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Tama from 3rd Street, please! Find Momochan!

Momo-chan, the pet cat of the Hanazaki family, goes missing after being kidnapped by another cat during a family trip. To help Momo-chan's owner, Emi-chan, who has lost all her energy, and to find Momo-chan, Tama and the others set out on a journey to search for her. Along the way, they encounter a swallow named Tsubakuro and discover Momoko, but there they are met by Blackfoot, the leader of a group of cats abandoned by humans, and his subordinate Bobtail. Will Tama and the others be able to bring Momoko back safely?

Tama from 3rd Street, please! Find Momochan!

NR 1993
Hole in the Pants 4: Strawberries That Aren't Mushy

In this omnibus movie of four stories about teenagers there is a boy who lives next to a university women's dormitory and he checks them out constantly. He finds out about their relationship with men. He decides to forget about them and decides to date a class-mate. Next three boys want to rent a adult video, but cannot due to their age. Instead they make their own. They meet a girl who is a video store clerk. They fall in love. She also happens to be an actress. Next is a boy in a band who cannot play well as his mind is on a girl who is relocating. The said girl has a man on her mind too. In the fourth story, the world is upside down and the students teach their instructors.

Hole in the Pants 4: Strawberries That Aren't Mushy

4.0 1990
Umarekawaru to shitara

A mysterious world of images of an old, almost forgotten barbershop in the middle of the city, with its owner who is just “waiting” for something, and the people who visit him. A barbershop is a place where people want change. A place to find a new self. The barber finds a different self on the other side of the mirror, and between drowsiness and thoughts, he is lost between dreams and reality, pondering in a different space. The barber travels with various customers to a mysterious space. Invisible images are projected into each mind along with the recitation of poems.

Umarekawaru to shitara

NR 1996
The Tales of a Couple of Minami Rascals: What’s the big deal?

Yuji and Kaoru have the mental capacity of primary school children. Yet these two are spotted by an executive of the Hanatate-gumi and recruited into the gang. However, their boss Okita makes them clean the toilets, steals their pocket money, and to top it all off, they end up eating and drinking on the house. Female police officer Fusako clings to them, trying to turn them into decent human beings – it’s a far cry from the yakuza in the films. Just then, the Akai-gumi starts wreaking havoc on the Hanatachibana-gumi’s turf. Yuji is chosen as the gunner. But wait—Okita’s sold off all the guns and knives! The industry’s first bare-handed gunner!? That’s ridiculous!!

The Tales of a Couple of Minami Rascals: What’s the big deal?

NR 1994
On The Edge Of Eden

Shinichi admires Toru, a thinker, and frequently visits his home. The two live in harmony, spending their days together like brothers. However, their peaceful routine is disrupted when activists approach Toru, a public figure, attempting to exploit him for their own agenda. Despite Toru’s warnings, Shinichi becomes entangled in a suspicious situation and eventually seeks Toru’s help. Although Toru’s intervention seems to resolve the situation, both Toru and Shinichi subsequently disappear. Left behind, Toru’s wife and Shinichi’s sister are left in confusion and despair.

On The Edge Of Eden

NR 1996
Bay Bridge: Yearning

Takatori, the master of a snack bar in Yokohama, and Tony, an employee, are lovers. Every night after the store closes, the two drive across the Bay Bridge and make love to Takatori's luxury apartment. One evening, as they were crossing the Bay Bridge as usual, they saw a young man standing there looking lonely. Tony falls in love with him at first sight. That night, Takatori, who was extremely jealous, desperately sought Tony. Afterwards, Takatori goes out alone to prepare the store, and begins to take an interest in the young man he sees every day.

Bay Bridge: Yearning

2.0 1990
Scramble Q

Erotic Horror Omnibus Consisting of Two Episodes: Episode 1 "ROOM Bloody Girl" A female college student came to Tokyo from the countryside. After walking around real estate agents looking for a room, I finally found a good one. However, a ghost of a man lives in that room, and one night she is raped by him. She said, "I've got a knife in my hand to stand against that ghost! Episode 2 "Raccoon Legend Izu Mystery Zone! Three Beautiful Women's Journey" Three girls will travel to Izu and meet three raccoon dogs on the trip. However, this raccoon dog usually disguises himself as a high school girl, so no one can recognize him as a raccoon dog. The three raccoon dogs were messengers of the Tanuki-sama, who had long been forbidden in this region. Then, something happened, and the three people who were traveling were mischievous. In the end, it's all outrageous...

Scramble Q

5.0 1997
COCKROACH MAN

There's something that's been bothering Sato lately. His cigarettes are dwindling strangely fast. He wonders if he's smoking enough for two people. Or is there someone else smoking? Then he thinks. Is there really no one in the room when I'm not there? Then one day, a man in a pair of briefs appears from the wardrobe. The man, who sometimes tries to fly on the balcony, begins to ask practical questions and give his opinion to Sato, who spends her days in a state of apathy. What is his true identity...? The world stretches out beyond his sight. When he thinks about the overwhelming size of the world, he realises how small he is. Cutting off all contact with the outside world, Sato tries to hide his fear. By using subtitles for his conversations with the man, the film succeeds in expressing his closed world. The humorous touch of the film, depicting a small rebirth that took place over a few days, was made even more striking by the ending theme music.

COCKROACH MAN

NR 1996
Homemade Movie

Using his family members and friends as cast, independent filmaker Fumiki Watanabe has brought a drama to the screen which opens a window into the daily lives of modern Japanese living in provincial towns. In the story, (Fumiki is a tutor to junior high students. In Japan, the pressure on pre-college-age students to excel in their studies is so intense that after-school tutors have a very important role in the culture, and tutoring is a respected full-time profession. The tutor is bored with his marriage, and has a liaison with the parent of one of his girl students. At the same time, his son is going out with his new mistress' girl, and as a result of this, the situation rapidly becomes very confusing, and Fumiko is unable to hide this pecadillo satisfactorily.

Homemade Movie

6.3 1990
Tarch Trip

A film like an Impressionist painting; the kind of paintings to have titles like 'urban view from the artist's studio'. The film is largely set in the film-maker's home and the street in the provincial town of Aichi where he lives. Minor everyday incidents are observed poetically; the melancholy mood of the images is boosted by serene electronic music. There is no dialogue; the sound track only comprises streets sounds as well as the music. Loose, almost nonchalant impressions of the street or of cloudy skies are juxtaposed with posed, almost photographic mildly homo-erotic portraits of friends of the film-maker. Tarch Trip is made up of fragments of a cinematographic diary, which are however not edited chronologically. Two periods alternate. One is characterized rain and dark cloudy skies. The other is sunny and repeatedly accompanied by three friends

Tarch Trip

4.2 1994
Groper Train: When We Come, Together

The company president loves molesting women on trains. He ends up secretly creating a molestation room in the company, with two hanging straps hanging from the ceiling and a sound system that plays the rumbling sound of trains with a realistic quality. He gives a special allowance to two office ladies who are financially struggling among the employees, and makes them secretaries for the molestation room. Eventually, the two of them conspire to come up with a plan to make the president take his breath away and get out of this life...

Groper Train: When We Come, Together

2.0 1990