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In Kyoto in 1944, poet Tomohiko Nagata meets Shizue, the wife of Kyoto University assistant professor Takeichi Naito, during a lecture. Drawn to poetry and classical literature, Shizue becomes Nagata’s devoted pupil, but their relationship gradually grows beyond that of teacher and student. As rumors spread among Kyoto’s literary circle and reach her husband, jealousy and resentment tear through the Naito family. For their daughter Momoyo, the affair becomes a painful shock, yet Shizue finds herself unable to give up her love for Nagata.

8mm film by Yosuke Okawado.

Kasumi has a dream where Santa Claus asks her to host a Christmas party at the Tendo Dojo. She rallies the entire cast, resulting in a chaotic and comedic holiday celebration involving nearly every major character.

The man of the money-hungry is a little unlucky. The Don Honey Ongfa, who were dispatched to take away the treasure map of Okju, rather, was attacked by Okjupa and the car explodes, causing the boss to die and the hump transforms into the Hulk due to the explosive energy. On the other hand, around the 400th century, there was a Yeong-gu living in Wangsimliran village outside Dongdaemun. Yeong-gu, which is a bundle of accidents, does not study writing, but only plays all kinds of grumpy spears with a young man in the village. However, in the village, there is a hunchback, a person who is looking for a book called "Map of Joseon", which is rumored to have Kim Dae-gam, and a man appear...

Yuko Kawakami makes her debut in the first AV suspense drama!

One of the hidden works of Hiroyuki Sekine. A quiet requiem for his alma mater “Tama Art School” [多摩芸術学園], which was closed down. This film was shown only once at a private screening, and was never shown to the public again.

Eight-channel installation. Shows a waltz-dancing scene recorded simultaneously with 8 camcorders, taken from 8 different angles in a ballroom (Set A); and clips from Revolutionary songs from the 1970s and popular music of the 1990s (Set B).

On a rainy day, Keroppi and his friend find their elders' old secret club house, but the house ends up being more magical than they thought.

It depicts high school students suffering from various forms of discrimination that they have suffered in their school life, and while being encouraged by the people around them who are watching warmly, they awaken to their pride and hope and confront discrimination. The story develops between the runaway group, the soccer club, the marriage problem between the main character and the sister who are troubled between them, and the discrimination in the company. Human Rights and Dowa)

An introduction to English phonics for Chinese audiences.

Hangyodon and co. end up getting sent back to the past through a time machine and learn about dinosaurs.

Documentary about a religious area in Yunnan and the delicate relationship between the local Party branch and the Christian church.

Documentary about Gertrude Du-Wagner, an Austrian woman who married a Chinese policeman in the 1930s and raised a family on a farm in eastern China.

A omnibus horror movie about terrifying occurrences at a school.

Cops investigate a criminal running an unsuspecting restaurant, while trying to trace the steps back to how he ended up running it suddenly.

16mm short by Masaru Noto.

Art of Fighting 2

In a Balinese village, families go to great trouble and expense for their extravagant cremation ceremony. They provide special foods to mourners and prepare a bounty of offerings for the deceased, from gifts of money to symbolic baskets. The atmosphere is almost festive as a shadow puppet show is performed for the entertainment of the deceased, inheritances are distributed, and musical processions of mourners walk the streets. Dead family members seem almost present as their bones are uncovered, washed, and arranged for cremation with accompanying prayer rites. During the cremation, the village is filled with smoke from enormous burning pyres shaped like bulls, as the souls of the dead are cleansed of impurity and then sent out to sea so that they may continue their journey to heaven. Shot in 16mm, the film documents and explains the intricacies of these funeral rites and Balinese-Hindu beliefs about death.

A love story about a man-woman encounter in Australia

The film is brilliantly directed with a high level of tension, as if it were a gag comic straight out of a live-action comic book. The ideas are seemingly cheap, but with a speedy sharpness and sense of style, they are even gorgeous. What makes the most of it is the orthodox story section, which carefully holds down the portrayal of the characters, and the "Is this really live-action?" It is probably the workmanship that spares no time or effort after thinking about it.

The film chooses the relationship between a photographer and his wife and daughter as its main line, and introduces the daily life experience of the only daughter of a family in Beijing. In the process of filming, the story of this family's life becomes an almost universal story; the films has been appreciated as an important work for analyzing the processes of Chinese families, children, schools, and education today.

Prehistoric men compete in a downhill race.

Every day is peaceful. There is an elderly couple who live together. The husband still works, albeit sparingly, and the wife does the housework. They eat together, know each other's tastes, and talk a little while watching TV. The film is a quiet account of their unhurried life together. The camera's gaze is quiet but gentle as it carefully follows the old couple, interspersed with summer scenes from the countryside, like a documentary. The camera's gaze is quiet but gentle, and the occasional embarrassing gestures and expressions on the couple's faces give the viewer a sense of closeness to the camera (and to the people holding it). The old man is a very picturesque subject even when he is just standing there, but this film has a peculiar rhythm to it, which may be staged or naturalistic.

Whoever wins, in the end, wins in the end? What is the difference between logic and quibbling? The world is full of things we don't understand, but there are plenty of examples. So one man set out to deal with the evils of the world, and all its falsehoods, at random. His name is Ipponsuji. Don't worry about his real name! This is a documentary made in the grammar of fiction, focusing on the character of the ally of justice, his work, interviews and films he has made", says the director. This is a superhero film with a radical mix of wildness and seriousness, with a commercial break in the middle.

Born in 1964, graduated from Tama Art University with a degree in Fine Arts. During his university days, he formed an indie band with his classmates and was active for several years. He then began filmmaking under the tutelage of Sakumi Hagiwara. In his early works, he created numerous pieces characterized by a "structural style that manipulates light, objects (or the film itself) through frame-by-frame editing." Eventually, his works began to incorporate narrative elements and shifted toward a more analytical exploration of his inner world. In 1994, the premiere screening of "Cat Ears" (1994) at the East Gallery in Ebisu achieved record attendance. Additionally, he has collaborated with performance units and directed the video opera "Satyricon" (2004), consistently exploring boundary-crossing visual expressions.

In A Hundred Sweethearts, these worries spread to include the people and things around the filmmaker, as she presents herself as a slightly spoiled but unconceited youth who is used to having others care for her. It is both the comfort of this emotional security and the realization, as she becomes an adult, that it will not last that prompt Utagawa to record these events, seek out past ones in old home movies, and even re-enact them in the present. More than an affirmation of identity, film becomes for her a celluloid blanket, a warm set of images to which she must sweetly but sadly say goodbye as time marches inevitably on. - Aaron Gerow

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

The first film in the 'Japanese Archipelago' series. This is a video that shows images of places with explanations of ghost zones such as Maruyama-cho, which is called the birthplace of the famous candy store ghost, and the Chichibu sacred site Eifukuji Temple, which is said to be a zone of fear and haunted by ghosts.

After restoring their Ceremony of Ancestral Spirits, the Atayal people of the Raisinay Village, Miaoli County, were distressed by the absence of their traditional garments. Yuma Taru, a researcher of Atayal folk costume, decided to trace back their history by conducting interviews with the elders, learning weaving techniques from them. This documentary captures the passing down of the weaving art, and the younger generation’s yearnings for revival of their traditional clothes.

Chisato Moritaka 3rd Live video 1 {KOREKKIRI ByeBye}: [Nerver again, bye bye] 2 {HI-JITSURYOKUHA SENGEN}: [Non-ability declaration] ¡ 3 {HATACHI}: [Twenty] 4 The Stress [Stress {CHUUKINTOU} version] 5 {SHIRITAGARI}: [Curiousity] 6 {WATASHI-WA ONCHI}: [I'm tone-deaf] 7 {JUNANA-SAI}: [Seventeen] 8 {YORU-NO ENTOTSU}: [Chimney at night] 9 GET SMILE 10 {MITE}: [Look] 11 {DAITE}: [Hold me] [Las Vegas version] 12 {JUNANA-SAI}: [Seventeen] [Orange Mix] 13 {KAIO-SEI-NO DENSETSU}

Lulu Ogawa's fascinating 1998 video documentary depicts a wide cross-section of Japanese transgendered people, from drag queens to FTMs to intersex activists to male transvestites. They tell familiar stories of exclusion and abuse while growing up, discuss the need for safe spaces where they can express their complex identities, and reveal the cost of black-market hormones and the physical pain of sex-reassignment surgery.

The Wen brothers lived and traveled together with the living lama, Bajia, in Beijing and to his homeland in Ganzi Zangzu Zizhizhou in 1990s. This film documents that period. With the Wen brothers' help, Bajia made his dream come true -- building a Buddhist temple in his homeland.

In 19th century Europe, photographs of the “grotesque” such as deformed bodies and corpses were popular and enthusiastically traded and collected. In contemporary Japan, a video about voluptuous little Sayomi who loves to collect Mickey Mouse paraphernalia—how do people look at her as she sways to Baroque in a white negligee? Do modern-day cavaliers court her? Will her domineering mother save her from evil eyes? The director hands her the video camera and attempts to present the world through her perspective. She dresses her up in extravagance, shows off her glamorous presence, and proves that she is no sissy object or victim—she is larger than life.

Complexity theory.

Free market capitalism has not only effected the flow of capital but also the global migration of labor. Laborers cross national borders to “developed” or “developing” countries and take on low-paying job in the service sector. The growing number of international laborers and new immigrants, usually of various nations and ethnicity, has now begun to have certain impact on the host society. For example, in Taiwan, the lure if high income might subject them to the employer’s exploitations. And policy makers and employers rarely take into account their sense of displacement.

VISUAL - King of Super Vision - GEN HOSOYA SEE GEE GEN MUSIC - Muzak Kingsley - HAJIME TACHIBANA 1. DEEP RIVER MANSION 2. OSCILLATOR MUSIC #3 3. COMPUTER IN LOVE 4. THE MENUET OF THE ROBOT 5. FANTASY 6. SHANK 7. ASTRO MUSIC #10 8. GIVE IT UP OR TURNIT LOOSE 9. LAY LADY LAY 10. MANGO GUITAR

Death is the gateway to birth. The deceased crosses the line to join the kingdom of the dead. He sees there the dance of the sperm and the egg. He is drawn towards the sky. This is the path to the afterlife.

A fixed camera captures a woman walking away. The recorded footage is then re-photographed frame by frame, during which a zoom is gradually introduced as if following the subject. As a result, the size of the subject remains constant, while the image grain progressively expands. From “image” to a “painterly” state of particles.

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.