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A trip to Hakone shooting training at Tokyo Senmon Gakko, 1984.

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Escaping a maximum-security political prison was the easy part for resistance leader Larry Rourke, unaware that the ruthless warden engineered the breakout to track him straight to the rebels' secret headquarters. Now, allied with a mysterious, unpredictable cult, Rourke is forced into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse against an entire army. Can he outmaneuver the regime before leading them directly to the destruction of the underground resistance?

Early work of the celebrated director.

Mig is cast away to an isolated island of love...

By chance, a beautiful woman was standing under the eaves of a rain-drenched house with a spectacular view. Experience the pleasure and torture of her union with a man.

Thai horror film.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Early short documentary film by Duan Jinchuan. It is considered by the filmmaker to be lost.

In Hatten after Hatten, a man who has become insensitive to love somehow ends up falling in love...

After serving three years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, an angry streetfighter seeks justice. Two sworn brothers oppose a gang of killers running a gym.

On Songkran, Bangkok native Kan travels to the far north of Thailand to further his study. There, he meets the beautiful Saimai and they quickly form a bond. Sadly, Saimai is to be married off to a local. Kan does everything in his power to stop the marriage, and to stop a falling out between him and his close friend Tawan.

A young wife paces around a dark room. Lust and violence interweave into a fantastical web. Loitering between her lover, husband, and child, her painful memories of abuse continue to emerge. She cuts her wrist with a razor. In her final moments, the wayward feminine powers are recalled once again by patriarchy.

CATCH ME MIHO NAKAYAMA LIVE '88 is the third video release released by Nakayama Miho. It was released on April 5, 1988.

A story derived from the famous Dunhuang Murals.

A slideshow of sci-fi space illustrations composed of slow dissolves and an equally futuristic and space-y music.

A murder occurs at the hotel where the detective father's arranged marriage meeting was held. The amateur detective daughter and her useless detective father team up to investigate. The second instalment in the ‘Beautiful Office Lady Detective and the Window-Side Detective’ series

Documentary about Jean Tinguely and his work.

Mr. Koo is a miserable salary man in Seoul. His hobby is taking pictures on the weekends. While on a trip, he takes a picture of speculators. They take him on a fancy outing, mistaking Mr. Koo for a reporter. After that, he pretends he is a reporter but gets beaten up by a group of workers on strike because he carries a camera.

"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Shintoho.

Shot in a retirement home over a period of two years, this film raises the question of "how to take care". The director films with great tenderness, not only the daily life of patients with senile dementia, but also the work of caregivers. Widely broadcast, the film sparked lively debate on the care and support society in Japan.

Mi-ryeong marries Ji-kwang and takes him to live at her mansion. He soon seems to fall ill and he requests that his friend, Yeo-ok be hired on to nurse him. However, Yeo-ok and Ji-kwang are really lovers and together they manage to fake Ji-kwang's death. They next torment Mi-ryeong with visions of his 'ghost'. Mi-ryeong dies of fright and Yeo-ok and Ji-kwang marry--but their happiness is short-lived as their nights are interupted by the vengeful spirit of Mi-ryeong.

The human hand transformed through various animation techniques.

Chihiro Tobe, 1988. "Michinori" is an independent 8mm film that amateurs made as a hobby while having fun. Hiroaki Kasai (25) (Koji Watanabe) works at a small town factory in the suburbs of Tokyo. He had a lover named Miyuki Oribe (21) (Toyomi Nonaka) who lives in Shimiya City, Iwate Prefecture. The two of them confirmed each other's feelings while supplementing the handicap of the distance of Tokyo-Iwate with letters and telephones.

Debut studio feature from Zhang Jianya.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Ultraman Kids was a 1984 television special aired in Japan featuring several Ultraman characters as children. The short was successful, as several others were produced. The shows taught life lessons and were comedic in tone. A sequel series was released in 1992, and lasted for 26 episodes. The second show was more adventure oriented and featured more characters, though mainly focusing on Ultraman, Ultraseven, Ultraman Taro, Pigmon, Alien Baltan, Alien Guts, and a new character named Piko (Not to be confused with Hanuman's human host) based upon Yullian.

When a ghost falls in love with a person... problems arise between them. When ghosts and people have to compete for love... it's very strange!

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

The scene I shot from my hospital bed when I was hospitalized with a punctured lung (a condition called spontaneous pneumothorax). A snowstorm outside the window. A wristwatch that had stopped working. An apple that looked strangely vivid. Tubes connected to my body. The bodily fluids inside them.

"Set to a soundtrack of pulsing synth bleats, Delay Exposure rhythmically deploys a low-tech, in-camera tricks—including lens-flares, whip-pans, and rapid, strobing exposure shifts—to builds an affective sense of place and architecture." - filmlinc.org

After receiving a reward, a man attempts to run off with the daughter of a crime boss. This is a remake of a 1970 film.

Part Two: SMALL HAPPINESS - Despite the tremendous advances women in China have made, serious problems continue. Long Bow women talk about love, marriage, work, birth control, birth customs and the now outlawed custom of foot binding. Truly moving interviews with Lingqiao and her mother-in-law draw us into their lives.

Recorded live at Nakano Sun Plaza in Tokyo on 16 & 17 Sep, 1986.

Children’s film from Peng Xiaolian.

A powerful businessman and a local madame kidnap and murder to support their international flesh trade.

Otsuka-san, who comes form a very good family that people are fascinated by, is full of sexual curiosity. During a trip on summer vacation, she encounters many men. Set in Okinawa.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Underground communists transport covert treasury to safe place secretly.

Pink film by Chiaki Kamata.

BDSM-themed pink film distributed by Toei Central Film.

"The majority of my 8-mm works were made for the three-minute "Personal Focus" film special put on in Fukuoka. This film is an animation of photographs I had taken on a regular basis as a sort of diary, and was made to have a rough feel to it." - Takashi Ito

A work produced in Brittany, France, with funding from the French government and employing local CG artists, the main subject is the Stonehenge.

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

Not really note worthy action movie from the Philippines.

Jinta of Tonegawa, commonly known as Banana Boy. He is a "self-proclaimed artist" who dresses as a woman and performs striptease acts. Accompanied by his attendant "Furuchin," who calls Jinta his teacher and respects him as an older brother. Jinta is a futen boy who travels north, south, east, and west to show off his skills and live a carefree life. However, Jinta, who has a bad taste in men, attacks boy boys wherever he goes, earning him a bad reputation from the promoter, and now he is unable to hear from anyone and is out of money. Kaede, the healthy younger sister, is deeply in love with Jinta, but is worried deep down...

Sanzo and Yumenogosuke are now traveling pretending to be a merchant and bodyguard in Edo. They are arrested on their way to Nakamura Castle in Oshu. The 30-odd members of the daimyo's procession, led by the lord of the Soma Nakamura clan is said to have left Iitate near the border in the morning and then have disappeared. Iwase Danjo, the feudal lord in control of the domain is preventing the news to leak out... and Sanzo and Gosuke are almost executed in prison to keep them from talking.