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Early experiment by Ko Nakajima.

Understood as an extension of Reckless Daydream (1974), abstract forms are transfigured. This version includes the intended processing of the blue hue and the animation’s timing, as instructed on the film’s original can.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

Pink film directed by Kan Mukai.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

A feminine crossdresser explores their sexuality.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

Eighth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Long ago, a concubine was bound to marry into a high-ranking samurai family when the time came, so she took her daughter with her. However, the man she was marrying never returned home. The woman then has an affair with her servant, who committed suicide out of guilt. Blaming the husband, the woman attached him, and then beheaded herself. In the present, the woman's now adult daughter wrestles her own desires...

My Town, My Youth is an inspiring film shot twenty years after the official recognition of the disease and focuses on a group of young people (many born with the disease) as they mobilise to keep their cause visible by organising a concert by the popular enka singer Ishikawa Sayuri.

A children’s film that teaches proper baseball posture and knowledge to kids, based on the premise that a weak youth baseball team, “Kodomo Giants,” receives coaching from players of the Yomiuri Giants (Yomiuri Kogyo Co., Ltd. / Tokyo Yomiuri Giants). It was released in July 1976, following “Tsutomu-kun from the Yamaguchi Family”, as a non-TV-affiliated short live-action film in the “Toei Manga Festival,” and became the only sports film of its kind in the series.

This is the third volume of a ghost story TV series presented by Nobuo Nakagawa, Saburo Endo and Teruo Ishii. Contains films 9 to 12 in the "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Pink film from Toei.

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The Kashima Dance is performed in the area of Kanagawa Prefecture extending from Odawara City along the western shore of Sagami Bay. This film documents a dedication of the dance on the grounds of Yoshihama’s Soga Shrine performed in August by twenty-five people. The film also records the Sasara women’s dance which the women’s association and the elders of Minami Ashigara City in the west of Kanagawa Prefecture revived after a fifty-year hiatus

Pink film directed by Mamoru Watanabe.

Experimental short film about two men carrying a door.

A stop-motion film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.

The final collaboration between Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kobo Abe, 240 Hours in a Day is a four-panel projection produced for the 1970 Osaka Expo. Set in the near future, a scientist invents an accelerator that increases the speed of human activity tenfold.

Set in a Japanese university in the late '70s, the film discusses the absurdity of cafeteria prices, the struggle over the old clock tower, and more.

"Apartment Wife" pink film distributed by Okura Eiga.

Pinku from 1973.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Pink film directed by Kôji Wakamatsu.

Short pinku, distributed by Nikkatsu in 1972

Pink film distributed by Toei.

Short pinku, distributed by Nikkatsu in 1972

A woman isn't satisfied with just one lover... she can never forget the flames of joy that pierced the depths of her body on that festival night..

The sound of the waves is crying and calling. Goodbye to love, freedom, bondage, and betrayal. The wind blows over the old pine trees, scattering sand. And then... the barefoot woman disappears into the waves.

1980's Toho comedy

A traditional Japanese fable telling of a kind old man, his avaricious wife and an injured sparrow. The story explores the effects of greed, friendship and jealousy on the characters.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Iwata, cheerleader of a university, Odagiri, a free lance cameraman, and Sekiguchi, a day laborer working on a subway project. As they pass an area dotted with the villas of affluent people, they decide to stop at one to ask the owner to let them put through a phone call. What they seen when they enter the gate makes them draw in their breaths quickly and causes their pulses to begin to race madly – Miki, a lass whose only claim to fortune are marvelous breasts, cute nipples and a figure even every top model dreams of having...

Amateur animation by 20-year-old Hikeaki Anno while he was studying at Osaka University of Arts. The short is an animated form of the idiom "even a poor marksman will hit the target with enough shots".

Pink film from Toei Central.

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This work produces complex flicker patterns by splicing together four types of footage, consisting of shots of the exterior of a factory during the day and at night, in positive and negative versions. Nakai created a masking film with a calculated pattern of black and white frames into which he inserted positive and negative images and made a print out of two separate rolls of film. “Images of an industrial zone in constant operation day and night are utilized with the sense that it encapsulates both the beginning and the end. Scenes shot from morning to evening and then from evening to morning are divided into negative and positive frames, resulting in four types of images that intersect, manipulating the effects of film processing on perception.” (Tsuneo Nakai) Two versions of the film exist: 13:40 mins at 24 fps and 20 mins at 16 fps.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

Experimental short by MAJYOLICA

A TV special, centered on introduction of Skyrider.

Camera, Monitor, Frame is the first installment of Takahiko Iimura's "Video Semiotics Triptych" (the other two works are Observer/Observed, made in 1975, and Observer/Observed/Observer, made in 1976). The work analyzes the fundamental components of video: the camera, the monitor, and the frame, focusing on the role of each within a system of video as analogous to the functions of vision and speech.

Cameras observing each other.

An animated short by independent animator Sadao Tsukioka.

Early work of the celebrated director.

Regarded as a creative extension of Stone (1975), animation unfolds on drawing paper placed on a field and farm.

The shimotsuki festival has been passed down over the centuries in the community of Shimoguri, located in Kamimura in Nagano Prefecture’s Shimoina District. The population once staged a revolt against the oppression of the Toyama clan who governed the region. Disease spread in the aftermath and was thought to be the work of the slain clan. The festival was initiated to clear their resentment. The masks of dead spirits dance amid clouds of steam from boiling water.