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Running in a snow landscape. Images come and go as memory does

DVD footage of AKB48 Team A's 2nd Stage "Aitakatta"

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Detective Sakurai is pursuing Onishi, a serial killer who uses false names to frame women one after another. However, a sting operation goes wrong and she loses her best friend, detective Hiroko. Ran vows to avenge Hiroko, who was about to get married.

The second installment in the "ghost story" series by Kiyoshi Yamamoto, a film crew visits an abandoned house to record a TV program called "The Ghost Special Investigation Headquarters". The crew plans to create a bizarre phenomenon and invites a beautiful young horror novelist to join them, but...

Ami Nonomura, who lives with her aunt, moves in with her half-brother Hiroshi to care for him. Hiroshi has lost his mental balance since the death of his real sister, Mami. Under Ami's diligent care, Hiroshi gradually recovers. However, conversely, Ami begins to be plagued by erotic nightmares. Ami learns that Mami's death was a suicide, and that the cause was her pregnancy resulting from a forbidden love affair with her brother Hiroshi. Hiroshi's heart was still trapped by Mami. Ami makes a decision. "From today, I'll belong only to you, big brother. So please, forget about Mami..."

Deep within the Amazon lives a people who have preserved their own culture and customs for more than 10,000 years. Known in the West as the Yanomami, sometimes called the “last Stone Age people,” they number about 20,000 today. Living in groups of 40 to 200, they are scattered throughout the vast jungle spanning Brazil and Venezuela. After nearly ten years of negotiations with the Brazilian government and seven tribal elders, the filmmakers became the first television crew ever granted permission for an extended stay within a Yanomami community.

2nd installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

Animated video for the video game Guilty Gear X, included in the extras of its sequel Guilty Gear X2.

This is the second installment of the psychic documentary series in which Nobuhiro Yamashita and his assistant Yoshimi Nozaki travel to haunted places in Japan in search of spiritual encounters.

Director Katsuyuki Hirano travels north to find his girlfriend whom he met in Hokkaido a long time ago

A young man writes a novel about his forbidden love with his sister, who works overtime in the office on a holiday. Based on the manga of the same name by Naoki Yamamoto, and covering the manga's inspiration source, Juro Kara's "Anjuko's Shoes" and Ogai Mori's "Sansho Dayu".

In this documentary, script supervisor Teruyo Nogami, who first worked with Akira Kurosawa on RASHOMON, catches up with many members of the crew, including cowriter Shinobu Hashimoto and assistant director Tokuzo Tanaka. They talk about the screenplay’s evolution, difficulties during the shooting of the film, and Kurosawa’s working methods.

A human interest tale of the kind you've never seen before. It all starts when the egoistic actor Gin-chan's girlfriend Konatsu gets pregnant, and he forces his underling, the stunt actor Yasu, and Konatsu to get married against their wills....

Short film about a man who tries to con an old woman.

Many years ago when Cammy (Aiko Ito) was in primary school, she played Kokkurisan with 3 kids. Suddenly, a kid vanished strangely. Now Cammy is grown up and becomes a sales representative of a property company. One day, she goes to investigate about the strange cases happened in a haunted house. Coincidentally, she finds that big house was the home of her old friend who vanished in the past. in the meantime, the psychologist Yuki (Nao Nagasawa) finds that one of her patient was forced to suicide by a kind of strange strength. Before that patient died, she drew a picture of a little girl who wore red clothes and kept on screaming scarily of "Holy Angel". Beside this, the other friends of Cammy who joined to play the game of Kokkurisan in the past, also encounter strange incidents. Unreasonable disappearance cases happen in many places of the city. To reveal the truth, Cammy and Yuki decide to go back to the old place and call for Kokkurisan again!

Third film in the 'Decotora no Eagle' series.

Concert film featuring the stars of avex trax on the stage during the a-nation festival held every year in August. This was to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the label avex trax in the music industry.

"Domestic! Virgin Line" was the first of two concert tours to support Tokyo Jihen's second album, "Adult." Unlike most of the band's tours, a video album was never produced, but a Fuji Television program was produced to showcase the performance.

Short film by Kenji Yamauchi

The Narukami family and the Tsuchigumo family have protected Japan since ancient times. The Tsuchigumo family plotted to overthrow Japan through magic. In order to save this country, the Narukami clan approaches Tomoe, the only human who inherits the blood of both families. The demonic hands of the Tsuchigumo family are closing in on Tomoe! What is the fate of Japan?

Ginjiro finds that it has become impossible to collect debts when even his regular clients have been conned out of their savings. He discovers that Sugiura gang underboss Domoto is behind these schemes. Domoto wants to take over the gang and tries to ruin Yukino, the real boss’s widow and the gang’s acting head, by sabotaging a resort hotel project with the help of a thug named Kawatani. Ginjiro, who has lent money for the project, is furious when he learns about Domoto’s schemes and goes into action.

Short animation from Takeshi Koike for the SMAnime

Sonezaki, an elderly man, sees a beautiful woman named Eri on the train. When he saves her from a groper, the stone on her bracelet glows and she suddenly transforms into a slut. This leads Sonezaki to start living with Eri.

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…

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, a live band active not only in Japan but also on the world stage, began a tour in July 2006 that took them to Europe and Vietnam, performing more than 70 shows in six months. It became the longest and toughest tour in the band's history. This documentary film is a music documentary that follows the 10 band members over a six-month period, focusing on the tour.

Short animation by Tomoyasu Murata.

The concert film for dream Party 2006 ~Love & dream~ was filmed on March 25, 2006 at Yokohama Blitz. The concert was part of their "dream live 2006" concert tour in support of their latest album Boy meets Girl.

Based on the comic by Ryou Kurashina and Issaku Wake.

2008 release

"Baishou Xstasy" was a concert event held to commemorate the release of Sheena Ringo's third album, "Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana." Unlike the typical Sheena Ringo event, this event was performed by the "Noraneko Orchestra," led by Neko Saito. This event was linked to the short film "Kaleidoscope" and the official website "Saga."

Makoto, who doesn't get along with her boyfriend, family, or friends, goes camping with a childhood friend she meets again, but... "We're just bored," Makoto murmurs, and the way she lightly and deeply empathizes with her overwhelmed heart is exquisite.

Saki Kanzaki, a high school teacher, came to a certain hot spring inn with her friend Kanori Nomura. Saki was in an adulterous relationship with Seiji Funabashi, the young proprietor of the inn, and had come to see him. However, Seiji tells her they are breaking up. Heartbroken, Saki goes out with Kanori to pick up men. Meanwhile, staying at the inn is the erotic novelist Shundei Fukiya. Shundei was formerly a teacher, but lost his job due to an affair with a student. That student was Saki, and the two are reunited…

Morning Musume.'s Yasuda Kei's Graduation Concert held at Saitama Super Arena.

A collection of 10-minute horror shorts inspired by the film Shibuya Kaidan (aka The Locker). The plot revolves around a cursed locker and a carved mouth ghost.

The 51st film in the popular yakuza action series starring Takeuchi Riki and Sakakibara Toshihiko.

A young girl with mental illness just wants to die. But the necroborgs have other plans...

The 'Honto Ni Atta: Toshi Densetsu' team presents 50 shocking videos or reenactments narrated by Kinzô Sakura.

Japanese horror movie from 2001.

A psychopathic killer known as Egg Man has been caught, incarcerated and is awaiting his death sentence. Karen, a beautiful and brave police woman, is assigned to the "Egg Man" case to find the whereabouts of a missing dead body. Egg Man meets his cellmate, Prisoner 205. Who is Prisoner 205? Is Prisoner 205 another in-mate awaiting his death sentence as well or an android utilized by the police to collect information about him and his knowledge of the corpse? Who is really manipulating whom?

Experimental 16mm short by Go Takamine.

The 50th film in the popular yakuza action series starring Takeuchi Riki and Sakakibara Toshihiko.

2007 release

Kaoru enjoys himself at clubs but decides to make videos...

Natsuki is a "monster hunter". Yasunori Mikado, who was sealed away by Abe no Seimei and turned into a grudge, was about to be revived. Natsuki notices Taitoku's existence and challenges him to a duel. However, Taitoku has his sights set on Natsuki in order to make Natsuki's mighty power his own!

Set in the year 2088, it depicts a dark future in which humans have been transformed into the "Guilstein," creatures with no human souls in them... Based on a manga by Tamaki Hisao.

Digital Video

A video where Kaori Shimamura and Mai Goto show their bodies

Surprisingly touching tale of love at the far side of retirement age, proving that Pink films are not just for dirty old men; they can also be about dirty old men. It follows two former high-school sweethearts who are recently widowed and reunite, only to run up against the expectations of society.

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail" (1945).