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An Extraordinary Love

The son of a hospital director returns from abroad and reunites with his former lover at a welcome party. As a single mother and radio singer, she rekindles their romance, but his family forbids her from bringing her child into the marriage. Torn between love and maternal duty, she faces an impossible choice. This Taiwanese adaptation of the Japanese melodrama Flower in Storm reworks its romantic tale of class divide, shifting its focus to maternal sacrifice and female solidarity through a vibrant ensemble cast.

An Extraordinary Love

NR 1964
Dada 62

Yomiuri Independent was an annual show between 1949-1963 that exhibited all art that was submitted. Artists in the early 60s began to take advantage of the challenge by provoking the organisers with their submissions that cast a question on the framework of art within the gallery space. The objet d'art and performances we see in Dada 62 are fragments of what was shown in its 1962 version with pieces by Genpei Akasegawa, Jiro Takamatsu and Shinmei Kojima making an appearance. (Julian Ross)

Dada 62

NR 1962
The Disaster of Pesticides

Inspired by Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," documentary filmmaker Shukichi Koizumi, with the cooperation of Shunichi Wakatsuki, director of Nagano Prefecture's Saku General Hospital, a pioneer in rural medicine, made this documentary film that explores the effects of pesticides on the natural world and the human body. Director Koizumi founded the documentary film production company "Group Gendai" in 1967, the year he made this film, and has since produced and produced numerous documentaries.

The Disaster of Pesticides

NR 1967
Oh! My Mother

Writes Ando, "Oh! My Mother was the first work I made using a newly bought 16mm camera I had purchased with the writer Shuji Terayama in Paris. This piece was selected for the Oberhausen International Film Festival. In 1969, there were, of course, no video cameras like ones we see now, and color TVs were only found at broadcast television studios. I had just been employed at the TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System), and I often snuck into the studios after hours to experiment with the equipment. Oh! My Mother was made using the feedback effect, which is produced by infinitely expanding the image by looping the video."

Oh! My Mother

NR 1969