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KE/FA: Fake Sister

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada and Ichigo-chan. Shooting assistance by Kenji Onishi.

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Go Ya

Alldays Rising sun on the Second street

The movie's title is a play on the popular Always - Sunset on Third Street films and also deals with circumstances 1950's Tokyo, but focuses on the homosexual district of Shinjuku ni-chome.

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 3, Part 2

A new season of the acclaimed series finishes with these twenty sensational shorts capturing the essence of psychological terror with chilling visuals.

The Great Horror Family

The Great Horror Family is a 2004 Japanese horror comedy television series directed by Kenji Murakami, Takashi Shimizu, Keisuke Toyoshima and Yūdai Yamaguchi, which aired on TV Tokyo affiliated stations.

Zomvideo

Aiko and Hashimoto discovere a VHS videotape called "A Guide to Surviving Zombies From". This is a video with a set of instructions that will help them cope with the invasion of the undead living in Japan.

Tales Of Terror: Only the Two of Us

Sound Hunting

Production and sale of Fujichrome RT200 sound film stock ended in 1999. It was the ultimate analogue technology allowing audio to be simultaneously recorded. As the director develops his film shot with expired RT200 stock, unique visuals and sounds begin to emerge.

Tales of Terror: Final Night 1

This is the first volume to include the final series of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost Story Shin Mimibukuro,” based on the true-life ghost story book “Shin Mimibukuro. It contains all 10 episodes.

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Yon Ya

Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not normal here. The landlord warns Aimi and her father of the curfew. First, all residents must cross the rope in front of the property by midnight. Second, no one can move out until a new tenant arrives. Those brave enough to break the rules are unmercifully killed by a mysterious force.

Coming Future

Nakagawa shot “Coming Future” on the nights of December 24 and 25, 2009, in Shibuya, making it his location for an idealized Bohemia in the heart of Tokyo. Interesting interviews/discussions with Kenji Murakami, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Kenji Onishi, Tetsuaki Matsue and more... By far the most interesting sequence is with Kenji Onishi (“A Burning Star”). Wielding a super-8 camera, Onishi documents his own interview, taking random shots of street-life and buildings. He leavens his monologue with statements bordering between cliché and outré. “A movie that aims to make a message is boring.”

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Nagurikomi! Gekijō-ban Kantō-hen

The documentary version of "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro" titled "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Nagurikomi!" series. "Gekijō-ban Kantō-hen" takes viewers into the magical mountains of Tanigawa-dake, where the largest number of people have been lost in Japan, and into the sea of trees at Mt.

Dear Mrs Ougi Chikage

Kenji Murakami seeks out legendary wildman director Kenji Onishi and arranges a meeting with director Yoko Oguchi. The meeting turns unexpectedly intense...

The Devil's Cop Festival

Fifth installment of Deka Matsuri omnibus series. Six films

PRAGUE (Short Version)

A man fingering the girl before killing her. Camera cuts to blue sky and cat. A man choking his girl. Onishi at his usual with framing, extreme close-ups, expectations and black inserts.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.

Kikujiro

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a wide array of surprises and unique characters along the way.

Black Rain

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.

The Baby of Mâcon

In 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.