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A young art student strives to achieve his dreams but faces numerous obstacles that stand in his way.

1982: 5th Pia Film Festival 1982 / 6 minutes / Color / 8mm Director: Ryoichiro Izubuchi Technical cooperation: Kazuhiko Shibata Sound effects: Kenji Sada Cooperation: Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1st and 3rd year image design department Model: Mitsuyo Masuda

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Kurokawa Yoshimasa, Daidoji Masashi, Masunaga Toshiaki, and Arai Mariko, all members of the East Asian Anti-Japanese Armed Front " Scorpion, " were incarcerated for instigating the bombing of the Marunouchi offices of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. This film was conceived of and directed by Kurokawa whilst in prison. During the making of this film, he and his fellow members were under sentences of death or life imprisonment. As testimony to Kurokawa's idea that " the emperor system is not only an incarnation of the patriarchal principle but also the embodiment of the female principle, " the film aims " to critically examine the essence of the Japanese maternal image. "

Three animated chapters by Polygon Pictures are featured in this collection: In Search of New Axis, In Search of Muscular Axis and In Search of Performing Axis.

A fantasy short film about robots in the future world.

A man on a beach, aims a gun at his head. The shoot only grazes his forehead, leaving a scar. As he walks along the streets, he notices scars on other people’s heads. Those who aim, those who are aimed at. Who are they, who are they shooting?

It is the time when riot police buses were parked in front of university gates, and the campus was under the surveillance of police officers in disguise. After a protesting student commits suicide by throwing oneself out of the library building, the police install mosquito nets on the library windows.

This film is a montage of the best footage Green Team collected from major social movements, including environmental, political, human rights, indigenous, student, farmer and labour movements, displaying the uproar in the period prior to and after the lifting of martial law. However, right after its completion, the 20th May Incident occurred, preventing it from ever reaching the public.

The story about King of old Tibet - Songtsan Ganbu and another story abouht Tang dynasty Princess Wencheng married him.

16mm short by Masaru Noto.

Keroppi, Den Den, and Ruby embark on a mission to locate Pocapon's misplaced belly button, as his ability to play the drums relies on it.

Horror-comedy film based on the legend of Mae Nak Phra Khanong.

Crime organization from overseas sent a skillful Qigong killer Huang to China, Chinese police ask young Qigong user Ling to help. Huang and Ling fight each other all the way from mainland to Macao Port, only to find out that they are apprentices from the same master.

CG animation.

Chinese opera film from 1980.

Chinese opera film from 1980.

Some people say that "movies are made by connecting still pictures”, but that is not true. A frame of the film is not a photograph, but “something that failed to exercise”.

A collection of excerpts from the “Bloody Films" produced during college (1982-85).

The film tells the story of Shang Qin, the president of the court, who is upright, enforces the law like a mountain, withstood pressure from all parties, and brings the real culprit to justice

Creatively inspired, but the puppet can’t seem to execute his ideas. After repeatedly revising, he finds himself dominated by his creation instead. A creative beginning results in an unexpected ending. The subjective “human” becomes the object.

Short animation by Reiko Yokosuka.

This U-matic video incorporates a number of frequent images from Wada's oeuvre: a camera advancing down a colonnaded pedestrian walkway beneath an elevated train line, the figure of a woman with her back to the camera retreating down a street toward a vanishing point by walking or running, and various seascapes. These scenes are spliced together in seemingly random order, sometimes inserted into each other or reshot through close-ups of video monitors. At times the footage is so heavily mediated and re-mediated that images blur into shadow and light, disappear into CRT phosphor dots, or shift hues and patterns from oversaturation and noise. A soundtrack by Hideki Yoshida accompanies the entire sequence, featuring echoing electronic patterns and long tones interspersed with ambient sounds of traffic and beachfront waves. This work was first screened at the Worldwide Video Festival in the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, the Netherlands, in 1986.

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.

Chinese anthropological film shot between 1986 and 1989, in the township of Gukou, by Professor Zhuang Kongshao. The film is intended as a representation of the traditional customs observed on one of China's most important folk holidays -- and also doubles as an act of preservation, capturing the last celebrations of a village that would be completely relocated following the construction of a hydroelectric dam in 1990.

Short film by Shin Harada, Single-8, produced in 1985. This work was produced under the condition of a 3-minute frame for the exhibition of the event "First Pictures Show" in the Department of Imaging, Osaka University of Arts.