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Unfinished 8mm work by Yukiyasu Shimada.

Yellow Magic Orchestra: Hurrah - Live 79 Includes sections of shows in New York and at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. Track List: Rydeen, Behind The Mask, La Femme Chinoise, Technopolis, Firecracker, Day Tripper, Solid State Survivor, Kung Tong Shonen, BGM TV-CF, Rydeen

The village, the street, the house you spent your childhood in and where memories always mean flowers, nature and movement in a dark surrounding while the sun is shining outside. You can smell the sea, hear the waves and your shoes will always be dirty from the long way you walked. The father tries to breathe, close to death and pieces of pain are captured in that little camera. But what better can happen to a human being than dying surrounded by your family? The tender hands on your knee and the fresh water. The preparations are taken for the funeral. And outside the light goes on shining, the waves continue their way and it is dark during the night. And the next morning there will be white clouds in the sky again.

A hard-hitting documentary that can only be described as unique. The protagonist is a friend of the director Kudo. His parents divorced when he was a child and he has grown up in an environment that is too miserable to be described in one word: gloomy. The film exposes all the privacy of his family. His father abandoned him and his mother and evaporated. A mother who brought her lover into the house. What were they thinking at the time when I felt so alone? To find out, he goes to his father's home, where he has remarried and has a child, and to his mother, who works hard to send him money. The camera follows the process closely and captures the naked truth on film. The director Kudo and the protagonist, in collusion to break the taboo, are on the edge of their seats in front of and behind the camera. The energy that surges through them is a truth that can only be expressed through the documentary method.

One of the last works by the Japanese photographer and filmmaker Hiroshi Yamazaki.

Maji (Tamotsu Ishibashi) was targeted. The attacker was the daughter of Nishida, the former president of the Shuyukai, which he had previously destroyed. Kyoko, a woman with seething hatred for Maji, who killed her father, is trying to revive the Shuyukai's signboard.

8mm b/n film portrait of Kumiko Watanuki.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

The iconic concert from T-SQUARE in 1998.

A documentary following the lives of people in Mishima, a small island off the coast of Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture.

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

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

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.

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

Lengthened version of the film.

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

Short film that is part of a series of 6 films that Nobuhiro Kawanaka made between 1987 and 1992.

Unable to bear the repeated bullying, Kenichi (1st year junior high school student) attempts suicide, but narrowly survives. His hospital roommate, Jun (2nd year junior high school student), suffers from a terminal illness but lives for his dreams. Jun's single-minded dedication leaves a deep impression on Kenichi, who is thinking of ending his life.

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Experimental short by Ichiro Sueoka.

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.

A omnibus horror movie about terrifying occurrences at a school.

Performances by Japanese Noise acts: Masonna, Incapacitants, Merzbow, Solmania, Hijokaidan.

The story of a young man who has lost every reason to live.

A confrontation unfolds in Asakusa between the detective Shimozuke Tokageya Kumo and Dr. Caligari, the Monster Man. Suspect and shady characters, the severed head of a laughing woman, a battle with a ten-armed giant, chases in the fish market, and much more to see! Actors from the "Crazy Jap" theatre troupe participated in large numbers, providing support. Furthermore, the powerful drumming that backs the heavy voice of the star Kōji Nakase is played by Koichi Kitazawa of the "Machida Eizō + Kitazawa Gumi."

The old apartment and neighborhood women are still there when the filmmaker visits her childhood home in Nishi-Tengachaya, after more than twenty years away.

A young man is spending his summer vacation at the seaside, enjoying a romantic fireworks display with his current girlfriend. Having gotten wind of this, a mysterious woman who acts as though she is his ex-girlfriend immediately begins stalking them.

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.

"Yoru no Okite" takes us to the sky (or to hell) to accompany the delirium of a man who is assassinated. A different take on a spirit who is adrift after being murdered. This restless spirit takes us on a surreal journey through death, the after life, and back to the land of the living again.

In broad daylight, unknown woman called out to me. She began to stalk me obstinately...

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

This is a short documentary about Japanese traditional dolls.

The title of the film, is a symbol of "something easily understood by children but completely forgotten by adults" in Saint-Exupéry's famous novel, The Prince of the Stars. Due to their child-like small vocabulary, today's young people seem to have poor communication from an adult's perspective. However, they know how to feel happiness in their ordinary daily lives and how to share it. The film depicts the theme that happiness is not something to be searched for, but something to be felt, in a soft narrative like a girls' manga, within the three days of four women.

Second entry in the Lady in the Sea of Blood series.

As Godard said, a film is made up of "images and sound," but inevitably the images tend to be primary and the sound secondary. In order to break this and make the sound (in this case the words) the primary focus, I came up with the idea of ​​using footage shot with the lens removed.

Experimental video by Keiji Aiuchi.

A stop motion animation unfolds within a labyrinthine place. A mantis is invading the kingdom of ants while witnessing their ritual activities, and getting into the inside of the group.

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A collection of three music clips from the album "Samantha".

GIRLS or FU MI KO #4.

An 8mm film drama. Written by Fusako Kumagai and directed by Kenji Onishi.

Reality generated by time flowing under sunlight changes as the angle of perception shifts. A single, fixed reality is nothing more than an illusion; once it begins to collapse, it slips into other realities. This is an attempt to create an alternate world through a simple method slow playback, a basic motion-control capability of video.

Experimental short by Jun Miyazaki.

A omnibus horror movie about terrifying occurrences at a school.

A short film seeing Ultraman Neos and Ultraseven 21 talk with and review past battles of Ultraman Great and Ultraman Powered by Ultraman's instruction (and reusing footage of the unreleased Ultraman Neos Pilot). It was first sold on VHS exclusively by applying through a TV Magazine campaign in July 1995, then released as a bonus on the Ultraman Neos Blu-ray in 2018.

“I wanted to document a normal life that you would see anywhere; and I realized that this was my own family. I half-jokingly submitted a proposal to a television station, and it was accepted. I began filming a diary of my family’s life using 8mm video that same day.” And so begins the hysterically tumultuous weeklong experience of this helpless father left behind at home with his unsuspecting two year-old daughter Mio, while his wife Niji is hospitalized to give birth to their next daughter.

Super8 film by Kenji Onishi.

Mr. Ike’s first directorial work in three years is a hybrid film blending comedy, action, and romance. Reality and the world of film are mixed together in a deliberately chaotic fashion. If you try to follow the story too carefully, you may find yourself unable to tell which of the two is the actual main narrative. A masterpiece that lets you experience a kind of 1990s Nouvelle Vague spirit firsthand.

An experimental film about the abandoned mansion that once stood in Roppongi. The mansion was originally built as the private residence of the businessman named “Ryoji Oda” [小田良治], but after his death, it was used as the Philippine Embassy. In this film, Sekine focuses his camera on the rotting furniture and a mummified cat, and uses 16mm found footage (the content of which is a documentary of traditional Philippine culture) discovered in the basement.

Finding Love on the Slopes