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Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement

In 1982, the socialist researcher Ishidō Kiyotomo organized a round table with women activists who had participated in the rise of the labor movement, from the Taishō era (1912-1925) to the Shōwa era (1926-1989). At his request, Haneda records this meeting. Stimulated by her desire to " preserve the history of these women ", the director adds additional sequences to the recording. In the film, the discrimination and domination suffered by these activists are told in the first person.

Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement

NR 1996
54 Days Of That Summer

The 54th, the record of that summer, is, as the name suggests, the record of the 54-day long struggle for 'nullification of an ex officio sign' by Hyundai Precision Industry workers in Ulsan in the hot summer of 1993. Prior to collective bargaining on wages, the company secretly signed a unilateral agreement (signed ex officio) with one of the labor union leaders and tried to put it into practice. The workers of Ulsan Hyundai Precision Industry were enraged at the sense of betrayal of the union leader they trusted and the despicable treatment of the company, and for 54 days in the hot summer, they start a strike to get a fair price for their labor.

54 Days Of That Summer

NR 1993
Does the American Moon Rise Over Itaewon ?

Yu Jin is a member of a gang in Itaewon district. He will do anything for money, even take a knife. The only person he cares about is his half brother Dol Ee. Shany and Geum Ja are dancers in clubs in Itaewon. They will sleep with anyone, even foreigners, for money. Shany and Geum Ja only have each other to lean on. Nam Ok and Jang Sook have their own fantasies about America and are obsessed by the American dream. Jang Po is an Itaewon mob boss who cruelly extorts money from the young people of Itaewon. These people fight each other with tragic consequences. Under the Itaewon sky, their suffering and tragic love continue.

Does the American Moon Rise Over Itaewon ?

3.0 1991
Kaiman Hitomi: Nandemo irasshai

A couple who lived an ordinary married life. In order to revitalize his slightly stagnant sex life, a husband decides to take erotic photos of his wife and post them in the wife's boast section of a swinger magazine. The wife gets excited just by taking pictures, and they have intensely erotic sex, which makes her husband very satisfied. When it was published in a magazine, the couple was very excited. Then, a reader couple finally invites them to go swapping. The couple, already intrigued, decided to participate and had an experience they had never experienced before. This stimulation may have awakened the wife's previously dormant lewdness, and she begins to seek stronger stimulation, but her husband, on the other hand, is withdrawn by this change in his wife and tells him to stop...

Kaiman Hitomi: Nandemo irasshai

2.0 1991
Wakuwaku furin kōza: Tanoshii furin no susume

In 1994, adult video director Katsuyuki Hirano gets married, but soon afterward falls in love with actress Mami Shikata. Hirano begins documenting their affair with the intention of turning it into a film, but Shikata grows tired of the relationship and suddenly disappears from his life. Desperate to find her, Hirano pursues various schemes and searches for clues, yet she does not return. Even so, he continues his obsessive quest to follow her traces...

Wakuwaku furin kōza: Tanoshii furin no susume

NR 1995
BLUE SEASON Temptation Fruit

A history club member commits suicide by jumping off the school building. Hazuki is curious about the mysterious message, so she consults her father, a detective. She infiltrates the club and begins investigating her. The granddaughter of the powerful Hatsune holds the key to the incident. Hazuki is whipped by Hatsune and lured out by her homeroom teacher, Junko, who indulges in her pleasure. Hazuki is then raped and abducted by Hatsune's men. Hazuki had begun to touch the core, but the tragedy and humiliation had only just begun.

BLUE SEASON Temptation Fruit

NR 1997
Yin Yang

In the village of Doupo, Pianxian Township, Pengyang County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, there is a villager named Xu Wenwen. He is a Feng Shui master and who goes by the name “Yin Yang.” Due to the drought in the mountainous areas, it is difficult for farmers to use water for both domestic and agricultural purposes. In order to solve the problem of farmers' water use, Pengyang County Water Conservancy Bureau plans to help farmers repair the water cellar through government subsidies, so that the rainy season can be stored in the cellar and then used for farming, but due to limited funds, it is not Every family can receive subsidies, so everyone decides the right to play in the cellar by grasping the way. The cellar is laid, the water storage is increased, and the corn is also planted. The life of the mountain people seems to have hope.

Yin Yang

NR 1997
The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida

Yoshida grew close to Ozu Yasujiro during his time at Shochiku, where he was able to observe the legendary master at work. Although Yoshida and his generation outspokenly rejected the values of Ozu, Kurosawa and the older humanist filmmakers, over the years Yoshida found himself increasingly drawn back to Ozu’s films, fascinated by their unique rigor, formal language and delicate balance between comedy and tragedy. For Japanese television, Yoshida adapted his own text into a four part documentary, which he also condensed into the one hour version.

The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida

NR 1994
Go-raku-en

"We make memories in the journey and look for the evaporative emotions in the blurry memories. Facing the illusion of exotic language, GO-RAKU-EN deconstructs the estranged and complicated feelings of lovers and tries to reflect the essence of loneliness. Eventually, the reality of the sound restruct... Wu used images and sounds taken from the trip to create the experimental piece Go-raku-en (後樂園). "It is so simple and pure. ... It's just that when you don't care that much, it's purity," said Wu, who feels that any form of art is an expression of thinking and an extension of liberty and freedom."

Go-raku-en

NR 1997
KATATSUMURI

Give it your all, give it your best, give it your courage. Akane is withdrawn and unable to communicate well with others. She is looking for a job, but can't find one, and her younger brother, who lives with her, lectures her about it. Her hobby is to go for walks in the morning when the town is deserted. One snowy morning, Akane sees a man carrying a red TV and follows him to the rubbish dump. Akane is fascinated by the man's unique atmosphere, and takes the TV home with her. She dismantles the TV and makes a snail object from its parts. The next day, Akane is trying to return the TV with the snail hidden in it, when she is spotted by the man. She rushes to turn back, but decides to hand over the TV to the man. The town is covered with snow and is very quiet, and the protagonist never speaks. This is the director's way of reading the beauty in things that are often overlooked, and it leads effectively to the ending, in which the protagonist steps forward to communicate.

KATATSUMURI

NR 1997
The Underground Water (Short Version)

The Underground Water (1996) comes as an ode to water in its forms and to that connected sounds, ice, drinking, mirroring, bathing, washing, pearling on a window, raindrops, reflecting architecture and grey trees. Dry leaves, wooden floors and a young man smoking a cigarette. Windows and doors are preparing the framing. The wind is coming up. Will it rain today? A young woman is pressing her face to a TV screen, all in blue but it is not water refreshing her. In her eyes, you see some hidden memories and dirty tennis balls lying on the street sucking up the drops of the rain.

The Underground Water (Short Version)

NR 1996