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Pinku from 1966.

Remake of the 1960 film with the same name in color that tells the story of a man and a woman who go by raft to a remote desert island with chickens and a dog. At first, it is a kind of paradise for them. They farm and fish following the same routine every day, feasting on grilled sanma that they roast out in the open. One day, their harmony gets interrupted by a mustachioed scientist on a raft powered by an abused pig. This unwanted visitor constructs a robot which begins the process of industrialization on the island. The couple are disgruntled but decide to put up with the man and his technology.

A young lady called Wannee takes her own life in Passakorn's home and he gets accused of her murder. Adirek, the lawyer, explains the whole, tragic story of Wannee to the police inspector.

Short by Motoharu Jonouchi.

Pinku from 1969.

After Alain Delon murders Elizabeth Taylor, he and Brigitte Bardot face attacks from The Beatles, hired by Richard Burton to kill the French couple and take revenge for his wife's death.

A feature length colour animation describing the fantastic world of "Ukiyoe".

Pinku from 1965.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

A documentary film on traffic accidents and emergency responders in Japan amid increasing motorization.

An experimental film edited from footage of the Japanese countryside.

A touching portrait of his partner Akiko and the days following their wedding, Iimura's conceptual rigour loosens in favour of intimacy in Honey Moon. (Julian Ross)

An anti-Japanese spy film about the female spy White Peony.

1962 Japanese movie

1965 Japanese movie

Taiwanese drama film.

Pink film directed by Kôji Seki.

Pinku from 1966.

A group of bandits has been raiding a Korean village in Manchuria, and a mysterious man on horseback called "Yeong" ("shadow") emerges to defend them.

Pink film directed by Shinya Yamamoto.

White Calligraphy is an abstract short made by scratching characters from 'Kojiki', an early Japanese text, into the frames of 16mm black leader.

A hidden gem produced at the height of the Hong Kong left-wing cinema. The Japanese army wants to force resistance leader Cheung (Bow Fong) to appear by capturing his family. Cheung's wife dies and, despite the protection by the nurse Yeung (Chu Hung) and other villagers, Cheung's daughter is captured. In the end Cheung's subordinate Lee Fu (Jiang Han) regroups with the resistance and saves the day, defeating the enemy and rescuing everyone. This film clearly references wartime productions in the mainland of China, with elements such as the Japanese taking hostages, resistance guerilla fighters, and the contrast between ‘heroes' and ‘villains' made obvious through camerawork and make-up designs. Street scenes shot in Macau merge seamlessly with studio scenes to recreate northern Chinese towns. War epics were not a strong suit of Hong Kong cinema. This film takes inspirations from Euro-American spy films and pays attention to character development and the mise-en-scène.

THROUGH THE YEARS touches on the theme of Westward expansion by combining facts with fiction. A film about three college students.

Pink film directed by Shinya Yamamoto.

A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding love and a job as ama, a pearl diver.

Pinku from 1966.

Jaguar-Man (豹（ジャガー）マン, Jagā Man) is an unaired tokusatsu TV pilot produced by P-Productions in 1967. It is an alternative pitch to Hyouman.

Pink film directed by Kyôko Ôgimachi.

Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacted ‘happening’-style performance art in unusual spaces during the early 1960s in Japan. The film is an extremely rare document of one of their early events, where they hired out a room in the Imperial Hotel and invited many friends and professionals in the art scene to participate in the occasion. The performance parodies Cold War fears and the construction of private bomb-shelters, as they diligently measure each guest’s weight and proportions in pretence that they are to build human-size shelters for each individual. Key figures of the art scene make an appearance, including Yoko Ono, video-artist Nam June Paik, noise artist Yasunao Tone, filmmaker Masao Adachi and graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo. A rarely seen and exceptional insight into the Japanese art scene of the era, Jonouchi records the event in his characteristically erratic style.

A man has no clue he's married to a ghost. This is yet another spin on the famous Mae Nak ghost legend. Only a 24 minute silent excerpt of this film currently exists.

This film is a compilation of three short horror stories. They include a story of a wife ghost who was separated by death with her husband. She met him after praying for meeting a husband for 100 days. The wife ghost finally leads him to death. In the second story, a ghost of a dead wife who is jealousy of her husband's love of a barmaid sets them on fire. In the third, a male ghost tests a chaste woman's will not to be tempted by men.

A gifted but struggling singer decides to restart his life with the woman of his dream. He works to his limit but ultimately struggles to make money, culminating in him accidentally killing a pharmacist and going on the run to Ratchaburi.

Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.

HK horror film.

Short animated film by Manabe Hiroshi

Pinku from 1967.

Pinku from 1965.

A man recounts his sorrows over his love that was not meant to be. As China enters its tumultuous period of political upheaval, love begins to blossom for two people on opposing parties.

Tsuchimoto made this travelogue film in 1967, documenting a five-month journey from the port city of Nakhodka on the coast of the Sea of Japan, to Moscow on the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Beautifully shot in colour, Tsuchimoto moves the camera from celebrations and official parades to the expressions of ordinary daily life, portraying the experiences of young people in Siberia. This commissioned film was televised, but this theatrical version was never released, and it is rarely shown.

The only son of a government official Yun loves Ok-hwa, the daughter of former gisaeng Gye-seon. But his father doesn't feel good about having a daughter of a former gisaeng as his daughter-in-law. He matches him instead with the only daughter of another official. Soon, Ok-hwa dies of lovesickness missing Yun so much. The ghost of her appears to Yun, who betrayed her and married another woman, to make him repent for his fault.

A documentary film produced to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Iwanami Shoten's founding. It depicts the history of Iwanami Shoten over a 50-year period from its founding in 1913 to 1963, using films, publications, photographs, etc. from that time.

This film features the life story of Korea's renowned singer Lee Mi-ja. She wins a prize in her rural town's singing contest at the age of 10. She continues to sing, becomes a successful celebrity and finally reunites with her mother who she parted from when she was very young.

Short animated film by Kuri Youji.

A string of weird incidents occur in Kyoto. Elderly men die after their ocular nerves are burned when they peek into antique urns on the veranda at their homes. Part of "Operation: Mystery".

An abstract animation about people and organs of the body in and out of drawers.

Pink film directed by Shinya Yamamoto.

Presentation of polymer chemistry-based synthetic fiber, and the manufacturing facilities and production process used by Toray, Japan’s leading textile maker. Also depicts the textiles being sold throughout Europe and the US.

Married and with a son on the way, Zhang takes shelter in a big old house haunted by a ghostly female vampire.

A melodrama story co-directed by Bai Ke and Lin Tuan-chiu in Taiyu (Taiwanese language)

1962 Japanese movie

Pinku from 1968.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

An adaptation of Mimei Ogawa's short story. It was a night with a beautiful moon. An optician visited an old lady who was living in a house alone just outside of town. Since she has gotten older and her eyesight has weakened, she bought a pair of large-rimmed glasses made of tortoise shell...

Yingtai disguised as a man studied with Liang Shanbo. Forced to marry another, Liang died heartbroken. She leapt into his grave; both transformed into butterflies.