All Films

The Code

2001 • 58 min • Finland, France

The Code is a Finnish-made documentary about Linux, featuring some of the most influential people of the free software movement.

Farscape Undressed

2001 • 60 min

A one hour documentary/primer aired to prepare new viewers of the Sci-Fi Channel's Farscape for the third season. It includes clips from the first two seasons and explanations on each of the main characters.

Why Do I Want to Be a Boxing Referee?

2001 • 18 min • South Korea

Jin-su, a 9-year-old elementary school student whose dream is to become a boxing referee, doesn't know why he wants to be a boxing referee, but at some point he started to feel a sense of duty to become one. However, he is suspicious of his father, who has nothing to do with boxing. "Where did the hot boxing referee's blood flowing in my body come from?" Jin-su turns his gaze to the three uncles who used to be around his mother. Seong-jin, Bi-chan, and Wang-gu. They are all uncles who only look at their mother and exercise at the boxing gym that their grandfather used to run. Jin-su sees from these uncles the qualities that a boxing referee must have and learns the whole story. On the day his mother announced her marriage to the three people, everything happened because of that.

Kamen Rider Agito: Three Great Riders

2001 • 14 min

Kamen Riders Agito, G3 and Gills help Televi-Kun against Lords.

Thunder Pig!

2001 • 6 min • United Kingdom

From the studio who brought you talking Chips Ahoy and Peperamis and the producer of Valiant comes a rare stop-motion pilot pitched and rejected by Nickelodeon in which a superhero pig who needs junk food for energy bawls over the loss of one single hair.

Whore Hospital 4: No-Pants Nursing

2001 • 59 min • Japan

Rumors were circulating that obscene medical examinations were being conducted at Murata Memorial Hospital. Seishi, who works for the Ministry of Health and Welfare, infiltrates the hospital to find out what's going on. There, his girlfriend Rin worked as a nurse. Okada, an inpatient, said that if he had a certain card given to the nurses, they would remove the accumulated material, and that the longer he stayed in the hospital, the more special treatment he would receive. That night, Seishi sneaks into Okada's room and sees him being serviced by a nurse. And he had a suspicion that the other person was Rin. Before long, Seishi was to receive the highest quality paradise treatment. Seishi uses sleeping pills to put Okada to sleep and enters the treatment room in his place, but...

Chaos.TV

2001 • 46 min • United States of America

Chaos.TV is the strangest, most violent "reality show" ever! Jennifer (Tina Krause) DeLarento invites a TV video crew into the house she shares with her lesbian lover, Dora (Debbie D) Fienes to videotape Dora's birthday celebration. But both women are mentally unstable and what follows is a descent into madness, all recorded for posterity, with absolutely NO interference by the video crew, despite the violent actions of both women. Each of them does horrible things to the other, despite their love for each other. The ending will leave you shaken and disturbed!

Dream Machine

2001 • 13 min • United States of America

An American girl's beautiful song in a lonely New York karaoke bar catches the attention of an ultra-hip Japanese boy. Convinced she is his dream come true, he attempts to win her over despite his lack of English.

Shisen stalker: Waisetsu nozoki

2001 • 60 min • Japan

Il viandante

2001 • 5 min

An alternate look at a part of Sicilia, perhaps left out for its more straightforward didactic quality. Interesting to again see the long gaps. Also note the extra use of close-up (for them) on the old woman.

Kamen Rider Kuuga: Good Job

2001 • 9 min • Japan

Kamen Rider Kuuga final TV special. Jokingly labelled as the "50th episode" of the series.

Ukkonen

2001 • 22 min • Finland

Ukkonen (means Thunder) is a short film about a man called Ukkonen who was turned into a radioactive man in an accident in the Generator Corporation research plant, company secretly designing radioactive weapons with an energy business as a cover. Ukkonen starts his crusade to bring the company down and get his revenge. Nice quality for an independent production, even some special effects and some funny, overdramatic monologue by Ukkonen. Unfortunately the film is very short, lasting only about 20 minutes. Worth checking out if you somehow find this film.

Retruc

2001 • 22 min • Spain

The Neighborhood

2001 • 7 min • United States of America

Martin Scorsese revisits the Little Italy streets where he grew up, reflecting on how the neighborhood’s people, culture, and daily life shaped his outlook and influenced the stories he would later tell on film.

Go! Anpanman: Gomira's Star

2001 • 51 min • Japan

One evening, Mimi and students were stargazing through a telescope. When Creampanda peeped into the telescope, burning objects were falling. When Anpanman landed on one of them, Princess Yada appeared. The princess said that her home star of Yada was full of garbage, and asked for Anpanman's help. Anpanman thought that only Gomira could solve this and headed for Yada star with Gomira. However, on Yada star Baikinman and the giant robot "Dust Demon" were waiting in ambush.

Naughty Boys

2001 • 60 min • Japan

On Gacchan’s birthday, a wild night in Shinjuku turns into a whirlwind for him and Takayuki, testing their love after a careless mistake and a heated confrontation.

Pâté

2001 • 30 min

A majestically dark story about an aristocratic family struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Amongst the bleak landscape of desolation, two young children, Otto and his sister Vera, hunt daily for food. Meanwhile at home in an abandoned ship, their delusional Mother pitifully clings onto the faded glory of their former aristocratic lives, indolently aided by her shiftless Maid. Full of opulent memories and dark ghosts, their life is a sad shadow of the past as each character copes with the grind of daily survival in their separate ways. When the sublimely malevolent Mister Griswald, the only man to survive the apocalypse, unexpectedly drops in for dinner, he sets in motion the final act - revealing the shocking secret of their survival.

Slayers Premium

2001 • 30 min • Japan

Lina and Gourry visited the town in a certain beach. In that town, a mysterious incident which is that the person who had eaten the octopus was not able to speak the languages other than the octopus language happened frequently. And, Gourry who does not know the incident eats slices of raw octopus, and he cannot speak words other than the octopus language. Ameria and Zelgadiss who came there by chance are involved in the trouble, too and the fight with the clan of the octopus which lives in the beach starts.

Hyperspace Boy Wonder Seven

2001 • 25 min • Japan

Hyperspace Boy Wonder Seven is a fictional tokusatsu, mentioned in TV series Giant Robot Mikazuki. This single 25-minutes episode of the "Wonder Seven" was released in 2001 as bonus with the "Tekkōki Mikazuki" DVD-box.

Rudyland

2001 • 52 min

A humorous, agit-prop look at the controversial mayoralty of New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Then & Now

2001 • 47 min • United Kingdom

In the 1980’s US public television station New Jersey Network produced some groundbreaking documentaries about DOCTOR WHO following the programme’s huge success in America. Doctor Who – Then & Now was made in 1987. Presented by Eric Luskin and recorded in the NJN studios it features unique interviews with Terry Nation talking about the creation of the Daleks and Patrick Troughton discussing his portrayal of the Second Doctor.

Doraemon: Ganbare! Gian!!

2001 • 26 min • Japan

A 2001 Japanese short anime family film based on the popular manga and anime series, Doraemon. It premiered on March 10, 2001 in Japan on a bill with Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves. The movie's original plot was written by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko.

Ultraman Gaia: Once Again Gaia

2001 • 60 min • Japan

After the battle against Zogu was over, both Gamu and Fujimiya began to live normal lives until another threat arrives on Earth - a surviving monster soldier of Zogu's army named Gakuzom.

Ultraman Tiga Gaiden: Revival of the Ancient Giant

2001 • 45 min • Japan

Set many years after the end of the original Ultraman Tiga series, in which Daigo Madoka (human host of Ultraman Tiga) has a son with Rena, named Tsubasa Madoka. Tsubasa is a member of a new team, Neo Super GUTS, the successor to the original Super GUTS.