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Musical film: Hiromi Go plays a warrior, a gigolo, and an officer spread across a thousand years of history

A father teaches his son to read, illustrating the origin of Chinese characters by explaining pictographic characters. The film tells an interesting story through 36 active pictographic characters.

The only way to the big game...is the train.

Video version of the picture book 'Hiroshima no pika', based on the art pieces known as The Hiroshima Panels by Iri and Maruki Toshi

Taiwanese movie

Based on the yonkoma manga by Ueda Masashi.

Paper animation, directed and animated by Anno while he was at university to show at a college screening.

Tao-Tao the baby rabbit goes to a theme park and goes on a pretty cart ride.

8mm film directed by Teruo Koike

Based on Itou Keiichi's novel "Elegy for the Setting Sun".

Tomoyo Harada live performance from 1986.

A newspaper reporter takes pictures of famous people cheating on their wives in his secret business, and uses them to blackmail them for a lot of money. He rents an apartment in Tokyo with the money and keeps a mistress. One day, the man's wife is raped while alone at home. The wife cannot tell her husband about it. The man goes to a university professor as usual to ask for money, but is confronted with a photo of his wife being raped. If he doesn't want this to be spread to the world, he should never do this again. Meanwhile, the wife, feeling lonely because her husband doesn't pay her attention, accepts the rapist two or three times, and eventually they fall in love with each other...

This film documents painter Mizutani Isao’s creative process as he prepares for his solo exhibition “Between Ten Spiritual Worlds:Flies and the Dinner Table.” Mizutani’s method involves painting the surface of his canvases with water-soluble acrylics, then applying India ink and water and freezing them naturally. No sound was recorded for the film, which was projected silent with Mizutani himself narrating over the images.

Pink film distributed by Shintoho.

I Am with a Monk or I Came with the Monk is an action film full of color and fun, a major directorial work by Khom Akadet of Colosseum Films, an important action film director in the Thai film industry, who had a unique style of filmmaking. He brings together two great heroes, Sombat Methani and Sorapong Chatree, throughout the entire film.

Mainland film centered around the Buddhist grottos in Shanxi.

The Iron Relic, a priceless treasure, is lost. Dr. Raymond has been searching for the relic for the last 20 years.

Pinku distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Short documentary film made for CCTV's "Portraits of People" program about the life and work of landscape architect Zhang Yuanchu.

Stop motion animation. I started making three-dimensional works around this time. (Yuko Asano).

Pink film by Jô Ichimura.

It was produced to be exhibited at the “Personal Focus” (April 23-8, 1985), a three-minute, 8mm film screening held in Fukuoka. Digitized the original 8mm film that Matsumoto had been stored. The concept of this works is same as Delay Exposure, but in this film, it begins with a sequence that sets the aperture to excessive exposure. During a one to two-second-long shoot, the camera zooms in, the automatic exposure device also follows the movement of the image, and immediately lights the screen with proper exposure. This short sequence combined with a series of shots in the background, is processed.

Danny, who dreams of being a star in Hollywood, makes his living as an escort. During the day, he wanders around in extraordinary clothing. At night, he plays at bars and discos. His beauty attracts cravings for him from a wealthy married woman to an award-winning producer. His gay friend shows affection to him as well. Everyone yearns for having him, but he loves nobody until he meets an adorable girl Trissy one night. Love and sex drive the two into ecstasy. However, the burden of intimacy also raises the question: could the lascivious nature be tamed with devotion?

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Pink film distributed by Million.

A woman who knows she shouldn't break off her relationship with her sister's husband. One day, her sister asks if she can find out if her husband has been cheating lately. Feeling that it would be dangerous to continue the relationship, the woman proposes breaking up with her brother-in-law. The brother-in-law, who still has feelings for her, reluctantly accepts. However, her body, which had been developed by her brother-in-law for a long time, could no longer live without a man. The woman seduces a colleague at work, a man she knows has a lover, and they forcibly have a relationship. In the end, the woman convinces herself that she likes to steal other people's things. However, the older sister begins to feel suspicious about the relationship between her husband and her sister, and the younger sister's new lover...

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.

Pink film distributed by Shintoho.

Part true-story, part-parody of comedian Ryûsuke Matsumoto's life where he encounters college girls, office ladies, and waitresses.

An apple flows down the stream of a mill where innumerable illusions of fish appear and disappear in the sky reflected in the water.

While Niorn was riding in a taxi cab, the driver have tried to put her to sleep by using nitrous on her, but luckily Non happened to came by and help, but when she woke up in a hotel room wasn’t sure what’s really happened to her. Pranart , Niorn’s brother came to visit, and get to meet Supak, Non trying to get close to Niorn, but she keep avoiding him. Nevin, an oil millionaire who likes supak, this surely surprised Pranart and Niorn. On Non and Supak wedding day, Non took Niorn away from the ceremony instead. Pranart asked Supak to marry him. Non confessed to Niorn about the day in the hotel room that he didn’t do anything to her at all, so Niorn beginning to understand Non Better.

A direct-to-video Christmas-themed musical.

AV and pinku eiga actress Sayoko Nakajima taking over the director's chair this time.

Forced into prostitution, a young woman finally meets and marries her savior. Or is he? When she finally helps him to repay a gambling debt, he dumps her for another…

Contains all the previews for each episode narrated by Ginga Banjou, and is a collection of famous scenes featuring the three characters Cocona, Vanilla, and Gouto.

A TV movie and part of groundbreaking Taiwan TV series “Eleven Women”

A film released by Family International featuring 7 pop songs promoting their religious philosophy.

Documentary: the Doro-Chiba labor union strikes against the privatisation of Japan National Railways.

Little Juno sets out in search of his sick mother who has left home to work overseas.

This short documentary was created by painter Taeko Tomiyama—who consistently resisted various forms of injustice around the world through her art—and film director and producer Katsuhiro Maeda, who was inspired by her. The film centers on the Gwangju Uprising that occurred in South Korea in May 1980. The Gwangju Uprising saw the Chun Doo-hwan regime declare martial law and violently suppress student and citizen protests, resulting in many casualties. Tomiyama responded immediately to the tragedy by organizing a traveling exhibition featuring her print series Prayer for the Fallen. Moved by Tomiyama’s intense anger toward the dictatorship and her deep mourning for the victims, Maeda created this film in 1981. Combining news footage that documents the reality of the events with Tomiyama’s print works—unfolding like shadow play—the film powerfully conveys the nature of state violence and human sacrifice. The music was composed by pianist and composer Yuji Takahashi.

Short film starring Maiko Kawakami.

A man randomly stabs a stranger.

Taiwanese drama.

Jin wants to make a tape of his own songs, so he moves to Bangkok. Manee hears Jin’s song and together they decide to produce the tape. After that Jin becomes even more popular.

An omnibus film directed by Ueoka, Hisauchi Michio, Kawasaki Toru and Masui Kouji, is about love in four seasons and four films, with the heroine played by Sumino Mako.

Said to draw inspiration from the writings of Sigmund Freud and European mythology, My Brother Became A Sheep was an 8mm animation produced at the time Harada was a sophomore in high school.

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.