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"I pointed the camera at the trees and bushes in my lodgings' garden. I just wanted to keep watching them." VTR/sound

“Mr. Tsuguö Yanaï makes paper objects. He installs these objects in a gallery in Tokyo. The camera was also installed in the gallery. It filmed all of the time of installation and its preparation…. Yet the film is not the documentary of an installation, but of installation time.” - Yo Ota

Manchuria continent. Ok Jin-gyeong comes from Joseon and becomes the second master of Jeong Do-mun after a thousand years of hardship, but he is poisoned by the high swordsman Jang Gong-bang under the command of Sakamodo.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

“Master Wonhyo” is an 8-part special drama commemorating the 1986 Seoul Asian Games that aired on KBS 1TV from September 23 to October 3, 1986. This is a drama depicting Wonhyo, a monk from the Silla period, from the perspective of a monk, a scholar, and a thinker.

Rising Sun is a landmark 1980 Hong Kong documentary directed by Kong Chi-Man and produced by Edko Films. Featuring rare black-and-white archival footage from Japan, the United States, and global institutions, it offers one of the most comprehensive screen chronicles of the Pacific War. The first half focuses on the Second Sino-Japanese War, including the atrocities of the Nanjing Massacre, the Battle of Taierzhuang, and the heroic Defense of Sihang Warehouse, capturing China’s immense suffering and resistance. The second half explores the Pacific theater, depicting Japan’s clashes with the United States across key island battles and the catastrophic impact of modern warfare. The film closes with the haunting image of the atomic bomb, a stark symbol of the war’s devastation.

Broadcasted as a short film in an experimental video series for Fuji TV’s late night program blocks titled “TV’s TV”. The nineth part of a mock ‘TV AV self diagnosis system’.

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

A turtle like species crashes to earth after being attack by the shark gang, and with the help of some earthlings, make a giant weapon that will defeated the shark gang.

Independent film by Yukio Ono,

Recently, Ko-ko loses a longtime friend due to a widely publicized phenomenon known as the “beautiful suicide.” Intuitively sensing that it may actually be a murder, she asks her part-time colleagues from a handyman service, Kirishima and Sakai, for help but they refuse to take her seriously.

documentary about Vietnamese boat people refuged to Hong Kong during the mid 70s to 80s

A novelist feels the limits of his talent and can no longer write at all. He is lynched by his editor, surprised by a zookeeper that a tiger has escaped, abused by a literary girl, and finally attacked by a real tiger. This ridiculous and tragic story is made into a unique comedy of the absurd through a combination of extremely deformed acting and imaginative visuals, far from realism. In particular, the powerful cutting of the same subject over and over again, from different angles and in different sizes, creates a unique expression, which, combined with the excellent locations, results in a wonderfully calculated fictional space. The use of music is also full of contemporary sensibility, and the combination of music and the scene at the industrial complex is superb.

In this video performance, Imai takes a snapshot of his own face displayed on a TV monitor using a polaroid camera. While the videotape records his performance, he takes out one end of the open-reel video tape from the tape deck, staples his photograph directly on the videotape, and pins it on the wall until the videotape runs out completely. The still photographs of his face are attached to the loose bundles of videotape, which is a material record of the temporal duration of his performance.

When the Araki gang harass Bok-Sun, Chil-Bok kills Araki by heading. Bak Jang-Sohn hides Bok-Sun and Chil-Bok in danger. Japanese policemen arrest and send Chil-Bok to prison and Park Jang-Sun run away. Released from the prison owing to the liberation of the country, Chil-Bok punishes the scoundrels with heading. And because of it, he meets Bok-Sun again but she runs away from him. Song Dal-Su dominates the underworld of Seoul and goes to Pyeong-Yang Myeon-Ok and beats off Park Jang-Sohn for he's been afraid of him who knows about his past. Chil-Bok meets Bok-Sun through a pickpocket's arrangement and hears from her about Song Dal-Su. Chil-Bok makes Song Dal-Su give in who is the foe of his father and lover.

This ambitious work by Akihiko Sekimata takes a remarkably straightforward approach to creating a live-action adaptation of the beloved national icon, Doraemon. The somewhat bewildering ambiguity of whether Nobita and his friends are supposed to be elementary school children or university students ultimately gives the film a peculiar originality of its own. The warm, gentle atmosphere that permeates the entire production captures the familiar spirit of the Doraemon universe so well that it became a major hit when it was first screened.

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

Starting with an embarrassing confession, a film crew forces an actress into bizarre experiments that include lemons.

It's about a love story between a man and a female ghost. Dao is a ghost who's under the control of a monster. It uses her beauty to take blood from men who came to stay around that area. Marut helps her break away from the monster and takes her home. They fall in love, but his mom already has a girl set up for him.

"My strong interest in and longing for movies were beginning to take shape, but I still was not clear about what I should create. Therefore, those days it wouldn't be right to say I was using a camera but it was as if a camera was controlling me."

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

8mm film directed by Teruo Koike

I filmed the video as if playing with shadows, listening to the birds singing on the top of a small hill and feeling the height of the sky from the sound of airplanes passing overhead. I filmed and edited the video in three parts. I came up with the next video from the first edited video and filmed the second video, and then came up with the third video from the second edited video. It took me a year to complete it, but it felt like a year of struggling to write a haiku. I used natural sounds recorded live on location without editing, but it was strange how they somehow matched the edited footage as if they were calculated.

Constable Chan was able to fulfill his lifelong goal of catching the notorious bandit before his retirement. However, Tiger escaped from jail soon after and killed Constable Chan. To revenge his father's death, Chan's son turns to Shaolin monks for help, so he can fight against Tiger and his mysterious, masked accomplice. SHAOLIN DISCIPLE is a wall to wall kung fu fighting with a shocking climax

A fox manipulates a bear and a wolf to steal their food, framing each to the other.

Renzo Kinoshita's animated self-portrait.

An animated film by Cine Calligraphie.

Taiwanese martial arts film.

Short film by Itaru Kato

In this film, the image produces the sound, the "image sound". The filmmaker takes pictures of landscapes, incidents. The various images are used to cover a wide range of sounds. The main melody is the radiographic image of a comb.

Movie from 1989.

A father and a mother play a cruel game of hide-and-seek with their son, who does not enjoy it as much as his parents.

"Jun'ichi Okuyama is a cinedoer." Jun'ichi Okuyama plays making a film from the material and accidents that gradually disrupt the natural recording of the camera. It all starts and ends with the noise of the projector. Landscape sequences gradually undergo interference and rhythmic interruptions of one hand, of a reel in motion and then of a crack passing through the photogram from one side to the other, are all tangible signs of the presence of the filmmaker. The universe breaks up and recomposes in this back and forth between reality and its "in the movie" reflection.

A Super 8 work made in New York after Nam June Paik invited Kim Soungui to the city.

Ayumi, a young girl who frequently runs away from home at the slightest opportunity, is once again brought back by her older brother just 20 minutes after her latest escape.