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A salaryman promoted against his will skips his first morning meeting and slips into a spiral of small rebellions—cafés, nightclubs, and a fleeting romance—while rejecting the rigid “medals” of corporate success. Torn between family and freedom, he plots a staged disappearance to reclaim a late-coming youth, in a bittersweet drama underscored by the haunting refrain of “Akita Ondo.”
The third episode of Patrick Tam’s anthology series “Seven Women” (1976), with three short stories combined.
Hong Kong Diaoyutai Movement (1971) documents HK youth protesting the U.S. decision to transfer the disputed Diaoyu Islands to Japan alongside Okinawa's return. The protest joined the transnational Baodiao movement, launched by overseas Chinese students in America and taken up across Taiwan and Hong Kong in defense of Chinese territorial claims. The film was produced by 70s Biweekly, a radical publication that served as a crucial platform for political debate among young Hong Kong intellectuals. Co-founders Ng Chung-yin and Mok Chiu-yu, who organized the demonstrations themselves, commissioned directors Law Kar and Chiu Tak-hak to create a documentary from inside the movement. The camera moves with the protesters, capturing chants, gestures, and surging crowds as they unfold. This approach transforms cinema into a tool of activism—the filmmakers weren't documenting history but participating in it, positioning the camera as part of collective action rather than a neutral observer.
Pink film by Kinya Ogawa.
A city sanitation worker Ah Mao (played by Li Tien-Sheng), who accidentally gets caught up in a gang chase: the gang hangs a bag of pay-day money on his garbage truck, but Ah Mao, rushing to meet his girlfriend, doesn't notice and places the bag under his bed. To formally propose to his girlfriend's mother, he needs to prepare a banquet of sixty tables, leading to a series of hilarious misadventures with his housemate Ah Fook.
Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.
You can get into university anytime! But you can't get into the women's bath!!! Three cram school students yearn to see and enter the women's bath, and together they harbor an agonizing bittersweet desire to see it, making this a hilarious comedy that blows away the frustrations of the youths.
A look at sex in Japan, that covers underground gay life, transvestites, sex change operations, tattoos, and S&M. What does it mean to live an individualistic life in the modern age? By capturing the seemingly bizarre customs of men in drag and women in men's clothing seen on the streets, and examining the world of sexual perversion in an attempt to unravel the mysteries of our homogenized modern society, we explore whether it represents the pinnacle of pleasure, or a world of endless hell.
A Kung-Fu fighter and his brother run away from a very important fight in China and are trailed to the United States by his opponent, where he finds him and a gang of outlaws in a small western town.
Eom Jang-ho, a student of sculpture art, will appear in a folklore presentation hosted by his girlfriend Oh Hyo-jin, a historian. In the process of projecting various folklore materials, she sees a rotten heirloom mask and awakens a certain subconscious mind in the form of the mask. Her story is the story of how a clown dancing in her cloak raped her Thatcher's wife, causing her to plunge into her well. Eomjang-ho, who is engaged in the final practice of her sandae play mask dance, suffers from more vague fear because of her succession mask written on his face. Meanwhile, Oh Hyo-jin, unable to meet Jang-ho after the incident in the auditorium, goes down to the countryside with her classmates as a member of the archaeological excavation team. Even after she begins excavating the archaeological site, she is still depressed and asks if it's because her advisor loves her mother-in-law. She feels that she is in love with her majestic Ho.
An adaptation of Koichiro Uno's pornographic novel of the same name, depicting the newlywed life of a young man and a young woman.
Based on a popular play from 1947.
The famous detective called 'the Hedgehog' finds himself the reluctant pawn of a North Korean spy who is trying to gain control of the Busan smuggling operations.
Taiwanese movie
The wife of a company president is 29 years old and in the prime of her life. Her husband is a powerful man in the financial world, so they are much older than her. As a result, she is always sexually unsatisfied and has affairs with one man after another, first a middle-aged man, then her golf coach, a host, and a sumo wrestler. This film is a film adaptation of Koichiro Uno 's bestselling novel, "A Busy Wife."
A corrupt mayor of a town in Szechuan province allies himself with a group of bandits to gain control of the region by cutting off all supply routes to the town. Two police men both expert kickers are deployed to put an end to the mayors evil plot.
Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.
One summer day, Tokujiro, who works at an ironworks in the industrial area of Kawasaki, joins a choir group in order to seduce the girls who have come to Kawasaki to sing Beethoven's Ninth . Aiming for the performance in December, Tokujiro undergoes several setbacks through rigorous training and training camps, but before he knows it, he and his troupe members are working hard to make the performance a success.
Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.
A girl who weds her love against her wishes repents after their daughter is born and her decision makes her husband leave her. He returns 10 years later to see the child.
The train just runs. A collage of various images, including cel animation and drawing, animates smoke emitted from trains. The title comes from both the sound of a passing train and Pop Art (Yōji Kuri).
Cheerful graphic comedy taking place in a girl-jammed electronic processing factory. A young foreman, initiative and ambitious and hardworking, falls in love with a girl worker who leaves him because of a third party involved, but comes back to him at last and helps him run a factory of his own.
Young panda of the department store fulfills requests of all special customers.
The Great Plot is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie
Short pinku, distributed by Nikkatsu in 1972
A man seeks revenge on his enemy who kidnapped and raised his child many years ago.
A female student moves from the countryside to Tokyo and starts attending a cram school in Tokyo. She becomes so enthusiastic about her studies that she decides to take the last train. As expected of the glamorous city of Tokyo, the last train is packed. There, she is molested. At first she didn't want to, but..
Hong Kong movie
A simple story about an ordinary man trying to survive in our vicious world. All of us can relate to his ill-fortunes because more often than not, we too lose the job that we adamantly vied for or have our dream lover fall for someone else.
Based on the comic by Tetsu Kariya.
An abusive man murders his wife and father-in-law then accuses Mok-ryeon, his sister-in-law's boyfriend, of the crime. Mok-ryeon escapes custody and with his girlfriend, flees the village pursued by the killer who in turn is chased by vengeful spirits.
A guy trains to fight in kung fu.
A woman discovers a magical sword, which enables her to learn the deepest secrets of the Dragon Kung-Fu school.
Viewers are transported back in time to 1974 to see the annual Taoist celebration of the Dajia Mazu Pilgrimage. Thousands of participants accompany a statue of the goddess Mazu, who protects seafarers, on a 9-day, 8-night procession, stopping at several prominent temples along the way. The religious pilgrimage is a round-way journey from the Zhenlan Temple in Dajia, Taichung City to Fengtian Temple in Xingang of Chiayi County on the Western plains of Taiwan. The mesmerising festival takes place every year during the third lunar month and still attracts large masses to this day. The audio track of the film was once banned under the Kuomintang (KMT) due to the film’s inclusion of spoken Hokkien (Taiwanese), giving viewers at the time an altered and suppressed understanding of the event and its cultural significance in Taiwan. Viewers now can revel in the beauty of the Taiwanese language and see the film for the true spirit that it captures.
According to the information written in the credit roll of "Seoul 7000," the film was filmed in Seoul in November 1976 with an 'Elmo 108' 8mm camera using Kodachrome 40 film. It was also stated that "it was filmed frame by frame, and the shooting speed was adjusted differently for each shot," and "the number 7000 in the title of this film represents the total number of frames in all parts except for the title."
In a struggling small theater troupe, director Inuo pressures an actor to perform a death role with extreme intensity, resulting in a fatal accident. Despite the tragedy, Inuo attempts to proceed with the scheduled performance. Legendary underground theater performers Jūrō Kara and Mako Midori appear in the episode, exploring themes of theatre performance, obsession, and the boundary between reality and illusion.
Otsuyu, the daughter of a samurai, takes her life after being forced into an unwanted marriage, and her maid Omi follows her in death. Together as spirits, they visit Otsuyu’s lover, Shinzaemon. Believing Otsuyu is alive, Shinzaemon rekindles their relationship, but he soon begins to waste away. A concerned neighbor consults a doctor, who reveals that Shinzaemon is being haunted and his death is near.
Pink film from Toei Central.
A massive gold forture is hidden somewhere in the hills surrounding Hong Kong, and 12 kung fu masters are in pursuit of the loot. Through a series of head-to-head confrontations, the pool of treasure hunters dwindles until there's one left.
In a bustling shopping district, a humble tailor accompanies his daughter for an afternoon out — until a trio of thugs begin harassing her in broad daylight. Unable to stay passive amidst the crowd’s indifference, he intervenes with tragic results. Two years later, having served time for excessive self-defense, he remains haunted by both the violence and the apathy of society. A veteran detective, still unsettled by the case, notices the tailor quietly providing money to the same thugs. What drives him? A modern horror tale with social undertones, adapted from Futaro Yamada’s short story “The Black Curtain,” this episode merges psychological unease, moral ambiguity, and a chilling critique of bystander indifference.
A woman raising her younger sister must drive a taxi for a living.
Identity and integrity are discussed in connection with a tour of rock band Carol.
A teenage drama film about Makiko Hayashi, a top student who is aiming to get into University of Tokyo, together with a group of other students. She befriends one of the school's misfits, Yoshiyuki Mizuno, which starts to change her life. The film follows the way Makiko Hayashi's life changes throughout the time, from a model student with high ambitions, to someone who is uncertain enough about her future, that she feels the only way out is to start anew.
HK horror film.
A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bullet was found.
A bevy of top fighters all fighting to rule the martial world and use the rarest styles ever put on screen. Master Ko, is in possession of a very special sword. A sword that can cut through anything and becomes invisible, it, therefore can easily trick and defeat the enemy. Many people are after this sword. One day, the master gets killed and the sword is stolen.
Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.
A woman works at a massage parlor to earn money for her daughter. Filmed on location.
Documentary of the underground cities constructed under the nuclear threat of both US and Soviet Union during the Cultural Revolution period.
Going to a gallery to sell her pictures, Yun-Hye meets Seong-Jin, whose father is rich. Seong-Jin introduces Yun-Hye to his family on his father's birthday. Knowing that she is a child of not communicated to leprosy, his brother forces her to give up Seong-Jin. She tries to avoid meeting Seong-Jin but finally, accepts his proposal of marriage. On the wedding day, she runs away with the help Yun-Hyeok, who is not communicated to leprosy and a singer now. By a car accident, Yun-Hyeok dies and so does Yun-Hye after giving a birth without consciousness. Seong-Jin cries and yells with the baby in his arm.
Depicts the tragic adventure of two brothers in Shanghai. They are skilled boxers but can't resist the material temptations of the underworld.
Part of the Young Guy [若大将] series.