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Takumi was fired from his company and is treated coldly by his cohabiting girlfriend, Sanae. Groping is his purpose in life, and on a crowded train on his way to find a job, he approached an office lady, Rui...

2004 release

2003 release

Shimatani Hitomi's 1st Live Tour 2003 GATE -scena III- filmed at Shibuya Kokaido on October 11, 2003 including interview and music clip footage.

A special recap included with the first artbook. Includes material from all episodes minus DARK.

The first installment in the “Neko no rakuen" series. A warm-hearted, high-quality documentary depicting the cats of a dream destination that every cat lover would like to visit at least once: a paradise floating in the Greek Aegean Sea. The beautiful scenery and the cats’ lively, unguarded daily lives are sure to gently soothe your heart.

A romantic tale of a young man who risks and grows up through his love for a female vampire.

Takarazuka special performance.

Second film of the yakuza series starring Hiroki Matsukata.

In December 1969, the band Zuno Keisatsu (The Brain Police) was formed, with Panta and Toshi as its core members. The camera follows them for three years leading up to the band’s reunion in 2008.

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.

We depicting the never ending cycle of construction and demolition in the human consumption. It was exhibited at re-constructed disaster area in Kobe.

The end of the 18th century. In California, in the "New World" of America, people suffer beneath Spanish despotism and hope their saviour will come. His face hidden by a black mask, his form disguised with a black cape, the legendary knight appears to punish evildoers as both Zorro and Lady Zorro. The deeds and loves of Zorro and Lady Zorro are portrayed in this swashbuckling play full of unrivaled delights.

Listen to the fragile sounds in this experimental film. Taki, Toto, and Hajime go to a private school where drugs have taken over their lives. They began experimenting with curiosity but soon find themselves in an inescapable trap. After an accident at school and a trip to the hospital, the three friends find themselves at a crossroads.

Shinjin Kouen performance of Moon Troupe's Great Pirates -Revenge in the Caribbean-.

Misaki is ugly, clumsy, lackluster, and lives a life that is meant to be bullied by others. While collecting money from her part-time job delivering newspapers, she falls in love with a man named Yoshida who is kind to her.

Junji Inagawa, one of Japan's most famous horror storytellers, visits the sites of reputed horrors and attempts to uncover the causes. This time, he examines the "abandoned love hotel Lili in Yubari, Hokkaido" and "Kamogawa Yellow Spring Tunnel in Chiba Prefecture...and the Kanayama Dam" to get to the bottom of the matter.

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.

Every drift fans knows that despite the growing popularity of drift-racing, the heart of the ride will always be the Touge (mountain pass), and in this release Nomuken leads the JDM Option team through the very origins of Japanese drifting. As an added bonus, the JDM Option crew also shares a mysterious video sent in by an unidentified street racer who rockets along the Tomei Expressway at speeds in excess of 300km/h.

2004 release

This is the third installment of the popular "“List of Curses” Told by High School Girls in Shibuya" series, in which high school girls are actually interviewed on the streets of Shibuya and tell their stories.

In 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, the conservative Japanese government is pressing ahead with plans to revise the nation's constitution and jettison its no-war clause, Article 9. This documentary places the ongoing debate over the constitution in an international context:

Their cerebral arteriovenous veins were invaded by parasitic pests. The children become "merciless zombies" and " kill" their parents and other people related to them in order to take revenge on the adults who have controlled their lives.

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.

In the feudal days in Europe, Baron Ochs von Lerchenau, a prodigal and philogynous country noble, has squandered all his property, going bankrupt. He has accordingly decided to marry Sophie von Faninal, the only daughter of a wealthy and freshly peered Viennese bourgeois. He has broken free of his local love, Margarete, and has left for Vienna with a few followers, including Nikolaus, virtually in a manner of moonlight flitting.

This is the first volume of the 2005 edition of the annual "Junji Inagawa's Super Scary Stories" series, "Ghost Stories Legend. It will include seven stories in total, including the first story "The Reason There Is No Mirror," in which Inagawa confesses a terrifying experience with a deceased female owner that occurred in a room of a hotel in Shizuoka, where he was visiting on business.

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!

To be recognized as the best, the inexperienced street racer Kazuki will need the help of a former champion and his trusted Mazda RX-7 to take on the field in this burner of high-octane Tokyo street races.

Delight, encounters, passion... A revue composed the different forms love takes, and the emotions of love. Unfolding from a brilliant opening, through passionate dance scenes set to Latin music, and the bright world of jazz. Every genre of the music world is brought forth, and the joy and beauty of love spreads out before you.

After losing her parents, Kanako moves in with her grandmother in a town by the sea.

2004 release

Komaba Dormitory at the University of Tokyo was closed down after a bitter dispute between the students and the university. This film collage tells the story of the two years leading up to the actual demolition of Komaba Dormitory.

Eighth film of the yakuza series starring Hiroki Matsukata.

Kabuki performance of the story “Peony Lantern”.

The 5th special edition of the popular horror series. New episodes of supernatural phenomena are thoroughly examined by a psychic medium.

The Kurosu clan has succeeded in making 20 billion yen from the sale of golf course stock certificates, just as young leader Tatsuya Shirakawa had hoped. In order to make the clan bigger, Shiryu uses the 20 billion to buy stocks of companies and manipulate their stock prices in order to make even more money. However, the stocks that Hakuryu is aiming for are stocks that even the president of the securities company cannot imagine...

2003 release

The always calm and collected Hakuryu rides into Hakata to save his old friend who is caught in a turf war. Hakuryu's chivalrous spirit is a powerful force as he sharply cuts his way through the bloodthirsty Hakata yakuza and the war between the yakuza and a huge organization. Nanshu-gumi and Awami-gumi are the two major forces controlling Hakata. However, the Awakai-gumi, suffering from financial difficulties due to the closing of a coal mine, joins forces with the Hamamoto-gumi, the largest organization in Kobe, and begins to target the Nanshu-gumi's territory. After much deliberation, Hiroi, a young leader of the Nanshu clan, calls on his old friend Tatsuya Shirakawa and decides to fight to protect the clan and Hakata.

Documentary on pioneer Japanese feminist Hiratsuka Raicho

A girl wanders down a long road. When she comes to, she finds herself in a deserted new town. A middle-aged man calls out to her and puts her in his car. The man, who claims to be a probation officer, is in fact the caretaker of the housing estate, and makes it a routine to approach women with the intention of roughing them up.

Short animated film by Tomoyasu Murata.

When a film crew shooting a ghost story movie is moving in a bus, the expected location site becomes unavailable all of a sudden, and they are looking for a new location site. Then the bus suddenly stops. There is a run-down, spooky-looking abandoned building there. The director decides to use this spooky deserted building as their new location site, but the whole cre...

2006 release

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.

As children, Juan and Plumitas dream of becoming bullfighters. But one day when they go to the ring, they are offered a chance to fight the bulls and become candidates. Juan freezes, and it is their friend Chiripa who jumps into the ring. Chiripa is killed, and then Juan unfreezes and draws off the bulls. He is hailed as having great potential and is recruited. Plumitas can't believe Juan would do this when Chiripa has been killed, and the two brothers become estranged.

A kaleidoscope of painted cartoonish images including an obscene mouse. Born in 1936 in Tokyo, Keiichi Tanaami is one of the leading pop artists of postwar Japan, and has been active as multi-genre artist since the 1960s as a graphic designer, illustrator, video artist and fine artist.

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.

Kakeru, a former elite runner at high school, is chased for stealing food. He is saved by a Kansei University student Haiji, who is also a runner. Haiji persuades Kakeru to live in the old dormitory "Chikusei-so" where he plans to team up with fellow residents to enter the Hakone Ekiden relay marathon, one of the most prominent university races in Japan. Kakeru soon finds out that all of the residents except for Haiji and himself are complete novices.