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When Mizushima saw the name "Kashiwagi" listed as one of the organizers of the reunion, he was a little surprised. Kashiwagi was ignored by everyone because of his unusually short stature and ugly appearance. Who would have thought that such a man would be the initiator of the class reunion? When Mizushima returned home, he saw Kashiwagi, who had lost both legs and was awkwardly dragging his prosthetic legs, and his wife, Kano Takako, who was hailed as a Madonna in her student days and monopolized the attention of men.

In 1975 a middle-aged anarchist recruits a policeman's daughter for an attempt to blow up Emperor Hirohito's train.

Third film of W-TV (Without Television) shareware series. Director Tsuchiya asks visitors at Yasukuni Shrine about Emperor Hirohito's complicity in the Second World War.

Filmmaker Masato Hara and his teenage son set off on a road trip, following the route of Basho's Narrow Road to the Deep North.

A man who, having created an experiment in his mind and assuming it as reality, finds himself unable to escape it. All the characters are his alter egos. How can he escape from this miniature world? Human beings are tragic creatures driven by their genes.

Three-channel installation. Videos show processing meat with a mincer from three different angles simultaneously. One of the two videos in color shows the feeding funnel of the meat mincer where slides of meat are stuffed in; the other video in color captures where meat comes out from the mincer and is collected in a bowl. A third black-and-white surveillance video is attached to the hand operating the mincer, which gives a revolving motion to the images captured.

Selected works of Tachibana Kaoru bonus content, Animation workshop 1996.

“The visual harmony of the landscape is disturbed by a screen that allows us to see into the distance (television). The film is composed of six scenes that feature a television in the landscape. The speed of the television (in NTSC) is 30 frames per second, and never changes in this film. But the landscape views pass at different speeds.” - Yo Ota

An energetic visual world that is just like riding a roller coaster in circles while taking in the scenery. As the camera pans around from an excellent vantage point, taking in objects like garbage bins in the park and power line towers, it zooms in with a violent enthusiasm. A second sense of motion is added with a further 360 degree rotation in that area. A road sign walks across a pedestrian crossing ― the humor is also fun.

One of the last works by the Japanese photographer and filmmaker Hiroshi Yamazaki.

The tumultuous love of youth between Renu, a young woman who goes on a journey to escape from her estranged father, and Dan, a young man whose life is perilous due to his involvement with drugs.

Part oral history, part reflection on a culture at risk of being erased, this documentary presents a deep dialogue between a 93-year-old Pangcah chieftain and an indigenous filmmaker. Through words and songs, hunting trips and weaving of vines, the elderly chieftain lives and embodies the ways of the Pangcah people. He also recounts his frustrated attempts in defending traditional culture against Taiwan's encroaching modernity.

Brilliant action from the Ong Bak master as he faces gangster's, crocodiles and a whole lot more on the river of fire. Long live Panna.

A young salesman dives in and makes a sales pitch. He is led into a small company in an apartment building, but he can't see the face of the woman who is guiding him, or the man from the company who is dealing with the salesman. Besides, someone or something is sitting backwards in the back of the room.

A man finds love from a woman, and she dreams the extrication through him.

A 1995 film co-directed by Kang Jianning and Gao Guodong that, most likely, grew out of their earlier film Sand and Sea, and saw at least Kang returning to the family in the desert that he interviewed for that film. Not to be confused with another film of this same title by Kang, from 2003, which includes more up-to-date footage, was itself edited down for broadcast on Chinese TV as part of the 'The Weight of Time' series, and does not include any contributions from Gao Guodong.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

This film is based upon the form of an individual’s diary. Jangwook created new images using several chemical treatments on the film surface while using footage of his daily life. These serial works begun from trials that Lee had communicated, seeking to re-construct his own memories, where the ‘mind’s eye’ become connected with the ‘camera’s eye’ and with film itself. In doing so the film is a conversation with personal documentary and everyday practice at the darkroom.

While filming a love scene, new actor Joon-il goes too far for realism and offends the tantrum prone star actress, Joo-hee. This gets him fired, as well as Duk-ho, the production assistant friend who got Joon-il the job. Unemployed, the two men pull a scam on a fashion model and blow the money. Living on the streets they pull off more scams to survive. While working at a male host bar, they hear of a scandalous video tape of Joo-hee. They track it down and send it to the media to take revenge and ruin her career. Chance has Joon-il soon on his way to the top, but will he stay tight with Duk-ho and what will happened if Joo-hee discovers their sabotage?

Shot in Okinawa and in Taiwan, Kamioka's latest dazzlement is her attempt to go beyond borders: geographical and political borders, borders of time, borders of gender. Nobody else could have made it, but it does feel somewhat like a woman's answer to a Kenneth Anger movie.

Mother, I'm going to make a film. I can't accept the death of my beloved mother. I was able to film her while she was fighting the disease, but I couldn't film her face when she died. Her love for her mother and her dilemma with herself. I am the one who turns the camera on myself, entrusting my wavering feelings to making a film. She moves back and forth between her boyfriend and her sex partner, whom she met after being seduced by him, while groping for her mother and her reasons for making a film. The film is a semi-documentary about "sad reality and me", but without a whiff of tragedy or self-deprecation. In the director's own words, "I let the film faithfully reproduce my own shaken emotions", and it is clear from the screen that he has probably already found "the end of my shaken self" through this film.

Chisato Moritaka 7th Live video 1 Opening 2 {KIBUN-SOKAI}: [Fine feeling] 3 {JUNANA-SAI}: [Seventeen] 4 {FUTARI-KOIBITO}: [We are a pair of lovers] 5 {WATASHI-NO NATSU}: [My summer] 6 {NATSU-NO HI}: [Summer day] 7 The Stress 8 {AME} [Rain] 9 {WATASHI-GA OBASAN-NI NATTEMO}: [Even if I become a middle age lady] 10 {HAEOTOKO}: [The disgusting man] 11 {WATARASE BASHI} 12 So Blue 13 {KUSAIMONO-NIWA FUTA-O SHIRO!!}: [Kick away a detest thing!] 14 Rock'n Roll {KENCHO-SHOZAICHI}: [Rock'n Roll prefectural capital] 15 {YORU-NO ENTOTSU}: [Chimney at night] 16 {KONOMACHI}: [Hometown] 17 {SUTEKI-NA TANJOBI}: [The wonderful birthday] 18 {YASUMI-NO GOGO}: [Horiday afternoon] 19 GET SMILE 20 {KIBUN-SOKAI}: [Fine feeling]

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada.

Live at AKASAKA BLITZ on June 15, 1996.

To miss the last bus home from work can be fatal. A businessman encounters leering hookers, a crazy cafe owner, and a gang of sadomasochistic nurses. And then things get really crazy. The anonymous main character floats around in an insane post-war Japan that defies definition, and tries in vain to get home.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada, autumn 1992. A prelude to "Kazuko; RONDO..."

8mm graduation project. A psychological short story set in a world of ruins. A unique film that combines elements of experimental cinema with drama, such as the use of color filters and re-shot footage from a cathode-ray tube.

Recorded at the Nippon Budokan on September 5, 1997.

Noriko is a pushy girl with her own way. Mamoru, the protagonist, is constantly being pushed around by her. And his eccentric friends. Suzuki is hated by everyone because he spits on everything. Mamoru's best friend, Ichiro, is a homosexual and likes Mamoru. Naomi, Ichiro's girlfriend, can only do everything according to the manual. All the time they are muttering, "Isn't there anything interesting? They are completely unfazed by the suicide of their colleague Hamada, who committed suicide by drowning himself in a toilet basin, and death is just a figment of their imagination. However, as if they too are being watched, one by one they become the heroes of the suicide game. Who will survive to the end? This is an absurd but realistic portrait of adolescence, in which the characters, deformed with their own personalities, coolly reflect the youthfulness of a time when apathy, emotionlessness and pessimism prevail.

This is a video version of "The Great Prophecy of Nostradamus" aired on Fuji Television Network's "Kiseki Taiken! Anbiribabō" aired on Fuji Television Network.It examines various predicted events, including the crash of a satellite.

Uesugi has become accustomed to the host club industry, whilst Kato remains, as ever, a specialist in covering for others. One night at ‘American Dream’, a woman who requested Kato turned out to be a spy from a rival club. Unaware of this, an elated Kato let the information slip, resulting in the club’s top client being poached. Kato faces the sack unless he can win the client back. Behind the scenes, the industry’s number one host, Samezu, was pulling the strings. Upon learning this, Uesugi’s fighting spirit is ignited. ‘I’ll poach the top client from his club—that mysterious woman dressed in Chanel, known as the “Angel of Massacre”!’ However, the woman’s true identity turned out to be that of an incredibly influential figure…

James, handsome, well-educated, and brilliant, is the adopted son of a family prominent in the English aristocracy. James is curious about his origins and wants to know why he was abandoned. He asks the Lady Buckingham, the woman who arranged his adoption when he was 5 years old.

A book ordered eight years ago and a sensitive short drama about the fate of an old friend.

An adaptation of the The Wolf and The Seven Little Goats story.

16mm film by Tachibana Kaoru

A thousand thousand years ago, a woman broke her commitment to a demon king to marry a human, a painter named Sang-hyo. The ex-girlfriend of Sang-hyo, after committing suicide his spirit returns to take revenge.

Moon Chul, Hak-gyu, and Young-ok are students in the sixth year of the National School of Life and Guidance. They have excellent academic performance, but above all, they are children who have unrighteousness and have a lingering suspicion that they cannot endure. But sometimes it's a valiant three-gunner who turns around with a miscivous joke.

Ice/ink on white, then into black and red explosive figures, a finger appears.

He feels suffocated and bothered by the small community, be it the local area or the relationships, but he also knows that there is a part of him that can be spoilt somewhere, and he cannot get out of it. This is the situation that most people today find themselves in, but this film depicts the tragedy that is caused by people who are eighteen there, in many different ways. There, victims can also become perpetrators, and perpetrators can instantly become victims, and this is clearly conveyed in the film, which is probably one of the main reasons for the use of middle-aged and older people as heavily weighted performers, which is unusual for an independently produced film.

Sakamaki dropped out of university and lives nihilistically every day. Every now and then, he receives strange phone calls at his home. The calls, which only mention the name of the place and a description of the caller, such as "Ikebukuro, a woman with long hair", are in fact murder threats. Sakamaki realises this and takes Mabuchi, a friend from his university days whom he met by chance, around to witness the crime, saying he will "show him something interesting". Sakamaki lies to Mabuchi, who blames him when he discovers his true intentions and lies about the impotence of human beings. Sakamaki has an experience from his high school days when a classmate committed suicide in front of him. However, something changes in Sakamaki after Mabuchi risks his life to save him from his own suicide attempt. He believes that the motive for the crime lies in loneliness, so he runs through the crowd to save the killer.

Single-8 film by Tachibana Kaoru, sound.

Commissioned by the city of Kochi to mark the opening of its Museum of Modern Art, this experimental feature by Japan's foremost gay indie film-maker almost defies description. The film is divided into six 10-minute chapters (or 'boxes') which, says Oki, add up to an image of 'heaven'.

A documentary following the lives of people in Mishima, a small island off the coast of Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture.

Hye-suk steals money to buy band instruments but is caught and seduced by the man she stole from.

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)