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Starring Kazuo Ohno, an inspirational figure in Butoh dance.

Hinako, a former JSDF officer is tasked to find a company president's daughter who went missing in Bangkok.

1999 Japanese short film

Squareworld has a stark, minimal narrative: a drug-addicted man kidnaps a young woman from the hills, holds her prisoner and eventually kills her and disposes of her body. We learn almost nothing about either the victim or her tormentor, and the film contains no moral judgments –Tony Rayns

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

8mm b/n film portrait of Kumiko Watanuki.

In this work, no matter which scene or cut you look at, basically a different amount of time will pass than it did during the shooting. This is true not only inside the screen of individual cuts, but also in the direction of the entire time axis. The time that flows here is a cinematic time that was newly created using the time that flowed when Mr. Kazufumi Kobayashi created a stag pattern out of paper. If we say that time is a function of motion and space, then this can be rephrased as cinematic motion and cinematic space generated by the film.

The film reproduces the historic performances by some of the iconic artists of Fluxus from the 60s: Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins, George Brecht, Alison Knowles, Ben Patterson, Jackson Mac Low etc.

Snow Troupe's performance.

A promotional video starring Fumie Hosokawa.

The film was born from discovering a Super 8 film shot by her deceased father during her childhood, and unfurls through a personal archive of images and reminiscences that patch together the life of this complex and reserved individual. In its quest to deconstruct the mundane, private appeal of family memories, Doi calls the film an “anti-home movie,” yet in keeping with the diaristic quality of her previous works, My father, burned paints its portrait of memory akin to a window onto a chamber or interior space, through which ambiguous emotions resonate and resound.

A projector burns the frames of film. Re-photographing the image as it melts.

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.

16mm film directed by Nobutaka Yamamura.

A young artist loses the love of his life after only a month of living together. He returns to his studio, the place of his memories of his beautiful girlfriend, who used to be a model, but the loss is so great that even when he is eating or sleeping, he has realistic illusions, as if her death was his mistake. Then one day, as if obsessed by something, he begins to make a statue of her in clay. On the night he finishes the statue, the moonlight shining into his studio breathes life into the lump of clay. And when he wakes up, he meets his beloved again...

Lareine concert.

Finding Love on the Slopes

A woman is rubbing herself against a white wall, making the typical noises of having sex from the back, and Onishi takes his time to open the framing and then showing them in explicit positions. You don’t see the penetration but watch the rhythm of two bodies, listening to it, too. The framing by windows will allow you some rest. The man is putting on his clothes and closing the door while the woman is looking out oft he window. Onishi’s typical black inserts again, and we watch the same couple on the toilet, where he is putting her hands into hand-cuffs. After that he is showering her carefully, and she remains in hand-cuffs while they are having sex again under the shower. He is using his revolver then to free her from these metal things. And the toilet is a calm place when she comes back after strangling a young man on the street.

This is the first original video recording of Junji Inagawa's ghost story "Wandering Ningyo", which boasts a level of fame and terror unequaled by any of his ghost stories. Inagawa himself had refused to talk about the story before it was released, but producer Kanta Tagawa convinced him to record it, and an anecdote tells of bizarre phenomena that later occurred in Tagawa's family.

Released in 1984 for the publication of the Kazumi Kawai's LP "Tenshi No Dessert".

Star Troupe's stage play.

Movie by Taketoshi Watari.

The third film in a series of diaries of Tokyo scenery.

First film in the Death Press series

Junichi Yaoi talks about secret theories about aliens.

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...

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada, autumn 1992. A prelude to "Kazuko; RONDO..."

Kenji Onishi’s 16mm independent road movie. A couple and their winter journey through the city and a desolate countryside.

Story The human relationship between four men and women that unfolds endlessly in the sweltering sunlight of summer.

When a girl in a gym uniform does the repeated side jump exercise in a gymnasium, she moves to other places such as a shrine, a park, and the side of the road. Her motion out of the frame creates evokes stop-motion photography. A work that makes you wonder, “Where will she go next?”

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.

A fateful accident befalls a woman who is about to get married. A young man who is an eavesdropping maniac. A psycho love-hate drama about abnormal people, including ruthless kindergarteners.

Flotte is French slang for rain or downpour. This work was taken on a rainy day at the Abt Gallery in Waseda, Tokyo, a few days before his solo exhibition. If I can't shoot that day, I have to give up on the new work, and I can't help but worry about the rain. Before I saw the rush, I was worried about whether the picture would come out properly, but the rain came out beautifully, so I gave it the title "FLOTTE". It is constructed so that the speed changes intermittently in one cut (actually, it is meant to appear that way).

After inadvertently rescuing a woman named Utashiki, who had been captured by bounty hunters, Swordsman Jinnai "The Headhunter" soon finds himself confronted by a new threat.

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

Tonight, Takeo chose Ryoko Mikami's "I want to be taken to that extreme. At that moment, Takeo's mind became mixed up between porn and reality, and he was hit with a feeling of pleasure that he had never experienced before... As Takeo becomes unable to distinguish between reality and porn, an incident arises.

Last short film made by Fukazawa, filmed on SVHS.

Rome 1498. The Borgia family is prosperous due to the great power of Pope Alessandro VI, who is both patriarch of the Borgia family and the the head of the Church. Cesare, the first son, decides to follow his ambition and relinquish his position of Cardinal, second only in power to the Pope. This bold choice is one which is to change his life.

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Shizuko is at a good age when she can forget her lost love with chocolate. Shizuko is always a little in the wrong place at the wrong time. On the day of her graduation ceremony, she finds out that the boy she's been eyeing has a girlfriend, and on top of that, he hears the sound of her stomach growling. She is so shocked that she runs up to the rooftop and meets a girl named Sorae. She says that she hates school and loves to sit on the roof and look at the sky, which makes Shizuko forget her sadness. Sorae also opens her heart to Shizuko, who, like her, is not good at what she does, but somehow likes school. On the day of the graduation ceremony, the two classmates exchange words for the first time and go home together like best friends. The Osaka dialect and the careful, unpretentious imagery subtly create the warm, fluffy quality of the title.

The event was held at Shakujii Park in Nerima Ward, Tokyo. As a new twist, I scribbled graffiti and put red star stickers all over the route in advance. Some of them were completely ignored, but others were photographed by several participants. Kamioka brought a radio, Oguchi a Rika-chan doll, and Kaneko a video camera with an LCD monitor. Suzuki also had his child captured on film in advance. But it was Ishii who excelled, shooting the same things as the other participants, but somehow standing out as the most beautiful. I thought that the goddess of 8mm film was smiling on him alone.

With two people I met on the live screening tour of my previous film The Eternal Traveler, Kaneko Tomokazu (17) and Onuma Ryoko (23), posing as my son and my daughter, the "Road Movie Family" went on voyage in the summer of 1996, taking five cameras with them. This journey became the core of our film, with each of us editing his or her own part, adding his or her own voice-over, trying to achieve an "I-movie" with several "I" s.

A man is walking alone in a scenic city of Kyoto, a young man with an unfamiliar expression is in front of him. Apparently the young man was touched by him. The man's name was Bensuke Musashi. He was a bad guy who roamed the city of Kyoto and forcibly invited any young guy he saw so he could embrace them. Bensuke now has slept with 999 men. One day Bensuke approaches Gojo Ohashi, a mysterious young man wearing a veil.

The film is a documentary-style drama about the search for OGATA, a friend from the film club at university who disappeared before graduation and is now missing. Carrying a video camera, the protagonist visits his old friends to find out what happened to OGATA. It seems as if his purpose is to go around declaring that he is looking for OGATA (who everyone wants to see). His friends are disgusted and tell him to "grow up". Eventually, the protagonist finds out that OGATA is in Kyushu and goes to see him with his camera. Seeing him for the first time in a long time, OGATA begins to talk about the reasons for his disappearance and his current life. This is a story of self-discovery through the act of searching for a friend. The film is as close to a documentary as possible, but it skillfully approaches the psychological structure of the protagonist, a moratorium man.

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

A young salesman dives in and makes a sales pitch. He is led into a small company in an apartment building, but he can't see the face of the woman who is guiding him, or the man from the company who is dealing with the salesman. Besides, someone or something is sitting backwards in the back of the room.

Film shot on 16mm by Japanese filmmaker Nobuhiro Kawanaka in the late 1990s.

Short film by Tachibana Kaoru, 1998.

Short animation by Tokumitsu Kifune & Sonoko Kifune.

8mm early film directed by Hiroyuki Oki.

The evening sky that dyes into pink. Super8 early work by Kenji Onishi.

The third and last installment in the Karo and Piyobupt series by Koji Yamamura

Designed as a meditative, nature-immersive “virtual travel” experience, the video showcases Japan's iconic cherry blossom (sakura) landscapes, aimed at delivering a zen-inspired experience with 5.1-channel surround sound and high-quality visuals .

Blues singer Nakase enters a bar, invited by the melody of the piano that echoes in the lonely dark night...

Pink film directed by Yukio Kitazawa.

"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Okura Eiga.