Movies:

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past....

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways....

A look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the film also looks at their private lives. Rei is acting in an am...

A high school girl is recruited by a photographer to be a model for a photo book. Thinking that she can make lots of money she agrees. He starts innocently enough but slowly convinces her to pose for more explicit shots....

This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki....

From a true incident that happened in 1960s Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it focuses on a tangled web of murder and deceit encountered by a beautiful woman, Kayo (Sayuri Yoshinaga) after h...

A wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause......

This faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against time to create art and help a young girl in love....

A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture....

The late Fujio Akatsuka is revered by many Japanese artists and scholars for his developments to early comedy manga, but his contributions aren't just limited to the world of print media. Featuring commentary from family, friends, colleagues, and cel...

A documentary exploring the history and influence of the alternative manga magazine, Garo, with various artist and director interviews....

Photography is diary... diary is life... in the end, the world and photography always end up alone, with each other....

Tells the life story of Teru Kaneko, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a book shop, Teru starts writing her own verses to get away from the worries of a disgraceful marriage. Under the pseudonym Misuzu, her ...

A controversial documentary made for the 1995's edition of the "Rencontres d'Arles", focusing on the japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki....

Tokyo. A metropolis filled with sound, movement and culture. Through interviews with some of Tokyo's inhabitants, such as world-renowned photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, game designer Shono, musician Mayuko Hino and others....

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Former boxer Iwano, teamed up with Sada and Maru, who live in the same apartment building, makes his daily living as a punching bag for drunken businessmen in some corner of the amusement quarters. The three have continuously avoided putting themselv...

A documentary about Morisaki Henrik, AKA Terayama Henrik, who became Terayama Shuji's adopted little brother after his death. Henrik continued Terayama's legacy in his own way after the passing of his collaborator and brother....

Arakinema KaoRi Iro Injo by Nobuyoshi Araki. A labyrinth of overlapping colors. KaoRi and Araki's dance....

A documentary that follows the life of photographer Daido Moriyama in the present, which has never been revealed before. Even though his charismatic presence has reigned over the world of photography since the late 60’s, his true persona had been hid...