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Set in the Heian Age, this is the tale of Yukiwaka and Kirine, two young men who have both come to the capital to learn Bugaku. They are both learning together, and grow close as siblings as they aim to become official Bugaku dancers. However, Kirine has a secret...
Tour final held on September 5, 2009 at Saitama Super Arena.
Super Kuma-san is a big stuffed bear that trudges with a drum and drum stick in his hand. While playing the drum and without any expression on his face, Mr. Bear rescued Maa-kun from a bank robber. One day, Maa-kun found Super Kuma-san and a clown entertaining kids by performing for them...
A luxury European tour turns deadly when two wealthy participants die under mysterious circumstances. With the celebrity guide absent, her assistant Etsuko steps in and, along with tour conductor Ryohei, must manage the difficult group while unraveling the truth behind the murders as secrets among the travelers come to light.
The Seven Lucky Gods (or kami, meaning both "hair" and "gods") live in the Takada’s barber shop in Tokyo—a set based on a real-life now-lost local store close to Murata’s heart—where they play charming tricks on the family of four.
A day in the life of Kiriko, who has not told anyone about her father's disappearance.
The life of a homeless boy is changed when a foreigner offers him a life-changing sum to perform a single act.
The concept of "Rest In Eternalism" was to closely examine and photograph the things I encountered while traveling, so I thought about what would happen if I tried photographing one place thoroughly. I focused on the alleys I had discovered during the filming of my previous works.
This short 6 minute 3D CGI film of Kenshiro’s final battle with Raoh was created in 2006 and came out on DVD in 2007. This will most probably remain an exclusively Japanese release.
An accident happened that one man was able to jump on the train at a railway crossing. Since that day, Mariko who witnessed the accident has no premonition and the ear is sometimes heard. For some reason someone can not communicate with the lover of lover, everyday living while worrying about the unexplained symptoms. And, "unfamiliar scenery" that can be decided. Is it reality or hallucination? She tries to escape from terror without sound.
2005 release
37th movie in the series
Junji Inagawa, a horror entertainer of the third installment of his horror documentary series, visits the sites of legendary horrors.The third installment in the horror documentary series.
An image video starring Yuko Sakaki.
Documentary directed by Tetsuaki Matsue.
A psychic documentary that investigates the causes of bizarre spiritual phenomena. Included is an episode of a man who was grabbed by the arm with great force by an eerie girl who passed by him at an intersection, and since then his personality has changed.
2007 release
Rei, a former hustler, finds herself unconscious and finds herself working at a pool bar run by Kyoichi, who nurses her back to health. However, the Yakuza have their eye on his bar, and he is subjected to relentless harassment...
Hamasaki Ayumi's presents a spectacular 3.5 hour concert at the Tokyo's Yoyogi National Gymnasium, capturing the live event's atmosphere. Featured songs include "Real me", "Naturally", "Heartplace", "Days", "independent", and "GREEN", among others.
The same moment and composition were captured using two Super 8 cameras with a simple setup employing a half-mirror. These films, one in color and the other in black and white, were developed in-house and blown up to 16mm. The screen alternates between "images" of the same moment and composition. The color portion is 24 frames per second, and the black and white portion is 1 frame per 2 seconds. Even though we say it's the same moment and the same composition, this is only conceivable based on the assumption that film records and reproduces reality in time and space. When you directly handle film as a sculptural material, you see just how ambiguous that is.
2008 release
Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.
Four girls, Aoi, Sumire, Kaede, and Tsukushi arrive in Asuka, Nara prefecture with the purpose of unraveling the mystery of an ancient mirror. As they explore the ancient city, they are confronted with various mysteries and gradually begin to unravel the secrets of history, leading them into a strange world that transcends time and space.
Yo Ota goes on working on « the space of the unreal movement » on the film medium and on showing time development in non narrative cinema. This film has nothing to do with the English meaning of «Speed trap», that is speed control by police radars. To obtain objects in movement, he set his 16mm camera on the verge of a road. During film shoot, some drivers thought his camera was a speed trap and briskly slow down in front of the camera.
A collection of real-life horror documentaries. Guided by horror/splatter novelist Yumei Hirayama, the film takes us to the famous suicide spot Fuji Jukai. The camera captures the remains of the suicides, bouquets of flowers, and even human bones.
Manhattan Aoshima and World Hashimoto are invited to the villa of fortune teller Gold Kotegawa along Gold's maid, Maki. One morning, Gold is found dead. There are three suspects. Money, honor, body, and jealousy.... The story is told through recollections, as each person's thoughts and relationships are intertwined. Who killed Gold?
A taxidermist looks out the window of his studio. Sequestered from the world, he protects his loneliness. The arrival of two foreigners may prove unsettling to his isolation.
short film by Taki Kentaro
Inside a medium-distance bus. A man who realizes he has boarded the wrong bus suddenly jacks the bus! B-class idols, adulterous couples, embezzling office ladies, delusional men, and more create chaos!!
More than a dozen stunning photos carefully selected from ghost photos submitted by ordinary users! All newly submitted! You can't take your eyes off of the barrage of terrifying experiences any longer!
Hayato, a freelance photographer, heads to the vacation home of Nishimoto, a friend from his college days, with his friends and his beloved Emi, whom he meets again after a long time. It was supposed to be a fulfilling vacation. The next day, the group visits an abandoned house near the villa. A place he has been irresistibly drawn to for some time and has visited many times. Hayato clicks the shutter as if possessed by something. What was waiting for them there... Was it reality or illusion? Is it reality or an illusion? On a night when a pure white fog crawls across the land, a terrifying and sad nightmare begins.
film by Hajime Gonno
Mr. Tatsuo Ikeda, who is familiar with many TV programs as a psychic organizer. A request arrived to him. "I want her to use her psychic powers to find a grandmother who has been missing for several months." The client is her family. He tried his best but couldn't find it, so he entrusted his hope to Mr. Ikeda. With the permission of the family, we conducted a close interview with Mr. Ikeda's psychic investigation! Where on earth is Grandma? This work is a document that pushes the limits of the psychic world, where Mr. Ikeda searches for missing persons by his own psychic ability.
A teenager leaves his classmates and heads home for the evening. Feeling frustrated and lonely, he sends a neutral text-message to a friend. From this point, this one-man DV experimental film presents a real-time exchange of incoming and outgoing messages, depicting a digital-era study of text-message relationships. Letter is the directorial debut of Japanese artist, filmmaker, and scholar Sasaki Yusuke when he was only 17. The film screened at the 2004 International Film Festival Rotterdam and won the Grand Prix at Image Forum Festival Tokyo in 2003. Sasaki holds a doctoral degree from the Tokyo University of the Arts and is currently a lecturer at Tottori University.
Live DVD release from hide featuring footage of his performance in first tour "HIDE OUR PSYCHOMMUNITY" at Yokohama Arena, second tour "PSYENCE A GO GO" at Yoyogi Dai Ichi Taiikukan, and unreleased footage on two discs.
2005 release
The exhibition introduces more than a dozen carefully selected and startling photos from among the ghost photos submitted by ordinary users, and from these, further investigations and interviews are conducted on those that have been known to have been taken!
Recorded live at the Osaka Jo Hall, Osaka in 2000.
2005 release
An “artist’s home” in a suburb of Vienna, Austria. There, ten painters live a strange existence together whilst each spends his free time writing. Every year, they enjoy an outing to an exhibition. The physically old, but young-hearted artists board a bus and a strange journey ensues. Then, another “outing” which occurs in their everyday life. This documentary portrays, on this journey to a Prague exhibition, the world of each artist and of the human heart—its light and darkness. Lastly, we ask the question, essentially,what is human happiness?
Because his style was similar to that of Yasujiro Ozu, who was already active at Shochiku, he moved to PCL (currently Toho) in 1933, where he appeared in the talkie works "My Wife, Like a Rose" and "Tsuruhachi Tsurujiro." It got attention. There were times when he was unable to make as many films as he wanted due to wartime film regulations and post-war Toho disputes, but in 1951 he revived his career with Meshi. Since then, he has released masterpieces one after another, including "Okaasan," "Lightning," "The Couple," "Wife," "Anii Mouto," "Sounds of the Mountain," and "Bangiku." The pinnacle of his work, "Floating Clouds," is Kenji Mizoguchi's "Wife." Even director Ozu was impressed, calling it a masterpiece of Japanese cinema, on par with "The Sisters of Gion." He depicted ordinary people in everyday life with an everyday realism that was not influenced by lyricism, and he consistently sought out women as his subjects.
This films highlights some of Japanese most infamous urban legends that have been passed down generation by generation. Some of the urban legends included are Hana Ichi Monme and the first part of 'Inunaki Village').
A series of 40 shorts about various urban legends presented by Hiroyuki Kawasaki.
Porn magazine writer Akane has come to attend his niece Yuri’s funeral with his daughter Haruko. He is feeling nervous because the deadline for his articles is approaching. When Akane finds Haruko flirting with Yuri—or what must be Yuri’s ghost—the three of them start playing hide and seek, but soon the innocent game takes an unexpected turn… Drama with an air of immorality taking place behind the closed door of a closet.
A splatter horror film based on an actual bizarre murder case. Satomi is arrested for the murder of her sister who lives with her...
Three girls are selected to collect information on the places renowned as psychic phenomenon in Kanto Area. They are Miri Hanai, Saya Hikita and Reimi Tachibana. Although all of them have ”the 6th sense,” Hikita is the most spiritual and in fact, she enjoys the flourishing career as a spiritual idol. As they go around the spots, they experience various unnatural phenomenon.
Short film made by Michio Mihara in 2008. Key animator of Jin-Roh, Paprika, Princess Mononoke, among others.
Rinken Band represents the Okinawan pop music world. Director Aoyama Shinji (Eureka), one of those attracted to the band, focuses on the band's vocalist, Uehara Tomoko, in this documentary. The film is made up of her performances at live houses, scenes from recording sessions and interviews in between.
Shocking content that cannot be broadcast on TV! A shelved tape that would never be made public was leaked as a "debt collection record"! While covering the reality of wiretapping, I happened to come across a prostitution scene in the entertainment world! Shocked by the astonishing request! Is there such a person? A human horror so gruesome that a ghost would be better!
"I shall give eternal life only to beautiful things...." While visiting London in 1887, Count Dracula of Romania exchanges promises with the daughter of a multi-millionaire. The romance of vampire legends has traveled about for hundreds of years, and in 1987 Star Troupe performed this production with Shion Yuu in the pivotal role. This very popular show was a unique theme for Takarazuka-- the first act is on classical and aesthetic beauty, and the second act is a more modern pop style of Count Dracula's love.
What if an unknown stranger somewhere impersonates you and lives life? 24-year-old TAKIGAWA Misaki (TODO Umi) aspiring to be a non-fiction writer, receives a strange phone call saying TAKIGAWA Misaki is in a coma in a hospital. Learning that someone has posed as Misaki, she visits the hospital and finds an unexpected person. She begins to discover the woman's real name and the reason why she had to be someone else.
Film director Masato Hara welcomes MAORI as a partner and begins a new life. The two of us routinely turn the 8mm camera and make songs while the days go by. The time between the two will soon be the time for the three with their newborn eldest son, KOBOH. And a small family trip. Head south from Kyoto to Hiroshima, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Put enough luggage, shooting equipment and accordion in a small car.
The film is about a man who decides to extort money from the Japanese Government by holding the citizens of Japan to ransom through a rather ingenious method. However, due to the man's profession as a police lawyer, he is able to shield his identity by influencing elements of the investigation through contacts within the police itself. In desperation, the Government decide to hire the services of a sniper who, at the time, is serving a 250-year sentence in a forced labour camp for previous crimes committed. A cat-and-mouse game then ensues between sniper and lawyer.
Aya Kanzaki, a secondary school teacher, was the object of admiration for her male pupils. One of her pupils, Masaomi Odagiri, had viewed her with hostility ever since he was caught shoplifting. One day, irregularities in the teacher recruitment examination were uncovered at the school where Aya worked, and a colleague was arrested. The deputy headmaster, Murakoshi, informed her that her own examination marks had also been inflated.