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Short film in which butoh dancing is used to reflect on the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

1962 Japanese movie

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Experimental Film from Nihon University

A Shaw Brothers movie from 1960.

Taiwanese language drama film.

Pinku film from 1967.

Orphan Ling Po is a Taiwanese-language (taiyu) biopic about the eponymous legendary Hong Kong movie star.

Pink film directed by Kan Mukai.

1967 Japanese movie

"A work documenting the VAN Film Science Research Center’s space before shut down. VAN, which Jonouchi was a member, was established by the original and new members of the Nihon University Film Study Club (Nichidai Eiken) in Ogikubo section of Tokyo in 1960. VAN was a place where not only filmmakers but also people working in various media, including fine artists, musicians, photographers, and editors, could assemble, serving as an active center for creating historically important works and events." - Collaborative Cataloging Japan

A spy film about two spies, one male and female (Pai Hung cross-dressed as male), cracking down the villainy gang The Devil Gang.

Pink film directed by Masanao Sako.

The head monk orders a young acolyte to guard a beautiful cherry tree in the monastery garden while he goes out. But the older man underestimates his colleague’s fondness for sake.

1961 Japanese movie

A segment of “Love at Twenty” is a weird, grotesque and clumsy tale of obsessive and morbid love.

Pink film co-directed by Shintaro Kishi (aka Nobuo Yamabe).

HK horror film.

Pinku from 1969.

Pinku from 1969.

The Staircase of Sex

Martial arts movie from the Shaw Brothers.

Early Wakamatsu Production

The secret of the Himalayas

1965 Japanese movie

During World War Two, two Japanese army soldiers, Fan from Macau and Zheng from Taiwan, observe the Japanese hiding treasure in the mountains of Malaya. They make a treasure map and keep half each. Later, Zheng’s brother finds out Fan has died. The film opens when Zheng’s brother goes to Macau to buy the other half of the map from his friend’s descendants, having sent his niece Shufen (Liu Qing) and son (Ba Ke) to wait for him in Malaya with their half. But after a series of double- crossings and betrayals, Shufen and the boy set off to search for the treasure alone, with the Macau triads and the police in hot pursuit. At their moment of greatest danger in the jungle, the Taiwanese Tarzan (Gao Ming) swings onto the scene to save them.

A precedent to Iimura's video work where he becomes his own subject, I Saw the Shadow sees Iimura follow his own shadow in and out of vision as he roams around streets, steps and fields. As the film progresses, it becomes increasingly unclear whether it is his shadow or camera that is guiding his steps. (Julian Ross)

Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut.

This movie is about Bang Rajan village. This village is located north of Ayutthaya, the old capital of Siam, predecessor state to modern Thailand. The village played a famous role related to its resistance against the Burmese in the war that saw the destruction of Ayutthaya city in 1767. Tap is a Siamese soldier leader. Siamese people have internal conflicts while they are also fighting with Burma.

Documentary on Chua Swee­-Lin, a Malaysian exchange student who was threatened with deportation over his protest against the separation and inde­pendence of Singapore.

Taiwanese horror movie from 1965.

It a story about a foolish king who loved chinese cricket game.

A handsome swordsman is in love with his teacher’s daughter. However, a student has been promised her hand in marriage. A fight leaves the young Jedi with two less arms. The armless vigilante takes refuge and plans revenge on those that wronged him.

1967 Pink film.

A Fairytale Story of Princess Kuro.

After Seonjo passes away, Prince Gwanghae ascends to the throne. But he indulges himself in dissolute orgies, neglecting his duties as the king. Queen Dowager Inmok begs him to behave like a king. But Prince Gwanghae torments her, arguing that she's playing a regent. Queen Dowager cannot help but enduring the king's outrageousness.

Pinku from 1966.

Wanho and Kyunghui go camping, but Gwisun secretly loves Wanho. After an accident, Wanho and Gwisun fall in love. When they return to Seoul, Gwisun's life takes a drastic turn. Just as she contemplates suicide, an unexpected twist alters her fate.

A young man sets out to make a Super 8 film, but isn't sure what the film should be about.

Documenting the discovery of a large stone chakra in Nakhon Pathom.

The story is based on a play written by famous playwright Yao Yiwei whose work takes adaptation from the novel in Sung Dynasty. The film describes Xiuxiu, a daughter of an aristocrat,who falls in love with her cousin who is a talented sculptor. Nevertheless they experience all kinds of difficulties during the process of trying to get married.

A famous actress is being blackmailed with incriminating photos by a gangster trio and takes terrible revenge.

A television drama based on "Shirano Benjuro", a translation of the play "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand .

Kyoichi Kageyama, a TV station reporter, is always getting into trouble. But when he gets his hands on a TV that shows the “news of the next day,” his reporting becomes a string of scoops, his love life blossoms, and everything starts going his way, until the news from tomorrow reports his aunt getting robbed and murdered!

Short animated film by Yoji Kuri

Pinku from 1965.

Simon, a painter, regains the use of his hands thanks to therapy administered by Ren. Later, when Simon is kidnapped by communists and forced to paint a portrait of Stalin, Ren again helps him by assisting in his escape. Simon's wife, however, is less than pleased at their growing friendship and becomes determined to keep them apart.

This film takes us into the microscopic world of the plankton that mass in the oceans. Their bodies ultimately turn to marine snow and accumulate on the ocean floor where, across vast time spans, they transform into crude oil.

Pinku from 1965.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

A trio of the best of the best! They beat up the bad guys with no mercy! The three main drug traffickers reigning in the underworld, and once they have their routes, they call in the three gangs, causing a huge three-way war and rounding them up in a thrilling and suspenseful entertainment.

Based on Louis Cha's novel The Book and the Sword.

Originally commissioned to record urban redevelopment in Osaka’s Kamagasaki district, Hideo Arai transcends reportage to capture a haunting portrait of displacement during Japan’s economic miracle. With a dissonant score by experimental composers Toshi Ichiyanagi and Yuji Takahashi, the film juxtaposes the brutal reality of shantytown "barracks" against the state's modernization projects. Slum remains a visceral critique of social erasure and a vital, observational work of Japanese documentary film.

A film based on the narrative poem Lilit Phra Lo.