Movies

A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89), a genius of world cinema, a wizard of special effects, revealing...

A mix of life tales in modern Japan where fate is predicted by your name and a fingerplay song. Are the members of this society playing into the...

A glimpse into a world where uniformity and conformity rule.

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684...

A miserly man eats the pits of some cherries he can't stand throwing out. A tree starts growing from the top of his head. He cuts it off; it grows...

The borderline of water, a body, or a bathtub gets more and more unclear. All are mixed together in the lukewarm water.

I try to set this work – a film using texts, or a film-book – between watching and reading. This film is dedicated to J.L. Borges, a...

The gaze of a woman from a window at other windows leads to a recollection of various scenes. The metamorphosed windows transfer, expand, reflect,...

A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.

How to spend a ten-minute break at club activities. Let us take off [our] shoes and socks, and enjoy the fresh breeze between our toes. We are all...

No doubt negative enery is going to accumulate in my body today, tomorrow and the day after. When that happens, I'll have my own way of release.

I'm the only one who can't live without an oxygen tank in the underwater world. No matter how suffocated I feel, I preserve peace and harmony by...

Here, everyone is an outlander. But something's not right. Everyone else has a place to sit at the table, a home to return to at will. Not him....

An apple comes out of a man’s mouth. The man’s life goes backward, as video player is reversed. Many kinds of food accelerated to come...

On various forms expanded in all directions and a dance by a man in tights.

A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie,...

A spring night, I walked past a ‘god’. I wonder if it was a cat or a man. Or was it a wind I felt in a slumber? They were certainly...

A man is waiting for someone in a small boat. In loneliness he keeps waiting for someone. For whom, or why he is waiting is not very important. He...

Koji Yamamura's allegory the immutability of time, love and devotion, and the unbreakable nature of the parent-child bond, into interlacing story.