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From the day a stranger falls from a building and brings a stranger with him, the protagonist's house is covered with grass and trees and turns into a jungle.

Recap of episodes 01-13 from the Panzer World Galient TV series.

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Experimental short by Jun Miyazaki.

A work filmed in a room at the Washington Square Hotel in New York, created with the technique of multiple exposure. Scenes of a nude couple are overlaid with images of natural phenomena, such as blooming flowers and clouds in the sky. "The scenes of the man and woman were in filmed in the hotel room where they were staying in New York. The summer sky and clouds were shot time-lapse on the roof of a building in Nakano-ku, Tokyo, where I lived at the time. I can’t remember where the cherry blossoms were filmed, but I remember I only saw the petals on the ground rather than the flowers themselves. Three motifs taken at different locations: the activities of men and women, the hot sunshine every summer, and the cherry blossoms that bloom and fall in spring. Things that are fleeting and disappearing, but at the same time, only exist at that moment."

At the beginning of the 1970s, in the village of Rokkasho situated at the base of the Shimokita peninsula, the prospect of sudden development and industrialization was raised. 10 years later it was decided that a giant petrochemical complex would be built, so the local people sold their land and left. Yet even now people continue to live in this "island on the mainland;" they continue to battle the forces of nature in this inhospitable climate that always leaves them with an insufficient harvest. In actuality, many of the old people who continue to work in agriculture or the fishing industry only settled here after World War II. The occurrence of both the "dollar shock" and the "oil shock" abruptly cut back the national development plans, ... Then, in 1984, almost as if it had been planned from the beginning, it was decided that a nuclear reprocessing facility would be built at Rokkasho. In consequence, the opposition movement quietly began to reform.

"Apartment Wife" pink film distributed by Million.

Three young people visit a murder scene in the mountains. As one finds an ice pick, he gets crazy as soon as he picks it up and attacks the two other people.

A young woman, Yoriko, who has repeatedly attempted suicide since the disappearance of her beloved brother, runs barefoot through heaven and hell, dreams and reality.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Tetsuya Nakashima's entry into the Pia film festival when he was a student.

The murderous intent hidden in the white, ripe, soft skin that burns strangely. A love suspense story.

Documentary on the relationship between human beings and nature

Based on the Edogawa Rampo story "Tower of Ghosts."

Experimental short by Visual Brains.

Pink film distributed by Toei Central Film.

One of the most popular forms of entertainment in contemporary japan is the "manga". The work is usually translated as "comics" in English, but mangas are not limited to the publishing industry alone. In fact, this art form has extended its popularity into almost every communication media such as movies, records, television, ect.

Pink film by Ichiro Kitami.

A tragic love story about a soldier and a circus performer, based on the 1967 Swedish film Elvira Madigan.

The story of a serial gourd robbery murderer and the police pursuing him is interspersed with episodes from a film director whose motif is based on Ueoka himself.

The first entry in the Ecosystem series. - "In Alvileo, Fomalhaut, Eusthenopteron and this Ecosystem-1, I tried to create a collage-box of universe by collecting and rearranging a great quantity of ordinary and electronic microscopic photographs of creatures, minerals, outer space, marine lives etc. posted in scientific journals. The attempt for these video works became the driving force to produce Ecosystem-5- A Tremulous Stone which was the starting point of later Ecosystem series."

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

The ultimate weapon, Koro, has escaped, take him alive! Our heroes, the four Voice Rangers, rise up to the occasion in this near-future science fiction action romp that is sure to be a favorite among boys. The four heroes, the Voice Rangers, rise to the occasion. The four men shoot guns, chase and confront Kolo (the dog) in the high school and the surrounding residential area. Their exploits are portrayed in a dynamic and ridiculous way, with parodies of TV shows, clones of famous scenes from American films and MTV flicks. This is a film that is 10 years ahead of its time.

One night Mr. K went for a walk with his pet...

In a world where there are many films that synthesize a variety of images, this one-minute film, with just a single image, makes the atmosphere more diverse. After school, in an empty hallway, you can hear the whispering of high school girls, and it reminds you of the crowd of high school girls that many men have trouble with. Is it only men who have trouble understanding what they are talking about? Is it only men who don't understand what they're talking about? Her silhouette and fingers in blue-green are beautiful, and the way she wipes her rouge on the glass suggests the atmosphere after a fight.

The establishment of Hiroyuki Ohki's Matsumae-Kun's film is an inversion of the relationship between reality and image, as opposed to a documentary, in which something is happening in reality and the filmmaker goes there to make images of it, or story film, in which the filmmaker goes there to make images of it because there is something most suitable for embodying his or her ideas. It can be said that this is the case. Herein lies the film's acute problematic nature.

Pink film from Toei Central.

Pink film directed by Satoru Kobayashi.

A sketch of the first summer of the first year of the Heisei era, with episodes surrounding a university student. The film unfolds in a gentle rhythm of independent episodes, such as his interactions with his friends over compulsory reports and job-hunting activities, the beautiful young man he is interested in for some reason, and a visit from his sister. In addition, by placing the characters in the distance, the surrounding space is incorporated into the picture, and the freshness characteristic of early summer is expressed in a natural way. In combination with the unusual character of the protagonist, Sabu, the film depicts his "uneventful" daily life in an unhurried manner, and it is a strange work that draws the viewer in.

Format: 16 mm standard; Color; Sound; 30 min 10 sec Sponsor: Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association

Pink film from Toei.

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

A young man travels around in a truck while turning an 8mm camera. In his hometown in Kansai, he meets a high school girl. The film tells the story of the moratorium of youth through the connection of seemingly unrelated episodes between the young man and the girl. A truck driving through the city, a teacher from high school, an exchange with the girl. The film is full of transparency, with a conscious interplay between black and white and colour, as if it were a mental picture of the young man himself. In the last scene, the girl turns the 8mm camera on herself, and her face, enveloped in light, is refreshing.

After a handful of groundbreaking films detailing the tragedy and suffering of the mercury-poisoned Japanese town of Minamata, documentary master Noriaki Tsuchimoto revisits the subject of Minamata through the eyes of the celebrated husband-and-wife painting duo Iri and Toshi Maruki. Tsuchimoto follows the Marukis from their quaint homestead studio, where they paint slews of ghastly, psychotropic mural panels depicting the effects of Minamata disease, to the streets of Minamata, where they meet and paint portraits of several victims of mercury poisoning.

Pinku distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

The soundless stop-motion paint-on-glass film by Koji Yamamura showcases the different seasons. He created the short in his early career in 1988. It is unclear whether the public could have seen it before its upload on YouTube in 2019.

Starting with a scene of a refugee camp in Israeli-occupied Gaza in 1976, the film features shots of various districts, dispensing with narration and interspersing interviews with Palestinian people and fedayeen (guerrillas) in the rubble of Western Beirut. Children who lost their parents in bombings are educated to be soldiers at their orphanage. They say that they want to be soldiers or heroes. Boys and girls sing: "We don't want money. We don't want to play. We will carry guns and enter the Revolutionary Army." Two years after the filming began, the girls have grown but they have not changed their minds.

A reporter goes undercover the red-light district of Kabukicho, Shinjuku, and experiences a first-hand experience of the entertainment industry, which takes an unexpected turn...

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Ito is one of the leading experimental filmmakers in Japan. He graduated from Art and Technology Department of Kyushu Institute of Design in 1983 during which he made a debut with the film SPACY in 1981 (Inagaki who created sound effects for the film was also a filmmaker and his classmate at the institute). He was rather a premature virtuoso.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

A previously unseen short by the Japanese avant-garde titan, Toshio Matsumoto's 1986 Summer locates faces and bodies within superimpositions, zooms, a lightning-fast montage of brick structures and verdant trees.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

One day a red paper arrives for Takao, and he disappears. His girlfriends Yoko and Keiko search for him. Eventually, they find him abducted by two men, and their relentless pursuit of him begins. The frequent use of long, light moving shots and the unearthly reticence of the characters gives the film a strange flavour.

It seems that pure love is a very painful thing these days. Yoshio is lured into a dubious club by Keiko, whom he falls in love with at first sight on campus. His premonition is correct, the club is a prostitution ring and Keiko is the number one girl there. Yoshio is confronted by one fierce opponent after another. It's easy to like a hero who gets beaten up and then gets back up again. It is worth mentioning that the action scenes are very powerful and full of stunts.

Pink film from Toei Central.

Widow Sugita moves into a second-hand house and starts living alone. However, when she sees a bill brought by the electricity company's bill collector, she becomes suspicious that the electricity bill is too much higher than that of her previous house. The widow persistently complains to the bill collector and the power company, and is annoyed. The widow hears a bad rumor about the couple next door from the fishmonger's wife, and notices that the electricity meter is still running even though all the cords for the appliances are unplugged. She complains to the power company that the electricity is being stolen from the neighbor's house, and an investigation is finally launched with heavy machinery. The workers find a branched cord in the ceiling. After breaking a wall along the cord and tearing up the floor, they find the cord buried in the earth under the floor. A refrigerator is dug out from under the floor.

Pinku distributed by Shintoho.

A man (Masahiro Sugiyama), an idol otaku, picks up a monster fish and starts to raise it at home. At the same time, he moves in with a runaway girl (Yoko Oguchi), and the friction between them becomes more intense. The film was made at the end of the eighties, in response to the sense of stagnation in the provincial cities. It's a film with a darker side than my previous film "Love on the Street". It also has the strongest theatrical colour of all the films so far, but it shows the bankruptcy in a different way to "Street Corner of Love -".

“I have three tasks in my life: to dance, to teach dance, and to create dance,” says the pioneering Japanese performer Akiko Kanda in this intimate portrait of creativity and individuality, After seeing a Martha Graham performance in college, Kanda left her family behind in Japan and arrived in New York City, where she studied under the legendary Graham and became a principal dancer with the troupe. Following the wiry artist as she moves from practice floor to performance hall, and from the cramped single-room apartment she lives in to a trip home to see her aging mother, director Sumiko Haneda reveals a woman who has rebelled against traditional ideals of marriage and motherhood, and who nearly single-handedly brought modern dance to Japan-and kept it alive. “When I die,” Kanda tells the director, “I will be content if I can just say, ‘I danced.'”

This is a work that measures the brightness of an image from a photodetector and generates music from that brightness while sampling various facial expressions automatically.