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"I thought of disassembling one second by sticking opaque scotch tape on 8mm films to shut existing images. How much information can we put in 1/24 second? How much can we perceive? As a result, I felt that one single second was a surprisingly long time! An image on a frame caused an afterimage in the total darkness. Is an afterimage formed somewhere between our perception and memory?"
Umitori takes place in Shimokita Peninsula on the northern edge of the mainland, which was becoming a “nuclear energy peninsula”, undergoing tremendous development and serving as the home port for Mutsu, a nuclear-powered ship. Focusing on the fishermen and their stories, Tsuchimoto and his crew made their subject matter the “theft of the sea” perpetrated by giant business conglomerates. While the fishermen of Minamata were obvious victims of the mercury-poisoning tragedy, the fishermen in Shimokita were inadvertently becoming the permanent victims of another announced tragedy. Tsuchimoto interviews the fishermen, especially focusing on a stage play actor and his boat-owner family, establishing, as it became his practice, a complex reflection about the threat brought to small communities by the forces of “progress”.
Tip’s father has a mental problem, but he has been cured by Dr.Chow. Eak is married to Tip, but he still flirts around, so Tip becomes jealous and beats him unconscious. Eak has a strange feeling when he wakes up. Dr.Chow comes to check him out and they set up a plan to fool Tip. Eak still goes out and flirts even more than before. Tip has an idea to get him back by dressing up very sexy on her birthday to surprise everyone and gets Eak’s attraction.
After being slandered, a crocodile goddess sends her fearsome gators after an entire village.
Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
Dream Land is a one-year ink painting project by GAO Chun-fu. Every night, in the late hours, GAO captures the busy and chaotic state with ink painting. Applying the flowing technique, he paints the images and illusions emerging from deep within. The spontaneous gathering and scattering of water and ink reflect the artist’s internal breathing as well as the passing of time.
This is 8mm film footage documenting the Democratic National Funeral held for the late Lee Han-yeol on July 9, 1987. It was shot by Kim Si-cheon, a member of Dolbit, the Korea University Film Study Group, as part of the club’s activities. The material was never screened—even within the club—after it was filmed. It includes, among other scenes, a speech in front of Seoul City Hall by Lee In-young, who at the time served as chair of the Seoul Area College Student Representatives Council and president of the Korea University Student Union. A primary historical record of the funeral, captured from the perspective of a student participant.
Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.
The suspense about a man in pursuit and a man being pursued.
Short animation by Tokumitsu Kifune & Sonoko Kifune.
The ecosystem series which started in 1981 counts 15 and is still growing, becoming Koike's lifework. Through the series, Koike has shot a huge amount – thousands – of still photos of objective motifs, from ocean creatures, microbes, and granite to artificial material such as fishing nets. Those photos are developed with a specialized method then reshot with movie film. The style has been thoroughly continued. The images that are created as a result tower before our eyes as an overwhelming visual experience. Each motif has been repeatedly decomposed and reconstructed of its "attribution" and "meaning", causing a shocking Gestalt breakdown for the audience.
"The filming of the entrance to the company dormitory in which the film-maker was living. Centering the film on one pillar, he warps the spaces to the left and right and creates an unstable space similar to painting that employs anamorphosis. Made as were SPACY and BOX with a large number of photographs, the film ends with a violent movement, but is poetic for this." - Takashi Nakajima
Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.
Taiwanese movie
With Afghan Spring, Noriaki Tsuchimoto widened his focus to the international arena. Working in collaboration with his compatriot, Hiroko Kumagai, and Afghan film-maker, Abdul Latif, he examined society and politics in Afghanistan af the time of the Soviet withdrawal. The film now serves as a valuable record of a culture partially destroyed soon after by the Taleban regime.
A short animated film by Furukawa Taku
Kakuei Kakkun Tanaka is a superhero who hangs out with his friends. In his misadventures, he becomes prime minister of Japan, visits New York and prevents a nuclear war.
“Moments At The Rock,” shot with an amateur video camera, was made as a free style improvisational film. The camera got strange halations from the strong sunshine in the desert of Australia, and I was quite surprised by the result which surpassed the color change caused by nature over the rock. This film was awarded Grand Prize at the Edison International Film Festival.
Tsujiko is a college student who suddenly cuts her hair short like a man. Her ordinary daily life is captured with an ultra-long camera that is almost always left unmoved. Episodes with her friends from her high school days are cut back and forth in black and white, and the past and present are told in an unhurried manner. However, the past soon becomes a duplicate of the present, and every day turns into a daringly extraordinary one. Inspired by a short film of the same title by Fumiko Takano.
Thai romance film.
Bass Amarillo was looking for "his own sound". He sings he shouts, he thumps. But his sound was hard to find. "This is not the sound I want to hear! The journey to find the sound continues sadly. The sounds and images that are repeated over and over again eventually reach the audience's antennae in the form of pop music. The film's main point is to show the video generation's visual play on film. This is the real image of young people who are now trying to run at the cutting edge.
"Hi-chan" delivers a letter to her high school friend "Akya" who had returned to her parents' house for work reasons, that she received from Akya's lover. The Kansai person "Kun" appears in front of these two people, and the three develop a somehow inseparable relationship, but there is no place for such a triangular relationship...
An image synthesized version of Mardi Gras festival in New Orleans, in which many colorized images flow slowly left to right as the parade of the floats goes by in front of the camera with the decorated messages. The title Scared to Death is one of them. The development of the images is somewhat similar to the old Japanese scrolled painting: Makie.
We gathered at the Shinjuku Sports Center, located between Shinjuku and Takadanobaba. It was just before the “Great Funeral Reception” of the Emperor Showa after his death, and the police were on high alert. Of the 12 participants, 6 were former members of the video street gang. Of the 12 participants, six were former members of the video street gang, and another six were from Hokkaido, so it was an uneven training session. I was also very hungover and spent most of the morning in the bathroom throwing up all over the place, which was a big turn-off for me.
"Apartment Wife" erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.
Lesbian Pinku from 1987.
A film essay about nuclear energy in Japan, composed of newspaper clippings collected in scrapbooks
Masako moves to Tokyo to begin her career, while Hirokazu leaves for a rural area to attend university. High school classmates and devoted lovers, neither of them ever imagined that living apart could threaten their relationship. It simply seemed impossible and not even worth considering.
A minimalist adaptation of Seizo Watase's manga of the same name. It contains 5 stories of slow paced vignettes of romance whose only dialogue lies within the "oldies" being played as background music.
In April 1985, I started to make a film with my friend Kamioka as the main character. But even after three months, the whole film was still unknown. I started to work alone with the camera. One day, the rabbit he keeps at home gives birth to a stillborn baby. As he buries her under a tree in the garden, it made me think of his father, who died the year before. He is no longer with us, but only the gaze he left behind. And so I set off on a journey. In a town in the Hokuriku region, he met a woman who once appeared in one of his films. When I dozed off on the train to Tokyo, she appeared to me in a dream and tells me that I will soon find the exit. Back in Tokyo, I told Kamioka that I'm going to start filming again. I came back into the room, turned on the microphone and pressed the flame against the lens.
The story of a dedicated teacher who devoted herself not only to teach her student in various subjects, but also preach everyone to abide to her strict rules to keep everything in perfect order.
Taiwanese comedy.
Min-woo (played by Jeon Yeong-rok), who came to Hong Kong for business, has his bag stolen at the airport. And after the suspicious death of his friend Ho-jin, Min-woo is treated as a mentally ill person and is confined to a hotel. With the help of the branch manager's secretary, Miss Ho, he is confined to the hotel. With the help of the branch manager's secretary, Miss Ho, he challenges the suspicions about Ho-jin's death with the help of a beautiful Chinese woman named Hyang-ri. After Miss Ho is found dead, Min-woo confirms that Hyang-ri's dead lover, James, is the same person as Ho-jin. Min-woo, who was caught by the villain Chen while trying to save Hyang-ri's female soldier and drowned in the sea, is rescued and Ho-jin's body is recovered from the sea. It is finally revealed that CEO Jin was jealous of Ho-jin and Hyang-ri and had Chen kill Ho-jin. He chases CEO Jin as he runs away and destroys him. When Min-woo returns, love with Hyang-ri awaits him.
Set in the chaotic years. A writer and a doctor fall in love. The writer is going to be arrested because of honesty and faith in truth.
In 1982, Thai film director Kom Akkadej managed to perform a real coup by getting two of the legends of Hong Kong action cinema, Norman Tsui Siu Keung and David Chiang Dai Wai of the Shaw Brothers studio to star in this film.
In April 1985 Kusama staged a performance in the cherry tree grove at Kuhonbutsu Jōshin-ji, a Buddhist temple in Tokyo. Commissioned by a professor at Tokyo University, the performance was titled Basara no Hana (Flowers of Extravagance) in reference to the extravagance of the fourteenth-century lord Dōyo Sasaki. He was said to have held a lavish celebration of cherry blossoms near Kyoto that lasted twenty days. For the performance, Kusama encircled the flowering trees with red and white streamers, connecting them in a ‘net’.
Experimental animation about the memory of childhood. 1 or 2 second paint footage that shot a baby who turned his face is repetitive. In Jun Kurosawa's works, the childishness is one of the most important factors. And it includes malicious in some cases – as Yukio Mishima has said "It is infantilism that all creative womb is".
Director Roger Garcia drew inspiration from Close to Our Hearts, a script he wrote after returning to Hong Kong from the United Kingdom in 1977. Although the project never materialised because of a lack of funding and resources, Garcia adapted its elements—character lines, location shots, references to other films, portraits of a harpist—for this essay film, which traces a disintegrating relationship between a Chinese musician and his English wife, a photographer. Ruminating on the liminal space between text and image, Garcia seeks new ways of looking at a ceaselessly evolving city.
Dokbua, a young lady, is hurt by Chala's car. She is a poor girl coming from Chiang Mai to Bangkok in order to work but she was told a falsehood regarding the job nature. As she has nowhere to go, she can finally stay as a maid as Chala gets pity on her harsh life. Chala's Hi-So family includes various members. Pen is a middle aged woman. She is the new wife of Chon, who is paralyzed. Chita is Chon's sister. She never got married. Chon has three children, Chala, Chet and Lek. There is always a bad and oppressive ambiance in the family. Chala only spends money but does not earn anything. In fact Chala gives the money to a poor family. Chet and Pen are lovers. All men in the house fight over Dokbua. Pen wants to use Dokbua to take care about her paralyzed husband ardors so that she can have more free time with Chet. Dokbua played the stupid girl but she is in fact very intelligent. Only Chala knows Dokbua has entered the house with a specific idea. What is her goal and her hidden secret?
The red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout the body have a lifespan of 120 days. The living body continuously produces blood to ensure a plentiful supply of red blood cells. This film accurately records the conversion of stem cells into red blood cells. Conditions such as encounters with various other cells and contact with signals sent by other cells are important for the growth of blood cells, and the erythropoietin is one of these important signals. This signal stimulates the stromal cells to produce the necessary number of red blood cells which are continuously sent into the bloodstream. Scientific supervisor Fumimaro TAKAKU, M.D. Ph.D. (University of Tokyo)
An emperor tries using paintings to find a wife.
Kim Ik-do and his second wife, Hye-mi, are living happily on the deer farm when a new breeder is hired. Hye-mi recognizes him as the ex-boyfriend who betrayed her five years ago. She makes a move on him but he is suffering from amnesia. Through her devoted nursing, he makes a full recovery and regains his memory. He leaves Hye-mi but then returns, demanding her love. Ik-do is furious but ultimately bows to their love. However, the man's wife and young child come looking for him. Hye-mi falls into the embrace of her forgiving husband.
Documentary on Tibet co-directed by Chen Zhen and Li Ying.
Pink film by Kinya Ogawa.
Thai action film.
Keng is staying in relatives' rich house. The mother is not happy to see Keng at her home despite he is a relative. The mother has two sons and one daughter called Chan. Chan teaches Thai boxing to Keng. Keng wishes to take revenge over ruffian Wo as he is responsible of his mother’s death. Keng is Kliaw’s young brother. Kliaw is married to Kira. Keng has also a school friend called Waew. Pochet loves secretly Waew but Waew is already the minor wife of a rich man, i.e. Kira! ...
Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.
Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 16mm).
The moon in the night sky chases us wherever we go. The moon is in fact moving, but it is too far away and its movement is too slow for the human eye to see its movement. It is almost the same as saying that it is not moving in our consciousness.