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Bass Amarillo was looking for "his own sound". He sings he shouts, he thumps. But his sound was hard to find. "This is not the sound I want to hear! The journey to find the sound continues sadly. The sounds and images that are repeated over and over again eventually reach the audience's antennae in the form of pop music. The film's main point is to show the video generation's visual play on film. This is the real image of young people who are now trying to run at the cutting edge.

"Hi-chan" delivers a letter to her high school friend "Akya" who had returned to her parents' house for work reasons, that she received from Akya's lover. The Kansai person "Kun" appears in front of these two people, and the three develop a somehow inseparable relationship, but there is no place for such a triangular relationship...

An image synthesized version of Mardi Gras festival in New Orleans, in which many colorized images flow slowly left to right as the parade of the floats goes by in front of the camera with the decorated messages. The title Scared to Death is one of them. The development of the images is somewhat similar to the old Japanese scrolled painting: Makie.

We gathered at the Shinjuku Sports Center, located between Shinjuku and Takadanobaba. It was just before the “Great Funeral Reception” of the Emperor Showa after his death, and the police were on high alert. Of the 12 participants, 6 were former members of the video street gang. Of the 12 participants, six were former members of the video street gang, and another six were from Hokkaido, so it was an uneven training session. I was also very hungover and spent most of the morning in the bathroom throwing up all over the place, which was a big turn-off for me.

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

Lesbian Pinku from 1987.

A film essay about nuclear energy in Japan, composed of newspaper clippings collected in scrapbooks

Masako moves to Tokyo to begin her career, while Hirokazu leaves for a rural area to attend university. High school classmates and devoted lovers, neither of them ever imagined that living apart could threaten their relationship. It simply seemed impossible and not even worth considering.

A minimalist adaptation of Seizo Watase's manga of the same name. It contains 5 stories of slow paced vignettes of romance whose only dialogue lies within the "oldies" being played as background music.

In April 1985, I started to make a film with my friend Kamioka as the main character. But even after three months, the whole film was still unknown. I started to work alone with the camera. One day, the rabbit he keeps at home gives birth to a stillborn baby. As he buries her under a tree in the garden, it made me think of his father, who died the year before. He is no longer with us, but only the gaze he left behind. And so I set off on a journey. In a town in the Hokuriku region, he met a woman who once appeared in one of his films. When I dozed off on the train to Tokyo, she appeared to me in a dream and tells me that I will soon find the exit. Back in Tokyo, I told Kamioka that I'm going to start filming again. I came back into the room, turned on the microphone and pressed the flame against the lens.

In April 1985 Kusama staged a performance in the cherry tree grove at Kuhonbutsu Jōshin-ji, a Buddhist temple in Tokyo. Commissioned by a professor at Tokyo University, the performance was titled Basara no Hana (Flowers of Extravagance) in reference to the extravagance of the fourteenth-century lord Dōyo Sasaki. He was said to have held a lavish celebration of cherry blossoms near Kyoto that lasted twenty days. For the performance, Kusama encircled the flowering trees with red and white streamers, connecting them in a ‘net’.

Experimental animation about the memory of childhood. 1 or 2 second paint footage that shot a baby who turned his face is repetitive. In Jun Kurosawa's works, the childishness is one of the most important factors. And it includes malicious in some cases – as Yukio Mishima has said "It is infantilism that all creative womb is".

The red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout the body have a lifespan of 120 days. The living body continuously produces blood to ensure a plentiful supply of red blood cells. This film accurately records the conversion of stem cells into red blood cells. Conditions such as encounters with various other cells and contact with signals sent by other cells are important for the growth of blood cells, and the erythropoietin is one of these important signals. This signal stimulates the stromal cells to produce the necessary number of red blood cells which are continuously sent into the bloodstream. Scientific supervisor Fumimaro TAKAKU, M.D. Ph.D. (University of Tokyo)

Pink film by Kinya Ogawa.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 16mm).

The moon in the night sky chases us wherever we go. The moon is in fact moving, but it is too far away and its movement is too slow for the human eye to see its movement. It is almost the same as saying that it is not moving in our consciousness.

"The Making..." showed not only the process of film-making, but also the creation of "MA" as a work.

A 3D Japanese short film based on Toho Planning, Studio Jump, and Yomiko Advertising's 1988 television series of the same name. It was produced for the "Jump Out! Super Heroes" event at the Takarazuka Family Land theme park, where it premiered on the day of the event's opening on March 18, 1989.[1] The film is not known to have been released again until almost a full decade later in 1998, when it was included as a bonus feature on the second volume of the series' LaserDisc releases. It has since been carried over to Toho's subsequent video releases, including the second volume of their 2005 DVDs, and the fourth volume of the discs' 2018 Toho Masterpiece Selection reissues.

One winter day, a young man named Yutaka, who is haunted by an "inexplicable tiredness", meets a mysterious white woman. One day in winter, he meets a mysterious white woman and lets her rest in his room. He becomes intensely curious about her identity, but she simply tells him her name is "Nana", and her silence and wandering continue. Who is she? A unique drama that uses the emptiness and loneliness that all of us face today as a motif to vividly cut through the fundamental problems of human existence. The director's ability to create tense and suspenseful images is so imposing in scale that it is easy to forget the 8mm frame.

Idol VHS videotape Ryoko Sano - Pochiette. A fan club special private video Hawaii diary & ski diary, 1989. It should not have been made into a DVD.

At a 6th annual contest, a woman performs in the park...

A very short animation drawn on tracing paper with a brush pen and coloured pencil. “This work was inspired by an impressive dream. In the dream, I took a dictionary that printed flip-books in the corner from a book shelf, and when I returned it, the book had disappeared.”[Yuko Asano]

A village in a different world that I do not know anywhere. There are five laws in the village, and if you break that rule you will be punished. The driver of the bus with the synonym of "Bengal's Tiger" attempts to escape from the village with two friends, but failed five times. By the instruction of the computer of "city", memory is erased as punishment. After that, the village steadily got dominated by the computer of the "city", and the driver of the bus who lost his memory kept living calmly while being watched by the lover. Meanwhile, a guerrilla group had been expecting the collapse of computer control.

So, what exactly were we doing with this work? To put it simply, we tried to see if we could do something similar to musical improvisation in film.In musical improvisation, some performers play instruments, others voice, and sometimes even dancers join in, creating a unique expression through the collaboration of these expressive acts, which could be described as a kind of friendly competition on the spot.In film, there was a "convention" to construct a work based on a "blueprint" called a concept, whether it was a scenario for a commercial film or an experimental film.This film is an attempt to break away from that style, and together with the staff and actors with whom I have worked on several other films, I explored a free jazz-like approach to making a film through a session.I didn't want to keep shooting indefinitely, so I decided to shoot from March 1st to March 10th, 1984.

In this NHK Special, Olga Struskova, author from Prague, appears. Connections to the world of life on the streets of Tokyo are explored

Track Listing: Three Of A Perfect Pair No Warning Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part III Thela Hun Ginjeet Frame By Frame Matte Kudasai Industry Dig Me Indiscipline Satori In Tangier Man With An Open Heart Waiting Man Sleepless Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part II Elephant Talk Heartbeat

This work is a day and night time-lapse film of the sky over the course of one year from July 1, 1988 to June 30, 1989. At first, the house next door had been demolished and was going to be rebuilt, Suzuki then decided to take a time-lapse photo of how the house was going to be built. However, while shooting, the movement of the clouds amazed the filmmaker who became more interested in capturing them. In September, Emperor Showa fell ill and was reported to be in critical condition, this inspired Suzuki to shoot "the last sky of the Showa era".

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, VTR).

A hot-blooded gay movie set in a high school rugby club. A parody of Kensaku Morita-style sports youth dramas. Instead of shouting "You idiot" to the ocean, the club members hook up with each other...

Pink film by Satoru Kobayshi.

Centered around the enthusiastic live performance at Shibuya Public Hall in '84.

Kitty and Mimmy are twin kittens. They have been staying inside on a rainy day when they get a souvenir from their mother; an umbrella with different colors and rain boots. The two are excited to try them out, but the rain has stopped...

After meeting in tennis club, a strange relationship unfolds between a boy and girl at a love hotel.

Short animation made by anno during his uni days

I went out of the room and chose two poets as "objects". One is Harumi Kawaguchi, who worked for a trading company at the time and was a dealer for buying and selling yen and dollars. The other is Toshiharu Kishi, who raises and lives dairy cows deep in the mountains of Yamagata. I sketched their lives and had them read their own poems.

Aiming to become a professional actor, a man challenges himself to secretly film hotel call girls.

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Yukio Ninagawa's striking rendering of the classic play by Euripides done entirely in Japanese performed in both Japan and Greece at the famous Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens.

The composer, famous for bridging Japanese traditional music with the European avant-garde, shows off his culinary skills while discussing his artistic practice. Kyoko Michishita: “The internationally acclaimed composer demonstrates how he makes soba dipping sauce, which he takes as seriously as he does music. That speed, that dynamic! It was delicious.”

BDSM erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

An omnibus film consisting of three films: "Seedless Orange Syndrome (Kengo Makino)", "The Decay of All (Ayumu Matsui)" and "Material Time (Shigemasa Hatate)".

The live action short film made during Mamoru Hosoda's college years.

The world of the kappa lives in the water. There they live in a mousy apartment block, surrounded by mousy walls and looking up at a mousy sky. The expression on the back of the Kappa's face is very similar to that of a middle-aged businessman. Eventually, the final war comes to the lives of the peaceful, smiling Kappa. Mass slaughter, spurts of purple blood, and mountains of corpses. But whether this is in the past or the future is never mentioned. A Kappa desperately pedals his bicycle, but where will he end up? A unique animation that captures war as an idea and the Japanese people as an idea.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

An 8mm action film full of miniatures and explosions.

8mm film work from 1983 by the Film Studies Department of Bunkyō University.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Takao meets a woman with amnesia at a disco. His girlfriend, Miwako, is unhappy when Takao takes her home. Finally, urged by Miwako, Takao tells the woman to leave and goes to university. That night, while drinking with friends, Takao flirts with Kazuki's girlfriend, Yoshiko, ignoring Miwako. The two get drunk and get intimate in Takao's room. The woman with amnesia is still there. Yoshiko gets angry at Takao for continuing regardless and leaves. Seeing Takao leave, the woman says, "You can have me too..." Takao names the woman Akiko. Miwako, who had been putting up with Takao and Akiko's relationship, finally can't take it anymore and attacks Akiko, tying her up with an electrical cord. Akiko's old memories begin to resurface... In fact, Akiko felt an unusual pleasure from being tied up...

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

"I stuck landscape photographs on the faces of a cube and shot them frame-by-frame. It looks like the box is forever revolving, but in truth it only revolves 90 degrees. The trick to this sensation is fundamentally the same as the one used in SPACY. I was aiming at disturbing our awareness of space in the movement from the three-dimensional to a plane and back again." Takashi Ito

An underground gay video already existed in the late 1970s in japan. "Seishun taiken shirīzu shōnen Jun no natsu" is the oldest ever know sold through legitimate channels however, it turned out that the Athens Ueno store was producing 8mm film works since 1973. So far, it has not been confirmed that Athens' original work was sold on VHS/Beta before Shonen Jun no Natsu. As a side note, the first domestically produced adult video for straight men was also released in the same year, and it is no exaggeration to say that these works for adults greatly contributed to the spread of VHS decks in Japan throughout the 1980s.

Hiroko Yakushimaru live performance 1987

Short animated film by Mihaya Tanaka

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

On August 9th, the glasswork was distorted. On the dead land, the glasswork was beautiful in the sunset. In it, a girl is trapped. The glasswork that was bathed in the sunset reflects the happiness of the girl. The glasswork that was bathed in the sunset is itself... Happiness has melted away together. And now that I cry again.