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When you're just a little kid and get frightened easily, having a ghost as a friend and mentor isn't all bad.

Miyai layers ghostlike footage of unauthorized street performances in the Shinjuko district of Tokyo with color filters and lights.

A film made with a group of student and worker activists during the Haneda 1967 protests against Japan’s cooperation with the US and the Vietnam war. The film subverts the conventions of mainstream television news coverage to investigate in great detail the killing of a young protester during clashes with the riot police and thus denounces the increasing use of repressive violence by the government.

The oldest surviving work by Hoshino. A short drama about three young men and one girl. Rather than remaining confined to the typical image of youth often found in student films, it is filled throughout with experimental attempts, revealing the early seeds of ideas that would later connect to Hoshino’s subsequent works. A playful and pop-infused piece that strongly evokes its era.

A short historical vignette constructed from an eighteenth-century three-panel watercolor genre painting, using its crowded, witty details to evoke a scene from Korea’s past.

The film focuses on the struggle to stop the transportation of U.S. military fuel tanks and follows the young workers who are fighting together under the banner of anti-Vietnam war, anti-reorganization struggles, and stopping the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty.

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

A Shell Film Unit short observing Hong Kong’s “boat people”—families living and working on the harbor—framed as a day-to-day study of a floating community and its relationship to the city.

Renowned writer Xi Xi served as editor for the ninth issue of Theater Quarterly. Having an elder brother who worked at a television news station, she had access to a large amount of discarded tape. Piecing these images and sounds of celebrities and even the Pope together, this collage work serves as a reworked document of the era.

Early pink film.

The film follows Tang Sanzang and his disciples as they encounter powerful spirits during their journey west to obtain sacred scriptures. Disguises, misunderstandings, and supernatural challenges test their bond. With courage and wisdom, they face trials that reveal the strength of their unity and purpose.

Phantom Black Festival was filmed by Naoya Kuroki, and written and produced by Tamio Suenaga (as KOKUIN). It is a record of happening art that took place over several days from October 13th to 20th, 1968, organized by KOKUIN, on the streets of Shinjuku and at the go-go club "Underground Pop". On the eve of International Anti-War Day, "anti-art" actions took to the streets early. This festival led to the Ikebukuro Black Festival, which was the starting point of the "Expo Destruction Alliance" caravan the following year in 1969. 10.21 1968 International Anti-War Day was also filmed by by Naoya Kuroki, and written and produced by Tamio Suenaga (as KOKUIN). It is a record of the New Left rallies held at Meiji Park in Tokyo and other locations on October 21, 1968, and the protests to block US military tanks at Shinjuku East Exit. Some of the protests were to block the transport of jet fuel used by the US military in the bombing of Vietnam.

A Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire is a 1961 Chinese documentary directed by Fu Ya and Huang Bao-Shan. As described by Erik Barnouw, it was assembled in Peking using footage from many sources in China and abroad to document the evolution of the People’s Republic of China. Another source notes that it looks back on 34 years of the People’s Liberation Army. The title comes from Mao Zedong’s famous quote: “A single spark can start a prairie fire,” symbolizing how small revolutionary actions can grow into a broad movement.

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.

A 300-ton Schnaveer type trailer created through the development of heavy goods transport technology at Nippon Express. This work records the work of transporting a 280-ton ultra-heavy transformer for substations in its complete state.

Music video for the song Yuki to Kodomo by Kyoko Ito that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

Part of the Chinese Historical Ethnographic Film Series (1957-1966)

Part of the Chinese Historical Ethnographic Film Series (1957-1966)

Thai horror film.

Two strangers, victims of a mountain climbing accident, await rescue by getting to know one another and eventually making love. The woman becomes pregnant, but has no hope of contacting the father of her child. Seven years later, her sister introduces her fiance to the woman and it is the same man that she met earlier on the mountain.

First short color animation from Linus CHAO (趙澤修), who is a famous painter. Some called Linus CHAO the father of Taiwan animation or Walt Disney of Taiwan. He had joined Disney's crew on the making of The Flintstones and Marry Poppins before returning to Taiwan. 台灣省政府出品，光啟動畫製作。本片以動畫形式介紹「省政信箱」的免費服務以及功能。 村民們開心慶祝光復節，石頭伯卻因買田過戶等等問題，不知如何解決而煩惱。經友人告知，只要寫信到「省政信箱」詢問，很快地就可以得到解答。不久，在台灣省政府新聞處主辦的「省政信箱」服務是免費的，解答既正確又可靠，歡迎大家多利用。

Hyouman (豹（ひょう）マン, Hyō Man, "Leopard-Man") is an unaired tokusatsu TV pilot produced by P-Productions in 1967. It is an alternative pitch to Jaguarman.

Japan's first computer generated animation

Single-handedly produced by Nakai, the film features images of the body, with themes of fetishism and reversion to the womb. In addition to using in-camera editing to achieve multiple exposures, he employed direct methods such as coloring and punching holes in the film.

Pilot episode of the famous anime Heidi.

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

In these freckled, disjointed montages of everyday life, we see a faint hint of an upcoming festival as the theatre troupe sound its drums; the children either sit and gaze, or clamber to see the lead actress. This 8mm roll of film was found after LONG Sih-liang passed away in 2012 and is now shown for the first time in 51 years.

Ping opera film.

A typical university study trip. The camera is the gun, the lens is the muzzle. While moving with this in mind I shot a lot 8mm continuously. Stop-motion documentary with a keen sense control the camera freely, swinging the timing to press the shutter subtly adjust to the subject and boldly change. It produced unique movements and images.

Pinku from 1967.

A documentary from Maoist china which aimed to demonstrate the suffering of the working people under the old society. It was based on an exhibition in Shandong province.

An award-winning documentary short by Taiwan Film Studio in 1964.

Obscure adaptation of the classic story “ The Living Koheiji”.

Part of the Chinese Historical Ethnographic Film Series (1957-1966)

Part of the Chinese Historical Ethnographic Film Series (1957-1966)