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This is Aihara’s earliest surviving work. Motifs of psychedelic culture and the anti-war movement are directly scratched and painted on translucent film.

The title Gewaltopia Trailer has a dual meaning in the Japanese language; one meaning for the word yokoku (trailer) could mean a compilation of extracts to promote a film, but it can also mean a prediction, a prophecy for the future as a Gewaltopia. The film accumulates footage from his earlier films and arranges them in different contexts, a characteristic style of Jonouchi's who often re-edited his films for each screening and provided different soundtracks.

Pinku from 1965.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

A student secretly works a night job to pay off his father’s gambling debts, and as a result constantly dozes off during classes in the day. When the teacher investigates, a series of family disputes ensues. This is MOU’s first film after graduating from Taiwan Art College. When it was first shown, it drew much criticism and debate.

The Angry Apple

This calm, family-centered film documents the first 18 months of the life of the director’s eldest daughter. The film follows the young baby’s faltering footsteps, as she takes account of the wide world through her tiny body, and preserves the cherished moments of the family.

A documentary film that explores the effects of air pollutants contained in smog on the body and raises the issue of air pollution. Selected for the Japan Industrial Film Competition Industrial Film Award and the Science and Technology Film Festival.

Computer Movie No. 2 is a CGI animation created in advance of video-editing software. CTG programmed graphics on an IBM computer, filmed the screen with a 16mm camera, and assembled the frames as an animated film.

There is a sports meeting in the forest, and Axiong, Azhu and the first "donkey champion" in the last competition signed up for cross-country running. Before the opening of the sports meeting, Ah Xiong and Ah Zhu practice hard every day, but the donkey champion thinks that the opponent is too weak, and he can securely win the first place without practicing.

Pink film directed by Kôji Seki.

Despite the title, this appears to be a vampire film influenced by Western vampire mythology. It was remade as a horror-comedy in 1984.

Petchara Chaowarat plays a Country girl, Pimchawee, who is caught in a love triangle while her grandmother threatens to disclose her private love letters in the pursuit of recovering some money. Shot entirely in 16mm, this is Petchara Chaowarat's first film, and she went on to become one of the most iconic Thai actresses in history and continued to co-star in countless films with Mitr Chaibancha.

A young woman accused of being possessed by a demonic tiger spirit (วิญญาณเสือสมิง) is asked to move away from her Thai village to Burma or else. She and her grandmother return years later and a series of mysterious killings begin. This was remade in 1976 (as The Tiger Devil) and several times after.

Cheol-woo, a Korean law student at Waseda University in Tokyo, secretly leads a student reading club that doubles as an independence movement. He falls in love with Yumiko, daughter of Miike, a Japanese official behind colonial policies, and struggles with their forbidden romance.

Thai horror film.

The original version is monochrome, but in 1967 it was remade in color as an international version. In the international version, the first and twelfth episodes and the fake commercials have been omitted.

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.

Two chaotic series of images, one for each eye. Hipster living, malformed fetuses, war, arts events and pop culture stands for the material.

A documentary commemorating the 100th anniversary of the assimilation of Hokkaido

A boy and a girl in a small room, having a fight, making love and suddenly . . . a black humor on a young couple.—Takahiko Iimura, Paper Film: Love and Flowers, 1970.

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

This work is an extension of Jonouchi’s documentation of Hi-Red Center’s performance event, Shelter Plan (1964). Using the same unique shooting and editing techniques adopted in the Gewaltpia series, Jonouchi put on record the process of destruction of Frank Lloyd Wright’s renowned architectural piece [the Imperial Hotel], which was the site where Shelter Plan took place.

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

Cameraman Yonesaku Kobayashi (1905-2005) is a pioneer of scientific films of Japan. He and producer Sozo Okada made many scientific educational films, and in 60's - 70's, many avant-garde composers composed music for these films.

Clad in white and wielding the deadly Ringing Sword, the beautiful Yeh Chiu Lu wanders the countryside righting the wrongs perpetrated by the White-Haired Warlord, Tsao Tan (Law Bun, "King Of Kings"). Determined to wipe out the Chiang Clan, Tsao Tan sets his swordsman to capture Master Chiang (Kong Ban, "Shaolin Kung Fu Mystagogue"), the last of the clan. Only the Ringing Sword and a mysterious ninja, with his own vendetta against Tsao Tan, stand in his way.

An experimental collage of comic book characters making out.

Shirouyasu Suzuki's first short films shot on 8mm.

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

A night in the life of an apartment building features interesting occurrences, as seen through its lit windows.

Thai horror film.

When Korea Highway Corporation is about to destroy the grave of O Gong-nyeo, the locals oppose the idea because they are worried of the legend of the grave. Heo, an engineer in charge of the construction, checks into a mountain lodge to investigate the legend. One night, he listens to O Gong-nyeo's grudge-filled story in his dream. However, he is too obsessed with his investigation and has been hallucinating. At last, he leaves the lodge and insists that the absurd legend is nothing but a superstition. He boldly pushes forward the construction project.

A short puppet animation movie by Kazuhiko Watanabe.

Pinku from 1966.

A film documenting life in Okinawa under the domination of American military bases

Three representatives of today's young generation: a young man who works at a motorcycle factory, a woman who works at a department store in Tokyo, and a young man. A work for overseas that depicts Japan in an era of steady economic development.

The princess is lively and active by nature, and she is very tired of the rigid life in the palace. The king thinks that her words and deeds are not a princess, and asks her to stay in the boudoir all the time. The woodcutter, who made her fall in love at first sight. The prime minister wanted his son to be a son-in-law. One day, he gave the princess a golden phoenix crown, and took the opportunity to propose marriage to the king, and the king agreed. The princess is unwilling to have her happiness ruined, but she doesn't know how to resist. The shepherd boy has an idea, remembering that he can use the local custom of riding a bull to "marry into the sky", and tells his plan, the princess is overjoyed.

Cameraman Yonesaku Kobayashi (1905-2005) is a pioneer of scientific films of Japan. He and producer Sozo Okada made many scientific educational films, and in 60's - 70's, many avant-garde composers composed music for these films.

Kidnapped and rescued by a Ninja, Fujimaru has mastered martial arts over the years. Now he sets off on a journey to find his mother and also locate an old tome containing secret martial arts techniques.

Short animated film by Yanagihara Ryouhei.

Planned by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, this film presents the most famous and popular Japanese Kabuki performed by Kabuki actors.

Short animated film by Yoji Kuri.

The Meaning of 1/24 Second is Korea's first experimental film and was filmed in 1969. This 16mm film in color and black and white is composed of hundreds of inconsistent scenes. Taking the basic structure of the film, which consists of 24 frames per second, The Meaning of 1/24 Second expresses the steep reality faced by modern man, and the sense of alienation that comes from uncontrollable speed. The video file that remained only in digital format since it went missing in 2001 was restored to 16mm film for screening for his retrospective exhibition , which has been held at Seoul Museum of Art, Republic of Korea in 2013, thus providing an opportunity to look back on its meaning.

The first installment of Seven-Color Mask: Three Aces.

Short 8mm film by Shirouyasu Suzuki.

As she describes the lives of her parents, who run a tofu store and try to follow their convictions without thinking of themselves, Fumiko realizes that a family based on true trust between parents and children is the only place where a wonderful human being can be formed in a society undergoing drastic changes.

Pinku from 1968.

Propaganda documentary on landlord Liu Wencai, depicted as the archetype of the exploiter of peasant farmers.

Pink film from Kan Mukai.

Experimental film directed by Minao Kitamura

Independent animation by Hayashi Seiichi.

The second installment of Seven-Color Mask: Three Aces.