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A young man falls in love with Masumi at first sight and sends her a video letter.

A porn film director and his crew travel with a woman to her parents house for a New Years party. They proceed to coerce and sexually abuse all the women for the camera and themselves.

While her boyfriend Jun'ichi is out of town, college student and part-time model Yuri passes the time in Tokyo by shopping for luxury products, visiting affluent neighborhoods, eating expensive food, and seeking new kinds of entertainment. At a dance club she meets Masataka, to whom she describes her relatively frictionless life as "crystal". Yuri has a sexual encounter with Masataka that she enjoys but finds less satisfying than her experiences with Jun'ichi. When Jun'ichi returns, Yuri learns that he also was unfaithful during his trip, but she reflects on her financial independence and decides that staying with Jun'ichi is the best fit for her crystal lifestyle. Adaptation novel by Yasuo Tanaka.

A collection of images that interweaves animation, special effects and live action. A symphony of transformations where animated fish swim in real waters, buddhas dissolve, and ducks cut real paths in unreal rivers. The film evokes the four seasons in Japan incorporating natural and cultural elements- bird, flower, moon and wind alternate with dragon, temple, statue and pagoda.

Japanese horror movie from 1984.

A Japanese 8mm slasher film.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

This short film, made for schools to show, teaches traffic safety using the Kinnikuman cast. A Devil Chojin teams up with Kinkotsuman and Iwao to create a dangerous theme park named "Traffic Hell Land". It's up to Kinnikuman, Terryman and Meat-kun to stop them with their usual wrestling action, while teaching the kids trapped there proper traffic safety.

The title means "fire poker" in Hokkaido dialect. It could be said to be a 3-minute condensed version of "Guiding Star." Using film I shot when I was a freshman in college and footage of my current shadow, I made this film wondering how much story I could fit into the limited 3-minute 8mm cartridge.

Short made to promote traffic safety staring characters from the Super Mario Bros. universe.

Brian and Charlie. Brian and Charlie were the best tag-team ever..." One day, the two are separated and start to live very different lives. The film is a powerful and lyrical portrayal of the lives of these two young men through a series of spoken monologues and images that are the common cry of their youth. The filmmaker's love of pro-wrestling, science fiction and rock music becomes a powerful theory of life that challenges the viewer.

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Takarazuka Revue's Star Troupe's 1998 adaptation of The Rose of Versailles by Ikeda Riyoko

"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Okura Eiga.

"Groper Train" distributed by Shintoho.

A man on his way home from a wedding. When he wakes up drunk, he finds himself in a park in the early morning. As he wanders the city in the early morning, he meets a girl on a mountain bike and is suddenly chased by the police instead of the girl. The camera, which had been following the lazy, fresh morning air, turns around and starts running away with the man. The police chase him relentlessly. As he struggles to outrun his pursuers, he finds himself becoming increasingly elated. As he runs, he finds himself becoming more and more elated, as if it is the start of a journey away from the boredom of everyday life. The camera work is superb, eloquently capturing the man running with all his might.

An experimental short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun Kurosawa.

"Apartment Wife" erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

A woman meets a man who had dumped her...

Pink film distributed by Tokatsu.

Keiko Tsukada (Jun Izumi) works as a secretary at a management consulting company. Keiko is taught the pleasures of lewd sex by her company president, Hiroaki Sakakibara. She depicts the world of lewd pleasure between a beautiful secretary and the company president, and their irresistible sexual journey with rich sensual depictions.

This musical play is based on the first act of Goethe's Faust. The angel Mephistopheles is condemned to fall from heaven after committing a sin. He is told that he can only return to heaven if he can bring a human being on the path of salvation. Mephistopheles refuses, believing that man is inherently evil. Vowing to drag a human down to hell along with him, he descends onto Earth and sets his sights on a man named Faust, an aged professor with no will to live.

Famed detective Akechi Kogorō (Shigeru Amachi) investigates a stunningly beautiful woman wearing black pearl earrings who possesses a legendary painting by van Gogh. When a lavish art unveiling spirals into revenge and murder, Akechi must unravel the tangled web of deception.

Deceptively real, and even described by Tony Rayns as a 'ciné-vérité essay'. Entirely in the tradition of the better mockumentary, the news crew making the film plays a decisive role. Before the grand hype of commercial reality television, Riju Go made it clear what the consequences are of penetrating too deeply into the private world of the person followed. A beautiful portrait of an absolute loner.

Mariko Miyagi is back documenting the activities of disabled children from her own school, Nemunoki. This time, the whole documentary focuses itself on the powers of creativity and drawing.

Kazu is a timid, kind, slightly clumsy fourth-year university student. Yukko is a gentle yet mysterious girl who seems to have come from nowhere. The two, who somehow resemble each other, meet by chance and eventually start living together without much thought.

Psychedelic animation that impresses with eyeballs and other motifs.

The story begins with a parody of a familiar folklore about a rabbit and an earthworm chasing after each other, but the warm atmosphere changes completely to a succession of surreal images, and the story dismantles.

Eriko and her silent brother Makoto live together. One day, while the two are drinking at a bar, Eriko's boyfriend Junichi comes in. Eriko introduces him to her, but Makoto gets up from the table looking annoyed. Eriko, who he loves like a daughter, has a boyfriend...

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for VHS.

A wife who invites a molester to a hotel to play a honey trap, but falls in love with the molester's extraordinary sexual prowess. A newlywed married a molester who was so handsome that she fell in love with him at first sight, but is at a loss when she finds out that he only gets aroused on the train. A university student who likes masturbating accidentally meets the nude model he always masturbates to on the train. A wife who brings various adult toys onto the train to cure her husband's impotence, has the molester use them, and shows them to her husband.

A MAKING OF 愛情物語/ Curtain Call, narrated by Harada Tomoyo.

A woman is attacked, later plotting revenge...

Set in the glamorous world of songwriting, this is the story of a failed songwriter who kills his mistress, a witness to a hit-and-run accident.

Shot in the foothills of Iwate Prefecture’s mystical Mt. Hayachine, the film records a year in the life of the area’s villages.

At the beginning of the film, we are presented with an ordinary story. It is the story of a student organization's internal struggle. The story begins with the protagonist taking a briefcase and the organization taking it back, along with his woman. The man who brings back the bag faces the woman. The room is somehow symmetrical. The room is somehow left-right symmetrical, with a low angle and fixed screen as in the Ozu style.

Lesbian pinku from 1984.

A young boy named Takeshi steals an origami crane from his friend Nobu. To Takeshi's surprise the crane begins talking to him and offers to take him and his friends to an amusement park in space where children from many planets play. While riding an attraction designed to test the children's courage, Akiko is sucked into a black hole, leaving Takeshi and his friends to save her.

The 1986 live-action TV special was a one-time broadcast on Fuji Television's Monday Drama Land series on December 8, 1986. Loosely based on Nintendo's Famicom Disk System game of the same name, the special starred Masaki Kyomoto as the protagonist Takamaru and featured members of the popular 1980s J-Pop idol group Onyanko Club.

The early sixteenth-century Japanese garden in the Zen temple of Ryoan-ji, in Kyoto, is considered a masterpiece of the karesansui or "dry landscape" style... In this film, the viewer is invited to experience the garden as an embodiment of ma, a Japanese concept that conveys both time and space... The aesthetic of the film is the message, it has the quality of an experimental film, a conceptual film-an artwork in itself. Good balance of music/visuals/titles. If not as compelling for some viewers as for others, still rated as very effective. Makes one want to visit the actual garden and experience its spiritual energy. – Art on Screen

Kaoru Oda goes undercover to cover the Shibuya Dogenzaka Love Hotel District. A camera enters her room. Interview after the vivid play of the hotel lady. The staff leaves and Kaoru Oda is left alone with the man. The video records the interaction between just the two of them. A man approaches Kaoru Oda. A vivid live play begins...

"Tried to make a movie incorporating video noise which was generated by pointing a camcoder directly to a TV monitor." VTR/sound

Wanting to enjoy her student life more, a female college student casually begins a subsidized relationship even though she has a boyfriend. She becomes involved in an underground prostitution ring and becomes corrupted, but in the end, she discovers her own sexual tendencies and becomes a prostitute herself. Depicts walking the path of. This work is based on social conditions such as the fashion of mistress banks at the time.

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

On their way to the Owari, Sanzo and Yumenogosuke gets lost in the Kiso Mountains. There they encounter a hidden gold mine being demolished by the Mino Naegi clan. The two join a beautiful girl named Tsubakuro Osen, whom they meet in the mountains to extort the Nabeki clan. They reach an agreement with Kageyama Taito to receive 300 ryo in three days but suddenly the Naeki clan is stripped of its power by the authorities... a plot set in motion by Sakai Wakasamori and Saegusa Kanmotsu.

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu

A comedy set in an entertainment production company on the outskirts of the world. This is a place for men who aspire to be in the entertainment industry and have a chance to make their debut, even if it's just a production company. Waiting for them are some lewd men during a strange festival that has been passed down in Kurume, Kyushu.

The camera enters the "Sunayama Ginza" shopping district in Hamamatsu. The people in the area, the signboards for the "eradication of night butterflies," etc., are recorded in an unhurried manner. Suddenly, however, with the voice of the artist saying, "No more deception," the camera stands in the middle of a rainy intersection. As if to say, "This is my expression," we can feel the artist's fresh breath.

This work was submitted in a special animation competition as part of a PR project for a power company, but was unfortunately not adopted. The reason is very clear: the setting of the story is the exhausted earth. There couldn't be a more instructive setting for a power company that uses enormous amounts of the earth's resources. Additionally, a girl robot discovered by the main character can store sunlight and convert it into energy; in other words, the robot does not require a power-generating company. In addition to this, the robot destroys herself to protect the established solar power generation system in space. The unsuccessful outcome of the competition for Tezuka Osamu was only natural, and it is clear that he created this piece, as it was intentionally, as he managed everything from the original story to the screenplay, animation, narration, etc., all the while knowing that the competition was sponsored by a power company.

Writes Kobayashi, "In 1972 I started a series of participatory performances where the first person performs an ambiguous action in front of a recording camera; the next person watches the recorded footage and imitates the action in front of a recording camera; the third person repeats the same procedure using the second person's video recording, and so on. Within the repetition of recording and action, the original gesture is transformed by the participants' misunderstanding, interpretation, and memory."

Parts of the female body, filmed in the light of a self-made strobe, are multiply exposed and flicker as they perform a graphical dance. In this work, reminiscent of the animation of Norman McLaren, Nakamura’s fetishism transcends physical eroticism and is dedicated to creating abstract visual pleasure. The music, evoking the gamelan, was composed with a computer program that Nakamura personally designed. (CJC, 2020).

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

The 1981 performance Circle & Square by Takahiko Iimura, New York-based Japanese film and video pioneer, evolved from the artist's interest in exposing the apparatus of projection and the materiality of image and light, which began in the mid-60s. The work commences with the projection of a long loop of black 16mm film leader suspended from the ceiling. The artist punches a hole on the film's surface and as it loops through the projector's gate, a single white circle of light pierces the darkness. With each subsequent punch the film builds before the viewer’s eyes into a cascade of white circles before reaching its abrupt and revelatory conclusion.

After working as a reporter and an assistant at a radio station, Watanabe Yoshimitsu, former leader of the bosozoku gang Black Emperor, returned to his old stomping grounds and began to make a film about bosozoku. At the time, he was 21. The teenage members of the bosozoku group, also known as " Thunder " would get into their revamped motorbikes and cars and race around the city. With the police as their enemies, they ran from patrol cars and did other defiant acts. They would put on outlandish clothing and, as a result of fights with rival groups, were very loyal to other members of their own gang. Every Saturday, they would cruise around, vanish and reappear throughout the entire night with no particular goal. However on 1 December 1978, because of provisions in the new highway transport law, the end was at hand for their " season of running wild. " The film shows them simply continuing to run wild on this last night before the law is to take effect.

Pink film by Genji Nakamura.