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This audacious comedy (or perhaps superhero film?) was shot on the day of the actual university entrance ceremony, partly as a way of promoting the Film Research Club. Within the club itself, reactions were sharply divided between those who loved it and those who were simply dumbfounded, making it one of the group’s more controversial productions.

Experimental short by Visual Brainds.

On 14 May 1989, the Far Eastern Textile Industrial Union passed a resolution in favour of strike action. However, the Hsinchu County government and police authorities actively helped the employers in breaking the strike action. This film documents the 17-day desperate protest lasting until the employers announced a full return to work, finally concluding the battle.

Documentary report on Gao Yizheng, a female in her 40s, working to support her family.

Bunkyo University Film Research Club 1983 8mm Film Production.

8mm film work from 1980 by the Film Studies Department of Bunkyō University. One sunny and gentle day, as I was dozing off by the riverside, I saw a strange dream in which everything in the world began to flow backwards. No that’s not right. This isn’t a dream at all! I have to find the cause behind this! And then I realized: it is I myself, sleeping now by the riverbank, who is creating this distorted world! The title “7’21”” seems to represent the actual running time of the film. (In reality, it is a little shorter.) It was intentionally created as a silent work, effectively using the absence of sound, appealing solely to visual perception, and thereby leading the viewer into a mysterious and extraordinary world they could never experience in everyday life.

"Secrets of China's Three Armies" is a late 80s PRC military documentary film co-produced by the August 1st Film Studio of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and Hong Kong Silver Capital Company.

Risa Sugino is into fashion. After finishing a still shoot in her studio, she spends the night with her lover in her room on the way home. The studio assistant who works for her girlfriend sneaks into her room...

A short animated film adapted from Nagashima Shinji’s manga. Senpei has an unforgettable encounter on the first day of his summer vacation.

In 1985, US company DuPont received permission from the Ministry of Economic Affairs to set up a titanium dioxide plant near Lukang, Changhua County. The local residents held a series of protests against the plan, even one in front of the presidential office. This rising community consciousness, combined with a growing environmental awareness, ultimately drove DuPont out of the region.

A 1986 video-only film introducing one-hundred Toei's superheroes from their tokusatsu productions and other shows. Composition

One day at a high school, the headteacher suddenly announces that a draft is to be imposed at the morning assembly. The headteacher suddenly announces that there will be a draft. The idea that a school is like a nation and that one must have the military power to protect one's own school could be a satire for the sake of satire, but as in the episode where the principal is a Chiba native, the term Chiba native is used as if it were a racial term. The film maintains the quality of the gags that generate laughter, as in the episode where the school principal uses the word "Chiba-kenjin" as if it were a racial slur, making it an excellent comedy.

Made at the height of political censorship in Taiwan, Indigenous Peoples traces the emergence of the Return Our Lands movement in the late 1980s.

On June 1st International Children's Day, Chubby and friends happily came to the cinema and watched the wonderful performance of "Little Bells".

"This film was originally intended to set up the projector scratching the film and destroying the image. But, I don't know why the work stored in VHS format." [Jun Kurosawa]

A documentary that explores the life history of an 84 year old woman.

Despite of his father Tae-Min the ex-boxer's recommendation, Se-Il declares not to be a boxer and keeps away from boxing when he meet Young-Ah who likes boxing. Meanwhile, Tae-Min falls to sickbed because of heavy drinking in sadness when his son does not understand him and Young-Ah too leaves Se-Il. Enraged at it, Se-Il challenges to the four-cornered ring. On the day when he is about to fight on the ring, his mother who's been thought as dead comes and asks him to complete his father's dream. The way to the champion is long and difficult journey.

A cynical woman who has never experienced true love and an ambitious man who has never made time for romance meet by chance one night when Mi-ja, avoiding a friend, hides herself in Seok-jin's car. Their budding romance encounters a crisis when they learn that Seok-jin is dying.

Dr. Nip and his magical acupuncture cures the Emperor's son after the regular doctor's fail. It's acupuncture versus medical science in the slow paced oddity.

Ichihara, a university student, meets a young woman on a train while returning to Tokyo from his hometown. Discovering that they share a similar background both having left the countryside to pursue their lives in the city he finds himself drawn to her.

When I turn the pages of an album, there she is, running toward me through a violet-colored breeze. A memory from a distant day. I wonder what she is doing now. Even now, I still love her so much, and yet all I can do is speak to the version of her preserved in these album pages… Set to the classic Off Course song “Ai wo Tomenaide” (Don’t Stop the Love), this film unfolds in a retrospective, memory-driven style, resembling a music video. The extensive use of soft-focus cinematography throughout almost the entire film lends the work an especially lyrical and poetic atmosphere.

The film primarily tells the story of a financial dispute between a large conglomerate and a criminal organization. The protagonist infiltrates a criminal organization and uses his charm to seduce the wife of the gang leader, thus instigating conflict between two major criminal organizations.

A follow-up to the same studio's Helen Keller anime, A Little Love Letter kept the handicapped theme but focused on a wholly Japanese story. During the 1970s, actress Mariko Miyagi became heavily involved in the Silk Tree Academy (Nemunoki Gakuen), a rehabilitation center for disabled children. She appeared in several live-action films to promote the project, including The Silk Tree Ballad, Mariko-Mother, and Children Drawing Rainbows. This anime charts the 14-year period of Miyagi's stewardship of the academy and her relationships with several of the children. Divided into four seasonal chapters, the film uses highly realistic character designs based on the actual people involved and features storyboarding from versatile Battle Spaceship Yamato director Noboru Ishiguro.

documentary about teenager life in 1980's Hong Kong

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Gambling in the night, four men throw the dice of fortune. Suddenly, all sounds are gone from their lives. The adults are muted. Even the babies cry silently. The only sounds left are the pressing knocking from the outside and the tense nerves inside. Who is at the door?

Short film made by Chinese documentary filmmaker Fu Hongxing for the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People’s Republic of China. Held as a print at the University of South Carolina. English-language narration.

This film depicts from the inside the murderous intent of a street thug who attacks a passing pregnant woman. One day, after cutting a maggot to death, the man's previously dormant madness overflows like a dam and floods him with the next carnage. A maggot, a cockroach, a small dog and a pregnant woman. The film uses black-and-white and colour to depict the mental state of the protagonist as he slowly builds up to the murder. In the last scene, the inner world of the man is symbolically expressed, and the urgency with which he searches for an answer is overwhelming. This is a highly accomplished film, both visually and thematically.

Two girls fail the entrance exam to a public high school and are forced to enter an all-girls school. A slapstick comedy about two girls who make a bet to see who will get a boyfriend first. The daily lives of the girls are depicted in an amusing manner, almost in a dotsuki manzai style. The sheer energy of the "life-sized girls," played by the author herself, breaks through the fiction of the story, and the dynamism of their bodies and words is very refreshing.

『飛画』Flying images 1989/11min