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In 1962 China, Japanese warlords hold the power and are wielding it with no regard to ethics or propriety. Two private entities, the Nagoa Isam Transportation Company and the Bai Loon Forwarding Agency, have taken competition to the extreme, wreaking havoc and violence as a means to hold onto whatever sovereignty they may have. Loyalty no longer exists as residents watch out only for their own interests.
Kim's first moving-image work, made between 1971 and 1973 with an 8mm movie camera.
Experimental short by Iwata Yūji
An ethnographic documentary filmed among the Trobriand Islanders of the Western Pacific, directed by Yasuko Ichioka for Japanese television. The film documents the Kula exchange system, a ceremonial network of inter-island gift exchange that structures social relations, travel, and status among participating communities. Produced within the context of Japan’s Our Wonderful World ethnographic television series, the film presents sustained observational footage of ritual activity and daily life associated with the Kula cycle. (Note: Although produced for television within the Our Wonderful World series, the film is consistently cited in ethnographic filmographies, festival programs, and scholarly sources as a self-contained work with a distinct title, director credit, and runtime, supporting its treatment as a standalone film.)
Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.
Sky and earth. The image begins to move slowly. The sound of water moving in and out of the distance. The image begins to fluctuate, while rotating, it will come off the frame. Everything swings. A moment when you just drop by. Installation and performance work.
Created a paper film. This is a work that will be projected using a regular projector. The perforations are well opened. After all, it's paper. If it gets torn or ripped, this film will burn. And the woman's face in the monochrome image, it turns skin color. This is also a one-off {disposable film}.
TV Favorites Gather!! was a celebration of Japanese TV shows including tokusatsu.
Bunkyo University Film Research Club 1979 8mm Film Production.
Bunkyo University Film Study Club 1979 8mm Film Production.
8mm film made in 1979 by the Bunkyo University Film Research Club.
In a small village in Tainan, the ritual dance-music tradition “Seven Echoes” survives as both spiritual offering and cultural memory. Through voice-over narration and archival detail, the film traces how this art form is woven into temple festivals, agrarian life, and communal identity — even as modernity threatens its continuity.
Experimental short by Harumi Fujii.
Silver Jaguar is a 1979 unaired tokusatsu TV pilot produced by P-Productions and a French company.
A taiyupian co-starred Chang Di, Yang Li-hua and Kang Ding.
experimental film by Etsutomu Kashihara
I wanted to make a film in which the world is turned upside down, a film made up of images that assert that these images have no meaning. There is a shot that uses a doll, which was washed up on the riverbank where we visited while filming "Mineralogist". I picked it up thinking that I might be able to use it in the shoot. Masanobu Nakamura seemed to think that this shot was my response to "Commemorative Photography" and asked me about it, but I had no idea what it meant so I was at a loss for words.
Human eye movements are similar to the way pigeons and chickens shake their heads. I wanted to capture that restlessness in a video. I held an 8mm camera in my hand, placed it on my head, and filmed while walking down the street. I projected the film on a screen, cut out the image to capture the movement of the eyes, and re-filmed each frame. I also made a blinking mask to use in the re-filming.
In order to see that a sequence of photographs is a film, I made various experiments within a single uninterrupted film. This work was the starting point for my work from "Dutchman's Photographs (8mm version)" which I made after interrupting this work, to "Emotion Boat" in 1976.
The first half of the film is about the silent sound of the cicadas penetrating the rocks. The overall view is of a horizontal rotation as you ascend from your feet to the sun, but this is the first half of the film. In the latter half of the sequence, a man appears in front of the screen with a guitar and performs an improvised performance in the style of the Tsugaru shamisen. The atmosphere of the film changes drastically as the sounds of nature are replaced with music, making this a strange film, for better or worse.
I once had a vivid feeling, basking in the sunlight in a field listening to the murmuring of melting snow, that I was surrounded by sensations, sounds and sights. I wanted to express that feeling.
Nominee of the 15th Golden Horse Awards
Early 8mm filmwork by Masanobu Nakamura.
Early 8mm filmwork by Masanobu Nakamura.
Early 8mm filmwork by Masanobu Nakamura.
Single-channel video, no sound, 2 min 7 sec
An experimental short film made by Kaidu Club
Kim Jomson's 75-13 subverts visual stereotypes by cutting through ready-made films with the tip of a knife along with fast-paced music to create a so-called "art of listening and music of seeing".
A taiwan short film. Golden Harvest Award Winner.
Experimental short by Masaki Matsushita.
In the video "Self-portrait 78," Kwak Duck-jun filmed himself rubbing his face against cracked glass in which his eyes, nose and lips appeared twisted and contorted. While looking silly at first, he expressed his deepest desire to overcome his uncomfortable identity crisis.
Michio Okabe's only 8mm film, which was miraculously discovered in 2021 at the back of a closet in his room, after being unaccounted for and thought lost for a long time. He tied an 8mm camera around the neck of his dog Shiro and recorded the world as seen from the dog's point of view. Okabe's anarchy, in which he abandoned-looking through the viewfinder himself and let the dog shoot the film, is the quintessence of Okabe's work.
The outflow of population, mainly young people, from agricultural, mountain and fishing villages in Japan to urban areas became remarkable from around 1960, but the actual situation of Japan's depopulation, which is rapidly progressing in the shadow of high economic growth, was interviewed after 1970. Pick up the voices of the residents. We interviewed mountain villages and remote islands in Hokkaido, Tohoku, China, and Kyushu. The aging of villages and the rapid decrease of households affect all the lives of residents such as school consolidation, agriculture and forestry, and living road management, and the decline in village (community) functions is further accelerating remote villages.
A young man passes by a girl huddled on a bank. A mysterious world begins with a group of boys in the direction she points. In this world of life and death, the protagonist, whose emotions are controlled to the utmost extent, and the depiction of life as justice and death as evil, deny the superficial grasp of life. The film is a trace of the unparalleled encounter between living and making.
The comical live-in life of Yuki, a stylist, and Dodoichi, a first-year college student who has come to Tokyo to visit his senior. The film is full of dark episodes such as infertility, prostitution, suicide, etc., but the filmmakers are careful not to lose the light touch, and how to make the best use of the characters in each situation is enclosed in a scene setting like a scene in a famous movie. The film is full of enthusiasm to show us the setting and storyline that could easily become a pattern of a cheap melodrama.
A coming-of-age film that begins with a slide show of 8mm commemorative photos from a school trip to Okinawa and follows the daily life of a young salesman. The scenery of the town seen through the windshield has a unique color tone. The scenery of the town, seen through the windshield, is projected in a unique color scheme, and the scenery is indescribably lonely and beautiful. Only when the protagonist faces the scenery in this way can we sense that he has found the spark that can be called "youth.
According to the director, this film is made by Osaka people, for Osaka people (?). according to the director. The director himself appears in the film and gives a light-hearted performance. The combination of the slapstick sensibility and the beautiful screen is indescribably stylish.
The light and shadows of today's youth are intermingled in a prismatic world of scenes depicting images of agonizing days with a surreal touch, and scenes of rampaging in all directions in the real world. Eight-Man is an energetic young man who dreams of being Superman but can't be.
Touching! Tears! Romance! The beginning and the end of the film are linked in a repeat. A fox, a baby mushroom, and a poisonous mushroom scurry across the screen.
In the sky, drawn with sky blue crayons, floating between the clouds, drawn with sky blue crayons, is an airplane, drawn with sky blue crayons. The one riding in it is me, drawn with sky crayons.
A young man appears to a young girl who dreams of escaping reality, deprived of her freedom. Eventually, the two set off in search of a new world.