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Pink film directed by Rokuro Mochizuki and Mamoru Watanabe

Docudrama starring dollmaker Keisuke Okuyama.

After the graduation ceremony, Yui is invited by her seniors to celebrate her graduation, and gets drunk...

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Camera turns on, the film runs and the wind occurs. A work that follows the wind, chases the image, and goes far to the image of Africa. A movie that talks about the fact that the wind carries words. The music was borrowed from an African folk music album.

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

A young girl lives in a Western-style mansion with a middle-aged man in a wheelchair. A boy is attracted to her sweet and innocent smile and tries to approach her. However, first love never comes true.

Pinku distributed by Million.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Pink film from Toei Central.

8mm student film by Masahiro Kasai.

Japanese horror movie from 1981.

OVA adaptation of a manga by Watase Seizou.

"Apartment Wife" pink film distributed by Okura Eiga.

A perverted nerd uses his computer to determine that his ideal mate would be a teacher. Painting his face kabuki-white to gain confidence, he kidnaps two female high-school students and makes them his rape-torture slaves until they help him nab their teacher. In an abandoned building, the rapes and tortures continue until the teacher finally gets the psychopath's makeup off, rendering him terrified and harmless.

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

A collection of short shorts, a dozen or so short episodes and gags in 32 minutes. From the hilarious to the thought-provoking, all of the short films have an urban sense of humour, especially the second half, "My right hand, my left foot and the back of my head at the age of 23", which is full of wit and humour, firing like a machine gun. In the latter half of the film, the witty monologue and the rhythmical development of the images are beautifully synchronized, and the light but flexible "23-year-old me" speaks eloquently of his existence. Many of the film's gags are made up of deformed gags about the funny things that happen in the daily life of the author, a student, and the uniqueness of the characters makes this a film that will be loved by many people.

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.

Erotic home video drama by Nikkatsu.

A camera races through the city, a camera licks its way around a room. Their gaze identifies with the artist's eyes, sits in his daily life, and looks around him. A high school girl, a grandmother in a liquor store, Pico the chicken. The author screams chases and beats up a man like a madman. This is a diary film in which we are forced to identify with the filmmaker through a hand-held camera that records the entire film.

A single-channel version of Kubota's installation of the same name, Rock Video: Cherry Blossom is a lyrical fusion of nature and technology. Branches of pink cherry blossoms etched against a vivid blue sky are the starting point for this sensual visual haiku. Through a fluid application of electronic processing, Kubota layers, digitizes, slows, colorizes and ultimately abstracts the cherry blossoms, creating poetic transmutations of space and image. The mesmerizing and unexpectedly witty confluence of serene blossoms and energetic imaging effects—the transformation of the organic into the electronic—is quintessential Kubota.

Pinku distributed by Million

Hanayagi Genshu, who spent a winter in Tochihara Women's Prison due to an injury to the Hanayagi style Iemoto, is allowed to be paroleed. In Asakusa, she reunited with her prison companion, Sayoko Nakano. Genshu, Sayoko, and Setsuko Kanno gather at a yakitori restaurant to reminisce about their prison days. This is the second drama of her prison record that was broadcast in 1984 and caused a sensation.

In 1989, Emperor Shōwa passed away. The procession was televised, and between 800,000 and 2 million people watched it in person.

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

It is the second part of the period drama at the end of the Edo period, featuring Shinsaku Takasugi, who organized the Kiheitai and led the Meiji Restoration to success and depicts the turbulent life of the young samurai of the Choshu clan at the end of the Edo period.

1985 film

The original 1986 short film that would eventually be remade and expanded into the 1988 Star Virgin film. While originally just released as Star Virgin (スターヴァージン) it would latter be rebranded to Star Virgin Pilot Film (スターヴァージン パイロットフィルム) after the release of the 1988 film.

In postwar Tokyo, while his mum works, Taichi spends his days alone and misses his dad who was killed in the war. Through his friendship with an old man who tends a seemingly dead cherry tree, Taichi learns about the tree and gradually becomes more positive. (Source: Treasures of the Heart)

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

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A tangerine field stretches along the seashore in Minamata. Minamata disease patients, unable to work on the sea, work hard at growing amanatsu oranges.

8mm work from the director

Short animation by Yoji Kuri

This is an 8mm film that Sato made at the age of 20 with his student friends.

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

A playful portrait of designer Ryoichi Enomato, a former collaborator of the Shuji Terayama and the Tenjō Sajiki theater troupe. Kyoko Michishita: “…when I asked Enomoto, the king of parody, to let me film him at the Japan Graphic Exhibition, an event that has become the gateway to success for commercial artists, he gracefully took his clothes off for me. But he asked to wear sunglasses to hide his embarrassment.”

A boy in blue wanders along a riverside wearing a kettle, a raccoon piggy bank and an electric stand.

By scratching the surface of a polaroid photograph before the emulsion dries, the work abstracts the interior space of the frame. Positioned as if being locked inside the frame, the mobility of the subject becomes accentuated.

Film by Shirouyasu Suzuki, 1985, 16mm, 54min

Using the constellation as a motif, the heavens and the earth, metamorphose all the creatures.

"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Okura Eiga.

"Apartment Wife" pink film distributed by Okura Eiga.

A video short created in collaboration with Takashi Inagaki.

Keiko Hirota in Tahiti.

Forcing himself to confront his own 16mm camera each day for over two weeks, Suzuki Shiroyasu initially seems to regret his own idea and indulges in very recalcitrant behaviour. Not until halfway through the project does he address the camera more candidly and start to question his own identity, as well as his relationships with his own milieu and other social structures.

A middle-aged yakuza escapes from Tokyo after commiting a crime. He meeets a young right-wing extremist. Together they help a girl who's looking for a river bank full of canola flowers that her mother had a strong memory of. The story is about how they find the place while escaping from pursuers. Self-produced by Zeze and shot on 16mm film when he was a student at Kyoto University.

Set in the city of Tokyo, overrun by its machines, which have been turned into robots of all shapes and sizes by a robotic magician, the titular Red Neck.

Film by Takahiko Iimura

Three women and two men appear one after the other without any context and continue to act in a disorderly manner through cutbacks. However, as the scene progresses, the relationship between each of them begins to emerge, and eventually, the five are connected by a single thread. This is a typical relationship between a man and a woman, or a woman and a woman, but the sharp images accurately capture the emptiness of the relationship. The line in the film, "I'm all alone", is unforgettable.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada, 1981.