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- DirectorTakahiko IimuraSurreal imagery is used effectively to dramatize the slow ecological destruction brought about by a wasteful industrialized society. Shot at the Tokyo Bay beach, a dumpsite for all the city's human, animal and industrial wastes in the 60s.
- DirectorTakahiko IimuraStarsSho KazakuraA slightly absurd, and improvised comedy play with Sho Kazakura that took inspiration from a novel by Franz Kafka. The film presents a number of very short scenes or chapters showing single or combined actions.
- DirectorTakashi ItôSet of rapid telescopic images of a gym, in fast forward, traveling through itself, space and time.
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoA lone figure sitting outdoors and wearing a Hannya mask is seen from different angles in a succession of crash zooms and encircling jump cuts.
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoStarsPîtâToyosaburo Uchiyama
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoThe image of a toilet is electronically manipulated using the Electro Color Processor.
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoA film which mixes the images of Hindu drawings with Japanese symbols.
- DirectorKôji Yamamura
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoStarsPîtâOsamu OgasawaraYoshimi JôThe trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.
- DirectorToshio Matsumoto
- DirectorTakahiko IimuraAs per Japanese cinema expert Donald Richie, the film consists of 'a striking experiment in color in which paints are transformed in water, in which melting waxes are mixed, the result being a metamorphosis from one color to the next.'
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsGoro AbashiriTarô ApolloShiro DemaemochiSet in a future in which children have overthrown adults, the film does not have a central narrative. It depicts a series of graphic tableaux in which children engage in cruel and abusive acts against the adults.
- DirectorShûji Terayama
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsEiko KujoMr. NipponYoshihiro TachikiAn experimental fantasy short dedicated to questioning whether or not man is a prisoner of time.
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsEimei SasakiMasahiro SaitoYukiko KobayashiAn angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with various psychedelic, energetic vignettes.
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsKeiko NiitakaYoko RanSueshi SasadaA collection of surrealist scenes featuring nails. The last ten minutes of the film are interactive, giving the audience themselves a chance to hammer some nails into the screen.
- DirectorShûji TerayamaThree showgirls playfully mock the audience for attending a projection of an art film.
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoThe image of Mona Lisa positioned in the middle of a surrealist image play surrounding it.
- DirectorTakashi Itô
- DirectorTakashi ItôStarsSeiko NakanoA woman's face disappearing behind, and emerging from, a pair of hands. Flashing lights. An empty building full of dark hallways.
- DirectorMasao AdachiStarsAkira HanaueRui TakemuraA man searches for meaning in a world he does not recognize, trying to find the purpose of his being there.
- DirectorMasao AdachiStarsSahei Niitsu
- DirectorMasao AdachiStarsHiroshi TakedaKyôko KimuraKumiko MuraokaThe struggles of a woman and her male partner - where the woman suffers from a sealed vagina - in a world that views her as an object of pleasure and reproduction.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsSari AkasakaSakio HirataJinichi IshizakiExperimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with...a vampire?
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsTadahiko NakajimaKyôko ÔbayashiNobuhiko ÔbayashiA man reminisces about a girl in his past through a drawing.
- DirectorKazufumi FujinoStarsSachiko MatsushitaKazuo TaiDaigo KusanoA waitress at a busy restaurant dreams that she is trapped on an operating table while the food inside her body is being served to the guests.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiA non-narrative tribute to the seaside town of Onomichi, where Obayashi grew up and where most of these films were made.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsHitokazu IshizakiMamoru KatôMiyuki OkaNobuhiko Obayashi's short experimental film shows off persistence in film editing in the early 60s.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko ÔbaA schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
- DirectorAkihiko MorishitaStarsAkihiko Morishita
- DirectorKôji YamamuraIn this short several painted figures are superimposed.
- DirectorKatsu KanaiStarsKazuko AokiJun AraiAyuko AsakawaA young man brought up in a nunnery escapes from the abusive nuns into the disconcerting outside world.
- DirectorKatsu KanaiStarsKatsumaru BongyojiDômon KumoKatsunori MakabeAn aphasic young boy living in South Korea meets, on one of his regular paths, a "Koguryo Beauty" who shows him how to trace his heritage.
- DirectorKatsu KanaiStarsHiroshi AkiyamaMotohiko HaginoYoshitaka HidaA popular poet, Goku, becomes depressed when his editor jokingly suggests that he is a sell-out.
- DirectorKeiichi Tanaami
- DirectorKeiichi TanaamiA boxing ring turns into a stage for abstract animation where the punches thrown in the match and the halftone dots in reprographics gradually become indistinguishable.
- DirectorKeiichi Tanaami
- DirectorTakahiko IimuraStarsNatsuyuki NakanishiAkiko KodairaA masturbating boy gives birth to a plastic bubble.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiAn experimental film edited from footage of the Japanese countryside.
- DirectorNobuhiro Kawanaka
- DirectorNobuhiro KawanakaStarsKathryn Christopher
- DirectorMako Idemitsu
- DirectorMari Terajima
- DirectorJun Miyazaki
- DirectorHakudo Kobayashi
- DirectorJunichi Okuyama
- DirectorJunichi Okuyama
- DirectorJunichi Okuyama
- DirectorJunichi Okuyama
- DirectorJunichi Okuyama
- DirectorSakumi Hagiwara
- DirectorSakumi Hagiwara
- DirectorKeiichi Minegishi
- DirectorIsao Yamada
- DirectorShinsuke Ina
- DirectorJunko WadaStarsSayuri OyamadaMakoto OgiYôji TanakaEri Manaka is young, charming and writes a romance novel out of boredom. This makes her the new star in the world of literature, idolized at parties and ensnared by the literary elite. When her own romances were less successful, she started the much more pessimistic follow-up novel - but the characters didn't quite agree with what Eri was telling them.
- DirectorMasato HaraStarsRyôko HirosueKiyoshi KogaSato MasahiroA young student believes spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time.
- DirectorGaku Yamada
- DirectorMasato HaraStarsMasato Hara
- DirectorJunichi Okuyama
- DirectorTakahiko IimuraDadaist-inspired short film about Japanese painters and sculptors of the neo-Dada art movement of the early 60s.
- DirectorYoichiro Serizawa
- DirectorYoichiro Serizawa
- DirectorNobuhiro Aihara
- DirectorNobuhiro AiharaAn early experimental work by Aihara that he made during a six-month visit to Sweden. Opens with a montage of Rorschach-style inkblot paintings.
- DirectorMako Idemitsu
- DirectorIsao Kota
- DirectorMikio YamazakiStarsKahori ItoMikio YamazakiThis Japanese 8mm work opens under the guise of a personal documentary, as the filmmaker tries to unravel the mystery of a woman he had met through a dating club. The film begins to take its own course as the narrative catches momentum. The unpredictable climax is fascinating.
- DirectorIppei Harada
- DirectorNaomi KawaseStarsNaomi KawaseUno KawaseKiyonobu YamashiroIn this autobiographical documentary, filmmaker Naomi Kawase seeks to reach her mother and father who abandoned her at birth.
- DirectorKeita Kurosaka"Umi no uta" ("Sear roar") takes place in a rural Japanese fishing village, where the inhabitants perform ancient ceremonies by which they prey for the spirits of old boats set to burn.
- DirectorKeita Kurosaka
- DirectorKeita Kurosaka
- DirectorBrian EnoStarsChristine AlicinoAn ambient video of seven "video-paintings." Presented in vertical format (the television or monitor needs to be turned on its side for proper viewing).
- DirectorTsuneo Nakai
- DirectorKohei Ando
- DirectorJunko Wada