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Anime based on original story by Kinoshita Renzo.

Noutenki faces off against Mecha Noutenki

TimeFighters in the Land of Fantasy is the second film cut from Tatsunoko's Time Bokan by Jim Terry's Kidpix Productions. This film used mostly episodes themed around fairy tales, as well as the ending. It was released on home video in the 1980s alongside the original TimeFighters.

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's Thumbelina.

A documentary made at the very end of the Showa era, looking back at traditional agricultural models as they still existed at the beginning of this same era (in the 1930s). A working year is recreated in Kanegasaki (Iwate Prefecture, Tohoku region). From "threshing the paddy fields" with a hoe in April to "filling the ground with barley" in April of the following year, this film photographs seasonal agricultural work and crops such as hemp and chestnuts, showing how the ancestors were engaging their all bodies and using their ingenuity to cultivate. In order to transmit the spirit of their devotion to the earth to future generations, this documentary film faithfully reproduces and records the agricultural tools, the cultivation of rice, wheat and soybeans of yesteryear, which are on the verge of being forgotten.

This film documents a snow festival with a history dating to the 13th century held at Izu Shrine in the Niino community of Anan-cho, a small town located in the Shimoina District of Nagano Prefecture. The winter snow that falls during the festival is thought to herald the abundant life force of spring. Noda completed this film over a five-year period beginning in 1974, visiting the festival each year with a small staff and editing the footage as he shot.

Hisako was sold off by her husband to pay off his debts. She is covered in tattoos and, through the relentless torture of a bondage master, she gradually discovers the joys of bondage.

OV tie in for the hit song We Go to Tokyo

Pink film directed by Jô Ichimura.

Is this fiction or reality? The filmmaker himself suddenly appears on screen with his real name, and the process of making a film with his friends is described. There are casual, everyday conversations with a girl who happens to be an actress and her friends. At the end, the filmmaker visits the girl's room. This is the "truth of the filmmaker's own life" captured by the camera, which moves almost continuously and without any sense of artifice. The last scene in particular is condensed and infinitely endearing.

"Double Portrait" and "I Love You" are a paired piece with Akiko Iimura. Both Iimuras play individually as well as a unit. In "Double Portrait" they are never together, but one by one in three points of view, front, side, and back, assigned to the words "I", "You" and "He/She" respectively. The pronouns rotate with every repetition, for instance, in front view with "You", then "He/She" and back to "I". Often the words are destroyed acoustically making them unintelligible. "I Love You" is not a style of confession, but the words, and a linguistic practice using a sentence and shifting the pronouns.

A collaboration between City Pop artist Tatsuro Yamashita and pop artist Eizin Suzuki, known for his lush, vivid images of Americana.

Pink film from Toei Central.

Three school girls confess their experiences...

"His films are like a roller-coaster. His way of throwing the act of seeing into utter confusion is an attack on the eyes in their corporeal function, and to attack the eyes is to take on tile body itself as your opponent. The film makes you break out in sweat only by shooting a safe, peaceful gymnasium in the dark." (Koharu Kisaragi)

Masayoshi Takanaka live in 1989

A wife who lived a modest and happy life with her husband, a serious office worker. One day, it was discovered that her husband had access to her company's money, was having an affair with the mother of the snack shop, and was spending money on her. The two are divorced. Her wife sleeps with a loan shark to clean up her debts, and her husband's former boss ends up having a sexual relationship with her, leading to a rough life for her. I am forced to do so. One day when she is devastated, she accidentally reunites with her husband in her town. Her husband was also dumped by an unfaithful woman and their lives were in tatters, but the two decided to get back together, keeping secrets from each other about what had happened during their breakup.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

At dawn, Yuki goes out onto the balcony and indulges in masturbation in a bold pose. Michiko spreads butter on her private parts and writhes in pleasure as her dog licks them. Hiroko, a nurse, is a lecherous woman who goes out to the city after her shift to hunt for men and masturbates without hesitation if a customer at a bar requests it. Emi, a female college student, discovers the joy of masturbation with a vibrator she found in a friend's room. Mari, thinking of her lover who died in a traffic accident, gazes out at the sea and fondles her private parts with her fingers. Saeko, a wealthy madam, has a habit of getting drunk and masturbating in the toilets of bars...

Pink film and Kiyomi Ito's debut film.

Follows men who ride bicycles and a shopkeeper, known as the master, who lent small amounts of money to the young people who frequented his shop, and used their bodies in exchange for interest...

Pink film by Koji Seki.

This is a story about an invisible man, a specialty of director Seki Koji, who was known as the idea man of pink films . There's practically nothing in the content, but as a pink film it does a pretty good job of depicting the invisible man, making it enjoyable.

A girl models for her friend, Ippei. Another man plots to become her boyfriend.

There are people in the world with various sexual hobbies, and here, young men with such hobbies gather together to go on an erotic tour to experience other people...

This film features "Shi-chan", a dog kept by the Hirano family.

Documentary about the victims and effects in the Hiroshima bombing. Part of the "Ten-Feet Movement"

Takuji Suzuki began making films with a camera pointed at his own face. Whether in a room, in a classroom, or on a journey through the wild, the artist's face speaks to the camera. And then there is the interaction with his "uncle" who plays the violin like a saw. This is the endpoint of the unique act of the artist, who keeps turning the film to discover his identity. No one else can give you this taste.

Koichi and his sister Yuki befriend Hanaguro, a swan who has flown to Japan from Siberia. Hanaguro is attacked by a dog, and the cowardly Koichi flees, but that night he has a dream in which he is whisked away to the Kingdom of Snow Prince, where he finds the bravery to help the other swans.

Vittorio is the young lord of Il Lago, which is always at war with Bolzano, a neighboring city-state of Northern Italy. In one conflict, Vittorio kills the old lord of Bolzano, and takes his daughter Clarice prisoner. Clarice is actually the bastard daughter of the old lord, and expects Vittorio to be a fat old man. She's rather surprised when she sees the real Vittorio. Vittorio, to everyone's shock, orders an immediate wedding.

Four heroes set out to rescue girls taken by ayakashi.

"Apartment Wife" pink film distributed by Okura Eiga.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

Pink film by Seiji Izumi.

A group of friends gather at a mountain loge for a few days of skiing and relaxation. However, there are rumours that the mountain lodge is haunted by evil spirits, and soon eerie things begin to happen.

Pink film distributed by Shintoho.

"Apartment Wife" pink film distributed by Okura Eiga.

Sayonara Goodbye is a China-Japan Co-Production starring Cherie Chung.

Pink film directed by Keiko Hama

Pink film from Toei Central.

BDSM erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

"A flicker film made using only intense shock-zooms, Vibration is one of a series of films Matsumoto made in the 1980s that explored proprioception through a mixture of minimalist effects and modernist architecture." - filmlinc.org

16mm student film by Masahiro Kasai.

Quiet images of statues and fire, followed by animation on drawing paper sinking into the ocean.

The course was set to meet on the rooftop of Shinjuku Odakyu Department Store and penetrate Shinjuku's Kabukicho district. Hirano used Masahiro Sugiyama, the star of his film “The Thunderfish,” to shoot the film, and Hideto Ishii shows his commitment to light. Nanao also brought a saxophonist, Toru Nishiuchi, and had him blow his saxophone in the street, much to the dismay of the audience. The participants on the rooftop at this time can be seen in “Aitai”. As a result, two films were made in one day.

Kobayashi’s feature film In the Third Summer was shot without a finalized script. Instead, filming progressed day by day in a somewhat improvised manner while the screenplay and storyboard were still being written. As a result, the structure of the film changed repeatedly during production, leaving behind a large amount of unused footage that was later cut during editing.

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkastu.

The mysterious voice was heard from the phone..

"Groper Train" distributed by Shintoho.

Early 8mm film by Sho Fujiwara.

A Czech woman goes to the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima to hang a small bell made by her grandmother, and meets a Japanese boy.

Takashi is a typical mama's boy who has had everything he wanted since he was a child and excels in school. He even gets his mother to call prostitutes to satisfy his sexual desires, but one day he has a secret rendezvous with a woman from a phone club without telling his mother... This film depicts the anxiety, confusion, and unhappiness of children who become toys for adults, the immature adults, and the distortion of love.

Heartwarming New Year's Animal Anime - Cow and Girl is a flipbook animation released through Animage's January Issue 1985.