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Student film by Eiki Takahashi. Japan University College of Art Film Department Video Course 4th grade graduation production.

A tragedy occurs when a man and his daughter encounter a tofu shop owner who is grieving after his wife leaves him. A collaboration between an instructor and a student at the Film School of Tokyo.

An avant-garde short film by Jun Kurosawa.

1985 film

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

In 1984, an independent film was produced mainly by university students. After 36 years, it was digitized. The culture and scenery of that time will be revived vividly.

A work I made when I was attending the film department of the University of Paris 8. At the time, I was living in a downtown area in the northwest of Paris, close to the Place de la Bastille, which was associated with the French Revolution. Building construction sites were scattered around the area due to redevelopment. The shooting location was a building with only walls and floors, whether it was under construction or being demolished. I decided on the composition so that the wall and floor exactly intersect in the center of the screen. In order to capture 1/4 of the screen, 3/4 of the screen must be covered with a mask. Then, while rewinding the film, I took four shots at different frame speeds. One cut, one scene, a fixed screen with no camera work. The same man is walking in each part of the continuous screen, which is divided into four parts. The movement of the same man, who was just walking at the same speed, has four different speeds on the screen.

Experimental film about the schizoid man by using double exposure. The title includes a double meaning, that is "now here" being here – and "nowhere" to not be anywhere. In this lyrical work, Jun Kurosawa analyzed himself schizophrenically.

16mm, 5'00

16mm student film by Masahiro Kasai.

Horror manga artist Kazuo Umezz spends time with ten young women on an island.

"Heavenly Warrior Fantasy Legend" is a promotional video produced and released in the late 1980s at the Takeshima Fantasy Museum in Gamagori City, Aichi Prefecture, to commemorate the museum's 30th anniversary. It is believed to be a work from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, but the exact production year is unknown, although there are records indicating it was sold at the museum in 1987. Set in Gamagori City, the story features a heavenly warrior, played by Shinobu Sakagami, struggling in the human world. It also served as a promotional video for the Takeshima Fantasy Museum, a tourist attraction at the time. Production Background: Produced by the former management of the Fantasy Museum amidst the economic downturn following the collapse of the bubble economy, it was created to promote the museum's 30th anniversary.

The first Music Video work of Eiki Takahashi before he became a music video filmmaker and making documentaries about music idol groups.

An animation short about a sleepy dinosaur called SLEEPY.

In front of a train station in the suburbs, a man chopping dried fish, chicken bones, and logs. When the man strikes with his machete, the entire scene begins to rotate. As if it had been put through a juicer, it was broken down into small pieces and eventually put into the glass the girl was holding.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

A dissected pig's head. As you approach, you can see the pig's face reflected in the girl's eyes, and this is repeated over and over again. This work incorporates the techniques of experimental film, which were mainstream at the time. It was the undergraduate graduation project.

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Steps with shadows. An arm shadow in the landscape - concrete/grass/flowers. Flicker and a finger morphs into abstraction. A real hand appears above the animation, a zoom - drawings/hands/feet.

Erotic drama released by Nikkatsu for home video.

Comedy about an adult variety show.

1989 short film

An OVA supercut of Eien no Once More, Long Goodbye, and Curtain Call

Pink film from Toei.

Seiko Matsuda's first starring role in a TV drama, adapted from the novel Father by Shusaku Endo. As well as the title, the film attracts great attention for Seiko's bewitching transformation from a young girl to an adult! The heroine, who lives for her job as a sports club instructor, falls in love with a businessman with a wife and child. But her father wants his daughter to have an ordinary but happy marriage and a peaceful family... This drama explores the conflict between a daughter who wants to keep her love alive and her father, as well as the nature of love. Hiroshi Katsuno plays Seiko's adulterous partner, and Keiki Kobayashi plays Kikuji, the father who wishes for ordinary happiness as a woman.

Pinku distributed by ENK Promotion.

8mm work directed by Norihiko Morinaga.

38 years after the Pacific War, 84 victims of a mass suicide ordered by the Japanese military were uncovered in a cave in Yomitan village. This film contains the testimonies of some of the survivors, the story of a sculptor leading bereaved family members in creating a statue of peace, and the resistance of a group of girls against the raising of the Japanese flag at the high school graduation ceremony.

Short film that is part of a series of 6 films that Nobuhiro Kawanaka made between 1987 and 1992.

Horror Sigma Project, Humans Kidnapped by Aliens!! It's no longer a matter of not being there! !! World premiere! !! Super clear UFO live-action video and photos! !! Finally get the national top secret document!! A living ET in the US base! Real!

Short film made using a pinhole camera

The author's inner world is revealed through her own narration, and the faceless "you inside" repeatedly crosses a crosswalk. The image leaves the screen and is projected everywhere—on the toilet, on the author's body, and on the "you of today."

8mm work from the 6th Pia Film Festival.

A record of the stories of patients suffering from Minamata disease, 30 years after its discovery

My Melody stars in the re-created story of Little Red Riding Hood.

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

Kotobuki-cho is a section of Yokohama whose residents consist of about 4500 single men, 300 women and 180 children. The day laborers living there have no secure social standing, but they do have one thing: pride in their daily work routine.

22:22 min, video, color, sound

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

Independent film by Yukio Ono,

“I am deeply involved in human memory and the feeling of nostalgia brought about by time. For this piece, my challenge was to observe time within the frame.” (Nobuhiro Kawanaka)

It was once said that the camera is the pen of cinema, but for this film, the camera is the weapon of the filmmaker. The man who closes it refuses conventional communication with a strong desire for self-expression, and throws and scatters his lost "self" all over the place, regardless of who he is or where he is. The camera becomes a part of the artist, crawls on the ground with him, and starts to rotate with him. Self-deprecating, voyeuristic, violent... A vivid depiction of the sick soul of modern youth.

It’s been a year since I broke up with Akko. Even when I’m practicing hurdles, just catching a glimpse of her walking in the distance still makes my heart ache. Then one day, I meet another Akko. She’s a girl in the same class, yet we had never spoken before. I never imagined she would be someone I could talk to so easily, but I can feel the Akko from my past gradually growing smaller inside me…

An omnibus film in which Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Yoshiharu Ueoka and others took part.

A man is being chased by an organization and is attempting to escape abroad by stowing away on a cargo ship. Suddenly, a massive undersea earthquake occurs, and he is engulfed in a mysterious light. When he comes to, he finds himself walking through an unfamiliar forest.

This film was directed by Hiroyuki Yanase, who also directed Obsessed with Champon. Although its theme and story differ completely from his previous work, presenting a serious romantic drama, it remains infused with the director’s characteristically relaxed and easygoing style. The result is a distinctly 1980s atmosphere light, mellow, and refreshingly unconventional. The film is particularly notable for Kinoshita’s graceful camerawork and Mōri’s outstanding title and credit design.

In this work, I visited a religious scholar, Shinichi Nakazawa, with the question, "What does 'gazing' mean to people? At the time, he was interested in Japanese ethnic religious beliefs by going to winter festivals, etc., and thought that a view of life as a series of rebirths was cultivated on the basis of a life based on farming. Here, I believe that "looking" provides an opportunity for the mind to be reborn. Created in 1983. The artist was 48 years old. (Suzuki Shiroyasu).