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In Japan there is a wrestler. His name is legendary. His sombrero is enormous. His mask is cool. His name is BEETLE, THE HORN KING. A masked wrestler with his own theme song and the strength and agility of the mighty horn beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis), he fights for truth, justice and fairness in wrestling around the world with his homies, the International Masked Wrestler Association. But alien wrestlers based on lesser insects have invaded the planet and acted in a rude and disgusting manner. Now they must be laid low with Helicopter Kicks. Directed by Japan's hottest new comedy auteur, Minoru Kawasaki, BEETLE, THE HORN KING is the ultimate collision of masked Mexican wrestlers, Japanese sci fi and bug-loving weirdness

Satoru is a fledgling writer. When his latest manuscript is rejected, his editor, recognizing his talent, offers him a cottage by the beach to work in peace. At first, he struggles, but he is driven to write after meeting a girl, Yoriko, on the beach.

The popular psychic documentary series "Weird. Unbelievable" introduces submitted ghost photos and explores the haunting truth behind them!

A samurai suffers to achieve enlightenment while being forced by a Zen Buddhist.

2004 release

A bunch of strangers wake up in the forest and find themselves trapped by invisible forcefields and stalked by cloaked killers with swords.

Contains all the openings and endings of the Macross OVAs and Series, game cut scenes, music videos and much more.

This is the latest in a documentary series that introduces authentic ghost photographs carefully selected from numerous public submissions and explores the haunting truth behind them.The film traces the background behind the ghost photos taken and includes unknown horror episodes encountered by people haunted by ghosts.

A behind the scenes documentary of Kenji Onishi's never completed 35mm feature film "Shiroyasha", shot between 2002 and 2004.

A ganguro girl named Eri travels to NYC to visit her lover.

2005 release

Pink film directed by Sakae Nitta.

Unable to bear the abuse his mother inflicted on him since childhood, Akishima ran away from home. Since then, he has made women his targets of revenge, finding solace in raping strangers. One day, as a newlywed wife was seeing her husband off, Akishima broke into her room and raped her. Afterwards, he coldly told her to forget about it, as telling her husband would only result in divorce. Akishima continued to rape women one after another...

This is the sixth documentary of actual horror stories. Psychic researcher Toshitaro Yamaguchi and two female psychics investigate a number of haunted places in the Kanto region, including a private house where a rotten smell of unknown origin and other bizarre phenomena occur frequently, and an apartment building where spirits wander about.

Behind the scenes of "Are wa Dare?"

Promotional video for Chara's song "Skirt", directed by Sogo Ishii.

The man has returned to his old town: Jin Kaito (Lo Kwon), known as “Jin the Gigolo”. “Make every woman happy” is Jin’s motto. In his hands, any woman melts into ecstasy, led to heavenly heights of pleasure she’s never known. Waiting for this love-and-peace-driven man is his old yakuza acquaintance, Minoh (Kenichi Endō). The boss’s daughter, Maki (Koharu Tono), has been kidnapped by a rival gang, and Minoh begs the newly returned Jin for help, which he immediately refuses, but when it’s revealed that he had slept with Maki just before the abduction, things spiral out of control. Now, Jin is dragged into a full-blown rescue operation!

The Second Pachinko Battle Royale Movie

Erotic straight to video comedy

30 years of the band, 30 years of Japanese rock. The story of passion toward the band and music.

This was the final musical with Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon.

Sound Horizon Concert Tour 2006-2007 "Roman-A Story That Connects Us" Recorded live in concert on January 8, 2007, at Tokyo Kosei Nenkin Kaikan

"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.

This extravagant review presents the elegance and grace of the male roles and the delicate beauty of the female roles, all presented with Takarazuka's unique flair.

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two" (1945).

2009 release

A sexy maid equipped with a chainsaw is a family's only hope against hordes of the undead zombies.

Kuraku Asuka is a girl who had been bullied in middle school. Brought right to the edge of suicide, she finds purpose in fighting for her life - both literally and figuratively. Through an acquaintance with Kijiima Yohko, a sociopath who involves Asuka with the girl-gang underworld of Tokyo, Asuka is reborn as the best fighter in the city. Asuka becomes involved with the underground organization that runs the girl gangs, the Zenchuu Ura, and the leader of that organization, Hibara-sama. After being the second-most powerful person in the Zenchuu Ura, Asuka leaves Hibari and becomes friendly with the "outside Group" in Shinjuku. That "Omoteban" is run by the lovely Hime, and has members with the elemental names of Kai, Mizu, Hi, etc... Also involved with the Omoteban is Asuka's best friend, Doumoto Miko...the half sister of Yohko.

The fourth in the series about a high school girl caught up in a series of disappearances. Aya makes a fake suicide video with a friend, and discovers that her image, which she has no recollection of, is being distributed on the Internet.

Junji Inagawa, the "preacher of the spirit world," invites you into the world of ghost stories...

Real pro wrestlers Mizuho Ishikawa, Cutie Suzuki and Emi Tojyo star alongside newcomer Miki Suzuki as the women tag teams, and they are managed reluctantly by Yoshinori Okada, forced to take over as manager of his mom's struggling female wrestling team.

The daily lives of troubled youth in Okinawa.

Takarazuka special performance.

An unprecedented scandal of human experimentation by a well-known company is uncovered. The cool and intelligent yakuza Hakuryu confronts the big company and faces the bullets that aim at him, which makes his hands sweat. Tatsuya Shirakawa, a young head of the Kurosu clan, receives some information from a new gang member, Toshio Hatakeda. It is a startling revelation that a well-known pharmaceutical company, Sekai Pharmaceutical, is forcing its employees to take a dangerous new drug. The reality is that the company is actually conducting experiments on human subjects, and Shiryukawa is once again forced to take action.

The 'Honto Ni Atta: Toshi Densetsu' team presents 66 shocking videos or reenactments narrated by Kinzô Sakura.

Aketo is 20 year old college student living in Tokyo. He has an older lover named Hiroshi who lives in Kyoto. One day, Aketo meets a young woman Harumi who is wandering around in Tokyo. Harumi rolls into Akato's house.

A young photographer, Nobuto (Nobuto Yamaguchi), returns to his native village in Hamamatsu to visit his grandfather, a man full of vitality. The atmosphere of rural life in the village is depicted in a film that moves between documentary and home cinema, tinged with a feeling of unconcerned happiness and full of little everyday details.

Night after night, eccentric regulars gather at a quaint eating house located in the corner of a crossing in Tsukifune-cho

Junji Inagawa, the "preacher of the spirit world," invites you into the world of ghost stories.... Second film of the series.

Set in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, the tragic theme of the film is the destruction of millions of lives in the 13 years before Manchukuo collapsed with Japan’s World War II surrender in August 1945, and the years of suffering it brought in its wake.

Tired of life, Morita climbs up to a roof with a suicide note. But there he meets the drifter Tommy, who convinces Morita to climb Mt. Fuji with him. Morita begins to learn about Tommy’s past, where he was betrayed by his best friend. The two men, with secrets they cannot tell, decide to face their pasts. -- Nippon Connection

A documentary recording the testimony of fourteen former Japanese soldiers as they recount atrocities and war crimes committed during the Second World War, including the the infamous Unit 731 medical experimentation group. Having been trained by their country to be nothing but killers, the soldiers claim to have become morally numb and unable to see non-Japanese as even human. Perhaps feeling some remorse for what they have done, they now choose to tell their stories for the world to hear.

38th movie in the series

Episode II "Rum's Squad" (Part 1 & 2) As a result of a childhood cock-up, Naoko has the ability to hear the voice of a man who hates this world directly in her head. With an amulet provided by a friend, that voice became inaudible one day... Naoko grew up and became a female detective in the Jonan Police Department, investigating random bizarre murders. The moment she learns from her mother's phone call that the amulet is broken, a man's voice rings in her head again. The voice leads Naoko to the scene of one murder after another. Is it the voice of Onuki (Kanji Tsuda), who has been committing indiscriminate murders...?

The death of Todo-gumi Wakato and Hattori Retsu broke out in the Todo-gumi over the next young head. A fierce bargain between the Wuxia Association Chairman Reijiro Masaki and the Arase faction, which is in opposition to the Masaki faction, takes place.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Jeff has always gotten into fights, and his girlfriend, Cynthia, is always telling him to stop before it's too late. A local detective, Gerald, also keeps an eye on him and tries to talk him out of his fighting habits.

Short animated film by Tomoyasu Murata.

DVD footage of AKB48 Team K's 2nd Stage "Seishun Girls"

Tarachime is a documentary film which observes 'life' through childbirth. Kawase Naomi, a film director working under the theme of family, life and death, presents the bond of life through her own childbirth experience. "First, I was planning to film from the day I conceived a child and to the moment I gave birth. But I realized, while filming, that this is not the story of "one life." In the end, the film sublimed to a higher stage on which we can witness the knot tying one life with another."

A university professor decides to go for a tour in Akihabara, guided by a young woman dressed up like a French maid. As they both walk through the streets of modern Tokyo, the man and the young woman gradually speak of a past they both share, and ultimately a painful love triangle that continues to haunt them. A poetic rumination in love, memories and loss told almost entirely with split screens.

In this third part of the series Enjouji and Ranmaru are a mostly-happy couple, but when Ranmaru finds lipstick on Enjouji, he becomes suspicious and leaves in a huff. Enjouji follows Ranmaru throughout the day. As they do so, the two men think about their past and their uncertain future.

A young Japanese girl discovers that she cannot die. From then she will explore the moment of death by killing herself repeatedly.

Futaba, the proprietress of an inn in a hot spring town near Chichibu, hears from her husband, the manager, Isamu, that a travel guide writer is coming to the inn secretly to do an interview, and ends up over-entertaining the man who seems to be the man. Isamu is jealous, and Kuniko, a waitress who has a crush on him, approaches him. One day, a guest comes in who turns out to be Kuniko's former colleague. Futaba resolutely confronts Kuniko, who is laughing at her for telling a lie. Futaba and Isamu then swear to continue protecting the inn.