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Early work by Kenji Onishi.

A woman gazes at the television while she irons as she falls in love with a murderer in the news. A young woman living in a dilapidated flat falls in love with a man who is wanted for the murder of a college girl and is reported on the news every day. She scraps his press photos and talks to his wanted posters on the street. But her secret happiness is short-lived, and the day comes when the man is arrested, despite her pleas for him to run away. She cries as she listens to the news, and when the wind blows in her room, all that is left is... A sad and fantastic love story, with a surprising twist at the end. The iron that the woman keeps in her room, the laundry, is a symbol of her feelings for the man, but because it is white in colour, the more it increases, the purer the effect of her feelings becomes.

As with "SPIN", an abstract animation with delicate line drawings. There are single color and color versions. Nakamura Shigenobu is in charge of the music used in the work like the previous one.

A hapless goon in the mob becomes the new Godfather after all of his superiors are taken out by a rival crime group. In the incident he gains new powers to become THE HULK! Meanwhile 400 years ago in the Joeson period an evil sorcerer has arrived in search of the Dragon Pearl in the village of the naive Young-gu

Shanghai government decided to build a grand overpass on Chengdu Road, thus buildings need to be demolished and hundreds of households have to be relocated. This documenytary, shot from summer 1993 to early 1994, focused on 6 of these households.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada

It was produced as a promotional video for the Daejeon Expo '93, showing images of South Korea's rapidly growing modern history.

Propaganda documentary explaining the Korean War from the Chinese side.

A mouse bribes a cat.

Parts 5-8 of Nation and Destiny are a thinly fictionalized portrayal of the life of Isang Yun, a Korean-born composer who made his later career in Germany. Because of a visit in North Korea in 1963, he had been kidnapped from West-Berlin by the South Korean secret service in 1967 and released in 1969, returning to West Berlin. He made several more trips to the North during his life, and was a major advocate of peace and reconciliation between the two Koreas.

During the summer, Santa takes time to inspect his reindeer. One of his top reindeer, Kringle, announces his retirement, revealing that his grandson, Kuppi, has been following in his hooves. Kuppi dreams of pulling Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve, but to earn his place, he must compete in a reindeer race during winter. The first ten reindeer to cross the finish line will earn the honor of leading Santa's sleigh on Christmas night.

Short film by Furumaya Tomoyuki

“The structure of human vision is the visual knowledge of the world. Individuals do not visually understand the world through the eyes, but through the brain. That is to say, human vision has been formed by knowledge and experience. The film can show a new vision, provided that the cinema is also a kind of visual experience and visual knowledge.” - Yo Ota

8mm film by Yosuke Okawado.

A woman acts as if nothing has happened to her, and believes it. The space is gradually dominated by silence, and only the night trembles while watching.

8mm short by Yukiyasu Shimada.

Second film in the Death Press series by Real Video

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Part of ...Will Be Televised: Video Documents From Asia. As Hong Kong readies for the inevitable change of governance in 1997, these young artists contemplate their shared history and present anxiety. Poised on the cusp of a great change, these artists mix their ambiguous feelings towards the British colonial past wit nostalgia for a national identity. The expected return to the "motherland" of China takes on an ominous cast in the light of the Tiananmen Square events. The eclectic mix of style and rhetoric that characterizes this compilation reflects the myriad of influences that besiege this international center, a crossroad of culture and controversy whose next location in history has yet to be determined. Works: Image of a City by May Fung and Danny Yung; Group Exercise by Victor Chan and Kuan Punleong; Diversion and TV Game of the Year by Ellen Pau; She Said Why Me by May Fung.

No.16, Barkhor Street is an old courtyard in the heart of Lhasa and the site of the office of the Barkhor Neighborhood Committee. This masterful cinema verité documentary, the landmark work in the history of independent documentaries about Tibet, provides is a photographic study of rich insight into the basic workings of government in Tibet as it that follows the local Party Secretary, Deputy Director, Director for Women’s Affairs, and Community Policeman, among others, as they implement official policies and manage neighborhood affairs.

Short documentary for Oriental Time and Space.

In this work, Shiota expressed “the memory of her skin, which cannot be entirely wiped away even after washing,” while covering herself with mud in her own bathtub. In the third year after she started living in Germany, Shiota became sharply aware of her own skin, arguably a symbol of her own identity. This was the first work where she made a video version of a performance. It also resonates with her 1997 performance piece, “Try and Go Home.”

1998 short film by Carol Lai Miu-Suet

Maji (Tamotsu Ishibashi) was targeted. The attacker was the daughter of Nishida, the former president of the Shuyukai, which he had previously destroyed. Kyoko, a woman with seething hatred for Maji, who killed her father, is trying to revive the Shuyukai's signboard.

VISUAL - Hyper Media Creator - TSUYOSHI TAKESHIRO MUSIC - DJ-Music Producer - HIROSHI FUJIWARA

A man is walking alone in a scenic city of Kyoto, a young man with an unfamiliar expression is in front of him. Apparently the young man was touched by him. The man's name was Bensuke Musashi. He was a bad guy who roamed the city of Kyoto and forcibly invited any young guy he saw so he could embrace them. Bensuke now has slept with 999 men. One day Bensuke approaches Gojo Ohashi, a mysterious young man wearing a veil.

Documentary on the life of a young fellow drifting in the city.

Recorded live at Shibuya ON AIR WEST on December 13, 1996.

The Iron Pussy ventures down Thaniya to save poor Thai girls being held as sex slaves by the evil Japanese.

A zombie couple lived happily together under the soil of a graveyard. The zombie wife said she would cook them a delicious meal. But that dish was zombie soup. A fantastic and nonsensical film.

Single-8 film by Tachibana Kaoru / 33min. / silent

Blues singer Nakase enters a bar, invited by the melody of the piano that echoes in the lonely dark night...

The loneliness and emptiness of the protagonist are conveyed not heavily, but deeply. This is due to the fact that the film does not directly depict his emotional movements, but rather in a straightforward manner in relation to his surroundings. And this also resulted in the sympathy of the audience for the protagonist.

Austria, 1888. Crown Prince Rudolph is bored with the ostentatious royal life in the Austrian court. He is forced into a marriage contract with Stephanie, Princess of Belgium. The couple is incompatible and they live in unhappy discord. Grand Duke Jean Salvadore, Rudolph's cousin, is in touch with the liberals of the realm and his lover, Milly, is a commoner. The Grand Dude has broken the shackles of convention and he enjoys a life of freedom much to his cousin's envy.

Inversion, as the name implies, is to turn order and relationships upside-down. Humans admire the shapes, sounds and vigor of other forms of life, while also taking everything away from them, numbed by greed. The human need to take over all will eventually lead to self destruction.

A collection of three music clips from the album "Samantha".

Two children's television characters from Japan, Gachapin and Mukku, travel to the United Kingdom. During their visit, they stop on Sodor to meet Thomas, Sir Topham Hatt, and the other engines. During the second half of the programme, they visit real railways as recommended by Sir Topham Hatt and learn how steam locomotives work.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

For this film, Okuyama made a camera with two lenses. One of the lenses films the filmmaker from behind while the other films him from the front. He thus obtains two images of him, superimposed on the same film.