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Hurricane Live 2033: More Music of the Bubblegum Crisis spotlights the music that helped to make 80's series The Bubblegum Crisis the popular early piece of anime that its become. The hard rock songs of Priss and the Replicants are played amidst a video montage of the series' most exciting action sequences, and rarely seen live footage from the musicians themselves is also included.
The only Japan-produced installment of the Super Junk / Super Faces of Death / Japanese True Gore franchise Jun Hyodo, the popular director of TBS's "Gimme a Break," delivers the definitive "end-of-the-century video" with never-before-seen footage.
Blue Max (1997) shows a woman looking out of a window, but also working with extreme close-ups: The street, her neck, the window, her knees, the floor and her toes, brought together by the sound of a passing train. Her ears, her mouth, the wall and the door. The sparkling glass of a window and the young woman on top of a naked young man and later the shadows on the wall of both of them. A telephone is ringing and the clouds in the blue sky are travelling by while it all turns into a rape. And the calmness of both of them is quite irritating when they later watch TV together. (www.desistfilm.com)
1995 short film.
The loneliness and emptiness of the protagonist are conveyed not heavily, but deeply. This is due to the fact that the film does not directly depict his emotional movements, but rather in a straightforward manner in relation to his surroundings. And this also resulted in the sympathy of the audience for the protagonist.
The live concert movie centers around the last day at Yokohama Arena during his first tour "HIDE OUR PSYCHOMMUNITY - Hide no Heya e Yokoso". Hide's ideas and stage gimmicks were constantly changing and developing even during concert tours. Another surprise about this video is that in 1993, Hide already foresaw that there was going to be a hardware that allows viewers to enjoy films in multi-angle mode, and because of that idea, the clip for "Doubt" was filmed in multi-angle mode. That film footage was shelved till now that finally DVD carries that feature.
James, handsome, well-educated, and brilliant, is the adopted son of a family prominent in the English aristocracy. James is curious about his origins and wants to know why he was abandoned. He asks the Lady Buckingham, the woman who arranged his adoption when he was 5 years old.
This science film explores the ecology of slime molds, a type of soil microorganism, through three years of observation and filming. This masterpiece was completed at the age of 91 by filmmaker Genichiro Higuchi, who has received international acclaim for his "visual thesis" that explores the mechanism of cell differentiation in cellular slime molds. Since their birth on Earth 1 billion years ago, true slime molds have survived by adapting to a variety of environments. This film uses time-lapse photography under a microscope to capture the rhythms of true slime molds, which cannot be seen with the naked eye.
It was on the day of her reunion with Sachiko, a classmate from her high school days, that Miki began to feel a presence. That night, Sachiko took out a snapshot.
Straight to video
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.
As with "SPIN", an abstract animation with delicate line drawings. There are single color and color versions. Nakamura Shigenobu is in charge of the music used in the work like the previous one.
It’s said that people die twice. The first death is a physical one and the second, true death comes when there is no one to remember that person.
Yamaguchi Maki felt bored with her husband Koichi's linear, monotonous movements, but she moaned and shook her hips, trying to reach a deeper state of ecstasy. The two had only been married six months...This was the second time Yamaguchi Ryo had met his brother's wife since attending their wedding. Having failed his university entrance exams, Ryo had moved from the Kyushu countryside to attend a cram school in Tokyo, and was now staying with his eldest son, Koichi.
Junji Inagawa, recognized by both himself and others as a 'spiritual guide,' receives photos believed to be 'spirit photographs' one after another. Genuine photos accidentally taken release tremendous power, an eerie atmosphere, and an inexplicable abnormality that plunges all viewers into a vortex of awe. In this work, Inagawa himself thoroughly explains the 'spirit photographs' that he personally witnessed and found truly frightening, using his unique narrative style. Additionally, there are also popular "scary stories".
1999 v-cinema release
A coming-of-age drama that depicts the love of film through the everyday lives of a foreign student working at a video store and a runaway boy. The story takes place in Hollywood, a video rental store located in Shirakawa Imadegawa, Kyoto.
Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.
The very first film in which Maya Yonesho tried to show her thoughts. Even just circles may be able to show emotions as a person in animation. The main circle (character) is slightly pinker than the other grey circles (people) and she thought she was very special. But she is very grey in a colourful world. She will find out that grey is not just a boring colour.
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 history club member commits suicide by jumping off the school building. Hazuki is curious about the mysterious message, so she consults her father, a detective. She infiltrates the club and begins investigating her. The granddaughter of the powerful Hatsune holds the key to the incident. Hazuki is whipped by Hatsune and lured out by her homeroom teacher, Junko, who indulges in her pleasure. Hazuki is then raped and abducted by Hatsune's men. Hazuki had begun to touch the core, but the tragedy and humiliation had only just begun.
8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada, june 1993. Starring Katayama Kaoru as "Sleeping Beauty".
Carrying an 8mm camera fitted with a wide-angle lens and an ND filter, I descended the mountain while turning the bulb crank, performing long exposures along the way. With each step, the body swayed. That movement was inscribed onto the film through dappled sunlight filtering through the trees. The blue of the sky, the white of the clouds, and the green of the leaves merged and mixed directly on the film surface. This work marks the beginning of the “light drawing” series using 8mm film. While employing the methodology developed in the previous work Prominence, this piece moves away from its static approach. Instead, it embraces the unavoidable blur inherent in the process and incorporates it more actively, treating motion itself as a dynamic element of the image.
Animated film by Kouji Nanke.
Experimental video by Keiji Aiuchi.
A work that attempts long exposure in strong sunlight using an 8mm camera fitted with an ND filter. A rose, as a still life subject, was used, and movement was created through camera shake during shooting and variations in exposure.
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Elusive memories flash in the back of his head. Visualising the people and landscapes as they are there, as casually as they are there, should be a difficult task, just as the protagonist struggled with the writing process. However, the film succeeds in vividly depicting the subtle atmosphere felt only in primary schools and only in junior high school, thanks in part to the fine performances of Watanabe Sayaka and her friends, who brilliantly play everyone from primary schools students to preparatory school students. There are no particularly dramatic episodes, but after watching the film, you will feel nostalgic for all the people in the film.
8mm graduation project. A psychological short story set in a world of ruins. A unique film that combines elements of experimental cinema with drama, such as the use of color filters and re-shot footage from a cathode-ray tube.
In broad daylight, unknown woman called out to me. She began to stalk me obstinately...
Depiction of the physicality of destruction and disappearance through images of the Japanese filmmaker’s father who dies and is cremated.
VTR video work. The whole story is a parody of Shuji Terayama and Shuntaro Tanikaws "Video Letter". Self-questioning about "meaning" and "myself" through video. What we end up with is a blue sky.
A cinematic rendition of Shuji Terayama’s poem, The Summer I Turned Four. Coastal images, thresholds, waves, expanses, are folded in to those of a statue of a young boy, who looks impassively onto the wide vista, frozen in time.
“The visual harmony of the landscape is disturbed by a screen that allows us to see into the distance (television). The film is composed of six scenes that feature a television in the landscape. The speed of the television (in NTSC) is 30 frames per second, and never changes in this film. But the landscape views pass at different speeds.” - Yo Ota
Junji Inagawa, a guide to the spirit world, has collected and filmed his own spiritual phenomena in this three-episode omnibus of authentic horror films.
Shampoo discovers a broach which makes her feel the opposite of her true feelings for Ranma. Ranma begins to panic at the thought of losing one of his fiancees, and plans to tell Shampoo that he loves her.
A Film by Hideaki Sasaki
1990 Pink film directed by Masatomo Yatake.
A VHS release promoting Ayaka Akimoto.
Short film that is part of a series of 6 films that Nobuhiro Kawanaka made between 1987 and 1992.
A breath of light, a film poem by in-camera editing that is more sensory than experimental. Image sketches made with short shots while swinging the camera.
Uesugi has become accustomed to the host club industry, whilst Kato remains, as ever, a specialist in covering for others. One night at ‘American Dream’, a woman who requested Kato turned out to be a spy from a rival club. Unaware of this, an elated Kato let the information slip, resulting in the club’s top client being poached. Kato faces the sack unless he can win the client back. Behind the scenes, the industry’s number one host, Samezu, was pulling the strings. Upon learning this, Uesugi’s fighting spirit is ignited. ‘I’ll poach the top client from his club—that mysterious woman dressed in Chanel, known as the “Angel of Massacre”!’ However, the woman’s true identity turned out to be that of an incredibly influential figure…
8mm short film by Mikio Yamazaki.
Documentary on Yoshiyuki Yamashiki, biwa player, 91 years old
Experimental short film by Jun Miyazaki.
A high school girl is waiting alone for her friend Hanayo in a sparsely populated area. A lecherous salaryman returning from work approaches her, pretending to be kind. This is a shocking erotic-grotesque splatter film reminiscent of 1960s–70s giallo movies. Even though it is clearly fictional, it can be quite disturbing to watch, so it is not recommended for the faint-hearted or for viewing on a full stomach.
A man who had diarrhea after eating an expired potato salad wanders into a strange personal space.
A show inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince".
Experimental short by Visual Brains.
In the year 19XX (a long time ago), a meteorite fell in Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is destroyed & for some reason it is full of zombies. The government closed the entire Kanto area. The main character is an international terrorist who is locked up. Until she escapes from a prison in Tokyo while fighting zombies Act. 2 focuses on outdoor combat.
Japanese noise band C.C.C.C. performing live at Bears Osaka on August 10, 1991.
Fumie returns to her room where she lives alone as if she is escaping from someone. She immediately takes off the underwear she was wearing and washes it. You stink. She sniffs her washed panties, curious about what the stranger has just said to her. At the cinema where she works part-time, a colleague, a projectionist, stalks her, and Fumie's heart slowly begins to race. The film is a more eloquent and naked account of women's lives and their true feelings about menstruation. The film is a raw but lyrical portrayal of body odour, vomiting and other things that everyone tries to hide, as well as the fragile friendship between women, which leaves a strange aftertaste after watching.
This is a film about seven artists. It's also a film about seven people who are mentally handicapped. In the course of this touching film, we discover how art may provide a route to the human interior.
1997 release
A video CD starring Yuko Sakaki, featuring original interviews, and recorded in Los Angeles.