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Hands / flicker / morphing animation suggests sexual organs in a frantic dance.

A prep school student living alone in Tokyo from Fukushima is suddenly visited by his mother. For some reason, she is wearing a white motorbike helmet. I wonder if she has come alone from Fukushima on her motorbike. When she comes into the room and puts her feet up on the kotatsu, she doesn't take off her helmet, and she is still holding the shopping bag with the leek in it. Her mother refuses to say anything. The mystery deepens and fear creeps up from the depths of the night... A Japanese "cautionary" horror film about what can happen in everyday life.

Pink film distributed by Tokatsu.

A film about the Battle of Okinawa during the last days of World War II.

Produced for "Gebocon I", a convention organized by Fanroad magazine, an anime/manga/doujin magazine in the 80s and 90s.

Live concert

"Groper Train" distributed by Okura Eiga.

This original video animation summarizes the entire TV series.

A love triangle between three very different people. Has interjections of anime, a child sized mannequin, and lots of strange goings on throughout. Hard to pinpoint exactly what it's all about.

A mind-twisting video, meditating on the experience of watching film/video, and of seeing and being seen. Prodded by a succession of riddles, the videos are lined with humor

Dekao, a lonely whale, was swimming dejectedly in the ocean, desperately wanting a partner, when he met a very beautiful whale right in front of him. However, the whale that Dekao fell in love with was actually a submarine built by the Japanese Navy...

The 8mm documentary "Not Satisfied" (directed by Tatsuya Ota) follows the band Anarchy

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

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

Making of Nobuhiko Obayashi's TV Program in 1980 called 「いい旅チャレンジ20,000km清水港線・旅の表情』

Two young salesmen spend their days selling learning materials. They walk and walk, but their performance doesn't improve, and they can't find a woman. In the meantime, one of them is attacked by a street thief and is seriously injured and loses his mind. This black-and-white film powerfully captures the sorrows of these men with a hodgepodge of action, slapstick, musicals and everything in between, backed by a riot of oldies, songs and commercials.

Short film by Maeda Toshiyuki.

A nostalgic, sweet and cruel nightmare creeping up on a maiden's prayer, psychiatric treatment, and the eventual arrival of death. An image video with these keywords. The title comes from the song "Godstar" by Psychic TV. Produced by students advancing to the major course.

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

The series, based on the first 16mm film that was shot in a studio with Nakajima’s family and birds, moves through media and processing transformations over many iterations over the years. Once transferred to video, digital effects were added using the “Animaker,” an electronic image synthesizer that he invented (also nicknamed “Ko-puter”). Total of 6 parts exist.

Experimental short by Harumi Fujii.

Peep this subversive 1986 G.I.S.M. full set when they opened up for Psychic TV.

This is the only film ever directed by Kazuhiro Chiba. Riding on the powerful beat of rock music, the film opens with an atmosphere of intense anticipation, convincing the audience that something extraordinary is about to happen. Then, in a sudden rush, the story barrels straight from this tension-filled opening into an epilogue completely devoid of any tension at all.

Experimental short by Ichiro Sueoka.

This Documentary is all about Rinzai Zen and Zen in common. The film gives you an insight to how Zen is lived in a strict monastery order and how it has influenced so many things. Parts one and two of this documentary shows life in a Rinzai Zen temple, mainly during a Rohatsu retreat. It gives some flavour of life in a Zen monastery. Parts three and four continues to explore life in a Rinzai Zen temple and how Zen influenced Japanese and to lesser degree Chinese culture.

"Shut up! Sam Fuyui appears as if he were in an Eguchi Hisashi manga. As captain of the rugby club, he is a passionate youth who chases the ball every day. One day, he is accused of murder on campus. One day, he is accused of murder on campus, and he discovers that a real culprit is a fake man named Fuyui, but will he be able to defeat him? And what is the fate of Sakura, the beautiful girl who loves Sam? A series of gag jabs. The story is easy to follow, even though it breaks cinematic grammar to the limit. "You can't complain when you get this far!" A powerful comedy.

Two women are trapped in a building with a vampire by night.

Atomic footage video collage starring Sakevi of G.I.S.M.

26:28 min, colour

Short documentary made for the communities at the foot of Mount Hayachine. Not satisfied with it, Haneda expanded it into what eventually became Ode to Mt. Hayachine (Hayachine no fu)

Experimental short film by Keiji Aiuchi, interspersed with his psychedelic animation.

A room in a shabby flat in Kita-Shinjuku. The artist, who lives there, faces the camera and gives a solo performance. He photographs his own face. He takes a picture of his own face, or of his fingers cut by a knife. He looks out of the window and keeps staring at the player abandoned in the corner of the building. He fills a 1.5-litre bottle of Coke with water and tries to drink it all at once. The artist doesn't say a word and the darkroom becomes an eerie space, isolated and lost in time, filled only with the sound of the camera driving. The final scene, in which we witness the senseless, almost insane act of a man who repeatedly tries to chug a bottle and finally finishes 1.5 litres, is a chilling experience. This is a personal film that shows the essence of fear that lurks in our everyday lives, through the artist's strong will and painful acting.

Set in England on the eve of the War in Europe. The musical opens at an evening party being hosted by Duke and Duchess Meldrum. Among their glittering guests are the famous opera singer Melva and the Scottish painter Darmen. Although the duke and duchess believe their niece has developed an understanding with family friend Doctor Brand, in reality Jane is secretly engaged to Darmen.

A woman is recruited into the video industry, soon gaining the attention by male crew.

A short cine-calligraphy animation.

This anthology film presents five different portraits of love: * A couple whose relationship has grown stale, and the surprisingly trivial reason behind their sudden breakup. * A woman who constantly berates a man while continuing to rely on and benefit from his success. * A man with remarkable persistence (or stubbornness?) who keeps proposing to the same woman no matter how many times she rejects him. * A man whose love for his girlfriend becomes so intense that he begins wearing her clothes in an attempt to become her. * A man who is reluctantly introduced to a woman who is completely not his type, only to find himself gradually drawn into her world and swept along at her pace.

MAD Video mondo film exploring the Nazi death camps.

Drawing animation. I visualized the music of the band "Zelda", which I often went to the live show. (Yuko Asano).

8mm short by Yuko Asano.

The title means "key" in Hokkaido dialect. The man runs out of the room and attacks the children playing, but the microphone is snatched away by the girl. If the microphone is a symbol of the penis, is the act of putting the microphone in his mouth at the end a form of self-fellatio?

Katsuyuki Hirano's 8mm movie "Galaxy Bicycle Night". Unlike a feature film, it is a movie that uses one camera and one battery light, and I wander around the city or park at midnight. There is nothing like a drama, it is composed of the first part and the second part, and it is a simple movie that ends with the existence of an ex-girlfriend, I was dating back then. Katsuyuki Hirano released this film when he was 23 years old.

This work was made as a "myth" with the poet Nejime Shoichi as the main character. Nejime Shoichi, who aims to be a reading poet, rides a train to visit senior poet Iwao Abe and asks for the secret of reading. Nejime Shoichi is good at being "naked".

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

A short animation is drawn on Washi paper and Cel with a marker and anime. Some Kanji ( they are used in the Japanese poem “Iroha Uta”) metamorphose into various creatures.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sai Enterprise's Ginî piggu 4: Pîtâ no akuma no joi-san.