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Master Sergeant Collins disobeys his commander's order of retreat and is chased by the North Korean troops as he falls behind his troops. He hides inside a catholic church. Collins disguises himself as a father and turns away the North Korean soldiers when they attack. In order to save himself, the sister, and the children, Collins teaches the boys how to shoot and survive. Sister Anna is kidnapped while searching for food. The boy feels anger as North Korean soldiers kill his grandmother. North Korean soldiers shoot at the South Korean area. A boy takes a box of dynamite. While he is arguing with his friend, his younger brother, Hyuk, takes the dynamite and runs over the bridge. Soon, the North Korean bunker is in flames. At the church, the sister and the children make a desperate fight against the North Korean soldiers.

Long time ago, there was peace until the giants decide to wake up after years and years of slumber.The three priestesses sisters who were guarding their shrine had to retreat to seek help and who better to ask Maze for help.

A playful experimental film featuring the filmmaker interacting with her developmentally disabled younger brother.

One day in early summer. Yoshiko, the shy older sister, and Kana, the active younger sister, are following Sawada, a university student with long hair. He is the boy of Yoshiko's dreams. Kana is left alone with Sawada, who is looking for a notebook that fell into the river, and starts asking him questions. When she is left alone, Kana starts to ask Sawada about his notebook, which has fallen into the river, and Sawada is taken aback by Kana's frankness but joins in the conversation. When Kana approaches him to tell him about her sister's feelings, he becomes reluctant to leave her side. As they repeatedly argue, their hearts somehow grow closer.

The film is a work on environmental protection. Through the combination of physical objects and animation, it appeals to people to show mercy and love our green grassland.

Hi-mi-tsu no Nichiyobi. Short 8mm film by Toshihiko Omote.

The cultivation that has entered Heian University has the lowest and worst great evil phase that seems to be living with misfortune on the back of misfortune. For the evil spirits sealed in this land, it is a good prey to use as a mediator with this world. Professor Kamo, an authority in Feng Shui, and a beautiful girl from Taiwan, stood up to understand this!

A heartbreaking and fruitless virtual love story between a NEET otaku youth addicted to video games and a beautiful girl who appears as a game character. This film is a paradoxical homage to director Nobuhiko Obayashi.

When the media 'discover' them, two insect hunting buddies pose as eco-conscious experts of Taiwan's exotic species although they have never had a steady job or any formal training in their entire life. Under the operative quise of 'Nature Outback Workshop,' they devise original strategies to reap fame and fortune from their newfound celebrity. Crafty Swindlers or gallant pioneers, the boys have a jolly good time on an adventure that eventually changes their lives.

Documentary film produced by CCTV and directed by Hao Yuejun.

Animated film.

1992 short film

In the performance work Spring Festival Gala Evening of 1999, Wang Mai used the example of Spring Festival Gala Evening, which is well-known by Chinese audiences. He chose the most classic and popular songs and short acts of the past few years, re-acted and re-composed them into a show having no difference compared to a real gala evening with hosting, songs, dances and short acts. The whole process lasted for one hour and more than twenty actors participated.

1990 Original Video.

A psychological drama filmed when I was fond of Japanese detective stories. The monologue of a killer with a shovel inspired by real maniacs, from Tsutomu Miyazaki to Seito Sakekibara. It's part of my series of films that have dissected the cinema screen, like Zetcho and Rabbit Hunting. At the time I was more aware of cinema rather than film itself, so my taste for the widescreen format was idle at times. After all, I experienced firsthand how difficult it was to produce a Cinemascope projection with an 8mm projector. All I knew was that in the 1980s, director Akira Fujiwara had shot martial arts films in cinemascope with 8mm film.

Screened in the New Asian Current section of the 1993 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Filmed at the Dege Sutra-Printing House in Dege County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, on the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Known as the "shining pearl under the snow-capped mountains of Tibet," the Dege Sutra-Printing House (at the time this was shot) contains more than 400 books, 900 volumes, and nearly 270,000 printed documents, spanning Nyingma, Sakya, Bonbu, and Gelug sect classics and various other Tibetan Buddhist texts.

An indigenous couple married young with a child when they were only 16 and 19 years old. The financial burden and challenges in life were so heavy for them that quarrels were unavoidable. As their former elementary school teacher, the filmmaker recorded the young couple’s daily life, while trying to give them a hand in their time of need.

An aged lady and his idiot manservant are secluded in a red chamber. The room has no clocks, and all day a ritual is held in the form of the grand dame's grumblings. Perhaps only a select few spectators may see the sublime in her. Suddenly, a portrait of a young woman disrupts her tedium, and the painting comes to life.

OVA based on The Game Paradise!

Short film from animator Tsuji Naoyuki, who is known for his use of both charcoal and puppet animation. Wake Up is a dark and brooding animation epitomizing his story telling style by combining serene worlds and childlike images with darkness and nightmarish scenes.

He can sort out any financial trouble! The legendary hero from the Weekly Manga Sunday series is now available on DVD! The client this time for Goro Inui—commonly known as Goro the Fixer—is his former secondary school classmate, Yamanaka. Having squandered his money at a secret casino and racked up a massive debt, Yamanaka has, unbelievably, handed over a blank promissory note from his parents’ company as collateral. A few days later, his father receives a fax of the promissory note, bearing a face value of 100 million yen. Sensing the hand of a professional forger, Goro finally steps up to the plate as a master of the underworld!

A man returns to the mountains after a long time and encounters a supposedly extinct ancient human species known as “Upi.”

Phenakistoscopes (the “magic disc”) and zoetropes, which existed even before the invention of cinema, can be understood as devices that produce a sense of reality through the creation of apparent motion (phi phenomenon / illusory movement). In this context, video is approached as their direct descendant, and is treated as a far more powerful apparatus for the production of reality itself.

This early video work by Anson Mak unfolds in four parts: found footage exploring gender ambiguity in Cantonese Opera, a dance sequence in Central, an interview with a lesbian woman, and commentary from a friend in the form of a reflexive documentary. Together, these segments probe the representation and subjectivity of femininity and queer identity in early 1990s Hong Kong.

A cinepoetry about the demolition of University of Tokyo’s student residence (known as “Komaba-ryo” [駒場寮]) after it was closed down. In this film, Sekine metaphorically depicts the record of the demolition as “passage of time” through some images (many of which evoke “stream”) and the phantom. As a side note, the phantom is played by experimental filmmaker Erice Matsui [松井エリセ]. She ran an art gallery in the place and held independent screenings called “Theatre Moon” [テアトル・ムーン].

Documentary on Heinz Grünberg's own experience of coming to Shanghai as a Jewish refugee when he was 6.

The old apartment and neighborhood women are still there when the filmmaker visits her childhood home in Nishi-Tengachaya, after more than twenty years away.

Short Two-story horror omnibus “Cherry Tree in the Schoolyard” and “Face in the Book!”.

A breath of light, a film poem by in-camera editing that is more sensory than experimental.

8mm short film by Akira Hoshino.

The first short film Shô Miyake did during his third grade in high school, a chase scene in school.

In this later work, director Han Okhi returns to her origins as a scholar of Korean poetry to transform the verse of Han Yong-un (1879–1944)—popularly known as Manhae—into a collage of stunning “cinepoems.” Han’s short film features fifteen poems from the eponymous The Silence of Love, the only collection of poetry left to us by the iconic Buddhist, poet, and revolutionary. Since the collection’s publication in 1926, the subject, object, or identity of its central love has remained widely debated. As scholar and translator Francisca Cho discusses, these fluctuations in meaning—a lover? Manhae’s beloved homeland enduring Japanese colonial rule? Buddhist enlightenment?—resound in the malleability of the titular nim, a word that evokes love, lover, beloved, or, as Manhae proposes in the preface to his work, “everything yearned for.” Director Han Okhi takes on the formidable challenge of visualizing the manifold meanings of Manhae’s poetry through her signature experimental style.

Super8 Films (silence): Frankfurt am Main in Germany in 1994 (Ankunft: arrival) and 1996 (Abflug: departure). All scenes were edited in the camera by single frame shooting.

"Self recognition changes according to the condition of mental health. When the person is not healthy, the image of oneself looks distorted like the ones reflected on a spoon. Maybe screaming happens when the gap between the ideal self and the reflected self is too big. The person is retrieved when he/she forgets about the ideal." - Tamami Asada

Shot in Venice by the sea at night, struck by a thousand lights.

I want to help, I want to be saved, I want to help. One day during summer holiday, best friends Nemoto and Maruyama are walking along a mountain path when suddenly a gunshot rings out and Nemoto falls. Maruyama barely manages to hide behind a roadside block, but Nemoto is seriously injured and unable to move. At first Maruyama tries to help, but the persistent and invisible killer frightens him and he is unable to do anything about it. Root begins to blame him, and says that the killer is after you and that he is involved. Time ticks by as the truth remains elusive... The film depicts the human psyche, where friendship and conscience disappear and only egoism emerges as a result of the absurd horror, set only on an ordinary country road. A film that tackles drama head-on, in a world where many films are bland.

Film by Daisuke Miki, 1999.

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

In a person’s life, what is most moving is often the indescribable feeling in one’s heart. Beyond has moved many people. More than a decade has passed, and people have changed, but fans still remember Beyond’s works. There is no gorgeous packaging or pretentious attitude, but every song can touch people’s hearts.

Take a look at our shocking world. We live in an age of violence where inhumanity is becoming commonplace. Accidental deaths are on the rise, and violent crime is on the rise. We have ended the 20th century and we have to wonder if the new millennium will end in chaos, violence and devastation. This documentary will show you horror acts of violence, terrible accidents and many other atrocities...

Aji Dolma is the fourth daughter of the second generation of the Caita family in Lushui Village, Lugu Lake. She lives in the Mosuo matriarchal family that still retains the custom of "marrying" between males and females. In 1993, by chance, she left home and went to the provincial capital Kunming. Since then, her fate has changed. At the same time, a large number of tourists poured into her village, which brought wealth to her hometown and also brought an impact on the culture here. Several versions of the film exist, with the earliest completed in 1998 and latest in 2005.

Follows the story of a handicapped street musician, Maurice Chan, as he explains what life is like for him in Hong Kong. In the process we go on a journey back in time to the Walled City of Kowloon. Once dubbed the 'sleaziest' place in Hong Kong, it was an island of Chinese sovereignty within the British colony. As a result of a secret political compromise between the Chinese and British Governments the Walled City was destroyed in 1992. This decision resulted in the displacement of the Walled City's 40,000 residents. The documentary gives the story of modern day Hong Kong from a personal viewpoint and shows historical links to a place the authorities preferred to forget.

Song Sing Chart Ai Sur Dir: Panna Rittikrai Thailand - 1991

A short film seeing Ultraman Neos and Ultraseven 21 talk with and review past battles of Ultraman Great and Ultraman Powered by Ultraman's instruction (and reusing footage of the unreleased Ultraman Neos Pilot). It was first sold on VHS exclusively by applying through a TV Magazine campaign in July 1995, then released as a bonus on the Ultraman Neos Blu-ray in 2018.

If you ask for directions in Paris, passers-by will take a map out of your bag and give you directions. From there, I board the train back to Seoul. Trains pass through Europe and through Asia, and time speeds up by an hour a day. Seonjae gradually falls into the chaos of time. Finally, the train arrives in Seoul, and Seon-jae tries to find a house with the address, but it is impossible to find a house with only the address in the narrow and winding alleys of Seoul. Suddenly, Seon-jae realizes that his method of finding a house is not suitable for Seoul. Seon-jae stands on the road to find a house again.

A self-destructive and anxious 30-year-old man and his 26-year-old friend with a camera. It's a personal film about their relationship in the last years of a life - battling the HIV virus. The flamboyant man flirts with the camera while the filmmaker is tormented, forcing himself to go on filming. Their sincerity when facing the undefeatable facts is moving.

Experimental work with minimized black and white images.