Film Book

Yoshioka is a struggling sensual novel author. His wife, Michiru, believes in his talent and supports him. Unable to cope with his lack of success, Yoshioka becomes dependent on alcohol and women, causing much grief to Michiru, but she never leaves his side.Yoshioka vows to change and immerses himself in writing, finally publishing a novel and receiving an award. Months pass and one day on the beautiful Ishigakijima island, a drunk Yoshioka visits a local bar and tells the proprietress, Megumi, the story of how he disappointed his wife and eventually lost her in an traffic accident. Seeing the extent of his grief, Megumi tells Yoshioka about the Ishigakijima legend about a special “fragrance satchel”. If you take the satchel with you and go to a particular lighthouse, you will be able to meet a person who has died one last time for a short duration, until the smell of the satchel fades away. She hands him this fragrance satchel.

A dysfunctional family documents their discovery of an ancient Egyptian mummy on film. This trashy home movie soon merges with a sunday-afternoon tv-documentary and questions cinema, and the search for immortality throughout the ages.

A book, that attacks the reader's sanity - Severin's long-forgotten childhood angst. One night, all his fears resurface when he gets his hands on the dreaded pages, and every line seems to confirm his most powerful fears. Accompanied by the antiquarian Palatinus, Severin dares to read the book and delves into the alchemist's spell.

A story about generation Y, the era of individualistic and extremely competitive people, who believe their meant to be exceptional. A generation where the unrealistic expectations rarely match reality. The story revolves around a young adult who is subject to the same circumstances and above all else wishes to be recognized by truly memorable achievements. Mota says he has been touched by god and is going to write a book about everything. In the limbo between the real world and Mota’s conscience the journey begins. The narrative oscillates between action and inertia, writing and procrastinating. The book of everything assumes an identity crisis. Mota, as other of his age, is subject to social pressure of making it big. He becomes so desperate at the reality of his life that builds a parallel one. It’s a movie about the unachievable realization of the individual.

A freelance writer who writes for a local magazine. Recently has been in a slump and his writing has been slow. His editor, Kyoko, worries that he is just dazed, watching videos sent to him by friends on their travels. Then Akira's cousin, Yoiko, comes to visit him. She refuses to go back to her family, but Akira decides to keep her with him for a while. There are many sad and tender scenes, and the scenery with Akira, who can't write, and Yoiko, who stutters, has a very poetic sound and aftertaste as the title suggests. The final scene is so vivid that you can't help saying "I've been hit! It is so vivid that you want to say "I've been hit!

Juan arrives at a house and finds a mysterious book on the floor. After having a look, he decides to ignore it and start watching television.

A film about the value of words in an age of information abundance; about the troubled communication and imbalance between silence, talking and sounds, but also about how human speech shaped and developed and what should be done to reconcile with silence, turning it into Word.

Leonidas Koursoumis had worked diligently all his life in the publishing sector only to find himself unemployed and subsequently homeless a few years shy of retirement. Instead of leading him to despair, this misfortune armed him with courage and persistence, giving rise to a vision of a pioneering bookstore run by and for the homeless, which has been steadily gaining international recognition and respect. This is their story.

The film tells that Meng Lingshu, who was born in the matchmaker family, was a matchmaker for the matchmaker during the day, and at night he turned into a chivalrous "night cat". Because she was framed as a murderer in several bizarre and murderous cases, she chose to take the initiative to attack. Together she rejoices the enemy Qilin teacher He Lanhongchen, while exploring the truth, while loving the love and killing each other in the midst of suffering, and finally breaking the story of the villain conspiracy.

Almost a third of everyone's life is spent in a dream, but this state of "life" is poorly understood. What if consciousness is not asleep? What if everyone is the creator of their own universe, but does not remember about it?.. A number of experiments on the study of sleep were conducted in order to fix the connection between the consciousness of the sleeper and the physiological reaction of the body. Where does consciousness go every night and how does it come in the morning? In the film, the viewer is waiting for interviews with people who are professionally engaged in the study of dreams, the issues of the relationship of religions to dreams, archetypes of interpretation of dreams (the language of the unconscious) and working with them as a way of studying personality are touched upon. The mechanisms of "awareness" of oneself in a dream are considered.

Mr O’s Book of the Dead is the last of a trilogy of experimental films about Kazuo Ohno, co-founder of the contemporary Japanese style of dance known as butoh, made with director Chiaki Nagano during a period in which he had retired from public performance, and just before he began touring the world as a solo dancer with his celebrated work Admiring La Argentina. In the film, Ohno leads a troupe of strangely dressed, made-up and gesticulating dancers through a succession of landscapes alternately lush, desolate and surreal.

When Borges held the Book of Sand for the first time, he realized that it is like no other book. It allowed him to dive into its magical worlds. A stranger told him that the book resembles the infinite with no beginning and no end, and that it will change his life forever.

Man is trying to find himself by doing circles around with his skateboard.

A documentary film based on the works of the Armenian mystic and lyric poet, monk and theologian Grigor Narekatsi (c. 950 - 1003/1011). A thousand years ago, in ancient Armenia, St. Gregory of Narekatsi wrote a book of prayerful contemplation, which to this day is the deepest revelation of the spiritual world of man in search of the meaning of life. The protagonist of the film is a modern person living in the modern world. A world in which the fundamental question of the meaning of life is not relevant.

During the Republican era Pan Shizue, young lady from rich family,, is haunted by a demon and has no choice but to invite Taoist master to perform a practice to drive away the fox demon and cheat the fox demon by matching a paper man with a fake marriage. After the marriage with Pan Shizue her fake groom Zhang Shaofeng commits adultery and is caught in a hurry, he hides in a magic house and accidentally unseals monster

Hidden away in a corner of Kamakura is an unassuming secondhand bookstore, the Biblia Antiquarian Bookshop. Shinokawa Shioriko, the owner of the shop, is an overly shy young and beautiful woman who doesn't fit the image of a used bookstore and often has trouble interacting with customers. While customer service isn't her strong point, she more than makes up for it in other ways. Using her exhaustive knowledge and unrivaled passion for literature, she unravels the secrets and mysteries of the antiquarian books that come into her shop.

As a model student in her elementary school, 11-year-old Lin Yuqi is assigned to give a speech about her family at the Parent's Meeting tonight. But after Lin finds out that she shares the same secret with a mischievous classmate, she starts to have second thoughts.