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A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust.
On December 1st, 1985 British post-punk band Public Image Ltd. performed in Nagoya City Hall, Japan. This concert film includes an interview with singer Johnny Rotten (aka John Lydon) on a high-speed Bullet Train, where he acts in typical Lydon fashion, that being obnoxious. This film is a total rarity, as it was only released in Japan.
Gauche is a diligent but mediocre cellist who plays for a small town orchestra and the local cinema in the early 20th century. He struggles during rehearsals and is often berated by his conductor during preparations for an upcoming performance of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony. Over the course of four nights, Gauche is visited at his mill house home by talking animals as he is practicing.
Flash Back 2012 is Minmay's farewell concert. Featuring some of her best songs, the music is performed over various scenes and events taken from the first Macross television series as well as Macross: Do You Remember Love film. Also included is a newly animated closing sequence showing the launch of Misa's colony vessel, the Megaroad-01, into space.
In a small town, high school students in their final year try to balance their studies while also playing together in a rock band.
A young biker stumbles onto a prototype motorcycle with a hidden function that has a link to the true nature of his world.
Country girl Akiko visits a Tokyo college in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus–blasé intellectuals, horny co-eds, a psych professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her beloved Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.
After the original run of the television series, an OAV music video titled Genesis Climber Mospeada: Love Live Alive was specially (mostly due to demands of hardcore Mospeada fans) released in Japan in September 1985. The music video consisted of both old and new footage. The story of Love Live Alive chronicled the events after the ending of the original Mospeada, featuring Yellow Belmont as the main character. The music video focused on Yellow's concert and also on his flashback of past events.
A poor army veteran in Taiwan adopts a daughter. She grows up and leaves him to enter show business. When she becomes famous she shuns her father and friends.
Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
Performed live on September 15th, 1985 on the SONY JumboTRON at Tsukuba Expo, Tukuba, Japan
A second-rate private eye sees a woman's UFO abduction claim as his ticket to fame and fortune.
Feature movie starring the members of Japanese band Issei Fūbi Sepia
Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll roots.
Taiwanese huangmei opera starring Ivy Ling Po.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, the ghost of Li Huiniang returns to the world of the living to seek revenge against her murderer.
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.
Tells the story of a corrupt emperor, his bigoted philosophies, and the princess who convinces him to change his evil ways.
GASP is a popular alternative band. Conflict arises when the lead singer To-Y is offered a pop idol contract that stipulates he leave the rest of the band behind.
Realistic portraits of Chinese youth embracing western culture
Dragon Quest Fantasia Video is a direct-to-video live action production of the Dragon Quest series that was released by Enix in 1988. A silent reinterpretation of different elements of the Erdrick trilogy games set to various music from the games composed by Koichi Sugiyama and performed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. The video was planned and produced by Toshio Okada, who was then the head of anime studio Gainax, who worked on the movie's special effects, and Tohokushinsha Film.
Mina Tachiki dreams of being a singer. Her brother, Ryosuke, dreams of being a bike-racing champion.
A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the Stardust Brothers, a girl-friendly, silver-jumpsuited, synth-pop sensation. Along with their #1 fan, who herself dreams of a music career, the duo rockets to stardom.
Japan, 1986. At the tail end of the world tour promoting their latest album Revenge, Eurythmics tops the charts. Between concerts, pop duo Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart survey Japan's cultural soundscape with the help of Conny Plank: A world of sounds both brutally technological and highly refined by tradition.
Tommy Chen (Leslie Cheung) wants to become a professional drummer. Because of his loud practice sessions at home he gets into trouble with the neighbors and his father. His grandpa and friends support his ambitions, but he struggles to stay determined and keep his self-confidence.
A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you were here". She takes what little money she has including ex-boyfriend's rent money and goes to Tokyo. She has numerous cross-cultural adventures and ends up singing with a Japanese rock group looking for a gaijin gimmick.
Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.
Originally commissioned by the Sony Corporation of Japan and performed live on the JumboTRON, a fourteen-story TV set at the Expo in Tsukuba, Japan, Adelic Penguins is a collaboration between Fitzgerald, artist Paul Garrin, and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (who also appears as a performer). Structured in six segments, this technical tour-de-force is a pyrotechnic fusion of sound and image, in which the dynamic visual imagery fully complements and heightens Sakamoto's staccato, percussive score. Fitzgerald and Garrin merge terrestrial and interplanetary worlds, in which Sakamoto's figure becomes an integral part of the landscape. Set aloft in the surreal world of the artists' invention, Sakamoto dances, floats and walks through a hyperkinetic universe.
Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her real father, "Daddy-Long-Legs", who sends a bouquet of flowers every birthday, once she can wear a special pair of pointe shoes. The day finally arrives and Miho's small adventure begins.
Starring Yellow Magic Orchestra and David Brooks Palmer, YMO Propaganda is 1984 Musical film directed by Shin Saito. Originally premiered theatrically throughout Japan in 1984 and is considered by some to be the best visual work from 'Y.M.O.'
Babb Bird Bird Khrang Raek is the name of an episode of Thongchai McIntyre's Bird Bird Show, held for the first time on July 12, 1986, at Thai-Japanese Youth Center, Din Daeng, 2 rounds, 6,400 audience members. In addition to guest singers Rewat Puttinan, Puscha Tonawanik, Thitima Sutasunthon, Nantida Kaewbuasai, his family also joined in performing on stage. Make a great impression on the audience
Documentary about the eclectic Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto during the recording sessions for his 1984 album "Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia".
Brazil, a warm, cheerful, carefree, and peaceful South American country, is an alluring destination. Even pop diva Anita Mui chose this location to film a music special, and specially invited Elaine Kong, who often imitates her, to make a cameo appearance. The story follows Anita (Anita Mui) as she flies to Brazil to find her boyfriend Ricky. Before her mission even begins, her luggage is almost stolen. Fortunately, her kindred spirit, Xiao Yu (Elaine Kong), who immigrated to Brazil with her uncle when she was ten, comes to her aid. The two thus begin a friendship. However, along the way, Anita almost misunderstands Xiao Yu as a thief. Will the two be able to break the ice and reconcile? Will Anita be able to successfully find her boyfriend Ricky?
A story about the lives of young aspiring dancers who strive to create their own musical about stray cats.
Yellow Magic Orchestra playing songs from the album Service in the Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan in the 22 Dec. 1983
Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the country teeters over the brink into the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Jo Yong-pil establishes a band and receives a lot of local support. His girlfriend helps him produce an album and distributes it to dj's across the nation to help Yong-pil achieve stardom.
Shuihan and Taohwa's relationship causes deep jealousy in wicked Kinshuen. Kin gets Shuihan ousted from the village and abducts Taohwa.
A music clip OVA using full versions of songs that were from the anime.
The film is centered around Noel, a young girl and her dog, Pup, who both live on the Planet Noel. While relaxing, Noel comes up with the idea to deliver ice cream to the sun. The two fly off and make their way toward the sun.
a final film of director Sung Tsun Shou.
This flick is about this gung fu dancing, alcoholic beverage guzzler named Andy Ho (Cheng Tien Chi). The title of this flick sounds like this bad warrior who kills with ease, but its not. Actually, Andy is a nice guy who has a hard time keeping a job. He runs into some rich guy who convinces him to come to the United States to work for him. Andy agrees to come to the U.S. of A. but is in for a surprise, as Mr. Big Bucks wants Andy to participate in his slugfest tournaments that he uses to make money via gambling. Andy declines and the next you know, Mr. Big Bucks is devising a plan to get rid of him! (mpongpun, HKMDB)
First solo concert of Sayuri Kokusho before her graduation from Onyanko Club, held at Ryōgoku Kokugikan on December 24th, 1986.
Yellow Magic Orchestra concert recorded in late December 1981 at the Shinjuku Koma Theater.
In the far-off future of 2001, a young boy from outer space lands on earth inside a flying peach. The boy (named Apple) is adopted by a Catholic priest, but soon disappears. Three schoolgirls decide to search for him, and soon find evidence that he is being held captive in a trendy dance club. What is the club owner doing with him, and will his adopted father ever see him again?
Four theme songs narrate the make of fictional idol Kirita Yumiko from early days of singing and dancing lessons to the triumphant debut concert.
The film is about Fen, who hangs out with four total losers who are in "Macho Man" tank tops and what happens. Ching Li plays Selina, who is a commercial director who hires him.
Iyo is an assistant in an antique shop. One day he displays an old refrigerator. But soon discover that it's a man-eating refrigerator.
Set in Shanghai during the turbulent years leading up to and through World War II, the film follows a group of Japanese jazz musicians and performers struggling to hold onto music, love, and friendship amid political unrest and war. As censorship, nationalism, and conflict reshape the city, their once-vibrant nightlife gradually gives way to disillusionment, separation, and loss.
This ambitious live satellite link-up of Japan, Korea and the United States features interviews with Keith Haring and architect Arata Isozaki, and performances and works by Philip Glass and the Kodo Drummers, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, and Lou Reed. In an extraordinary section, a performance in Japan of classical Western music is accompanied by a group of Kabuki dancers.
Original video animation, setting watercolors from Yumiko Kawahara's 1983 manga to a series of 11 pop songs.
Through a series of obscene animations, the work of iconoclast animator Teruhiko "King Terry" Yumura lampoons a range of cultural icons and taboos: California bodybuilding culture, onanism, hyperviolent cinema, marital bliss, and more. Soundtracked entirely by American funk/soul, each short matches the inherent depravity of its subject matter with an equally crude style, from fake commercials to slice-of-life stories and pornographic picaresques.
Direct-to-video music film co-directed by three major figures of the Taiwanese New Cinema featuring song by Edward Yang’s then wife Tsai Chin.
The thousand-year-old White Snake and Green Snake in Mount Emei, Sichuan, got bored, turned into charming girls, Bai Suzhen (Li Bingshu) and Xiaoqing (Fang Xiaoya), and traveled to Hangzhou's West Lake. Bai Suzhen catches a glimpse of Scholar Xu Xian (Lu Boping), who's suave and good-looking, and falls in love instantly.
An in-depth and stylish look at the hardcore punk scene in Japan at the late half of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's. Features bands such as GASTUNK, THE EXECUTE, GAUZE among others.
Recorded at Nakano Sun Plaza on 1st and 2nd of July, 1983. - Set List - 1. Low Life / 2. Annalisa / 3. Religion / 4. Flowers Of Romance / 5. Death Disco / 6. (This Is Not A) Love Song / 7. Public Image /
After Kaew has been living as a mistress with a millionaire for a while, she decided to stop the relationship. Soon she met Natee, a young man of her dream, both fell in love and living happily together.