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1997.3.14(FRI) SHIBUYA ON AIR EAST.

Moon Troupe's stage play.

Using a flat microphone, Yamazaki attempts to auscultate various places in the city. The sounds of manholes, of which he recorded many, sound like the pulsation of a living thing.

This work features the salt marshes of Montpellier France, and uses computer graphics to create fantastical imagery.

In 1961, young Hermann goes to the British hospital to get medicine for his mother. Because of this, he ends up on the wrong side when the Berlin Wall goes up and is seperated from his mother. He is adopted by a very loving couple and grows up to become a world-famous composer. As the show opens, it is 1988, and he performs his newest piece, called "A Map Without Borders" in New York. Afterwards, he tells the tale of how he was seperated from his mother to the press. He hopes someday to be able to cross into East Berlin and find his mother again.

Song for Flower is a self-documentary in which she explores her own existence by pointing her camera at her family and friends. It is a film that will change the landscape of the venue after you leave the screening.

A sound only she can hear, a girl only I can see. One night, Maki, a psychology major at university, meets a girl crouched by a guardrail. One night, Maki, a psychology student at university, meets a girl crouched beside a guardrail who tells him she hears the sound of the guardrail. However, when her friend comes to check on her after hearing Maki's story, he does not see the girl. When the girl regains her memory, Maki begins to understand who she really is... By interweaving a sound story and an episode of psychoanalysis, the film succeeds in turning a love story with a ghost into a serious psychic fantasy. The fragility of Kyoko Akiyama as the ghost makes the film even more compelling.

In the final hours of the Pacific War, Okinawa was the destination for Korean men conscripted as “military laborers” and Korean women taken as “comfort women.” Little is known about the number of casualties or their experiences. In 1989, Park Soonam started to track down the survivors of the Battle of Okinawa to record their testimonies. In 1990, Park visits Korea in search of former “military laborers” who had survived Okinawa and repatriated to Korea. The survivors vividly recount their experiences of their compatriots’ murder and about the “comfort women” to the Zainichi Korean female director. The film zeroes in on the murder of Korean “military laborers” and the presence of “comfort women” in Okinawa via testimonies of former Japanese soldiers.

An informational OVA released before the main 1993 Moldiver OVA series began. While the OVA was primarily animated it also featured a live action cast interview segment.

How did they make it? The unbearable innocent fingers and kisses. Colors on the screens, your, hers, mine... Cheang has taken her camera to the streets for a candid glimpse of lesbian public sexuality. The film challenges to the question "What do lesbians do?"

Two boys are starting their work day together. Their job is to cut the grass of a large field. One is a seasoned professional who has been doing this work for quite a while, the other a first-day temp who missed the introduction classes. The start of their day is pretty rough, but as they get to talking, they slowly develop a bond.

Something that murmured came to a woman who was devouring time. Has this one of these things noticed the inside of her like a splurge of her drifting in the black and white space made up of her?

A short message between a boy and a girl.

Pink film directed by Yūji Tajiri.

Run for home base. Cross the city and defeat the enemy. In the future, baseball has become a murderous game in which cyborgs, enhanced for baseball, fight for their lives. Today, in a city abandoned by humans, the game is played on the entire city. He literally defeats the traitors and the players of the opposing team who stand in his way, and then he runs, looking at the corpses of the killed players of the same team beside him. He runs for home base. No matter how many people he kills, no matter who is killed, the cyborg player does not scream, does not shed a tear. No, he may just hide the tears that flow behind his artificial eyelids, the cries that are born in the depths of his artificial throat. In order to fulfill his mission to step on the platform. There is a style that can truly be called "near-future baseball hard-boiled".

First entry in the Yakuza Girlboss trilogy

A series of sexual games are played.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

I was 20 years old when I just started living on my own. I was 20 years old when I first started living on my own, and all sorts of "what if I become ________" thoughts came into my head. The "too small" me, who used to murmur childish fantasies like "What if that cloud falls down" or "What if I don't know where I live?

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

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

Film by Takahiko Iimura

8mm film by Yosuke Okawado.

Erotic film directed by Masatomo Yatake.

Probably the film in which more people are kidnapped in the shortest amount of time than any other film in cinema history. The antics and light-heartedness that run throughout the film, including the storyline, make it worthy of being called a 'violent film', despite the fact that there are no violent scenes at all. It is also a 'hero film' in that the protagonist has style and sticks to it whether he is hurt or not.

Noriko is a pushy girl with her own way. Mamoru, the protagonist, is constantly being pushed around by her. And his eccentric friends. Suzuki is hated by everyone because he spits on everything. Mamoru's best friend, Ichiro, is a homosexual and likes Mamoru. Naomi, Ichiro's girlfriend, can only do everything according to the manual. All the time they are muttering, "Isn't there anything interesting? They are completely unfazed by the suicide of their colleague Hamada, who committed suicide by drowning himself in a toilet basin, and death is just a figment of their imagination. However, as if they too are being watched, one by one they become the heroes of the suicide game. Who will survive to the end? This is an absurd but realistic portrait of adolescence, in which the characters, deformed with their own personalities, coolly reflect the youthfulness of a time when apathy, emotionlessness and pessimism prevail.

A new boy moves into Pekkle's town, and is trying his hardest to impress Lucy; however, Lucy isn't interested in him. Lucy makes Pekkle out to be a better swimmer than he really is, and the new boy challenges him to a swimming contest.

16mm film by Tachibana Kaoru

Set in a scorching hot poolside, this story depicts an intense battle from a “junior high school diary”: men devoted to abdominal training, and the evil forces trying to stop them.

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

A white man who can't speak English, a black man who has no sense of rhythm, and an Indian man who dances in a sari. These three gaijin fakirs ignore the rules and common sense of the world and put on a crazy performance. They are the young people of the end of the century who live in the mood of "the world is going to be all right, it's only a paradise now". They walk to the Kinkakuji Temple, the place of the last banquet, with the unmistakable presence of Japanese young people behind their cheap make-up. Taking photos with junior high school students on a school trip and avoiding real gaijin, their hymn to youth comes to an end... A funny and ultimately sad "true story of stupid people".

Paranormal documentary featuring idol Kayoko Chiba.

An hour long best of compilation of Gamera from series director Noriaki Yuasa.

Takarazuka Revue Star Troupe 1996-1997 production of the Viennese musical 'Elisabeth'

A woman is covered in bandages before having her insides removed. This film is often confused to be a continuation of Romain Slocombe's "L'étudiante Blessée" due to the fact they were released in the same collection.

Live concert recorded at Koenji 20000V on November 3rd, 1991.

Yoko Kamon as Visual Queen of the Year '97.

GIRLS or FU MI KO #4.

Buildings, black crows, a flood of bar codes, clone-looking businessmen, shopping-addicted ladies...these images which probably symbolizes excessive, standardized and overcrowded modern cities are condensed in this animation. Various techniques, like modified photo, drawing animation, 3D object and permeating lighting are combined onto a multi-planed (line drawing) stand, with a challenge to express a unique sense of unity and compression.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

The story takes place in Kanazawa and tells the story of Yasue, an old woman who suddenly became very ill, her whole body paralyzed. She is told by her doctor she only has two weeks to live...

Experimental short by Ichiro Sueoka.

Pinku distributed by Xces

One hot summer day, with the roar of helicopters and jets in the sky. When Yoshimi returned home, he found a letter in his mailbox. It was from his "real father" who said that he was waiting for him at the beach house and wanted him to come and see him. He didn't immediately believe the story that "you are not a real child of the family", but the suggestion that he had a chicken head was true. The next day, Yoshimi leaves the house, ready to never return. Meanwhile, the three women gather at the bus stop and are surprised to find chicken heads hanging from each other's necks. The three quickly become friends and embark on a foolhardy adventure, but they are involved in one bizarre accident after another... A surreal story and images that seem to make no sense, that seems to continue and break off, that seems to be in the near future and in the past, that seems eerie and wacky. The analogue speed of the film evokes the sensation of a daytime nightmare.

Two teens fall in love but their relationship ends in tragedy.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Asuka Period, Japan. Ooama no Miko meets Nukata no Ookimi when he goes with his older brother (Nakano Ooe no Miko) to her house. There Nakano Ooe is wooing Nukata's older sister, and so the two younger siblings meet and fall in love. Five years later, Ooama and Nukata are married, and a daughter has just been born. Ooama talks happily to Nukata about his plans with his brother to jointly rule their empire of Yamato. As Nukata listens to his naive, happy chatter, she becomes uneasy. Later, Nakano Ooe arrives and tells Nukata that she has grown and become very lovely. He has fallen in love with her, and wants her for his own. Caught between the two brothers, Nukata flees back to her father's house. (Takawiki)

This independent film follows the actions and inner thoughts of four unusual individuals as they go about their lives in Tokyo, occasionally meeting up with one another. Their thoughts tend to focus on questions of death, existence, and the conflict of society against the individual. All of the action is performed silently, with narration dubbed over.

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

O-Koto, who stole money from the shop where she was working at, became a woman who turned her back on the secular world because of that single moment of weakness. She was caught with the money by the shop owner, who, in exchange for overlooking her crime, took her virginity. Moreover, O-Koto is threatened by a mysterious mendicant monk who somehow knows about her crime, and has no way to resist his orders.

On Christmas Day, Kitty and Mimmy's childhood friend Daniel comes to visit them from New York. They are very happy. However, there is a heavy snowfall in New York on the day, and planes are unable to fly...

The first short in the series Karo and Piyobupt by Koji Yamamura

A collection of 8 scary stories selected by Junji Inagawa, who himself has had many bizarre experiences, takes us into a spine-chilling world of the super scary.

This is a compilation of Tezuka Osamu's classic animated film masterpieces. His uniqueness and love for animated films can be fully appreciated, ranging from his very first work to the work that marked the culmination of his career as an animated film writer, "The Legend of the Forest." This film was produced for the Tezuka Osamu Exhibition (held at the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art) in the summer of 1990, and was then released in different parts of Japan. Some of Japan's leading cartoonists and animators who had been good friends with Tezuka Osamu wrote each of the 10 letters comprising the title.