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The second martial arts documentary film written and directed by Ikki Kajiwara. It features many famous fights of different martial arts fought by Antonia Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami, and Oyama Baidatsu, the founder of Kyokushin Karate! Many of the fights are by Kyokushin Karate fighters, and there are many precious images of Hikaru Ninomiya winning the All Japan Kyokushin Tournament, where he beat the later famous fighters Makoto Nakamura and Keiji Sanpei. Kick legend Toshio Fujiwara is also included in three matches: against Prayut Seesonhop, Sinsak Sosiripan, and the second round of the Seaplay Cat Songpop.

MAN AND WOMAN shows full body shots of a naked man and woman shot from above without movement. They are shown alone as well as together, one over (or under) the other symbolizing in words at the same time, their positions

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

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Pink film 1970.

Pink film from Toei.

Pinku from 1972.

Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

"Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress" (1971) chronicles a decisive phase in the struggle against the construction of the Narita International Airport, as farmers in Sanrizuka adopted new defensive tactics, including the construction of fortified towers and underground shelters. As police forces moved to dismantle these structures, confrontations intensified. The film combines scenes of direct conflict with extended conversations between Ogawa and the farmers, documenting both the physical resistance and the sustained community organizing that defined this stage of the protest.

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko made while making a commercial for Hitachi.

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Pink film directed by Kan Mukai.

Short animation by Renzo and Sayoko Kinoshita satirizes in a non narrative way the 'economic animal' Japan and predicted the economic recession in the 70s

Early work of the celebrated director.

Pink film by Koji Wakamatsu

A special performance for Laforet, the large department store/museum in Harajuku.

A folk festival with a three-hundred-year history held at Suwa Shrine in Toya in Sagamihara City’s Midori Ward, Kanagawa Prefecture. Within the shrine grounds, a father, mother, and child lion line up and dance to the sound of flutes and singing. As a prayer dance that retains a simplicity passed down since the 17th century, it is unique in Japan.

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.

Psychedelic –and at times sinister– music by Shinpei Kikuchi accompanies a disorienting display of reproduced imagery taken from magazines and posters of sunny beaches and bikini models. Tanaami made positive and negative reprographic prints of these images onto transparent cel sheets, placed them on top of one another, and twisted them in different directions to create a moiré effect. Speaking on the work, Tanaami explained his paradise only exists in the world of reproduction.

Pink film from Toei Central.

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.

Pink film directed by Kan Mukai.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

The preschooler Mako and the rabbit Pico learn what to watch out for when walking on the road. The work combines animation and live action to help young children learn the rules of the road in a fun and easy-to-understand way.

The films concerns the "duration" (or non-duration) of one frame, as the title indicates, the minimum unit of film in space (dark and light) with sound (or silent) and their various combinations.

Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

Yazaki's characteristic relentless depiction of this and that, albeit with some technical problems, shows a fervour that tries to fit into a single, complete world. It is aimed at a spectacle. [This is a Lost Film]

Made when I was simply beside myself with excitement from seeing Toshio Matsumoto's ATMAN. I placed photographs of Noh masks in a variety of backgrounds and pulled the camera aimed at the photographs towards them and away from them, circled it around them and into them as if the camera had gone mad. I wanted to express my weird, eerie feelings towards Noh masks with brutal images. (Takashi Ito)

This work was started in 1967 as a documentation of Nakajima’s life. The footage was edited into a single piece for the first time in 1974, in time to show the work to the curator Barbara London, who was visiting Japan. Generations of his family were lost and gained that year, with Nakajima's mother passing away, and then his child was born. The piece is an installation with two monitors; the left presents his mother and himself, and the right, his child and himself. Nakajima continues to work on the sequels of "My Life" with his grandchild.

Short 16mm film made by Naoto Yamakawa while studying at Waseda University.

Pink film by Kaoru Umezawa.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Since 1975 Kiyoshi Awazu has been obsessed with the "designer" Antonio Gaudi. Then there was no stopping this man. He went to Barcelona, took his own 16mm camera, made a film, wrote a book called "In Praise of Gaudi" and was the main force behind the subsequent tour of the Gaudi exhibition in Japan. (Ken Awazu).

A part of Michishita’s two-part series Being Women in Japan, Living with the Ocean alternates between footage of men and women fisherman harvesting kelp, and interviews with both about their lives and their work.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

Documentary and concert film of sorts showing the Tokyo rock music scene in 1978, just as punk began to emerge. Featuring performances from bands Friction, Lizard, S-Ken, Suicide, SS, Pain, Mirrors, Mr. Kite, Speed and 8 1/2. The Stanglers also make an appearance.

Second film in Tsuchimoto's series on Minamata disease - the victims of Minamata disease negotiate directly with Chisso Corporation (responsible for dumping toxic water into Minamata Bay) for life-long medical care and compensation.

Pink film from Toei Central.

Early work of the celebrated director.

"Shot on 8mm on a mountain in Japan, the abrasive winds that drift the fog in Iimura's Kiri are so fierce we almost believe it to have grazed the filmstrip. The scratches, however, emerge as dust particles that submerge in and out of the mist. A comparative piece to Larry Gottheim's Fog Line (1970), Kiri shows rare patience in such a situation." -Julian Ross.

In 1971, Hara Masato and a group or actors started shooting his 16mm film, The First Emperor, based on an old Japanese book about history and myths that is known as the Kojiki ('Record of Ancient Matters'). He did not finish the film.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

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Photographs of a nude, arranged into stop-motion sequences on the left half of the screen, are juxtaposed with a close-up of the film itself passing in front of a viewer, gradually revealed on the right half of the screen.

A stop-motion adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Nightingale.

A televised special commemorating 100 episodes of Kamen Rider.

Pink film directed by Mamoru Watanabe.

A virgin husband and a lustful woman pretending to be a virgin, Umi, are about to spend their wedding night together. The husband, textbook in hand, is alas! He climaxes just before he can enter. His wife's frustration with his nightly premature ejaculation finally explodes! She fantasizes about her love affairs with former lovers and lesbian friends and masturbates intensely, but that's still not enough, so she straddles her sleeping husband's crotch and shakes her hips... A hilarious and entertaining comedy porn film!

Fan-made "Dynavision" (kamishibai style) adaptation of Hagio Moto's November Gymnasium

Wandering the bizarre town looked like a fishing village boy hero that has been cut a vein bitten his left arm to Memekurage in the coast, in search of a doctor "doctor's where" and while saying being tormented by the fear of death, absurd eye It is talking can undergo surgery met Joy, even though the eye, and require at last (gynaecologist), of obtaining survived without incident.

Hikokazu is walking around selling watermelons when he meets Chuemon, a family retainer, in front of a castle. He was looking for someone with wisdom, as he was troubled by an envoy from a neighboring country who was making unreasonable demands. Hikokazu decides to cooperate with Chuemon on the promise that he will buy all the watermelons.

A collaborative performance, Image of Seeing--Seeing investigates the meaning of television watching. This work was created for television broadcast on the Nippon Broadcasting Corporation's program "Hyōgo no jikan" (Hyōgo Time).

A diary film composed by images where the director, after buying a CineKodak 16 (a pre-war 16mm camera) at a second hand camera shop, starts filming his wife, his newborn baby and his workplace.