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An 8mm film by Utako Koguchi.

Exquisite exploration of landscape and Toru Takemitsu's music for a Japanese moss garden.

Experimental movie by Teshigahara Saburo

7 entry on Maji! series

My brother took my brother. A woman, always frustrated, forces him to pick pockets and rob people just for the thrill of it. A man who resists but continues to be an accomplice with infinite tolerance. Is it the man or the woman who is desperate to keep his partner in line? It is the woman's brother who comes between the frustration and tolerance that seems to swell endlessly. But as he makes her apologise at the graveside of her parents, he also commits the sin of lying in order to keep his love alive. There is very little expository dialogue. There is very little exposition in the film, but it is enough to convey the feelings and circumstances of each character. The structure, the script and the acting are the foundations of a film that succeeds in depicting the birth of a new love triangle in a cool and realistic way.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Live recording of the 1991 Kiyohiko Senba and the Haniwa Allstars concert.

Ryoko, a childhood friend who has come to Tokyo to take the nurse's exam, goes missing on the day of the exam, and Maji rushes to find her. ......

Second "The Most Fearful Stories" film by Junji Inagawa.

Keiko Hama, who works at a law firm, is molested on a crowded commuter train. She can't help but feel aroused by the molester's technique... However, after the storm passes, she realizes that her mother's keepsake earrings and wallet are gone. From then on, she and her friend Taeko take the train at the same time every day to search for the molester, but...

Gravure Idol VHS released in 1998.

Give it your all, give it your best, give it your courage. Akane is withdrawn and unable to communicate well with others. She is looking for a job, but can't find one, and her younger brother, who lives with her, lectures her about it. Her hobby is to go for walks in the morning when the town is deserted. One snowy morning, Akane sees a man carrying a red TV and follows him to the rubbish dump. Akane is fascinated by the man's unique atmosphere, and takes the TV home with her. She dismantles the TV and makes a snail object from its parts. The next day, Akane is trying to return the TV with the snail hidden in it, when she is spotted by the man. She rushes to turn back, but decides to hand over the TV to the man. The town is covered with snow and is very quiet, and the protagonist never speaks. This is the director's way of reading the beauty in things that are often overlooked, and it leads effectively to the ending, in which the protagonist steps forward to communicate.

A promotional video starring Rikako Murakami.

Yellow Magic Orchestra perform at Nippon Budokan on December 27, Tokyo 1980

Jack Wilkins is a news writer who prefers to go by his pen name, Ernest Milton. He receives a mysterious invitation to the Cheshire Cat Hotel and takes a week off in order to go check it out. The hotel is a lively if somewhat strange place with curious staff members, and at first Ernest is wary about staying. The hotel manager eventually persuades him, though, offering Ernest free services if he does a favor for another patron. They want him to help break up the engagement of a certain couple, Mary and Charles.

Live at YOKOHAMA ARENA on July 31, 1996.

Shazna – Dear September Lovers Shazna Live At Budokan ‘98

Yuki Saito concert in the Tokyo Kousei Nenkin Kaikan

Last year, an 8mm film that popped out from the back of my closet. "Winter 1994" is magically written on the film reel (definitely my handwriting), but I don't even remember where it was taken

1996 Japanese movie

A woman battles her spending habits.

Sho Watanabe, 77, has worked as a lighting technician for many years, longing to work in the film industry. However, when his wife, Tomiko, suddenly developed Alzheimer's disease, he took a video and 16mm camera and began documenting her and the people around her. This film is the result of compiling and editing the vast amount of film he had accumulated in this way.

Hands are magical. You can draw with them, grasp the reigns of a carousal, and reach out to be called up.

This is Amsterdam, the city of pleasure. Where there's a front, there's also a back. This documentary captures the bizarre adventures of Yuji Kitano and his undergarment-clad companion, Tsubaki, over roughly one month, primarily in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Neither husband and wife nor lovers, this odd couple infiltrates various hair-raising danger zones in a foreign land, gets involved with shady characters, and somehow ends up attending secret parties... 90 minutes of cold sweat, laughter, and shock.

A trap awaiting the killer Yuki, who longs for the life of an ordinary woman.

A Burning Star depicts the physicality of destruction and disappearance through images of the Japanese filmmaker's father who dies and is cremated. Maintaining a solid rhythm and perspective, this film highlights the meaning and importance of "viewing" and "filming" in documentary.

"Assassination" - Adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel "Demian". A young man's detachment from and revolt against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self. Max Demian is his childhood friend and mentor.

TV director Eric and his film crew are in Scotland, filming an old castle. At an auction, Eric buys his reporter Marie a pendant. This pendant helps to awaken the ghost of the castle, a man dead for 140 years, and former heir to the castle, Charles.

Kenichi vows revenge on the lover who betrayed him, and Yuka, a girl who tries to tell her estranged mother about her father's death. They meet by chance, share a journey for their own purposes, and gradually become united by pure love.

A movie capturing the suburbs of Tokyo

In 1932, the shadow of war threatens, but Japan is still at peace. A sponsor of the Imperial Symphony, Lord Kuretake Kimiya, is deathly ill. He calls to his bedside Sanjou Kaoru, who is both the fiancé of his daughter Umeko and an up-and-coming conductor. Lord Kuretake has a very serious request: Many years ago, he had a daughter with a Russian woman and he begs Sanjou to search for her in Shanghai. Because her mother, Anastasia, an opera singer, was a close friend of the princess, when the revolution came, she vanished with the imperial family. Since then, Kuretake has married and had a family, and he wants his daughter Natasha to be raised in his home.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Theatrical version of episode 17 of Ultra Q TV series.

Abstract animation assembled from newspapers.

Images of the sea and clouds seen from the top of the mountain, the candles of the Tibetan temple, etc., and a chaotic psychedelic animation are juxtaposed.

The Ultraman Neos Pilot is a proof-of-concept film that was shown to TBS producers in 1995 but the project of a full series was cancelled. The Neos characters and concepts would later be realized as a 12-episode direct-to-video series in 2000. The pilot was not fully released to the public until its inclusion in the Blu-ray release of Ultraman Neos in 2018.

Chronicles ten days spent at a seaside town; five of them with a visiting boyfriend, and five more after the boyfriend's departure.

An Episodic tale of a young girl to master martial arts and save her sister.

Short by Koji Yamamura

Natsumi lost her husband, who ran an oden stall. All she was left with was the stall and debt. Trying to pay off the debt by running the stall alone, no customers came, and she ended up paying the debt collectors' interest with her body. Taking a bold step, she remodeled the stall and reopened it as a cosplay sex service stall...

Dreams, signs, fragments, margins, letters, one could also add love and memory to the list. My enchanted kingdom is filled with real aimlessness. The more the better. All that is left behind after it has disappeared is quiet. In the end I feel there hasn't been enough time to play. I want to say good-bye to this irrepressible feeling right around now though. After the color, the shape and the words have disappeared what will be left? Perhaps that is the tragedy of the twentieth century.

Okuyama made a negative print from the original negatives. As opposed to the usual purposes of film, this negative projection allows us to reconsider the various processes inherent in filmmaking.

"This morning, the young master proposed to me" says the maid of the mansion. But did he really proposed to her? The video, composed of still photographs, unfolds elegantly.

"Sex in a typhoon", a depressed pianist AV actress Nana Honda and Katsuyuki Hirano.

A young woman is kidnapped and trained...

Finding Love on the Slopes

Obscure pinku directed by Takao Nagaishi, creator of the infamous Rapeman series.

In 1999, Tabaimo exhibited her undergraduate thesis work, Japanese Kitchen and was awarded the prestigious Kirin Contemporary Award, marking the beginning of her international career.

Japanese horror movie from 1998.

Pinku distributed by Xces.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. A short light entr'acte of "ROMANTISCHE".

Kajol is a star actress in Indian movies. I discovered a strange scene when I was watching a video of a movie she was in. In one scene of a musical, Kajol throws a dove into the sky, which then falls to the ground. This would not be OK on a Japanese movie set. So I thought about the differences between Indian and Japanese movies. By the way, I read in a book that there is a goddess of cinema in India. I guess she protects Indian movies. So, is there no god of cinema in Japan? Oh, but not of cinema, there is a god of dance. I started writing a screenplay with this goddess, Ame-no-Uzume, as the main character, but the Yatagarasu, the guide for nation building, fell to the ground, and the story ended happily.

An omnibus OVA where three elementary school students, Manabu, Ryota, and Mina, deal with mysteries they encounter at their school. This OVA is split into two stories of 15 minutes each: "Poisonous spiders at school" and "Hanako-san's hand". This OVA is based on the "Hontoni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series derived from the "Hontoni Atta Gakou Kaidan" series published by Asahi Sonorama.