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Two rolls of raw film. I took a sandwich photo with paper tape What can be seen and what cannot be seen? What is captured and what is not captured? Why was the opaque paper tape. Will it be transparent when photographed? We approach one of the mysteries of film.

For this film, I followed the negative development instructions to the letter to develop a Super-8 positive. Osmography stems from the desire to create a new version of My Movie Melodies. The image overlaps with the soundtrack, and optical recording was used to reproduce the sound.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

Super Sentai Special Report: Birth! Chojin Sentai Jetman is a video special which serves as a transition from Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman to Choujin Sentai Jetman.

Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman: Super Combination! The Strongest Robot is a video special for Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman.

A re-edited Super Sentai feature of Fiveman #3, Liveman #44 and Turboranger #39.

A rare video capturing the legendary human-faced fish craze that had everyone going wild. The video's highlight? A fleeting glimpse of the human-faced fish (just a koi carp) appearing on the water's surface

Short film by Fumie Kamioka

It’s time for fat women to be praised. However, Fujiko (Sato) felt something strange in such a trend .... A comedy co-directed with Atsuko Murobushi, who both had a cooperative relationship as an independent filmmaker. Beyond the black laughs over his appearance, the contemplation of how to reconcile the relationship between "self and others" in the atmosphere of the 1990s is clearly visible.

L'Arc-en-Ciel - Heart ni Hi wo Tuskero! (Light My Fire !)

Kitanoshi High School Movie Club project produced in 1996.

Animated film.

A detailed introduction to curse rituals and secret techniques supervised by Toshiya Nakahara.

Ruri, a ditzy high school girl who lost her parents in a fire at a young age, is now living a blissful life with her cousin Tooru, for whom she harbours romantic feelings, and his family. But one day her life is thrown into turmoil, when members of the popular j-pop band B-Flash appear before her and reveal Ruri to be a descendant of the Pulsean Moon's royal family. One by one assailants try to take her life, only to be thwarted by Tooru in their attempts. However, the fate of the two is taken to a trial once he receives a mortal wound trying to protect her.

Estonia has been in the limelight as a tourist attraction in the EU in recent years. A UFO buried underground found in the small village of Moreveni when Estonia was unknown! A valuable documentary that TV Asahi challenged to unravel the truth!

A comfortable auto camp technique with ingenuity to give to camping enthusiasts who have already experienced auto camp several times. Not to mention the basics, it is full of useful (profitable) information that cannot be overlooked by auto campers. A video that makes auto camp 10 times more fun, showing the secrets born from the actual experience of the editorial department of the magazine "Outdoor"!

Kim Hyon-hui, a former North Korean agent who carried out the bombing of the Korean Air Lines, explains a North Korean TV program. It is a valuable document that gives a glimpse of North Korea from the narration. It's a video that's hard to find nowadays.

A couple is in grief over the loss of their son. A young man, who is also saddened by the loss of his own son, is transformed into the spirit of the boy.

A mysterious promise is made by the members of a psychology research group in college.

The second film in the 'Japanese Archipelago' series.

16mm short by Masaru Noto.

16mm short by Masaru Noto.

Hi8 memories of everyday life.

A film about the film maker’s own pregnancy and birthing experience.”We celebrate the ability to give birth, but if this is so, shouldn’t we regard all life as blessed? Am I blessed?” The filmmaker twists the question of expression by taking the point of view of the camera and objectifying herself through ultrasonic images of the baby right before birth, and talk with family. Shooting these images day by day is the process by which the film maker grapples with the question of her own existence. It is, in fact, an attempt to witness her own birth.

Live concert recorded at Gallery Den, Tokyo on May 3, 1995.

A conversation between the filmmaker and his mother in the purest form; cleaning with a vacuum cleaner, about the Japanese Embassy hostage crisis in Peru. Calling for a delivery of noodles for lunch, but the delivery service is closed. Starting to cook udon noodles. A telephone dialling, a car ride. The noodles are cooked and people talk about Germany. The sound of the cooking appliances: rattling and sizzling. A pure focus on the conversations.

A temporally alternating journey in which a princess arrives in Hawaii.

A documentary that focuses on early games from the arcade video game company, Capcom

Sakura's last live that happened on hyde's birthday at Nippon Budoukan (1997.01.29) in Tokyo as part of their Carnival of True tour.

If your face is ugly, you can't do it all! Closely attached to the woman who realized this truth. Surgeon Asami of Asami Cosmetic Surgery performed the operation himself, and the entire surgical scene is completely recorded! This is a true cosmetic surgery video!

"I have a white cat and he always sleeps in any place where he can take a good siesta. The style he makes himself is a circle like a shellfish, so I imagined that he might have a dream in which he was making a short trip in the sea by becoming a shellfish." - Tamami Asada

"In Japan, they say there are several tortures, such as a blood pond, a needle mountain, and a place with burning fire in hell. I picked one of these, a blood pond, to create my image of animation. There is a heaven and hell in everyone’s mind and I think that people dance because we feel heaven and hell inside ourselves. I made many of the images using a kids’ graphic computer called “My First Sony,” which was very easy to use, and I edited these graphics into animation by using a Sony Handicam V-88 in its animation function." - Tamami Asada

A university student named World. She thinks about things in her head more than anyone else, but her actions often run on empty, and from the outside, she leads a dull life. His girlfriend is cold, his friend, with whom he has had a rivalry since primary school, is steadily shaping his future dreams, and the girl he fell in love with at first sight is his girlfriend. When he starts to feel tired and doubtful about himself, he ends up reading a diary dropped by his girlfriend. It contains a story that drives the world further into chaos and spinning out of control.

Mesmerising swathes of colour and liquid 3D animation.

Kazuko-chan has decided to move out. This is the voiceover over Kazuko's crying figure in the meadow. The voice is that of Haruko, Kazuko's best friend who is in a sanatorium. When Kazuko went to visit her, she was told to "imagine" her wrapped in a flower. On her way home, when she is followed in the forest by her classmate Yamada-Kun, Kazuko sees herself wrapped in a flower this time, while climbing a tree branch. With these strange thoughts in her mind, Kazuko arrives in a strange town. She smokes in an incinerator with her new friends and falls in love with the place. One day, on a bicycle trip, she discovers that the sanatorium she had missed is no longer there. There is only a vacant lot. Kazuko crouched there and wept. It was the seventh day after Haruko's death. The transience of memory and the sadness of forgetting. A fantasy of flowers and greenery, with a touch of fantasy that visualises the sadness of fading memories.

After spending his company's money, Ichita dreams of a "treasure hunt". One day, Ichita receives a small gun. One day, Ichita receives a small pistol in the mail, and the two set off on a random journey in a stolen car. On the way, they pick up a couple, a blonde woman and a quiet motorcyclist, who have no idea where they are going or why. These two are also living their own lives, far from reality. The car with the four people in it goes on a long way... The dialogue is casual but stylish. The light oldies pop music is in the background. It's a cool road movie with an unrealistic setting and a mood that mixes speed and weariness. The film was shot on location in Hokkaido, where the road is straight and endless. The filming in the vast landscape brings the characters into sharp focus. The journey of these outlaws, who can only live halfway, is shown in a dashing, unconventional and freestyle.

A young man sees something by the river. It's a shot of the girl he loves with another man. The young man has been dumped! He bites his lip and remembers those glorious days of love. And now, in order to express his anger, his frustration, his sadness and his regret, he comes up behind them... The word for "lost love" is "persistent". The story is about the youthfulness and innocence of a man who has lost his persistence. The frustration of youthful immaturity. The uncool and shameful part of the male sex, and the love for it. The melancholy and unhurried narrative suddenly comes to an unexpected end, and the audience realises that this is a very short and hilarious coming-of-age graffiti.

Tadpoles flock to the entrance of a wall socket as if they are in a race to be the first. One of them eventually reaches the nucleus inside and begins to divide. The rapidly expanding nucleus soon takes on the shape of a baby. Today, the electronic society is expanding at a furious pace. It is the energy that is essential for the development of human society, but what will happen to the relationship between the two when they continue their rapid expansion? Plastic cards and IC chips are used symbolically to create realistic and detailed human beings. This is a grotesquely powerful image of the Metamorphosis, created with great imagination and formative power. A clay animation with a dry message condensed into four minutes.

A unique documentary that boldly and truthfully expresses the incident in the Yabe family on New Year's Day 1988! With an up-tempo rhythm, something strange happened in the kitchen of the Yabe family. It was the unthinkable: the production of 300 dumplings. My mother wrapped up a heap of ingredients in a tub-like bowl with unbelievable speed, and using two frying pans, she baked the dumplings, one after the other, without mercy. In three minutes, the film is as full of laughter and family love as the Yabe family's dumplings.

When director Miyoshi saw a town full of happy young people, he thought. "Is everyone really happy?" The film is a "documentary-style story of the modern search for happiness", in which video cameras were used to interview various young people in schools, train stations and on street corners. The film asks questions such as: "Are you happy now?", "What is sheer happiness?", "What is boring and what is fun?", "How old do you want to live until?", "What is your dream for the future?".

Film by Masaki Hanami, 1999. The days of youth that can never be repeated. It's an orthodox story, but the pain and catharsis are depicted in this work by entrusting it to the act of "running."

Walking through a dark cave. I met a man. He handed me a gun and said, "You can have this. You can shoot me and run away, but if you really want to escape you have to shoot yourself."

A girl who believes her lover is swimming in the water in her ears decides to take action one day. She visits her health teacher at the high school she graduated from to complain about her physical problems, and also goes to an ear, nose and throat specialist to consult about her ears, which are prone to water ingress. This is a semi-documentary in which the filmmaker herself plays the role of the girl and goes out with the tool of a film camera to reveal the internal chaos. (IFF, 1994).

Smile apologetically next to a beautiful woman. Kyoko Yamada is an ugly woman. She has a man in her life, Momotani, whom she has feelings for. He says to her, "Bring your friends and come visit me. Yamada, who is ugly and has no friends, goes out on the street and talks to girls. There is only one criterion. The only criteria is that the girl has to look good enough to complement him. Finally, Yamada finds a fat girl and takes her to Momotani's flat. But Momotani is a fat lover. The protagonist, who relies on fortune-telling in order to become beautiful and is bossy with the same sex whom she identifies as less than her, confronts the audience with "the ugly part of you", in the form of a laugh, saying "ugly people are such creatures". The film is a radical stomping ground of the looks complex.

In 1996, the publishers of zines Exile Osaka and Thora-Zine convinced a giant Japanese entertainment company to bring the scum band Concussion to Japan (even though they had never played a show before). Many of the best bands in the Japan underground scene appeared at Bayside Jenny, a now-defunct club in Osaka.

One day, a young man finds a dead man in an underpass, but the corpse disappears, leaving behind a Bible. Using only the remaining Bible as a clue, the young man embarks on a journey to find the identity of the disappeared man.

A film by Nobuyuki Yoshida & Masahiko Kobayashi

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