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Pink film by Genji Nakamura.

Created during the club’s autumn training camp, this film is a polished comedy that is completely different in tone from director Suto’s previous work, Summer Day. Its carefully crafted screenplay, direction, and sound effects come together to create a straightforwardly entertaining and highly enjoyable film.

Using only the surviving footage, Mōri assembled and completed the work as a standalone film. As a result, the finished version is probably quite different from whatever story was originally intended. It may be best appreciated in the same spirit as Bruce Lee’s unfinished film Game of Death a reconstruction pieced together from incomplete material. With that in mind, the filmmakers would be grateful if viewers approached it with understanding and a generous sense of curiosity.

On the shore of a lake in early summer, a young man pauses during his travels. As he washes his face in the cold water, he hears the sound of a small bell ringing from somewhere nearby. Turning around, he finds a pure and graceful young girl standing there, gazing silently at him. It is impossible to tell how long she has been there.

Kenji is a slightly geeky, easygoing photography club member who only takes railway photos. Despite being ridiculed by his fellow club member and close friend Tachibana a skilled photographer but a womanizer he enjoys his carefree campus life.

This is the first directorial work by the newcomer Kobayashi, who made his debut the same year in a supporting dual role in Umbrella. However, after filming several indoor scenes, production was halted due to various circumstances, and the film was never released publicly, making it a lost work. It has been skillfully edited by Mr. Mouri into a coherent piece. It allows us to glimpse the origins of Kobayashi’s lifelong study of romance films. One is captivated by its exquisite lighting and camera work.

When did her heart begin to drift away from me? She no longer even tries to listen to what I have to say. Two hearts that can no longer connect. Yet she was feeling the same thing. Maybe if I try talking to him one more time… surely then…

8mm film by Yosuke Okawado.

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

Experimental short by Yosuke Okawado.

Documentary on the couple working as herdsmen on Qilian Mountains.

Bunkyo University Film Study Club 1986 8mm Film Production.

8mm film work from 1982 by the Film Studies Department of Bunkyō University.

8mm film made in 1986 by the Bunkyo University Film Research Club.

Experimental short by Yosuke Okawado.

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

Experimental short by Harumi Fujii.

A single-episode drama produced by Liaoning TV and Liaoning TV Drama Production Center.

Educational documentary film produced in 1989.

A pictorial diary featuring images taken at the Old Blue Hotel in Berkeley.

Japanese horror movie from 1985.

A taiwanese sport film

It was created by Murajikumamoto or Muraji Kumamoto in the early eighties as a college project. This was made in 1982 and it was shot on 8 mm film. This was originally going to be 20 minutes long.

A Golden Harvest Award Winner short film.

The cameraman's hand was filmed against the Ethiopian sunset and the surrounding scenery using different shutter speeds(1/2, 1/8 etc.). The footage was edited to produce a work centering around the image of the hand. Stravinsky's music was used for soundtrack. Shutter speed and imagery was applied experimentally.

An 8mm study on the synchronization between image and sound.

The daily lives of a group of mentally disabled adults in Chita, Aichi Prefecture. 45 year old Toki strictly observes a daily working routine of simple tasks, straightening books on shelves in a book store, and visiting a regular circuit of pachinko parlors in order to empty their ashtrays. Yanagisawa introduces us to each of the film's subjects in a similar manner: 51 year old Kayo for instance, who fends off everyone with a bamboo stick. The community came into existence quite gradually, inspired by an exchange set up by some of the parents. Overcoming the objections of the local government association, the residents move into a rented building and, working with their guidance staff, they decide to create a facility based on plans they themselves have drawn up. The group then figures out who should be assigned what task as they remodel and finally complete work on the building turning it into a communal work place they dub "Popeye House."

Care home resident, the blunt Mr. Tao secretly admires fellow resident, the elegant Ms. Pai. He finally plucks up the courage to write her a love letter, but it gets mischievously posted on the home’s bulletin board. Two other residents: Mr. Peng and Mr. Wang call each other “son” as a pet name. Mr. Peng misses his grandson whom he dares not see, while Mr. Wang frets over his terminal illness.

A heartwarming comedy about three university students who come of age around a pot dish in a flat. The same room, a camera fixed there throughout, and a cast of only three people, and only men. The idea shines through in its ultimate simplicity and low-budget setting. The idea itself is simple, but the calculated direction and the precise atmosphere created by the actors, which response to it, make the viewer feel even more intelligent.

The war has been going on for some time. Every day, Take Five, a guard protecting the deserted border district of Firebird, sits alone by his radio. It doesn't matter to him what's going on in the war front. His daily routine is to enjoy a game of radio poker with his unknown colleague on the other end of the radio. Marina, a young girl who vaguely believes in the happiness of the phantom city, comes to the border to board a refugee ship bound for Shanghai. However, her future is crushed by a ruthless gunshot... Fear and a sense of danger in a controlled society where dreams, hopes, and cravings for freedom lead to death. The hard-boiled narrative, which telegraphs the need to lament, is very stylish and wonderful.

Using the steel of a woman's face and eyes as a basic motif, the surprising world created by the free relationship between one frame and the next is amplified by the violent collision of unintelligible female voices, etc., and directly affects our perception. The film is not theatrical, literary, or pictorial, but aims to be cinematic, and is never tied up in real-time and space, and for this reason, it has an interest not found in tested and unerring films, and not found in traditionally accepted and conventional films.

An old man who used to be a projectionist, a cassette deck that comforts his solitary life, a nude photo of a woman who used to be a mobo (modern boy) and his girlfriend. These are the reality of Narita's performance. He brutally cuts them out and composes the film based on his own theme. It is the sincerity of the cold, detached, painstaking images of his wrinkled, toothless mouth that make him seem so present, even though he has lost his job. Without using any dialogue, the director Nagasaki poetically condenses what he encounters in the small room, which is interesting because it allows us to discover something that we had not noticed in our daily lives.

For the first time, the filmmaker, who has previously focused his camera on his parents, friends and cats, chooses a woman as his subject for this film, which consists of three parts, each of which captures a different woman. In each of the three parts, the camera captures a different woman: the first woman dances in a muddy clearing, returns to her room, smokes a kisser, takes off her clothes and enters into a strange world of sensuality with the artist; the second woman just stands there. The third woman strolls through the winter streets in high spirits, performing wherever she can. The artist simply stares at the three women and says nothing. However, he does not miss the eroticism that emerges from his subjects, and the women's sexuality drifts through the succession of unhurried, diary-like images.

Mikage is unable to bear a child due to fibroids in her uterus. On the night she breaks up with her lover, she gives herself up to Sakurai, who adores her. Sakurai tells her that he will take Mikage's place as her child, but the next day he turns into a real boy. Mikage is surprised, but she begins to love him like a mother and a sister. At the same time, a news report about the unsettling world situation comes on the radio... The film is a realistic portrayal of a fantasy, with a tightly constructed structure and assured direction that adheres to theory. The ending, which seems to foretell of Japan in the near future, is a heartbreaking coincidence with the title of the film.

A film made by the Tokyo Metropolitan Art High School Animation Club.

This film is based on the image of three generations of devout monks pilgrimages, an ode to the noble spirit of those who pilgrimage. It's also a film that focuses on, and emphasizes, aesthetic values. Due to the beautiful picture and unrestrained language, in the creation of TV films, the technique of handheld camerawork was used earlier than in films, and the expression of subjective emotions is boldly expressed. Therefore, "The Temptation of Tibet" was one major step in the Chinese film industry's creation. It is regarded as a representative of early handheld filmmaking in China. The film was completed in 1988, and won the first prize of the first national video contest, the national TV literary starlight award, and the excellent writing award.

The relationship among 3 friends suffers when a woman comes between them.