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"This (piece of) work was produced as thesis film project. I shot by 8mm film camera and printed it to 16 mm film by very old optical printer. I expressed a theme called “opposition”, “fusion”, and “ruin” represented by multiple exposure."
Arakinema KaoRi Iro Injo by Nobuyoshi Araki. A labyrinth of overlapping colors. KaoRi and Araki's dance.
A man shelters from an approaching storm in a seemingly abandoned house. He finds an old book entitled "Regnum Congo" and an old man who is obsessed with a disturbing illustration within it.
This film was made by hand with materials 16mm blank film (100m), transparent silicon, and blue pigment (Prussian-Paris blue), without a camera. There are 14,000 continuous blue pictures in this film without cuts. The reality of this work is the continuity of emotion and feeling expressed by the colour blue - a highly spiritual colour, Harada shows its emotional significance. The deeper it is, he shows, the more it awakens a desire for the eternal. You can see it dotted poignantly about in this film, sometimes as part of a far-off backdrop, and often as the outline of a mysterious mountain settlement.
When her father dies, Mihiro doesn’t even have the time to bury him, as she gets raped repeatedly by her uncle. She picks the maggots off her father’s face and has forced sex with her uncle on the hard wooden floor beneath the bed upon which her father still lays. Finally, she manages to kill her torturer. Leaving home for the first time of her life, she meets Hideki who struggles with his psychological chaos. He finds her torturing herself because of her trauma, and then he sacrifices himself for his “blood action painting” to share her sorrow and pain. They shut themselves up in the atelier and get absorbed in having sex. Realizing the blood rules their emotion and desire, they decide to cut their bodies and suck each other’s blood. They believe they will be spiritually one after connecting deeply enough.
Ryuichi Sawazaki, a cleaner and former employee of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, happens to bump into his former colleague, Masahiko Yoshioka. Sawazaki is disheartened when he compares himself to Yoshioka, who has risen to become a senior official at the Defence Agency, but one day, Yoshioka finds himself on the run from the police on suspicion of bribery…
GlobalGirl Media Network Presents: The Amasan or Sea Women of Shirahama, Japan have been diving together for decades. Through their dying art, these women have formed a tightly knit bond, as well as a business co-operative, providing economic security for their husbands and families.
2004 release
The mechanical roots of the film. It seems to be the mechanism of a sewing machine. I have in my hands the broken 8mm projector and 8mm film. And next to it was a shiny, still-working 16mm projector. I was determined to immediately start projecting 8mm film. It is sewn onto the 16mm film using a sewing machine... The session between the sewing machine and the 16mm projector is about to begin.
2004 release
An official recording of Tamaki's annual fan event (RA★MG), from May 2007.
8mm film by Yosuke Okawado.
42nd movie in the series
The third installment of the popular snowboarding movie series "Car Danchi"! After two years, the car-danchi crew has started their engines. This is the ultimate freeride snowboarding movie that expresses the riders' relentless pursuit of freedom through snowboarding. In search of the ultimate winter lifestyle, the riders once again leave the city and head to the mountains. The car-danchi residents, who continue to pursue the best conditions, become even more addicted to the feeling of snowboarding, and feel free to fly in the powder snow of northern Japan. This 56-minute action documentary was shot entirely on natural terrain by Japan's top freeriders.
Tsukiji is a “city symphony” film of sorts, dedicated to the largest fish-market in the world, and one of the last surviving proletarian spaces in Tokyo. A film about cutting in a double sense, it harkens back to a moment of intersection of modernism and social realism, evoking the ghost of the left-wing Japanese novelist of the 1920s and 30s, Takiji Kobayashi, author of Kani kosen (The Factory Ship) and an early victim of Japanese fascism. —Allan Sekula
A story about granny, her granddaughter and a goat.
2005 release
Recorded live at the Tokyo International Forum Hall A, Tokyo in 2005.
Keiko becomes the second wife of Shizuo, the owner of a real estate company whose wife died in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, through an arranged marriage. Despite the 20-year age difference, they are happy at first. However, as the company's financial situation worsens, their married life becomes colder, and Shizuo shows no interest in Keiko's advances. Around that time, Shizuo's son, Akira, who is not working much, begins to pressure Keiko into a physical relationship. Keiko, feeling lonely, accepts and becomes obsessed with sex. Then, when Keiko starts working part-time as an insurance salesman, Akira proposes that she murder Shizuo for the insurance money...
Nabe, who was bored and wanted to "do something," decided to team up with his friend Yoshitake as the director and subject of a documentary. Meanwhile, as Yoshitake tries to match Nabe's excitement and pace, he pushes himself into a corner and relapses into depression. Nabe begins to change after Yoshitake's disappearance and hospitalization. Will Nabe be able to achieve his new goal of having a solo exhibition?
2007 release
A short film by Hiroshi Iwanaga
Japanese cyber youth cultures have developed through the imaginative and novel use of technology. Underlying social, cultural and economic trends are examined such as Japan's unique, isolated island culture, the post-economic boom recession and changing attitudes towards the role of the corporation in work and career attitudes.
Nagisa is an office worker who just graduated from college last spring. One day on her way home, she is groped on the train and despite her resistance, she let out a sigh of pleasure...
Drama released in 2003
Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.
A broken-hearted woman, an eccentric man and a lonely owner. Three has met at an Italian restaurant closing down. Comical yet sad… a short story of one single night.
Live concert documentary that was filmed during her "Sokenbicha Natural Breeze 2001 Happy Live" tour. In addition to the live show, it contains extensive backstage and behind-the-scenes footage. It also includes live perfomrance fragments from the 6 venues throughout Japan of her first tour.
The second special edition of the popular horror series. New episodes of supernatural phenomena are thoroughly examined by a psychic medium.
How well can movies reproduce the reality we see? Cinema used to record and reproduce the movements of the scene using a camera (photograph), a device that records the scene in terms of perspective. Is it true? Isn't it possible that our way of seeing things, on the contrary, was created by photographs and movies, or by paintings based on perspective that existed before then? This film provokes the way of viewing films cultivated in this way.
Outlines of people turn as the people themselves walk into a light space. Everything is connected to each other. Material is transformed as spaces slide into other spaces and people become dust
Digital Video, Kanahama Natsuyo model.
This is the movie that a scale is much smaller in comparison with Hollywood. However, I have people in the world look in this way and am glad very much. Thank you!!! - Morikawa Yoichiro
12 red balls spring from the ground into the air. They fall down, come to a stop and fade away to show the beautity of gravity's rhythm
2003 release
Released on DVD on Murotimate Breaks & Beats Vol. 2
A young man who enjoys a date with her who met at a party in the middle of the night is tossed by a mischief of fate. An eccentric love suspense.
Short documentary on the making of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, included with the Limited Edition
2008 release
Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.
This is the first “School” installment in the series, which consists of image drama and realistic drama based on a selection of horror stories from the most familiar places, such as schools, hospitals, and inns. Maki has been acting strangely day by day since the accidental death of her boyfriend Jun...
2004 release
2005 release
Guided by Kim Maeja（金梅子）, a leading figure of contemporary Korean dance active on the international stage, this documentary traces the life of dancer Choi Seung-hee（崔承喜）, whose fate was shaped by the turbulence of her era. Born in Korea under Japanese colonial rule, Choi studied modern dance under Baku Ishii（石井漠） and gained acclaim through performances in Japan and the West during the 1930s, before disappearing from public view in the mid-1960s.
The prologue of ef - a tale of melodies.
In July 1988, Mizue Furui was in the Gaza Strip and West Bank with her camera as a rookie freelance journalist. Covering the Palestinian condition, she became acquainted with Ghada Ageel, a 23-year-old teacher at an elementary school, in November 1993 and started shooting her life up to when she turned 35. The 12 years Furui spent shooting still and video images has borne fruit in a documentary titled "Ghada -- Songs of Palestine," which will be released in Uplink Theater in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, in May as a rare report on women in the traditionally male-oriented Palestinian society.
2002 release
The motif in this animation is the memories of my dog which lived 17 years.
The idea of JAM was conceived while I was attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2008.After returning to Japan, I soon began making the film and completed it in four months.This film is based on a very simple idea: the increasingly varied the sounds, the greater is the number of creatures. I wanted to rid myself of the frustrating experience of making Devour Dinner, which was highly unsatisfactory from the viewpoint of the movement in the film. My intention in this film was to fill the screen with chaotic movements.
Working since before WW2, UEDA Shoji pierced through amateurism, Then, in his picture world he takes, cuts and rearranges photos through his own sensibility, which takes him to the new media that is Ga-nime, encouraged by his friend the actor SANO Shiro, born in the same prefecture. The pictures used for this exhibition are not only from his most famous “Dune Mode” series, but also of many pre/post-war pictures of his birthplace, streetcars running in Tokyo, and traditional scene of Japan, through which a whole culture appears.
Miri Aizawa, the much-talked-about "psychic big-breasted idol" who has been a big hit among psychic fans, sneaks into a haunted place! She confronts an evil spirit filled with resentment and tries her hand at exorcism for the first time!
Documentary following the Japanese national football team preparing for the 2002 World Cup