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Tales of the Bizarre: 1991 Winter Special is a special edition of Tales of the Bizarre that aired on Fuji Television on December 26, 1991.

An informational OVA released before the main 1993 Moldiver OVA series began. While the OVA was primarily animated it also featured a live action cast interview segment.

A biographical film of Pulitzer Prize war photographer, K. Sawada.

A mere traditional Japanese restaurant owner who triggered an unprecedented massive fraudulent lending scandal and manipulated a staggering 600 billion yen at the height of the bubble economy. A mysterious, psychic market manipulator who rose from abject poverty and, using her beauty as a weapon, even had a state-owned bank at her mercy. This work is a shocking work of fiction that delves into the true identity of a woman who has until now been shrouded in mystery!

A documentary of taiwanese writer Lai He.

An 8mm film by Isao Yamada.

You can see the woman sitting still and the landscape in turn. In this film, the character is not the heroine, and is equated with the landscape. As the subject is equated with the existence of a film too, the difference of time each having is presented in this film.

Second entry in the Lady in the Sea of Blood series.

"Wonderland" is a collection of music videos from her 1992 album, "Dream." These music videos are exclusive to this release (which was available on LaserDisc). Most of the videos consist of our star walking, posing, and singing in various costal settings on location in the Philippines.

Yoko Kamon as Visual Queen of the Year '97.

Film shot on 16mm by Japanese filmmaker Nobuhiro Kawanaka in the late 1990s.

A visually stunning paean to spiritual pilgrimage that creates a world of intense reverence, distinctly Asian in its imagery. Set to Georgian folksongs with 3½ tons of shimmering golden grains of rice.

A group of women are plucked from their abusive, negative surroundings to participate in anti-terrorist training. Training in skimpy, sometimes see through outfits ensue. - sogoodreviews.com

The story of a young man who has lost every reason to live.

Thai shockumentary on people who eat strange and exotic foods. Well known in Thailand for shocking young viewers with scenes of animal slaughter and repulsive food. First of the 3 Shocking Menu films.

It is the typical stance of this generation, with its sensitivity and impulse, to try to blur the boundaries of all existing criteria and truths, to turn seemingly rationality into absurdity, and to mock at the given reality and the "legal" matters: either the systemor those who drag on with their lives under the system. I owe my courage to the restless adolescence that compels me to tear away any existing rules which block the way to our inner reality. Imbalance is an experience naked to us, an experience that might not be popular among Chinese college student today. It restricts us, transforms us, and forces us to expand and to change. It is the formula of a chain of events, the decease of adolescence, the edge of personal relationship, and the intermedium between bliss and despair.

A medical student who travels to a remote village to research a form of traditional medicine becomes increasingly preoccupied with the life of a young widow she encounters there.

I videotaped materials collected during fieldwork on the theme of stripes, printed them out on a video printer, and then animated them. This is why the images are grainy. I wasn't satisfied with the final result, so I kept it unreleased until now. In uploading it to YouTube, I selected and re-edited only the cuts that I deemed watchable. I cut out all the unnecessary parts, so the length of the work is quite short. The background music is Japanese festival music.

Takarazuka Revue's stage play based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

A man who accidentally saw a UFO, falls into a painful illusion as his body is torn apart by a mysterious power. His illusion gets worse as he actually has his lovers kill themselves. But after…

A sequel that continues to follow Cutie Knight's fight against the secret society, Teikokuya.

Experimental short film by Teruo Koike.

Chinese athlete Luo Dan comes to C country to find her young sister Luo Li, only find out she was raped and killed by local drug organization. Luo Dan picks up the gun and determined to take revenge on them.

A woman leads a desperate life. The reason for this is her unbreakable feelings for a man she has broken up with, and when her boyfriend feels that his love for her is out of control, he gets down on his knees to see her old lover and ask him to get back together with her. Thanks to this, the woman starts seeing her former lover again, but she cannot break up with one of the men either. Then one day, she discovers that her former lover is a Shabba. The strange love triangle goes deeper and deeper.

Kimura a young investment banker has been sliced-up and fatally stabbed, his nude body "crucified" on the bedroom wall. He appears to be the victim of a gyaku-rape. Detective Kajii and his partner have to investigate the murder. Kajii suspects a beautiful young woman, Kazumi. Unfortunately for him, he falls in love with her. Then the madness starts...

1993 short film

Elusive memories flash in the back of his head. Visualising the people and landscapes as they are there, as casually as they are there, should be a difficult task, just as the protagonist struggled with the writing process. However, the film succeeds in vividly depicting the subtle atmosphere felt only in primary schools and only in junior high school, thanks in part to the fine performances of Watanabe Sayaka and her friends, who brilliantly play everyone from primary schools students to preparatory school students. There are no particularly dramatic episodes, but after watching the film, you will feel nostalgic for all the people in the film.

1990 Pink film directed by Masatomo Yatake.

Takarazuka Flower Troupe 1991 production based on the novel The Murder of Saint Marco by Shiono Nanami, with associated revue show Junction 24. The Emblem of Venezia - At the beginning of the sixteenth century the Republic of Venezia was the most prosperous country in Europe. In 1527, Alvise Gritti, a thirty year-old of great wealth returned to his homeland Venezia from Constantinople. Alvise was a proud man like his father and he could not bear to be excluded from the highest ranks of society... Junction 24 - At dawn in a big city a youth sings about his loneliness. The train station clock mysteriously begins to move anticlockwise. The drab station is transformed into a showy revue theater. The entire cast bounds joyfully out onto the stage to sing and dance.

More mood tapey glow fun from Japan.

This documentary is about a group of people led by the anti-high artistic attitude of the underground culture of the end century during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1995 for three consecutive days and two nights, supported by the unprecedented courage of the Taipei County Cultural Center; the planning is broken.

Experimental short by Visual Brains.

"I filmed landscapes lit by the sun, which is the most luxurious source of light, as well as sunlight itself. It's a film that makes the viewer recognize the beauty of natural light that can never be observed with artificial light."

Short documentary film for Oriental Time • Living Space by Jiang Yue.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

The film is hard to understand because it is spoken so fast, but if you listen carefully, you will find that the dialogue is packed with so many detailed gags that you will wonder if they are as good as they could be. The action scenes are so powerful and full of no-frills action that you'd think a major Japanese film would go as far as this. The director's spirit of wanting to do all kinds of things and his entertaining nature carry the film through to the end without stalling. The film's lovable momentum also covers up for some of the story's lapses. Incidentally, the pro-golfer Toraki of the title is a character who appears in only one scene and has nothing to do with the story or theme.

Japanese noise band C.C.C.C. performing live at Bears Osaka on August 10, 1991.

Haruko, a girl with psychic powers who can communicate with inorganic matter, wakes up one morning to the call of someone, and as she is invited, she arrives at an abandoned apartment building from the 30s of the Showa era, where countless "mononoke" have lived.

A work that attempts long exposure in strong sunlight using an 8mm camera fitted with an ND filter. A rose, as a still life subject, was used, and movement was created through camera shake during shooting and variations in exposure.

Natsumi, who works part-time at a date club, finds herself looking for something that money cannot buy - Love...? A cameraman with a lovely smile appears in front of her.

One day, high school teacher Paul finds a puppy on the banks of the River Thames. It turns out to be the puppy of Her Majesty the Queen of the British Royal Family. This film was selected for the Oberhausen International Film Festival.

1998 short film by Rita Hui

Movie by Taketoshi Watari.

A boy reminisces about the countryside, enticing people to remember that their large cities were once beautiful open landscapes of trees and rivers.

An independent film group in Nagoya trying to work on making one feature film. Someone must have this film somewhere in his basement but really, who would want to see it?

This film is a Movies strip that consists of 365 frames. The actor is actually moving in one direction but appears to swing like a pendulum on the screen. Sporadic booms of the soundtrack reveal the relationship between the human pendulum movement, the rhythm of the soundtrack and its perforations, and the object split into individual frames.

A story about the different lives of a philosopher and a small restaurant owner. Through this contrasting fusion, the film considers the connection between philosophy and life.

On Christmas Day, Kitty and Mimmy's childhood friend Daniel comes to visit them from New York. They are very happy. However, there is a heavy snowfall in New York on the day, and planes are unable to fly...

Asaji Saki's dinner show.

A man and a woman equipped with a camera shoot film while riding a bicycle. There must be something visible while moving forward and backwards.

Short film on Tibet #1, 'Tibetan Artist Visit,' from Wen Pulin's Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art.