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Yomiuri Independent was an annual show between 1949-1963 that exhibited all art that was submitted. Artists in the early 60s began to take advantage of the challenge by provoking the organisers with their submissions that cast a question on the framework of art within the gallery space. The objet d'art and performances we see in Dada 62 are fragments of what was shown in its 1962 version with pieces by Genpei Akasegawa, Jiro Takamatsu and Shinmei Kojima making an appearance. (Julian Ross)

Koichi is a gigolo who is paid by a madame to seduce and have sex with various women while she and her clients secretly watch. He doesn't like what he's doing, but he needs the money to take care of his seriously ill mother. One day he's given the assignment to seduce a pretty waitress and they wind up falling in love. Koichi tells his madame that is going to quit, but she has other plans for him.

Early pink film directed by Sôjirô Motoki.

Music video for the song Daremo Shiranai by Kusunoki Toshie that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

A promotional film for the Boy Scouts of Japan directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.

Shot by Naoya Kuroki and produced by Tamio Suenaga (as KOKUIN). On October 10, 1969, various factions, including Beheiren (Citizens' Alliance for Peace in Vietnam), Zenkyoto, and the Anti-War Youth Committee, joined forces and held rallies in parks in Yoyogi, Hibiya, and Shimizudani. The factions, which had rallied in multiple parks, gathered in Meiji Park in Tokyo. The demonstrators headed from Gaienmae to Aoyama-dori, where they were joined by ordinary citizens. It became a French demonstration, with people running hand in hand.In the film, a flag flutters for a moment, and the words "KOKUIN, Joint Struggle to Destroy the Expo" can be read. Two months earlier, members of the KOKUIN group had been arrested in connection with the "Joint Struggle to Destroy the Expo," but after their release they took part in this anti-war rally. The commentary at the beginning of the film was written by Tamio Suenaga.

1962 Japanese documentary

A documentary chronicling a concert tour of Japan by the rock group the Ventures.

Pinku from 1968.

Pink film distributed by Roppo Eiga.

Computer Movie No. 1 is a CGI animation created by the Computer Technique Group Japan.

The film depicts the plight of a female office worker whose boss introduces to the world of pornographic films.

Filmed between 1967-68 in 16mm, the documentary is a propaganda film funded by the Tokyo Headquarters of the Japanese Socialist Party to support governor Minobe Ryōkichi, elected in 1967.

Cameraman Yonesaku Kobayashi (1905-2005) is a pioneer of scientific films of Japan. He and producer Sozo Okada made many scientific educational films, and in 60's - 70's, many avant-garde composers composed music for these films.

Short animated film by Manabe Hiroshi

A documentary about the therapeutic education activities for severely disabled children at Biwako Gakuen. The camera actively participates in the activities for severely disabled children, exploring what therapeutic education means in everyday life with a group of caregivers.

Animated film by Katsuo Takahashi.

1966 Japanese movie

This work is an extension of Jonouchi’s documentation of Hi-Red Center’s performance event, Shelter Plan (1964). Using the same unique shooting and editing techniques adopted in the Gewaltpia series, Jonouchi put on record the process of destruction of Frank Lloyd Wright’s renowned architectural piece [the Imperial Hotel], which was the site where Shelter Plan took place.

1962 Japanese movie

Documentary on the potter Arakawa Toyozo

Kudaka Island in Nanjo City, Okinawa Prefecture, has long been known as an island of the gods. Around thirty religious rites are woven into the life of the island each year, and they are still solemnly preserved and passed down by the islanders today. The greatest of these rituals is the “Izaihō,” held once every twelve years in the Year of the Horse. “Izaihō” is a sacred rite in which women between the ages of 30 and 41, born and raised on the island, become priestesses or divine women. Centered around a four-day main ceremony, the ritual unfolds over the course of more than a month. The women of the island, led by the noro priestesses, formed a religious order that protected the men and the daily life of the community. This is a documentary record of the 1966 “Izaihō.”

Pink film directed by Shinya Yamamoto.

Movie-installation by graphic-designer AQUIRAX UNO.

Raw material spliced ​​into projection film, paper, leaves, vinyl, 6mm audio tape. Depending on hair, etc. the film breaks during projection. The film gets shorter with each projection, the author wrote this {Disappearance Movie} and named it.

Jonouchi, who documented various artists’ performances and events, turned the camera onto himself cutting his hair. Using the experimental methods Jonouchi incorporated in his past works, he painted a private space and time by way of portrayal of his own body.

Early 8mm filmwork by Masanobu Nakamura.

A documentary of an avant-garde theatre performance, presents an orgiastic rite of sex, degradation, and bloody sacrifice, performed by Zero-Jigen.

Based on the live puppet show "The Adventures of Peter Rabbit" that was airing at the time.

One of the early works of Japanese filmmaker Jun'ichi Okuyama.

If Richie’s films were an American’s insight into Japan, Oe’s six-screen projection piece Great Society takes the intercultural dialogue back full circle onto the U.S., where he accumulated a compilation of American news footage and avant-garde imagery into a hybrid mesh to express distrust in singular point of views. A project commissioned by CBS, the six screens presented interact, mirror and fissure against one another, emanating an aura of vibrancy and confusion that was internationally a characteristic of the decade.

A naked man crawls around a basement alone, listening to his own voice recorded on tape. "There is nothing to say... almost nothing." Drawing inspiration from Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape," introspective thoughts are transformed into vivid images.

The history of the construction of the Kurobe Dam in Japan.

A group, they didn't know of 'landscape theory'

A short film satirizing consumerism.

Document of butoh dancer Hijikata Tatsumi's work "Rebellion of the Body".

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

Accumulated in cardboard, a pile of unused negative film, snapshots, student ID photos, etc. These were all shot for purposes completely unrelated to film. When I decided to "get rid of it," I had an idea. A discontinuous sequence, film that does not have the frames of a normal movie. What happens if you film it? I couldn't sit still any longer. Then, I diligently pieced together these short negatives, it was compiled into a film. In other words, it is a work that uses waste materials. To add some flavor, additional photography was done with a half-size camera.

short film by Matsumoto Shoji

This is the first work that marks the construction record of the Kasumigaseki Building, Japan's first skyscraper building. We will introduce the construction plans for the Kasumigaseki Building and safety measures for skyscrapers.

Semi-animated adaptation of the manga Screw Style.

Music video for the song Awate Tokoya by Bonny Jacks that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

Movie-installation by graphic-designer AQUIRAX UNO.

In Shadow (1968), Rikuro Miyai projects two films of his own shadow walking outdoors side-by-side—one positive, one negative—each a reflection of the other.

When you're just a little kid and get frightened easily, having a ghost as a friend and mentor isn't all bad.

Miyai layers ghostlike footage of unauthorized street performances in the Shinjuko district of Tokyo with color filters and lights.

A film made with a group of student and worker activists during the Haneda 1967 protests against Japan’s cooperation with the US and the Vietnam war. The film subverts the conventions of mainstream television news coverage to investigate in great detail the killing of a young protester during clashes with the riot police and thus denounces the increasing use of repressive violence by the government.