Farewell, Friend(1986)

Utamaro's World(ja)

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings.

Re-Cut(en)

When twin girls are found dead in their family’s barn, reality star turned TV-reporter Meredith Phillips and her de-facto camera crew are dispatched to rural Wisconsin to investigate the gruesome deaths. In their relentless drive to break the story, the reporters become entangled in a deadly mystery and uncover the small town’s shocking secret. Edited together from the crew’s multiple cameras, the film documents their struggle to survive the most terrifying night of their lives and becomes the only evidence of a crime too horrific to imagine.

Tomie: Rebirth(ja)

Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of the body. To cheer him up, the boys take the unwitting murderer to the nearest bar for a party... but a mysterious girl named Tomie shows up, bearing a few odd physical resemblances to the dead girl in the ground.

Q(en)

When growing up in a community where gang violence is a way of life and Basketball is a way to escape it.

Devil In Dune(zh)

The film tells the story of a near future in which the earth is irreversibly sandy, as human emissions and rubbish exceed its carrying capacity. As plants and animals mutate to create the Earth's new masters, the "sand worms", which are slaughtering the planet and driving humans to the brink of extinction, the survivors are left to their own devices to find the only remaining refuge in the deep desert, the "Oasis". An exiled team of wealthy businessmen, scientists, security chiefs, mechanic families and gangsters set out on an adventure to find the Oasis in a special armoured vehicle, but the bloodthirsty insects are hot on their heels.

Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)(en)

Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of avant-garde and independent cinema. In addition to screening films for the public, AFA houses a film museum, research library and art gallery. The event, which raised money for the Archives and celebrated the life and work of avant-garde film maker Stan Brakhage, featured Sonic Youth providing an improvised instrumental collaboration with silent Brakhage’s films. The band performed with drummer/percussionist Tim Barnes (Essex Green, Jukeboxer, Silver Jews).

John(en)

John tells the story of a young male, a psychiatric hospital patient who witnesses the death of another Black male patient at the hands of white staff. Blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, this work draws from real life cases of mentally ill Black men who have died as a result of excessive force of the State.

Flow(en)

Insane Fight Club(en)

A group of friends have created a brand new subculture that is taking over the streets of Glasgow. They've established their very own fight club, but this is no ordinary wrestling event - this is brutal, riotous chaos. Fights don't always stay inside the ring, people are bounced off the side of buses and thrown off balconies in pubs. They now plan the biggest show of their lives. The stakes are high, will it bring them the fame and recognition they need to survive?

Naruto: The Lost Story - Mission: Protect the Waterfall Village!(ja)

Naruto and his friends must get back a jug of stolen holy water from a band of higher class ninjas.

Santa Claus vs. Cupid(en)

A desperate man and two romantic rivals encounter one another at a Christmas party.

Kiss(nl)

Bruno finds it very interesting that his father, Daan (35), shaves his beard and head before he leaves on a military mission. When Daan offers his son to shave him, Bruno finds it an offer he cannot refuse. Along with this intimate way of saying goodbye, we see what happens to Daan on his mission in Afghanistan through Bruno playing with his toy soldiers.

Panda(da)

Jacob’s dream is to be a rap artist, so he works on a song that will give him the big breakthrough. To his big frustration, his dreams are tested every time his roomie Adam gets a visit from his girlfriend Frederikke. And through a journey of unforeseen events Jacob meets additional challenges that test his working discipline.

The Spell(fr)

Bruno and Céline, both mentally handicapped, live in perfect harmony in a market garden. Their daily lives are turned upside down when Lucie joins the team of educators.

The Arbitrariness of Desire(fr)

a doc on Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire

Queen Elizabeth II: A Royal Life - A Special Edition of 20/20(en)

The life and legacy of Queen Elizabeth II after Britain's longest-reigning monarch dies at age 96.

What Do You Say to a Naked Lady(en)

Candid Camera's Allen Funt secretely tapes people's reactions to unexpected encounters with nudity in unusual situations, such as when a naked young woman casually exits an elevator in an office building, or when the nude male art model breaks the wall between artist and model and has off-the-cuff conversations with the clothed women artists. Funt also secretly tapes the test audience watching the preview film and their responses to it, from outright indignation to warm hearted-praise.

Private House of the SS(it)

Top Nazi officials, intent on rooting out traitors and those in the military who may be plotting to overthrow Adolf Hitler, recruit and train a group of beautiful prostitutes whose mission is to use any means necessary to uncover plots against the Fuhrer.

Natal com Claus(pt)

The Darien Gap(en)

A twenty-something slacker is moving to the south in hopes of capturing a picture of the giant sloth, and finally make a fortune in this low-key affair. Lyn Vaus, a young man who still feels traumatized because their parents had been divorced two decades ago, is trying to go to Patagonia. Since he can not afford a transport, he decides to hitchhike. Unfortunately, he comes down to Panama to a place that is 80 miles from the Darien Gap, a huge swamp that somehow have to cross.

Poruno repôto: Hentai(ja)

Two stories of perversion. 1) A Meiji era erotic artist forces his wife and maid to pose for his bondage themed paintings with dire consequences. 2) A WWII soldier develops a nasty sexual obsession overseas and which only grows stronger when he returns home.

Female Prisoner: Caged!(ja)

A young woman who escaped from prison is eventually captured and brought back. The evil warden decides to make her a pet project and tries to break her down with torture, gang rape and by turning her friends against her.

Hitozuma hentai biyoshitsu(ja)

This routine effort from cult pinku-eiga director Hisayasu Sato centers around a divorcée who opens a beauty parlor and begins selling sexual services to boost her business.

Furin, hentai, monmon chōmon(ja)

Minoru is dead. However, he was conscious for some reason and could not hide his confusion and surprise. His body doesn't move and he has no senses, but only his ears can be heard. The voice of his son and his wife, who lived together, made him wonder if he was going to night and died in a pitiful way. Even though it was a night out, his liquor-loving boy had removed his squirrel. Her son's daughter-in-law, Maya, came to Minoru, who couldn't yell at him and was amazed. She thought she was a well-made bride and wasted on her son. It also has a sexual meaning. Eventually, I heard the voice of an unknown man, different from her son. Maya called the man "Mr. Matsuda" and began to roar beside his body, uttering a hailless voice. Minoru's desire to see opened her one eye a little. But by that time things were done.

Gifu to mibōjin: Ichiya dake no himegoto(ja)

Teruki Miyamoto, a company employee, is at a love hotel with Rika Ohtsubo and Aina Mizuki. Miyamoto and Rika are having a double affair, and Rika invited Aina, a housewife friend of hers, because he wanted to try a threesome. Azumi Azuma is cleaning the bathroom of the love hotel when Rika returns to the room. When Rika comes to pick up her forgotten items, she is surprised to find that the employee is Azumi, whom she knows. Azumi says she has been working here since last year. Azumi said that the phone Rika forgot was left at the bed. When Rika was embarrassed that Azumi knew she had used the love hotel, Azumi simply said, "Confidentiality, you know". After finishing work that day, Azumi went shopping and then went home. She prepared dinner and had a quiet meal with her father-in-law Kazuo, who had retired early. Because of his age, Kazuo is taking more and more medication, and Azumi tries to cook meals that take care of her father-in-law's health.

Seiai scandal: Kokeshi to hanayome(ja)

Homma, a shy and hard-working car mechanic, said goodbye to Mao (Maya Sawamura), a delivery health girl who has forgiven her heart for three years. This is because he started dating with an office lady named Yurie (Meguri) who he met at a matchmaking party and got engaged. Mao was a little jealous when he realized that he secretly loved Honma, but wished for the relationship between adults and the happiness of Honma. On the way home one day, Homma found a dirty kokeshi doll, cleaned it with a handkerchief moistened with water, and placed it on the flowerbed. That night, a strange young woman (Yui Kawagoe) visited the room. She forcibly went up to the room and said that she was a kokeshi doll...

Banned: Woman's Secret Pictures(ja)

A man spies on an upper class woman having an illicit affair and blackmails her for sex. But she’s not the delicate flower that she appears to be.

OL yûkaihan - Hagu!(ja)

An office lady encounters a bank robbery in progress while at the bank to extend the repayment of a loan for her lover. In the ensuing panic, she steals her loan book but is kidnapped by the robbers as they escape. Her life soon becomes a living hell.

Swedish Porno: Dripping of Honey(ja)

A mysterious woman picks up an elite hockey player after a game. They spend a hot night at an estate, then she disappears. He becomes obsessed with her, and gets to see her in a strange show with white swan wings at a sex club, but is stopped by her entourage and asked to leave her alone.

White Rose of Santa Monica: Confused(ja)

Masashi, who works at a Japanese restaurant in Santa Monica, gets acquainted with an international student named Kanai and they begin living together. An overseas location film that depicts young people from Japan living gay in the United States.

Dawn of the Felines(ja)

A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.

Temptation of the Mask(ja)

An orphaned arsonist is interrogated by a detective, revealing his story of sexual abuse and trauma.

Tandem(ja)

The story of two men, one middle aged one mid twenties, who make friends and exchange cigarettes and stories of their sex lives, unaware they have unwittingly exchanged partners. The story, told in flashbacks, as the two men travel through the night on a motorcycle, is loaded with highly charged eroticism. Sex and violence are juxtaposed against the drabness of the men's everyday lives, effectively blurring the line between what is real and what is fantasy. Founded on the well-known myth of furtive sexual gropers on the rush-hour Tokyo commuter trains, Tandem is a low-key masterpiece of Japanese Pink Cinema.

Inkô(ja)

A female freelance programmer is teamed up with a high school computer genius for a project. The weather is hot, it’s late, she unbuttons her blouse and leans in close as he tries to program…

Blue Sky(ja)

A road movie about three persons traveling in a campervan on their way to Tokyo, Hamamatsu, and Kyoto. The film is based on the story of the heroine, a young girl named Momo, who was a member of the "21 Faces of Kaijin" gang involved in the Glico Morinaga Incident, and the film's ideas are remarkable, including the use of a tape recording of the actual incident.

Keep on Masturbating: Non-Stop Pleasure(ja)

A man with a troubled past including incest with a younger sister and the murder of a woman travels to an isolated countryside town in Nagano. There a local who mistakes him for a famous television actor shows him the town's sites, including a strip bar in which the performers remove Heian era costumes. The film's narrative is in an allegorical and disjointed manner with references to Buddhist concepts.

Tokyo Decadence(ja)

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.

Supesharu ressun: Hentai sei-kyôiku(ja)

Lesbian-themed tale of a schoolgirl who entices her gullible (not to mention slightly warped) female teacher by positing that they are predestined to dance together on the day the world ends.

Danchizuma: Furin no Hate(ja)

Masami and Kasamatsu are passionately seeking each other in an apartment in a corner of the downtown area along the Sumida River. They had an affair. They declared divorce to their respective spouses and began living in this apartment in search of a love nest just for the two of them. However, there was no way that her new life after being unfaithful would go well from the beginning...

Painful Bliss: Final Twist(ja)

A young executive has a really bad night after an encounter with a crazed bisexual wannabe yakuza and his horny girlfriend.