming a yakuza and a detective respectively, they continued to respect one another. However, the police undergo a complete restructuring, shattering the fragile balance that had existed between the organizations. Launching what they call the “Minami Purification Operation,” the police move to eradicate the criminal underworld. The ailing boss of the Yamashina-gumi dies following brutal interrogations, forcing the organization into dissolution. After completing his prison sentence, Tamaki gathers the scattered former members once more and swears vengeance against the police—to settle the score for the murder of his boss.

Let's have a psychic phenomenon on the TV staff who are on location for a psychic program in the ruins. One unmotivated, selfish, sexually harassing director was left behind, and when he noticed, he was stared at by a woman. But the woman...

Two high schoolers, Mai and Ayumi, are transformed into superhuman fighters after being captured and genetically modified by the sinister Bogue organization. Donning suits powered by swan and wildcat genes, they escape and join forces with Mai's investigator aunt Reiko, whose life is in danger after being captured. Racing to save her, their desperate struggle for justice begins!

This special is showing a day of Eclair's life. It is a 12-minute prologue to the movie "Fairy Tail: Phoenix Priestess".

The DVD is set before the Hyper Battle DVD, and features the content normally found in the Hyper Battle DVD (explaining the powers and weapons of the Kamen Riders), explained as Tachibana, with Ryusei and Gentaro's help, gathers the data of the 40 Astroswitches to find out what and where the mysterious mass of Cosmic Energy is.

Hakuryu becomes a relentless, pure embodiment of vengeance! The mad warrior who stands in his way is Susumu Terajima!! A small rural town is caught in the middle of a conflict: the local Gotoda-gumi versus the Ebisu-gumi, who want to seize land for industrial waste disposal. In this countryside with nothing but hot springs and violence, a lone man suddenly appears. That man is a former Organized Crime Division detective (Hakuryu), whose wife and child were brutally murdered. His life destroyed by the yakuza, he now lives for only one thing—revenge. With a single purpose burning inside him, he throws himself straight into a hail of bullets.

Omnibus film examining the relationships between girls.

A high school boy becomes a truant. His teacher Ryota finds many anti-base signs in his house. Ryota and his journalist friends look for dugongs for an article, and happen to know a terrifying ritual of Henoza... where the US Base will be relocated

Official making-of documentary for Daigo Matsui’s 2017 film Ice Cream and the Sound of Raindrops.

Then one day, her daily life suddenly changes. Unknown creatures fly out from a large number of spheres sent from outer space and begin to parasitize and manipulate human beings. The parasites not only move in strange ways, but some of them also exhibit extraordinary physical abilities. Trapped in a building at work, Shang and his colleagues discover that the space creatures are vulnerable to cigarette smoke. But that was only the beginning of the fight to the death. Smokers vs. space creatures, who will survive? Shang's cry echoes through the air. "Breathe in the smoke and go to hell!"