Discover Movies

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

Six o'clock in the morning was the time when Taiwan's executions of death row criminals was executed in the early years

Twenty-three-year-old Hong Yeong-mae marries Park Gyeong-su, a wounded veteran. She takes in her ex-wife's five children and, with her devoted love and affection, builds a family and gradually transforms the village. They build a dam to divert water from the lake, successfully establishing an all-weather project, and resolve to establish an electricity line. However, their financial situation makes this impossible. However, the dying Heo Yeong-gam donates his entire fortune to a psychic, pledging that the villagers will unite and contribute to the village's development.

Wang Xiaolei, the educated youth who joined the team to come to the manfeizhai farm, found that the problem of the farm was very serious. Du Shiyou, the production officer, is heavily engaged in speculation and profiteering with the support of Li Chang Chang. In dealing with workers, they engage in material stimulation and give rewards to workers who have over fulfilled their tasks. Xiaolei not only opposes, but also constantly reflects up.

8mm film by Ohtani Jun

13-year-old Kim Young-chul, who reads his mother and is ill, has a father and two younger brothers who cannot afford to live. Neighbors who feel pity for this and sympathize with Dong-jang take the center stage and decide on her stepmother, so that Yeong-chul marries her father. However, the family faces difficulties due to the rude behavior of his younger brother Yeong-i. Her stepmother takes all of her and takes care of the poor children with her patience and sincerity. Eventually, order is established in her home, her laughter spreads, and her children gradually understand her mother.

A chinese documentary.

An experimental short.

Koo In-Gap who became a millionaire by investing on real state is a primary target for his two executive directors Park and Song's sincere fawning. In-Gap tries to please his new mistress in the bed, but he isn't strong enough. All kinds of massaging and herb medicine are supplied for his improvement of strength, and finally he becomes very strong by having some variously mixed food. But exerting himself too much for his mistress's pleasure he dies.

A scene of a street corner transformed through the use of a single gradual filter change and a superimposed shot of the position of the midday sun on 27 consecutive days.

A woman breaks up with her fiance because of his chronic lying. She still loves him and waits for him, in the hope that he will change his ways. However, when she learns that he has made plans to marry a nurse, she considers the proposal of her professor who has a crush on her.

Two close friends arrive in Seoul from a small village to pursue their dreams, but the realities of life are too much for them to bear.

Park Young is an architect student who persistently dangles about a college girl Oh Kyeong-A who he met on a bus and finally they come to love each other. However they meets opposition from Kyeong-A's parents who want to make her marry on purpose. So the two lovers begin to runaway trip.

Lee Chang-Min, a fifth grade primary school boy, moves to Seoul from Andong city, North Kyungsang Province. He makes friends with Yong-Nam, who is the boss of the kids and will emigrate to USA, Young-Cheol who has a distorted nature owing to his disabled body, and Eoksun who is a chatterbox. Chang-Min can comfort and encourage his friends so that every kids in the village likes him to let Yongnam be left alone. The kids grow their dreams, clean the village, collect the waste goods, and practice playing soccer and Taekwondo. One day when Yongnam soon leaves for USA for emigration, a soccer game competition is held to commemorate the farewell of Yongnam, in which all of the residents in the village join to promise brighter future.

Il-Man was separated from his parents at his young age and was brought up by his teacher, a Taekwon martial art trainer. After his teacher dies, he comes to Seoul to study and look for his parents. Il-Man faints owing to hunger in front of Taekwon martial art hall. Thanks to help of both Kang-Shik and Jin-Suk, however, he stays at Kangsik's home and finds out his mother by their help.

Jang Hoon feels a sense of national alienation in Japan, and pours all his passion into baseball to relieve his resentment. His dream is to place a one-shot bet at Gossien Baseball Field. However, due to his natural temperament, he is mistaken for a problem child and is expelled from high school baseball. However, he broke the phone with the arrangement of his senior and joined a professional club. At first he was treated as a lowly player, but 20 years later, he becomes an unmatched great player in the Japanese baseball world.

Executive director Choi's family are bothered by their housemaid named Jeong-Ok. On the other hand, a taxi driver named Lee Ki-Dong is looking for a rich man's daughter to rise suddenly in the world. One day, the housemaid takes clothes of Choi's daughter without concession, and meet and loves the taxi driver who pretends to be an owner driver. Both persons, who are not intelligent, pretend to be wellborn. Thanks to excellent help of Choi's son, both can love more deeply. The housemaid understands what a human being's truth is, and finally becomes a top class singer. Being aware of his lover's identity, the taxi driver gets married to a girl who is in good harmony with his personal status. Thus, the housemaid also realizes that the truth and wellbeing of a human life exist near herself.

This work documents the installation project Situation Plastic III, presented as part of Octobre in Bordeaux, a festival organized by the city of Bordeaux, France. The installation unfolded in three stages on the outskirts of Bordeaux, where the sea and a lake meet. In the first stage, the installed objects remained underwater for one month. In the second, they floated on the surface of the water for a day. In the third, they were released and allowed to rise into the sky. Situation Plastic III can thus be understood as a collaboration between the installed objects, nature, and the participants. The event was filmed with a 16mm camera.

The filmmaker himself states that this work was inspired by René Magritte's "The Stone" (or "The Castle of the Pyrenees") and Toshio Matsumoto's "Atman". By re-filming several still photographs on 8mm film, he imbues these static images with movement; using zoom effects and other techniques, he draws the viewer into a surreal world.

A 16mm wide film without perforations. I pull it by hand and send it off. If the speed is a little slow, you may slip. It melts from the heat of the projector. The visuals are the melted footage was re-shot. It has an image of a multi-layered structure. Screening prints are only used once and then become trash. The original "disposable film."

A submission to the Sogetsu Short Film Festival by three students from the Department of Photography and Visual Language at Kuwasawa Design School (桑沢デザイン研究所).

Bunkyo University Film Research Club 1979 8mm Film Production.

Bunkyo University Film Study Club 1979 8mm Film Production.

8mm film work from 1979 by the Film Studies Department of Bunkyō University. Directed by Mikage Sagisu. It is a feature film depicting the emotional journey of two women through love and romance. The film overflows with a vivid sensitivity characteristic of a female director. The French title means something like “Look at the end.” (It seems that there is a typographical error in the actual title.) The original film print does not have a magnetic sound track, so it is likely that the audio was played from a cassette tape in sync during screenings. Unfortunately, the audio tape has been lost, and it is now impossible to know what lines the characters were speaking in the film. The condition of the film itself is relatively good, and it appears it has rarely been screened since it was made, but it strongly conveys the atmosphere of the late 1970s. It would be a real shame not to watch it solely because it is now silent.

8mm film made in 1979 by the Bunkyo University Film Research Club.

Experimental short by Harumi Fujii.

Second work made by Yanagisawa after he turned from PR films to independent documentaries. The film was shot at the Nishitaga Hospital in Sendai, and depicts daily life and learning for children with progressive muscular dystrophy.

Experimental short / Optical Color / 16mm Film / 9 min.

Based on the childrens' book by Kanzawa Toshiko.

8mm film by Akira Hoshino.

An experimental short film made by Kaidu Club

Experimental short by Masaki Matsushita.

This is the first film produced by 'Hatsukennokai'. Set in Tokyo, Kyoto, and the Noto Peninsula, the members of 'Hatsukennokai' are improvised to take pictures of them eating, walking down the street, chasing each other, and playing music.

A unique road movie that took two years to make, based on the concept of "filming the changing seasons like a haiku poem". The men's journey, consisting of four parts - The Wandering Vampire, Yuugyo, The Lonely Journey and Habodashi Yakusha Hoboki - creates a surreal alternate world amidst the beauty of nature. The cast includes Sotobayama Fumiaki of the underground theatre company Harumidashi Gekijo, folk singer Mikami Hiroshi, Zero Dimensional, Oe Masanori and many others.

A bare foot rests on the monitor, while at the same time the screen of the same monitor shows another foot. This picture, however, is upside-down (suggesting a mirror effect) so as to hint that both feet are one and the same. Consequently this symmetry partly conceals the contrast between the two feet: dressed and bare, reversed positions within and outside the video screen, recorded and again registered.

This is a film with a rich and expansive image based on an incredibly high technical level, with a mostly female crew, and careful attention to the composition and tone of each cut, and a calculated editing process that follows the flow of the images. A symbolic night for all women, in which something important is lost and something important is gained, is written in a poem-like form over the flow of the images.

A unique film about one girl's 20 changes, featuring only one performer despite its 40-minute running time.

Shot over a period of 15 months from April 1969 to July 1970, Motoshinkakarannu captures a tumultuous time in Okinawa’s occupation, offering an unflinching snapshot of Okinawan society that captures the daily lives of sex workers, yakuza, tourists and G.I.s in Koza City.

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.