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Heavy rain has been hitting the facades of Tokyo. Masahiro is alone in his office. He calls his wife, who doesn’t seem to be excited about her husband’s overtime. He falls asleep on the computer during his monotonous paperwork. He has a nightmare. When he wakes up, nothing seems the way it used to be.
A three part anthology anime film
Love Live! debut OVA that was released as a bonus Blu-ray with the special edition CD of Music S.T.A.R.T!!.
A bear arrives from Japan to live within an artist's studio in New York
Three short stories in Tokyo about people's death and how they see their life after death. In each story the main character experience death and they live another life that seems just like another day. Regretting their ignorance that caused pain to their beloved ones, each tries to find a clue to what went wrong in another life.
A fairy-tale telling the story of a wealthy, spoiled princess Katharine who got changed into "normal" girl by a Witch and now have to live among common village folks adapting to their modest lifestyle.
Henshin! Henshin! Arashi and Rider is a 1972 special promoting Henshin Ninja Arashi and Kamen Rider.
In the middle of the night, on a mountain road, a man was struck down in a motorcycle accident. This was the cue.
Aliens have come to earth and threaten humanity. But one company is taking care of their elimination: the Miyata Busters. Unfortunately, the company is no longer doing well, because with new technology everyone can now put an end to the aliens. And then something goes wrong in the disposal machine ...
A televised special to commemorate the theatrical release of Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle, commeorating the 35th anniversary of the Super Sentai franchise.
TV Favorites Gather!! was a celebration of Japanese TV shows including tokusatsu.
Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman: Decisive Battle! The Five Invincible Galaxy Sibling Warriors is a video special for Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman.
A silhouette animation version of Princess Kaguya, also known as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a 10th century folk tale.
Three young people visit a murder scene in the mountains. As one finds an ice pick, he gets crazy as soon as he picks it up and attacks the two other people.
Two guys go ghost hunting in a basement, two salesmen get spooked by doppelgangers, a couple have a comedic night at a love hotel, and a counsellor interviews a criminal claiming to be a divine being. These are just some of the five-minute scenes that have been shot in one take by a single static camera and with no ADR permitted. As these everyday situations spiral out of control with plot twists, it’s a high-wire act for the performers to get to the punchline!
Animation by Oh Chearin. Music by Suzuka Fujimura.
The short follows the dream of a young boy in which strange whale teleports him to a fantasy land where a happy cat named Pero (modeled after the character in the Nagagutsu wo Haita Neko anime that serves as Toei Animation's mascot) appears. The piece is entirely dialogueless.
A short collaboration between Mashin Sentai Kiramager and the anime Teikou Penguin.
Upcoming independent kaiju film produced by 3Y Co., Ltd. Based on Daiei's scrapped film Great Demon Beast Dagora.
Mitsuko, is struggling to overcome a badly broken heart. Musician Keisuke is a ghost who is unable to rest in peace.
An unemployed young man by chance gets into an age-old conflict of good versus bad. A magical fruit is said to be able to cure all diseases and when a malicious virus threatens the earth, its mission is clear: to save humanity from extinction. Before he knows it, he transforms into the intrepid Kamen Ninja Nishida and is plunged into a crazy adventure that takes him across time to the Japanese Middle Ages. Samurai versus ninja, wild fights, aerial acrobatics and clanking steel. The final battle for the future of the world begins.
An axe-human tries to get along with a balloon-human in Balloon City.
The grandfather's guitar starts to play by itself in response to the beautiful heart of the flower vendor's daughter. The guitar is broken by the people fighting over it. When the daughter's tears bring it back to life, the reconciled people begin to dance to the music of the guitar.
A film about “the end”. The end has already started, and ended. We call it “the end” in order to perceive it and make it “visible”, but it had already passed when we called it “the end” , or “the end” is always penetrating the present, so we can not recognize time of the end. The end has already started, and ended. The disaster of an earthquake and nuclear crisis in 2011 Japan affected a lot when it comes to making artworks. This work is the first film of a series called PIXCANNING. The word “Pixcanning” is coined from “pix (picture / pixel)” and “scanning” . It is a method used to scoop up (scanning) elements that pass through the meshes of perception (pixel) when images (picture) appear or images are constructed.
Kids' Festival! All the Heroes of Justice Appear was a televised celebration of tokusatsu heroes in 1976.
An artistic ritual by Daikichi Amano.
Suzunosuke continues his battle with the Skull Mask gang in a booby-trapped cave.
A short anime about what Santa does when he's not delivering presents.
Set to Fantasia-like music, the anime pans over a town during their Christmas celebrations while Santa flies across the sky.
The boy with supernatural powers fell in love with a girl who mistakenly believes she is a psychic. She keeps jumping into danger, and the boy continues to protect her.
The story explores universal themes such as isolation, fantasy, and the confrontation of the self in contemporary society. It poetically and visually depicts the protagonist’s emotional transformation as she journeys toward personal liberation.
A multi-media stop-motion picture by director, Minoru Kujirai, featuring clay dinosaurs.
A tokusatsu magical girl film
The second stage adaptation of the "Togabito no Kokuin" light novels. Unlike the first show, the story goes beyond the original novels introducing characters who are unique to the stage version.
A 1986 video-only film introducing one-hundred Toei's superheroes from their tokusatsu productions and other shows. Composition
After spending his company's money, Ichita dreams of a "treasure hunt". One day, Ichita receives a small gun. One day, Ichita receives a small pistol in the mail, and the two set off on a random journey in a stolen car. On the way, they pick up a couple, a blonde woman and a quiet motorcyclist, who have no idea where they are going or why. These two are also living their own lives, far from reality. The car with the four people in it goes on a long way... The dialogue is casual but stylish. The light oldies pop music is in the background. It's a cool road movie with an unrealistic setting and a mood that mixes speed and weariness. The film was shot on location in Hokkaido, where the road is straight and endless. The filming in the vast landscape brings the characters into sharp focus. The journey of these outlaws, who can only live halfway, is shown in a dashing, unconventional and freestyle.
Mikage is unable to bear a child due to fibroids in her uterus. On the night she breaks up with her lover, she gives herself up to Sakurai, who adores her. Sakurai tells her that he will take Mikage's place as her child, but the next day he turns into a real boy. Mikage is surprised, but she begins to love him like a mother and a sister. At the same time, a news report about the unsettling world situation comes on the radio... The film is a realistic portrayal of a fantasy, with a tightly constructed structure and assured direction that adheres to theory. The ending, which seems to foretell of Japan in the near future, is a heartbreaking coincidence with the title of the film.
This is a story of PLUG and his friends, who live in the Zero Emission world, sharing energy each other, harmoniously.
In the ruins of a destroyed Tokyo, a girl and her brother fight for survival.
When a young princess is kidnapped by an evil toad, her salvation is in the hands of a brave villager.
35 Great Hero Sentai All Revealed SP was a televised special commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Super Sentai franchise.
Super Sentai Special Report: Birth! Chojin Sentai Jetman is a video special which serves as a transition from Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman to Choujin Sentai Jetman.
Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman: Super Combination! The Strongest Robot is a video special for Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman.
A re-edited Super Sentai feature of Fiveman #3, Liveman #44 and Turboranger #39.
Gosei Sentai Dairanger: Qi-Power Transformation! Dairanger!! is the Super Video of Gosei Sentai Dairanger.
One day, a death god suddenly appears at the door of Morimi, a university student. By an unexpected turn of events, Morimi is granted two extra days to live, which he spends with the death god as his unlikely roommate. Morimi's concerned friends, Osumi and Mitani, visit his apartment to check on him, unaware of his curious living arrangement.
Each day, she defecates into the toilet. Each day, the toilet swallows it up. But over the course of seven days, this ritual falls apart.
Silver Jaguar is a 1979 unaired tokusatsu TV pilot produced by P-Productions and a French company.
Mamiko witnesses her boyfriend cheating on her. That night, she is stress eating and gets stomach ache. Her poop in the toilet goes and kills her cheating boyfriend.
This was test footage that was going to be used in other projects like Born Free: Dionsaur Expedition (1976-1977) and Izenborg Ace (1977-1978).
Long time ago, there was peace until the giants decide to wake up after years and years of slumber.The three priestesses sisters who were guarding their shrine had to retreat to seek help and who better to ask Maze for help.
Selnef, the forest musician, plays the strings quietly by himself. Eventually, the forest begins to breathe deeply as the sound echoes.
An animated special based on the World Heroes fighting game series by ADK.
Rapunzel eagerly awaits her prince from her tower top singing “Someday My Prince Will Come”. Her hair is extremely long and can reach far away outside of the tower. She starts to spin and rewind her locks in order to catch her unseen prince. As the spinning movement proceeds, Rapunzel becomes highly emotional. Eventually she loses sight of her initial aspiration and transforms into a mere yarn-ball-like, cocoon-like black mass. Meanwhile, the world outside of the tower is ruined by Rapunzel’s rampaging hair. The chaos created is as if some apocalyptic natural disaster has taken place.
Hyouman (豹（ひょう）マン, Hyō Man, "Leopard-Man") is an unaired tokusatsu TV pilot produced by P-Productions in 1967. It is an alternative pitch to Jaguarman.
Children's program from the 80s. Kento Girubāto & Jun Marī's song "After the Fight"
In Tokyo, a young man, Tomo, and his companion, Hiroko, have hardly any money left to their name. Convinced that their misfortune is part of a larger, unexplainable joke, they agree to throw themselves into all the encounters that come their way with the singular hope of defeating this joke before it plays out.