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1997.3.14(FRI) SHIBUYA ON AIR EAST.

An 8mm film by Utako Koguchi.

A man goes to hell after driving his car off a bridge and returns to Earth as a vampire.

Hong Kong movie

Michiko, a female college student, traveled to America for a summer study abroad program. She was supposed to meet a relative at the airport to show her around, but they never showed up. Then, a man named Chandra, who claimed to know the relative, approached her and gave her a ride. However, the car suddenly came to a halt in the middle of the desert…

Artist Chan-yeong is still haunted by the night, three years earlier, when his girlfriend was raped in front of him. He no longer knows where she is but her sister, Kyeong-mi, makes a sudden appearance to warn him that the incident three years ago was a plot to get his money and the second phase is about to begin.

When I danced, I understood a little. Hana experiences the worst thing that ever happened to her during her summer holiday when she was 17. She was raped by a man in her class whom she liked. To get the worst revenge on the worst man, she invites Yumi, the coolest person in her class, to join her. The revenge seems successful, but Hana fights back and Yumi stabs the man with a knife in an attempt to save her. The two decide to escape by bicycle. They take turns pedalling their bicycles and arrive at the seaside town Yumi has chosen as her destination. It turns out to be the town where her father lives with his mistress... Yumi confronts the problems she had not solved by passing through the gate that Hana pulled her through. Hana is touched by Yumi's strength and becomes stronger herself. The film dramatically depicts the girls growing up separately in the same time.

Danai and Chalit's girlfriends are sisters, daughters of a powerful man living up north from Thailand. Their boyfriends go to see the father and ask for permission to marry his daughters. The man changes his mind and flatly refuses to let his daughters marry the two men. So Danai and Chalit ask the sisters to run away with them.

Pink film directed by Yutaka Ikejima.

Idol 廣末涼子 Ryoko Hirosue VHS tape Making of R.H. released in 1998.

Three 10-minute videos present a trippy view into the minds of their creators. Scientific Attack Force features three shorts done in very different styles. PLASTIC GUN MAN, a 3D Western spoof, WORLD MECCANO TRIANGLE, a music video reminiscent of '90s era screensavers. HAIIROGAOKA NO SORIDAIJIN (translated as "Prime Minister of Gray Hill"), an anime-style animated video parody of Akira Mochizuki's famous 1977 manga, Yuuhi ga Oka no Souri Daijin.

Short film by Yi-wen Chen.

A high-rise housing complex. Keijiro Adachi, the managing director of a small and medium-sized company, and his wife Keiko also live here. When her husband left, Keiko went out on her bicycle. Keijiro passed an exhausted man at the station. He is Yasushi Naito, who lives in the same housing complex...

Sheena Ringo's performance with her backing band Gyakutai Glycogen at Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall.

There was a hero who rushed to the scream of a woman. Its name is Yakisoban! He is the prince of the noodle planet Yakisoburn, 10 billion kilometers away from the earth, and came to Japan to protect the earth's diet. But he had another purpose. He was trying to find a Japanese woman who would become his wife. If he doesn't find the queen within a set period of time, he will be forced to marry Princess Sailor Morley of the planet Morrisobarn.

Squareworld has a stark, minimal narrative: a drug-addicted man kidnaps a young woman from the hills, holds her prisoner and eventually kills her and disposes of her body. We learn almost nothing about either the victim or her tormentor, and the film contains no moral judgments –Tony Rayns

This landmark dance film presents *Portrait of the Families*, a defining work by Lin Hwai-min and Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, directed for screen by Chang Chao-Tang. *Portrait of the Families* is a mournful elegy for loss. Dancers move amid projections of nearly 200 historical Taiwanese photographs collected by Chang Chao-Tang and the voices of oral histories, evoking the deep scars and pain left by the 228 Incident and the White Terror. This film captures the original staging from the work’s 1997 premiere.

1990 Original Video film.

An independent film group in Nagoya trying to work on making one feature film. Someone must have this film somewhere in his basement but really, who would want to see it?

Hong Kong movie

Hong Kong action flick.

Kinbaku jûjika zeme

Tanaka Yoshio, an ordinary salaryman, is always eager to impress his girlfriend Reiko, but his wallet is always empty. His only lifeline is his credit card, but one day he forgets the repayment date and finds himself in a tight spot. With no other options, Tanaka resorts to taking out a cash advance.

A fun picnic for three, we thought it would last forever. Two brothers, both aspiring to become professional musicians, live a carefree life. A young woman moves into the flat next door to theirs. Soon the three hit it off and she begins to sing in the brothers' band. But just when they are all feeling a little emotional, the brother goes off on his own. The film is richly unified and full of taste, from the characters' clothes to the sweets beside them, the locations and the books they find. Maybe it's just a hobby of the director, but when it appears on the screen it becomes something that can be called aesthetically pleasing, and we feel the emergence of a filmmaker with an extravagant sensibility. The seemingly trivial dialogue also captures the emotional landscape of a generation that does not speak its mind.

A portrait of urban anomie focusing on two bohemian artists who drift through the miasma of old Beijing in the 1980s.

Kimie, a widow, indulges in masturbation almost every day in front of the portrait of her late husband. One day, Kimie's younger sister's fiance Tomoyuki, who seems to have seen through her sexual frustration, makes a move on to Kimie...

The second and final compilation films for Ultraman Great (aka Ultraman: Towards the Future). Jack Shindo is an astronaut doing research on the planet Mars. On a routine mission to survey the desolate landscape, he discovers mankind's greatest threat, Gudis, whose monsters have been ordered to kill all life on Earth. Jack must work with the mysterious colossal alien Ultraman and the Universal Multipurpose Agency to save humanity from extinction!

A love triange arises between a virgin, a stripper, and a mysterious girl

Takeshi, an up-and-coming fashion designer, is being courted by his manager Ichiro, but somehow manages to escape. He didn't hate Ichiro, but there was something about him that made him want to avoid him..

Akishima Toriho is a "floating nurse" who patrols the city and rushes to the scene when a client calls

Men are rotten. Women wander. Lost souls reconnect.

While filming a love scene, new actor Joon-il goes too far for realism and offends the tantrum prone star actress, Joo-hee. This gets him fired, as well as Duk-ho, the production assistant friend who got Joon-il the job. Unemployed, the two men pull a scam on a fashion model and blow the money. Living on the streets they pull off more scams to survive. While working at a male host bar, they hear of a scandalous video tape of Joo-hee. They track it down and send it to the media to take revenge and ruin her career. Chance has Joon-il soon on his way to the top, but will he stay tight with Duk-ho and what will happened if Joo-hee discovers their sabotage?

1990 original video.

A 13-year old girl is infected with the AIDS virus following a bad blood transfusion. She then becomes the unwilling pawn in a battle between two politicians over government investments to prevent the spread of the virus.

In the 39th year of Meiji, a Yucheng, who had lived in poverty since childhood, lived in a house near the ramp in order to become a concubine of usury

Third "The Most Fearful Stories" film by Junji Inagawa.

Toei V-Cinema

One of Hu Jie's 'Farmers Working in the City' films. The city is developing rapidly, with tall buildings and highways. Behind this bustling city, there is such a group of people. They come from the countryside. Maybe they are not dressed well, or they have only finished elementary school, but they work hard with their own work. The piece of prosperity pays its youth and sweat. (Shot between 1997 and 1998)

Japanese V-Cinema film that sought to emulate American action movies. It features a young Riki Takeuchi.

A depiction of the landscape, both metaphorically and realistically, of Panyi island. Some footage in the film was taken from the material shot for Mysterious Object at Noon.

Ryuzo Miyazono, the chairman of a large corporate group, is spending a long summer vacation with his family at a villa. However, the summer is coming to an end, and on the night before he is to leave the villa tomorrow, an intruder suddenly appears at the mansion.

Third part of the trilogy. Dragon Lee is not in this one.

Last short film made by Fukazawa, filmed on SVHS.

An entry in the Love Warrior Pantheon tokusatsu series

Gullible Sin apprentices himself to a faith healer and discovers that his master is merely a sexually driven con man who takes advantage of the women seeking cures for their various ailments. After exposing the empty magic of his master, Sin is convinced that he has attained god-like status, resulting in a series of disastrous events revealing his unravelling psyche.

Hong Kong thriller

A concert starring Maya Miki held in Nihon Budokan.

A woman sits around at home.

A D-cup newlywed wife whose husband teaches her the pleasure of sex almost every night, and yet, is hunting for men.

In the middle of Japanese colonial rule, Hallyang Jang Se-bong arrives at Ummakgol in Gangwon-do in search of Song Do-myeong-gi's little daughter. A bout between Choi Ju-sa and Se-bong, who is the governor of this village and a pawn of the Japanese patrolman, is expected. One day, Sebong witnesses the scene where Choi Joo-sa, the governor of the village and a pawn of the Japanese police, falsely framed Kim Jwa-su, the father of an independence fighter, and imprisoned him, and raped Kim Jwa-su's daughter-in-law, Seol-hee. Se-bong immediately mobilizes his colleagues, Chil-seong and Jae-sik, to visit the fornication scene of Ju-sa Choi and assault him. However, Sebong is caught in Jusa Choi's cunning trap, and So Dong-nyeo, knowing this, lures Jusa Choi and makes the villagers beat him naked, then saves Sebong with difficulty and leaves aimlessly somewhere.

Editor Kurumada is in charge of the popular author Hara. When he receives a call from the capricious Hara and goes to retrieve the manuscript, Hara hugs his wife, Mariko, in his study as if to show off to Kurumada. Even though Kurumada suppressed her rising anger, Mariko's foolishness still stuck in her mind. Afterwards, Kurumada is invited to Mariko's home and begins a relationship with her. The incident was videotaped by Hara. Hara claims that he has the right to embrace Kurumada's wife, Yumi... The second work in the series depicting the sexual behavior of a married woman who indulges in swapping.

Sayoko and Mia are maturing...

The quintet, including Lee Do-sik and Ahn Ki-woong, the drug suppliers of the Triad, a black organization that was supplying drugs to Southeast Asia based in Hong Kong, are caught in a clever trick and have heroin worth 50 billion stolen. However, one of the five members secretly tries to sell some of the heroin and is caught by Detective Minwan Do-hoon, and the incident comes to light...

Rome 1498. The Borgia family is prosperous due to the great power of Pope Alessandro VI, who is both patriarch of the Borgia family and the the head of the Church. Cesare, the first son, decides to follow his ambition and relinquish his position of Cardinal, second only in power to the Pope. This bold choice is one which is to change his life.

Drawing our attention to the ambiguities of sexuality, queering the relationship between body, image and voice; the filmmaker refers to it as an indirect reflection on the worldwide AIDS crisis of the 1980s.