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Independent animation by Suzuki Shiniichi

Short pinku, distributed by Nikkatsu in 1972

A Z-grade superhero story in which the protagonist, a female university student who has been sexually assaulted, takes down despicable men, including a university professor who blackmails her.

This film that can be called an auditory variation on Alchemy, in which the volume of microphone feedback increases and decreases according to the distance from the subject. “This is a work of minimal cinema that continuously zooms out on a flower blooming in the darkness, as a paradoxical approach to the act of seeing.” (Tsuneo Nakai)

A young boy who has lived without his father for some time buys the tallest eggplant seedling at the market, hoping to grow it into a plant that will bring them lots of fruit. When the plant eventually grows all the way to the clouds, the boy decides to climb up to see what lies beyond, and has the time of his life with the rain-making oni.

When the son of a police chief is kidnapped by a psychotic killer governor, he teams up with an old ally of his.

The legend of immortal love..that fascinates you forever!!

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

The nature of the relationship connecting the camera and subject with some kind of energy, filmed in 3 parts. For example, in the third part the camera is hanged from a tree, running out one roll of film three minutes ni length filming the flowers in a garden. This minimalism was conceived from the filmmaker's possessing a very simple camera with no screw holes for a tripod.

Hyeon-ki, nicknamed 'Oddball' by his classmates, is a highschool taekwondo expert. When a beautiful, but arrogant, rich girl requests his help, he at first refuses until he, in turn, needs help to save his sick friend.

Read first, see later. Read, watch, then read? Get up! Comrade.

Documentary film about the discrimination against zainichi, directed by Yoshihiko Okamoto.

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An update to the story of Minamata disease, going up to 1976

The villagers wish to burn the mother and Kosakon in order to force Nakee to exit from the cave. About to become a human, Nakee gives up in order to help Kosakon. She becomes a giant snake and kills the bad villagers. Kosakon wishes to be reunited with Kam Kaew but she is now dead. The only way he can help her is to become a monk and to pray for her redemption in next life.

Iimura analyzed some footage he had made in Katmandu of a man taking a bath in a sacred river. A meditational experience is, thus, presented in a film whose minimal action and quiet pace can create meditational possibilities for viewers -Scott MacDonald (Afterimage, April, 1978, N.Y.)

An experimental animation exploring the interplay between transparent objects and light. By casting colored light from various angles onto glassware arranged on a tabletop, the screen comes alive with amorphous light forms and a unique rhythmic pulse.

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16mm, b&w, 6'00

Pink film 1970.

Animated film by Seiichi Hayashi.

"Goze" drawn by painter Shinichi Saito. One of the few remaining blind women in the snowy Niigata region, a traveling entertainer who played the shamisen and sang, visited villages and left a record of living on the mercy of others.

Thai horror film.

This full-length documentary documents the construction of the Red Flag Canal, presenting the project as a collective socialist achievement through the visual language of late-1960s Chinese state cinema.

Hsu Feng plays Shu Mei, the female assassin engaged to Ling Tien-yu, a swordsman played by Tien Peng. As they are fighting against the Mongolian army that is invading China, Shu Mei takes up a suicidal mission to assassinate the Mongolian chieftain. Again, Hsu Feng appears as a brave swordswoman in the film. In the beginning, she sacrifices her love life and then dressed in white, she fights with dual blades, chains and bare hands against the enemy. Hsu Feng not only shows great fighting skills but brings the character vividly to life. It is not surprising that she won Best Leading Actress at the 1976 Golden Horse Awards. Moreover, the impressive face-changing trick is seen in the film.

Learn what was gained, what was lost and what survived during a century of Japan's history, from the Meiji modernization to the heights of the bubble.

Taiwan movie

The Japanese team has decided to participate in the World Junior Championships for the first time. Kozue, Midori, Kakinouchi and other all-Japan teams, under coach Inokuma, worked hard on rigorous training and boarded New York, where the world's strongest players await. The biggest enemy in this tournament is the Soviet Union's Voltinskaya murder spike. If you don't break this, you can't hope for a victory. An all-Japan player who works hard to practice with the cooperation of the American and Korean teams. And finally on the day of the final match with the Soviet Union. The Japanese team challenges the Soviet Union's hard block with a winning strategy in mind. Where will the glory shine? The time of the decisive battle is approaching.

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Nion is a student who was shuffled. The meaning will be mentally, but between the red light Non looked at the dubious position of Chiffer. So he tried driving the car as to see. Until the taxi runs into the hotel, the curtain swipe saw the Chiffer Taxi Krai Nitham that was unconscious to the room. So went to open the room next to And pretend to go to the phone to say that it is a hotel Informed that there was a police coming to Chiffer So leap immediately escaped Non went to find Nye. Trying to wake up, but Niran didn't wake up, he ordered the beer to sit and eat and drunk on the bed.

Takashi Ito's first film. Little information exists other than specifying it as a "collaboration."

16mm to digital, 6'00

Pinku from 1977

A static image of a rock next to a curb is overlaid with the deformed reflection of light and shadows from pedestrian and vehicular traffic. An alternatively whispy and shrill, irregular slide whistle soundtrack is occasionally punctuated by a male voice saying "this is," culminating in an insistent string of "this is, this is, this is." Once the soundtrack falls silent, the camera begins to haltingly zoom out, revealing the reflection to have been caused by the slick surface of the glossy photo of the curb, and the picture itself to have been one of a series of photos of urban details placed in a grid in an exhibition space.

Adapted from the Brothers Grimm fairytale.

The subordinates of the demon boss Yang Doo-seok attack the Korean people's wandering village and kidnap young women. Yang Du-seok sends the women to King So-rim, and King So-rim moves the women through his subordinate manager, but the women are taken away by Nakamura's surprise attack. At this time, Geoam appears and defeats Nakamura and Yang Doo-seok, and finds his younger sister In-sil to find a new life.

A stop-motion animation of endlessly moving forward towards a quarry.

In The Recognition Construction, each subject entering the frame is identified by a narrator, while the video camera slowly rotates. As the rotation speeds up the identification becomes more difficult, and the objects ultimately become "indecipherable."

The light from the projector lens was projected through a sheet of ice, and the 8mm film was then immersed in a solution of diluted bleach and stirred to scratch it. After that, the dried film was peeled off. Traces of peeled emulsion were visible in the shape of perforations.

shows visual and metaphorical representation using rope as a motif through various rope images and meanings.

Pink film directed by Kinya Ogawa.

Akira, a young detective, uses his Invisibility to investigate a case where the Mona Lisa has been stolen by the villainous Team Z.

Born in Tokyo in 1959. While studying oil painting at Musashino Art University, he joined the animation club "Mysterious Magic Lantern Society" and began creating films. In 1980, he joined the independent film screening group "Animation 80" upon its establishment and has been submitting works every year since then. His works have been exhibited at numerous festivals, including the "Torino International Film Festival" (1986, Turin, Italy), the "Shanghai Animation Festival" (1988, Shanghai, China), and "The Evolution of Animation" (1988, O Museum). His unique worldview blends elegance and grotesqueness, and he continues to explore a wide range of expressive techniques, including two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and live-action animation.

Pink film directed by Satoru Kobayashi.

When Japan is flooded by Western civilization... or the invader invaded.

Candy returns to Pony's Home and she meets a girl who has lost her parents and doesn't associate with the other kids. In order to cheer her up she decides to tell her about herself from the moment she was found by Miss Pony and sister Lane to her decision to leave the boarding school in England and walk her own path.

As the long-awaited summer holidays begin, Candy and her friends go hiking in the mountains. However, a heavy rainstorm interrupts their leisure, making them hide in the forest. After the rain has stopped, the friends are ready to proceed, but Candy gets herself into some serious trouble when she encounters a cute bear cub.