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Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

Named after a sacred site of ancient pilgrimage Mori has personally visited, Kumano merges the artist's embodiment of Japan's spiritual heritage with her innovative use of role-playing and computer graphics. Mori assumes the personas of a fox fairy, a shaman, and an alien-like angel to represent the past, present, and future, embodying the harmonious convergence of diverse temporal planes and belief systems.

Horror TV-Special broadcast at the 6th March, 1994.

The photographs of two elderly people used in this work were taken during a train journey in the first half of Ishii's previous work, "Wind crossing" He uses it as a photograph. There is no doubt that these two are particularly memorable for Ishii, but how should we as an audience perceive these acts? Then something occurred to me. In my work "Guiding Star", there is a part where I walk through an underground passage at night during a trip in Hokuriku. That place was Kanazawa. Lately I've been visiting Kanazawa every year for the Maki Asakawa live video screening, but most of the time I travel from Kansai to Kanazawa, or vice versa, by express bus. Then, the bus always passes through that underground passage. Ah, it was here. With that thought in mind, I play with the memories of that trip for a while, no longer happy or sad, but dry and dry. It might be something similar. However, in my case, unlike Ishii's narration in the story, I feel like "it somehow continued to live." M.Yamazaki

A woman with iridescent eyes clad in a lustrous white costume, while futuristic like a cyborg, her gestures are somehow mystical, like those of a shrine maiden. Her meditative singing voice accompanies her toying with a glass orb, transporting the audience to a mysterious state.

Japanese erotic horror movie from 1991.

Heat and moisture can puncture and create cracks in solid pipes, and depict the emotion of accepting nature. The inside of the pipe is said to reach temperatures of several thousand degrees. This also burns the roots of the hard heather that the pipe is made of. Also, grease accumulates inside the pipe, absorbing water and creating cracks. The music used was recorded from shortwave broadcasts.

Experimental short by Ichiro Sueoka.

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

A freelance writer who writes for a local magazine. Recently has been in a slump and his writing has been slow. His editor, Kyoko, worries that he is just dazed, watching videos sent to him by friends on their travels. Then Akira's cousin, Yoiko, comes to visit him. She refuses to go back to her family, but Akira decides to keep her with him for a while. There are many sad and tender scenes, and the scenery with Akira, who can't write, and Yoiko, who stutters, has a very poetic sound and aftertaste as the title suggests. The final scene is so vivid that you can't help saying "I've been hit! It is so vivid that you want to say "I've been hit!

Short 8mm film by Toshihiko Omote.

In 1992, more than 130 female workers in Jialong Garment Factory lost their jobs. That year, in order to transfer capital to Indonesia, the factory announced the closure of the factory at the same time as the union was established. The boss, Zhu Yinglong, a professor at Taiwan University, refused to pay severance payment in accordance with the standards of the Labor Law Law. The employees had nowhere to ask for help and decided to take to the streets to seek justice.

Documentary film by Duan Jinchuan

The scenery of the forest in Ogawa and the city of Kyoto and the abstract animation conceived from there are juxtaposed.

Invisible Women follows the lives of three ethnic Indian women in Hong Kong. In the film, Cheung explores gender inequalities and looks at the lives of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.

This program illustrates how video activists have developed sophisticated use of small format video, with poetic and powerful imagery, complex mixes of sounds and scores and an effective editing style that belies the urgency under which it is being made. The video movement in Taiwan has made successful use of home cassette distribution, via both mail and street vendors. The Green Team collective has pioneered in this effort with over 100 titles in distribution, documenting the struggles of farmers, students, workers and environmentalists.

A live-action adaptation of the comic of the same name by Chika Tomisawa, depicting the comical daily life of a yakuza who suddenly finds himself reborn as a baby! Harada is a man living in the world of the yakuza. One day, whilst on his way to avenge his boss, he encounters a young couple in labour. Unable to turn a blind eye, he approaches them, but loses his balance and falls. When he came to, he had, to his astonishment, been reborn as a baby. What fate awaits Harada—now known as Hoshio (Hoccho-kun)—as he finds himself resigned to life as a baby…?

"June 30, 1997. Hong Kong. Tourists flocked to expensive gourmet parties with a harbor view, or got drunk on the streets, embracing British or Communist flags. All media coverage described how happy the local Hong Kong people were about being taken over the next day. I was invited to a private gathering at Hong Kong Arts Centre to watch television and the fireworks together. It turned out to be a gathering of local artists singing sad songs and telling angry stories, against a room decorated in words of bright red: 'Reversion 1997: I am very happy.' Later I went to the Central part of town to find thousands of people rallying in Victoria Square. At midnight they released multi-color balloons, tied a huge yellow ribbon around the Legislative Council, where the directly elected Democratic Legislators were being kicked out, as of July 1. The action was illegal in the new Hong Kong law. The police blocked the area around the Council soon afterwards, calling it 'private property.'"

Waiting for the first sunrise of 1995.

A documentary of taiwanese writer Yang Kui.

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

A dark, quiet and deep night where even the white light of a streetlight seems to be sucked in. What jumped into the eyes of a man walking alone in the city was a duo in a white coat, pointing a mysterious machine that he had never seen into the air.

Taichi, a security worker, meets a girl, Heki, at a bar. The next evening, he sees the beautiful view of his town for the first time in ages, and decides to take the long way home, where he runs into Heki again.

To spend the summer vacation, junior high school student, Kazuki rides a bullet train to Hiroshima to stay with his aunt. Arriving in Hiroshima, his aunt narrates the tragic past of what happened the day the atomic bomb fell. From the aunt who had to overcome a lot of hardships, he learns the value of peace and to have the courage to lose.

Seiko Live '97 My Story is Matsuda Seiko's 14th live video release. It was filmed at Osaka-jo Hall on July 5, 1997. The concert was re-released in DVD format in 2000 and 2003.

From the past to the future, from today to tomorrow, "hands" weave the fabric of human life and history. The hands of the young, the old, the men, the women, the hands of all generations, sometimes in everyday life, sometimes in extraordinary situations, are the focus of this film, which with its superb powers of observation vividly reveals the drama of human life and its vicissitudes hidden in everyday life. Like a game of cat's-paw, in which a thread is passed between fingers to form a shape, the filmmaker's ability to connect unconnected scenes to form a larger theme shines through.

A special premiere clip-show before the series composed of old setting images. Due to tight production schedule and after the final episode of the previous program "Saber Kids", the episode was finally aired 3 weeks prior.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

This film was shot in an ruined house that once stood in Shibuya Udagawa-cho, Tokyo. The block where the house located was a redevelopment area. Shibuya, known as one of Tokyo's most popular bustling street, has an area where old building are still clustered together, and the surrounding area has become like a ghost town. "Plants retreat when people set foot in the area, on the other hand, they multiply as soon as people are gone." (Hiroyuki Sekine)

In March 1997, a teaching and research team led by Professor Zhuang Kongshao came to the Tujia area along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to conduct anthropological research, with the aim of establishing a link between anthropological academic knowledge and field studies, as well as finding valuable research points to achieve the possibility of interdisciplinary collaborative research. "Field Study Along the Yangtze River" is a synchronous film and television work based on this survey. Now re-edited and transferred to today's university classroom, it is intended to facilitate anthropology students who are preparing to enter the field study phase, and by watching this film, it will trigger them to think about the opportunity of academic docking between theory and research sites, and further transition them into their own fieldwork thinking.

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

1990 Pink film directed by Akio Watanabe.

A girl named Fuchyako (Kumagai Fusako) is smoking a cigarette and singing to the background music of a blues song. Waterdrops.

A gambling film based on the original work by Kazuyuki Shimizu, depicting the cunning battle of wits between an illegal bookmaker and a betting expert. The major corporation Hinode Shoji has embarked on the top-secret operation of running the horse racing bookmaking firm ‘Hasshun Kogyo’. Date, a former bookmaker who serves as the firm’s mastermind, and Hideko, who manages the data, recruit detective Tetsuya Yaguchi to pose as the president of a front real estate company. Lured by the substantial reward, Yaguchi accepts the job, but before long he finds himself captivated by Date’s skill as a bookmaker…

1999 release

The story of ‘Hamlet’ adapted by the visual kei band PENICILLIN

8mm short film by Mikio Yamazaki.

A comedy drama about an unmotivated new employee and the ghost of a hot-blooded section manager.

After more than a quarter of a century without any form of religious ceremony, the Na, an ethnic group living on the Himalayan plateau, began openly practising their religion again in the early 1990s. Their priests are called daba. Among the few old shamans who are still living today, Dafa Luzo is the most remarkable. As the main character in the film, we see him looking after his farm and his family, as well as performing rituals to expel all unclean spirits and demons and honour the ancestors. His main worry, and his greatest hope, is to make sure his knowledge is safely handed down to the next generation.

The voice of what appears to be a film school teacher echoes on the screen. A film school teacher's voice echoes on the screen: "To be able to do anything is the same as not being able to do anything. The film is shot by the protagonist. There is a dizzying kaleidoscope of different perspectives, angles and movements, all based on the motif of the sphere. As if to counteract the teacher's harsh criticism and his own inherent anxiety about his own creation, the protagonist begins to turn the camera again, without hesitation. There is no coherent story, but rather an exposition of images that speak eloquently of the director's own mental landscape.

The first theatrical film by film critic Yoichi Ogino. Yayoi has a lover named Yataro, but she is not sure if its working. Strange things start to happen...