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16mm short by Kazushi Ozawa.

A man tries to tell a story but is murdered by a 16mm camera.

A young lady goes to a beautiful island and starts her sexual awakening by watching people behaviors there

This was an animated promotional video that Falcom commissioned for Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys game for PC Engine, to shop around to various production houses. This was done in hopes of getting it made into a full-scale animated series/movie/etc., but it never panned out.

A omnibus horror movie about terrifying occurrences at a school.

A medium-length diary film edited and composed of private footage shot during a week in summer. Two years after moving to Tokyo, the director visited again his grandmother's country, with a camera at hand.

Experimental short directed by Kenji Onishi.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

An improvised film sketch with professional actors.

Live video by Japanese singer/songwriter Chisato Moritaka. Recorded live at the Nakano Sunplaza in Nakano, Tokyo on March 3, 1991.

Originally working with super 8 animation pieces, Noshioka switches on to video-making from 1991. From time control with frame shooting to gaze fix with live action filming, her technology and texture change greatly. This first work in video indeed straightforwardly defines the relationship between "living space" and "physicality". Through repetition of thundering and quietude, the power of Nishioka's pure solitude and intense observation turn and reshape the warmhearted town of Osaka into something hard and inorganic. The adherence to a suddenly rising unrealistic and gigantic vapor pillar, the ever-turning ventilation fan and the ever-watching eye – All of these are ways to love Osaka permissible only to this filmmaker.

This dvd contains footage from Yumi Matsutoya's concert held at Osaka Castle Hall in March 1991. Setlist features songs such as "Hotel Without Time," "Door to Heaven," "Before the Diamond Dust Disappears," and "I Want to Protect You."

This work explores the notion of differences and the impossibilities of clearly stating the importance of differences, regarding sound and images, visual and audio perception, sexual identity, Cantonese, written Chinese and English languages, representation by mass media and by ourselves, and interpretations of street actions.

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

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

her works take as their subjects the figure of her grandmother or everyday scenes from her family home, and begin by expanding upon remembered images.

An experimental film about the abandoned mansion that once stood in Roppongi. The mansion was originally built as the private residence of the businessman named “Ryoji Oda” [小田良治], but after his death, it was used as the Philippine Embassy. In this film, Sekine focuses his camera on the rotting furniture and a mummified cat, and uses 16mm found footage (the content of which is a documentary of traditional Philippine culture) discovered in the basement.

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

Abode of Illusion shows how Chang Dai-chien's art - fake and genuine - illustrates essential differences between Western and Chinese approaches to art, and how originality and tradition, and abstraction and representation, are interpreted and valued across cultures.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

16mm film portrait of a woman, a camera and the moon.

Wa-wa was my college classmate and we were in love. She dreamt about opening a shop at that time, so we returned to Guishan after graduation to fulfil her dream. I began to document the process with my camera. In the end, the dream was fulfilled and yet the dreamer was forever gone.

This art film is a rare bamboo puppet cartoon. When deer, cows and birds were drinking and playing together by the pond, a snake came to them quietly.

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

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

Song for Flower is a self-documentary in which she explores her own existence by pointing her camera at her family and friends. It is a film that will change the landscape of the venue after you leave the screening.

Acclaimed Chinese TV documentarian Wang Haibing’s Home was an official selection at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. The film records a story between humans and animals. The protagonists of the story are: a giant panda, who is about to be released into nature, and several ordinary workers at the rescue station to protect the giant panda. The relationship between man and nature depicted here is simple, harmonious and beautiful.

A documentary on the XVII Karmapa of Tibet. The film also presents the spiritual life of Tibetan Buddhists in the 1990s through interviews.

The Air-Conditioning System (1997) introduces us to a young man in his flat, and the ways of communication with his girlfriend. The sky is blue and skirts are put on the balcony for drying. The wind will carry everything away, just like the noise and music or the porn we watch with him later on TV (he prefers to look at western blonde women). What will happen when the young woman in her flat will have found out soon that he is looking at her (and listening to her) via the air-conditioning system?

Thai horror.

For over a thousand years, the Akha people have inhabited the hills of Asia — mainly Southern China, Burma and Northern Thailand. The Akha Way or Akhazaunh, is the code by which they live. This documentary describes their origins and their culture. It contains extraordinary footage of a shaman healing ceremony; a funeral, with the ritual sacrifice of a water buffalo; the reading of a pig's liver after a new house is built, and more. Today the Akha Way is fast disappearing. Forced migration, Christianity, money and drugs are eroding the cultural heritage of the Akha tribe.

Short film by Cao Kai.

A live-action film adaptation of the manga by Dookuman Pro. Duncan gives a dynamic performance as the high-energy inspector, whilst Norika Fujiwara plays his female detective colleague with passion! The Osaka Prefectural Police’s Dotonbori Station is a lawless, chaotic hotbed of miscreants. Among them, Inspector Washika stands out as a legendary figure, overwhelming others with his beast-like temperament and sheer power. He loves shooting guns and women, and has written countless disciplinary reports over the years! Yusuke, Takuya, Miki and the others are assigned to this very Dotonbori Station. Sure enough, the rookie duo are constantly being led by the nose by the extreme Washika. To make matters worse, cases—from drug deals and rape to convenience store robberies—keep piling up one after another, and the situation only gets more complicated. As if that weren’t enough, Miki has been kidnapped by a rapist! How on earth will Washika and his team sort out this worst-case scenario!?

Makoto Amamitsu, a manga artist boy, is fascinated by Kotaro Takamura's "Chieko Sho". He wanders around trying to find his own Chieko and meets the woman of his dreams, Chako. But Chako rejects him and runs away. In pursuit of her, he turns himself into a black-cloaked immortal monster and falls into a world of madness and illusion. Makoto falls into a world of madness and fantasy, and assassins are unleashed on him. The hellish pilgrimage that stains the stage of Chieko Sho with blood finally comes to an end in the back streets of Ginza. In this literary, action, comic, suspense, and horror film, Nishigaya, who was a rugby player in high school and competed in the Hanazono (flower garden), charges ahead with the same power he had on the field. The nosebleeds that boldly flutter in the wind and Kotaro's poem that plays throughout the film cross over to create a unique entertainment that drags the viewer into a different dimension.

(5mins 16mm film B/W sound 1994)

All is not well in the medieval Kingdom of Koryo (918-1392), a distant precursor of today's Korea, ruled over by a corrupt dynasty in the north. While the Koryo overlords become bloated on a lifestyle of luxury and decadence, a series of farmer’s revolts rock the country, only to be mercilessly quashed. During one such uprising, the parents of a young girl, Somi, are ruthlessly murdered by the brutal government vassal Hyon Ryu Bal. The shock causes Somi to lose her voice, as she flees by boat for her life. She is rescued and taken in by Dosa, a white-haired martial arts master, along with another young boy from Somi's village, Ung Gom, orphaned in the same raid. As Dosa raises the two in his martial arts school, Somi and Ung Gom grow up together like brother and sister, waiting until their day of vengeance arrives.

Miki receives a serious love letter from a male student in her seminar whom she doesn’t really know well. Feeling uncomfortable with the sudden “heaviness” of someone confessing their feelings so seriously while still in college, she immediately calls him and rejects him over the phone.

Two innocent people accidentally drink a potent new poison guaranteed to kill them in exactly 24 hours

It’s a wet dream that a man dreams during the three day period of funerary proceedings during the rainy season. In the movie, images of a corpse, carnal desire, claustrophobia, the symptoms of an oppressive society, compulsive castration, and the abyss are beautifully combined.

The dramatization of the life of Kang Yeong-woo who became the first visually impaired Korean man to earn a Ph.D. Yeong-woo became famous for his work in developing a braille alphabet for the Korean language.

Minoru Kou's dinner show.