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The Great Artery of Iron and Blood

In the Korean War China and North Korea fought together against the United States. Frontline needs in tens of thousands tons of military supplies every day. Railways has become the most important means of transport. The U.S. Army, unwilling to accept defeat on the battlefield, mobilized a large number of aircraft to bomb indiscriminately along railways, and carried out the so-called "war of attrition". Following the order of Commander Peng Dehuai, Liang Junying, the commander of the Sino-DPRK Joint Railway Transport Command, led the volunteer warriors on the transport front to carry forward the fearless revolutionary spirit, building bridges, repairing railways, and transporting supplies in the "317" section, which was dotted with bombs and mines. This is the real "indestructible and bombable steel transport line".

The Great Artery of Iron and Blood

2.0 1998
Emperor's Adventures in Hsi Hu

The story of frivolous and lecherous emperor Qianlong's search for a morally upstanding person is told in a fashion that smartly fuses the puppet proscenium with the conventions of cinematic language. While everything is obviously arranged on a stage, the camera moves freely around in this environment, getting close to the puppets or setting them up in deep focus shots. The result is deeply enchanting, with the puppets soon feeling like living creatures of a very special kind, whose presence and company one cheerfully enjoys.

Emperor's Adventures in Hsi Hu

NR 1994
Those NEW Swell Yakuza 2 - Burglary Blues

Ichiro Haruno is a young apprentice of the Onryukai Tatsumi Kogyo, a company that has a reputation for its natural talent and spirit. However, even after one year, he is still too good a person to be able to do even a single “Kiritori”. He is told, “If you can't do this much Kiritori, get out of the business! His older brother Kawada, young boss Furuya, and other members of Tatsumi Kogyo order Ichiro to make a man of himself by giving him 10 million yen for “kiritori”. Furuya tells Ichiro not to come back until he gets the money, and Ichiro begins his “kiritori” game, gambling his way to the top of the gangster world.

Those NEW Swell Yakuza 2 - Burglary Blues

NR 1999
Another World We Are Making: Haengdang-Dong People 2

The sequel of "Heangdangdong People", a documentary about a struggle and dream for community of Heangdangdong people against the unfair removal of their housing. Heandangdong people in the removal region finally finished the struggle in the victory after the 3-year-struggle against the removal and they are now settled in the provisional residential building. They have gradually overcome poverty and have been establishing a local community through a production cooperative and a credit cooperative to materialize their dreams. Headangdong people's story with their successful community suggests a concrete way and hope about an alternative life.

Another World We Are Making: Haengdang-Dong People 2

NR 1999
Supernatural Special

Junji Inagawa, recognized by both himself and others as a 'spiritual guide,' receives photos believed to be 'spirit photographs' one after another. Genuine photos accidentally taken release tremendous power, an eerie atmosphere, and an inexplicable abnormality that plunges all viewers into a vortex of awe. In this work, Inagawa himself thoroughly explains the 'spirit photographs' that he personally witnessed and found truly frightening, using his unique narrative style. Additionally, there are also popular "scary stories".

Supernatural Special

NR 1998
Eizō Shokan 7

The newest work in a series of works employing 16mm film to exchange correspondence between the two filmmakers Nobuhiro Kawanaka and Sakumi Hagiwara. The principal theme of the series, begun in 1979, was "the landscape of memory", and the theme of this film is "travel". The thoughts of the two filmmakers intersect as Nobuhiro Kawanaka presents a return to the past through "time travel" and Sakumi Hagiwara uses a narrative method to portray "the destination of travel". (Kurzfilmtage - International Short Film Festival Oberhausen)

Eizō Shokan 7

NR 1997
Where Has All the Pollution Gone?

Where Has All The Pollution Gone? exposes air pollution caused by Japan’s largest Kawasaki Steel Corp. on a scale of ten times the size of Disneyland. Since the steelworks started running, almost every local resident has been suffering from severe asthma which resulted in a 17-year long court battle with the company. Filmmaker KORE-EDA Hirokazu traces one civil servant’s involvement in the growth of pollution administration that took place during the height of Japan’s economic surge in the 60s and discloses the connection between air pollution and state policy.

Where Has All the Pollution Gone?

NR 1991
NEKO-MIMI

Experimental film in which three girls and one boy lead playful lives. Just as a game, in which the course is determined from beginning to end by certain rules, can be played time and again, their lives are also endless repetition. This eventually results in a loss of a sense of time, for past and future. The four are permanently surrounded by cameras and projectors. In this way we see how photos are repeatedly taken of one of the girls and the boy keeps staring at a film screen. Everything which cannot be repeated is the object of their hatred. One day a woman appears in their lives and wants to die. The four try to involve her in their game, but the opposite happens: the fact that the woman is different disrupts their self-made world. Having playacted a funeral for the woman, they become more and more entangled in their own game.

NEKO-MIMI

7.5 1994
OL Training: Harassing

Masaru Aihara plans a mountain climbing trip as a company get-together. There are six participants. The weather was fine and the mood was harmonious, except for Maya Akiyama who had no presence. On the way, Aihara and Chika Kawaguchi engage in a fight under the watchful eyes of the participants. Takahashi witnesses this and is not at peace. He and Chika were having an affair, and Takahashi was in the midst of a divorce because of it. And as if he knew what was going on in Takahashi's mind, the weather collapsed...

OL Training: Harassing

2.0 1996
Outstanding Heroine

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang negotiated cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party while also asking their Ministry of Defense to secretly formulate a plan for attacking the Communist army, codenamed "A-14". Unexpectedly, Japanese spies stole this plan in a vain attempt to blackmail the Kuomintang into defecting to Japan. The Ministry of National Defense immediately organized a "Black Phoenix" operation to recapture the "A-14" plan, and sent officers under the pseudonym "Black Eagle" to carry it out.

Outstanding Heroine

NR 1995
The Red Leaf Legend

In 1968, Taitung Hongye Little League defeated Japan's Wakayama Little League 7-0, which was a legendary story of that era. The barefooted children of the Bunun tribe used stones as balls and sticks as sticks to win Taiwan the glory of defeating Japan. But what's the truth behind the legend? Where is the legendary young player now? This film goes into the fog of the premature death of more than half of the players, not only the stigma of impostor, but also the lament of underappreciated talent, and the baseball dream of the next generation of children.

The Red Leaf Legend

10.0 1999