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Experimental short by Iwata Yūji

A romantic comedy with a unique cast and an original story about a letter carrier's bitter love affair caused by a fake letter he sent to the girl he loves. The sweet and sad last scene with a lyrical melody is impressive.

Thai horror film.

Space. Inspired by photographs of Winston Link (Night Trick), this film is composed of images of trains passing by a house. Trains are seen from inside the house in a variety of viewing angles. The film lists all possible perspectives on the passing train and becomes a metaphor of cinema.

A film adaptation of Kazuo Umezu's manga with mysterious images that express time. In the short time of only 4 minutes, the original flavour of the original work and the artist's unique perspective are skillfully intertwined and condensed, and the original images that make us feel the passage of time are a sight to behold.

Do-do, who receives an order from the Tiansanjin-in to rescue the living beings who are in jeopardy, goes to Changchun, Manchuria. He delivers the command book with the blood plasma of five fingers to the villains such as Takni Gubong and Myung Rae, and a bloody battle ensues between them. On the other hand, Yeon-yeon-sim, who regards Il-do as the enemy of his deceased father, joins and joins the three old ladies, and the fight intensifies. However, the battle is engulfed in chaos as the red-faced poison ivy and the villains of the Seven Great Gates flock to the turquoise jade Gwaneum Buddha statue. In the end, Yeon Ja-sim resolves the misunderstanding about Il-do and joins Il-do to defeat the Seven Great Monks who covet the statue of the Buddha Gwaneum.

Experimental short by Kiyota Shiro

Early pink film directed by Sôjirô Motoki.

Time. In HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes a long process a year it takes to cross a railway station. The film consists of an image of a train crossing a bush in the garden Ando. The film was shot from the same angle fixed for six months, through the seasons.

Experimental short by MAJYOLICA

One of Han Ok-hee’s renowned pieces called The Hole uses the flicker, oblique angles, the cross-cutting of reality and fantasy to express inner entrapment and the desire for liberation. Han Ok-hee’s The Hole, The Rope and Untitled not only experimented with cinematic forms of expression, but also played an important role in the protest against forms of expression in experimental films and the artistic protest against the social suppression and censorship in 1970s Korea. (Art Cinema OFFoff)

Sug-i, a poor North Korean girl is ordered by the communists to go into the mountains and bring wild ginseng for the Red Chief. She wanders around in Mountain Geumgang, where she slips over a rock. Ttoli lives in the mountains with the wild animals and is also called Jang-gun. He saves Sug-i with his animal friends. Through Sug-i, he comes out into the world and comes to learn of his past. His parents had tried to escape from North Korea but had been arrested, and Ttoli had been abandoned. Meanwhile, with the Red Chief’s birthday approaching, communists force workers to “dig the tunnel faster,” “make a trench,” and “bring wild ginseng.” Ttoli, catches on to the communists’ plans. Together with his friends, he defeats the North Koreans who were digging the third tunnel, saves his father who was among the prisoners, and finally comes face to face with the Red Chief.

Experimental short by Masaki Matsushita.

Experimental short by Tetsuo Furudate.

A record of the Anpo Treaty and Okinawa struggles of 1968 to 1970. Part 1: '68.10.21 to '69.5.31; Part 2: '69.6.8 to '69.11.17; Part 3: '69.12.1 to '70.6.23

An experimental short.

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A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

Bae Tae-ok was a patriotic Korean who resisted Japanese occupation. After liberation, her husband brainwashes her into accepting the communist philosphy. During the Korean War, she was appointed to lead the Women's League For Communism but was later arrested for her anti-capitalism activities and tried for treason.

Henshin! Henshin! Arashi and Rider is a 1972 special promoting Henshin Ninja Arashi and Kamen Rider.

The program investigates the secrets behind the success of Japan’s most famous baseball team, the Tokyo Yomiuri Kyojin-gun, affectionately known as the Giants. An interview with Kawakami, the coach at the time, retraces the glorious history of this team, which was Japan’s baseball champion for seven consecutive years, until 1971.

Michio Okabe, considered an icon of 1960s Japanese underground cinema, pursued the principle of subjective cinema by combining images that interested him cinematically and roles that he wanted to play himself. In MEMOIR the artist’s fantasies of the late 1970s are featured in a chaotic chain of images. (Go Hirasawa)

Being Women in Japan documents the recovery of Michishita’s sister from brain surgery, which hospitalized her for four months. Michishita's interest was not only in the personal struggle of her sister to regain her health, but also in how this crisis caused a major rupture in the daily life of her sister's family.

Early 8mm short film, first of three works in the Movement series.

Pink film directed by Satoru Kobayashi.

In 1971, while the Japanese prime minister Sato Eisaku was visiting South Korea to attend a party for President Park Chung-hee, a group of eight South Korean hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) took a direct petition to the Japanese embassy. The South Korean hibakusha were detained by South Korean authorities for the duration of the prime minister’s visit. This film follows the lives of these eight people. That same year, Son Chin-tu, a hibakusha who had entered Japan illegally and was being held at the Omura Detention Center, filed his so-called “Hibakusha Certificate Lawsuit,” demanding Japanese residency and medical treatment.

Matsumoto's early video work Murder Catalogue, but there were few opportunities to be screened at that time since it dealt with a grotesque image. Digitized a half-inch videotape he had kept in his studio. It is a work that shows the original form of a mysterious narrative that later appears well in Matsumoto's work, as it is constructed to repeat an event through long-term filming of a video and monologues by a cassette tape recorder. A photograph is placed in front of the video camera by one by one and the camera zooms in mechanically towards the images. Also, in Matsumoto's voice, a short monologue about the photos recorded on the tape is played. However, the voice is suddenly cut off by the sounds of hitting and the screams of the terminal, followed by the camera starting to expand the different images in the same way, and the voice of the recorder is played over and over again. - Ex-Is

An elaborate screenplay and an orthodox direction that avoids waste. And the right technique and actors to support it. The staff of the Keio 8mm Cine Club put all their energy into this 8mm feature film. The performance of Oyama Saiko, an actress with a strong presence, is rare for an independent film.

Cameras once again observing each other.

Fei Lung kills his boss in a mining accident. After serving a jail sentence, he returns to his village and finds his former girl friend married to Ju Hu. Ju Hu has gambled his family's fortune. He then sells his house and land for more gambling money. He loses it all, after being cheated, and is then beaten to death by gangsters. Fei Lung is captured and framed for Ju Hu's murder. He is taken to jail but escapes. After a bloody fight with three gangsters, one of them confesses to killing Ju Hu. There is a tremendous battle between the police and the Gangsters. The Gangsters are defeated and Fei Lung's enemies are killed.

This film documents actions performed for World Uprising by Ikuo Shukusawa, Sanzō Tanaka, and Shigeru Hanagata, who collectively worked as Shikata Kōbō (Death Type Workshop). Camera person unknown, 1971, B&W, silent, 3 min. Courtesy of Kumiko Matsuzawa.

Experimental docufiction concerns itself with the future of the Ryuku islands, as the United States turns control over to Japan in the late 1970s.

Two wandering delinquents caught between a big shot bandit's sinister plan and his target, the district chief. There comes bombastic actions mixing with their romance with both daughter of the district chief.

The silence capturing all the surroundings of Mt. Buko. Documentary directed by Minoru Shinojima 1979, 8mm.

Wolfman instantly appears from behind some trees where he is reputedly abused by armed Japanese army tanks, he allegedly flees and later battles Baragon at a burning construction site.

A ruthless Warlord from Manchuria builds a martial arts labyrinth that contains 18 martial art amazons, many try to enter but none leave, until Dragon Lee, seeking to avenge his father.

Also known as Hong Kong.

An unauthorized compilation film.

Double screen short experimental film by Tani Mario

Experimental short by MAJYOLICA

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

1972 Japanese movie

Having received a good response to Impressions of the Sunset, he continued to develop his filmmaking expressed from an everyday perspective, and carried his camera everywhere to shoot whatever was around him. Composing the work in four parts, he reflects on his mental states in a narration that resembles audio commentary. As he films the filmmaker loses motivation to film, and realizing that he is deadlocked in his own life decides to quit his job. The act of filming changes both the filmmaker’s understanding and the practical aspects of his life.

A pair of brother and sister spends a night without adult supervision. All is possible under the blue moon.

A document of the Nihon Gen'yasai Sanrizuka, a two-day experimental festival held in support of the Narita Airport Struggle, in 1971.

A medical perspective of Minamata disease in three parts - 1) Progress of Research; 2) Pathology and Symptoms; 3) Clinical Field Trials

An extraordinary animated work composed of 99 still images. The bizarre story of the mechanized walking doll “Margaret” kidnapping and confining a female student in a sailor-style school uniform is realized with a precisely calculated method of full in-camera editing of one 100-foot reel. The filmmaker himself appears in this humorous, radical Pop film, one of Nakamura’s best-known works.