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A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

Documentary and concert film of sorts showing the Tokyo rock music scene in 1978, just as punk began to emerge. Featuring performances from bands Friction, Lizard, S-Ken, Suicide, SS, Pain, Mirrors, Mr. Kite, Speed and 8 1/2. The Stanglers also make an appearance.

Second film in Tsuchimoto's series on Minamata disease - the victims of Minamata disease negotiate directly with Chisso Corporation (responsible for dumping toxic water into Minamata Bay) for life-long medical care and compensation.

For her master's degree, an aspiring academic gathers five ex-celebrities into her house (a singer, a racer, a boxer, an actor and a comedian) hoping to find out through real-life research about fame, by making them famous again. Things keep on quite well until her mute servant, who's taking care of everyone and falling in love with one of them, was knocked up by someone.

Pink film from Toei Central.

Thai horror film.

Early work of the celebrated director.

"Shot on 8mm on a mountain in Japan, the abrasive winds that drift the fog in Iimura's Kiri are so fierce we almost believe it to have grazed the filmstrip. The scratches, however, emerge as dust particles that submerge in and out of the mist. A comparative piece to Larry Gottheim's Fog Line (1970), Kiri shows rare patience in such a situation." -Julian Ross.

Malee is a farm girl from Northern Thailand who decides to sneak away to Bangkok with her boyfriend, Chate, but shortly after arriving, Chate disappears and Malee finds herself held captive in a "love hotel". To pay for the room, she is forced to sleep with men.

Thai horror film.

In 1971, Hara Masato and a group or actors started shooting his 16mm film, The First Emperor, based on an old Japanese book about history and myths that is known as the Kojiki ('Record of Ancient Matters'). He did not finish the film.

In-chul in his fifth year gets lost due to a ship wreck on his way back from a remote island and drifts to the border between the South and North Korea. In-chul meets North Korean boy Dong-man who collects used metals for living. Although difference of their background limits their conversation, Dong-man is moved by In-chul's innocence and cross the border with him. Unfortunately, they get shot by the army of North Korea and die.

Pat, a junior and senior artist, and Chidchua. It was born into a love triangle that is difficult to withdraw. When flavor and putt are related until she had serious feelings for him But he only thought of having her to cure his loneliness.

The story of three children in Sattahip of different backgrounds that became friends; Puchong, a Thai boy, Jimmy, a Korean-American boy and Muay, a Chinese girl. One day while exploring, they impulsively take a hearse going to Bangkok. There, they fall in the hands of various different adults, and learn the sad truth of the adult world.

Thai horror film.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Photographs of a nude, arranged into stop-motion sequences on the left half of the screen, are juxtaposed with a close-up of the film itself passing in front of a viewer, gradually revealed on the right half of the screen.

Thai drama.

A Chinese documentary about rural workers and their education by educated youth sent to the countryside from cities.

A stop-motion adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Nightingale.

A televised special commemorating 100 episodes of Kamen Rider.

A young boy explores Hong Kong after staying at with his sick Grandmother.

Pink film directed by Mamoru Watanabe.

In the last days of the Korean War, Mil-ryeo and Chang-su, two secret agents from North Korea, are ordered to defect to the south to carry out 'Special Mission 8'.

A virgin husband and a lustful woman pretending to be a virgin, Umi, are about to spend their wedding night together. The husband, textbook in hand, is alas! He climaxes just before he can enter. His wife's frustration with his nightly premature ejaculation finally explodes! She fantasizes about her love affairs with former lovers and lesbian friends and masturbates intensely, but that's still not enough, so she straddles her sleeping husband's crotch and shakes her hips... A hilarious and entertaining comedy porn film!

Fan-made "Dynavision" (kamishibai style) adaptation of Hagio Moto's November Gymnasium

Hong Kong movie

Wandering the bizarre town looked like a fishing village boy hero that has been cut a vein bitten his left arm to Memekurage in the coast, in search of a doctor "doctor's where" and while saying being tormented by the fear of death, absurd eye It is talking can undergo surgery met Joy, even though the eye, and require at last (gynaecologist), of obtaining survived without incident.

Women folk cultural revolution

Hikokazu is walking around selling watermelons when he meets Chuemon, a family retainer, in front of a castle. He was looking for someone with wisdom, as he was troubled by an envoy from a neighboring country who was making unreasonable demands. Hikokazu decides to cooperate with Chuemon on the promise that he will buy all the watermelons.

A collaborative performance, Image of Seeing--Seeing investigates the meaning of television watching. This work was created for television broadcast on the Nippon Broadcasting Corporation's program "Hyōgo no jikan" (Hyōgo Time).

A diary film composed by images where the director, after buying a CineKodak 16 (a pre-war 16mm camera) at a second hand camera shop, starts filming his wife, his newborn baby and his workplace.

The adventures of a young and happy bee who is sent by her queen to search for pollen, and in doing so she finds a new world that surrounds her, making friends with various forest creatures.

A huge earthquake struck the city of Jinfeng in the year of 1976. Liu Xu, the proxy for the Gang of Four, locked down the news of the earthquake in order to gain power for them. Party Secretary Li on the other hand, organized all power to help the local people to fight against the aftershocks. This film originally planned during the last period of cultural revolution, with the subplot of criticizing Gang of Four added after the arrests of them. Shot on the ruins of Tangshan earthquake and finished in August 1977, the film only screened once in Guangzhou before failed to pass the censorship and sealed up forever.

Thai horror film.

Pink film from Okura Eiga.

Animations overlaid on a rough grained photo of the Japanese mountain countryside. The physical painting of Japanese lacquer directly onto the film is incorporated into the animation.

Pinku distributed by Nikkatsu