All Films

Liar

1996 • 20 min • Belgium

Due to drug abuse, a 13-year-old boy is placed into a detention center for young offenders. After a week, the judge will decide if he must stay there or go back home. Confronted with the adults, the judge, the psychologist and the social workers, the boy uses his most effective power to rebel against them all: lying.

Mourning Wife's Secret Technique: Koshibano

1996 • 59 min • Japan

Tomorrow is her husband's 77th day. Ayako strips naked in front of her urn containing her husband, and she suddenly makes a decision to put on her mourning clothes. Ayako's late husband, Jiro, was jealous, sadistic, and insidiously bullied her. Even in the bedroom at night, Jiro becomes abnormally excited by being jealous of her friend Katsura and blaming Ayako for her unrealistic delusions. From Katsura, who came to pray on the 77th, she heard about her husband, which Ayako did not know. "He was the only person she could call her best friend..." Ayako recalled that day's affair with her husband. It was sex that could be called painful...

Food

1996 • 16 min • Czechoslovakia, United Kingdom

Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Abnormal Exposure: Wanting to Display

1996 • 60 min • Japan

Tarô Araki's directorial debut; he starred alongside Kyôko Godai, occasional scriptwriter for Hisayasu Satô also appearing.

Umarekawaru to shitara

1996 • 40 min • Japan

A mysterious world of images of an old, almost forgotten barbershop in the middle of the city, with its owner who is just “waiting” for something, and the people who visit him. A barbershop is a place where people want change. A place to find a new self. The barber finds a different self on the other side of the mirror, and between drowsiness and thoughts, he is lost between dreams and reality, pondering in a different space. The barber travels with various customers to a mysterious space. Invisible images are projected into each mind along with the recitation of poems.

Neighborhood Story The Movie

1996 • 30 min • Japan

An alternate retelling of the beginning of the original series. Mikako and Tsutomu lived next door to each other since they were little. They both attend an art school, where Mikako is pursuing her dream of being a fashion designer. They formed a club called Akindo with several of their friends. Akindo participates in flea markets, where they sell their creations... clothes, dolls, and artwork.

Intense Tongue Technique: Turn Over

1996 • 60 min • Japan

A woman wants to throw herself off a bridge after her boyfriend of two years breaks things off with her. The guy who stops her from doing so is looking for his ex-girlfriend, who he is planning to kill. The woman makes off with his gun and from then on plans to kill her ex as well.

Ultraman Super Fighter Legend

1996 • 40 min • Japan

From the north of the galaxy a dreadful menace, Comet Warrior God Tsuifon, is fast approaching the Earth destroying everything in its path. There awaits it Fighter Ultraman, the legendary defender of the planet, and a deadly battle is about to begin.

The End of the Century Darling

1996 • 30 min • Japan

Ogata, a nice and hardworking man, has only one problem... His love for Takasugi, another man. But by telling Takasugi about his feelings, the problem should be gone. Yet another problem arises: Takasugi believes their feelings are too alike and that they therefore can't be together. But who knows what can happen when two men in love go away on a vacation together—both determined to win the seducing game.

Married Woman and Homeroom Teacher

1996 • 60 min • Japan

The first in a series of erotic novels written by Koto Yubuki from ‘French Shoin Bunko’. A housewife, Natsuko, is informed of her son’s accident by her son’s homeroom teacher, Shirai. However, it is Shirai’s lie, Natsuko is confined and she becomes the prey of a lewd science experiment.

Nintama Rantaro the Movie

1996 • 47 min • Japan

The Dokutake ninja steal a shipment of saltpeter from Shinbei's papa. They plan to use it to create medicine that will make them fly and become super-ninjas! Danzou, who's father was transporting the goods, stows away and is taken to the Dokutake's secret headquarters. When Shinbei informs the school, Yamada-sensei and Doi-sensei rush to help. But Hagumi decide to take matters into their own hands and try to rescue Danzou themselves. Things don't go according to plan, though, and soon they all need to be rescued too. Fortunately Rikichi, Yamada-sensei's cool son, is around to help out! In fact,before long everyone gets into the act! But can Rantarou and his friends stop Happousai before it's too late?

Parklands

1996 • 51 min • Australia

Rosie returns to her home city on the death of her father, a former policeman. His diaries hint at corruption, and she also receives hints and veiled threats which support her suspicions. Rosie puzzles about who he was, and about her early life and relationship to him.

When We See Again

1996 • 55 min • Japan

A third-generation Japanese-American student moves to Wakayama to study lacquerware painting and is invited to a homestay at Wakisaka's house in order to experience Japanese life.

Ultraman Zearth

1996 • 51 min • Japan

Ultraman Zearth hails from The Land of Pikari in Nebula Z95. He has a big red face and dislikes dirt, and will go to great lengths to wash it off his hands. His goal is to clean the polluted Earth. He transforms with an electric toothbrush, which is consistent with his hygiene fixation. He's not quite adept at being a superhero, but at least he tries his best.

Love Me Dangerously

1996 • 60 min • Japan

Narutaki is a TV newscaster. Amidst his immense popularity, his work and private life were fulfilling. However, in order to maintain his popularity, he hid the fact that he was gay and was careful not to let the public know about his boyfriend. The young man, who is a big fan of Narutaki and masturbates every day while watching Narutaki on TV, finally can't stand it anymore, and eventually realizes that Narutaki is gay, and begins a violent stalking act. Eventually, Narutaki's lover becomes involved in a crazy love triangle...

Hell Teacher Nube

1996 • 48 min • Japan

Kumiko Ijima is a very timid girl who happens to recognize a murderer still in pursuit at a park. With the help of her friend Kyoko Inaba, she warns the police about the wanted man. After trying to escape the police by car, the murderer crashes and ends up in the hospital. Some time later, a mysterious entity starts to terrorize the neighborhood in search of a girl who has the name initials K.I. and uses a red ribbon on her hair.

Feeding Time

1996 • 5 min • Germany

A lion is forced to skip its meal.

The Ritual

1996 • 28 min

Three friends -- two of them into voodoo rituals -- contemplate life and a dead body in their living room.

Prelude 11

1996 • 3 min • United States of America

Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.

Prelude 8

1996 • 1 min • United States of America

...as removed as possible from any recognition of either exterior scene of interior feedback phenomena. It is, in its ineffability, as close to pure visual music as I can make it, more inspired by The Preludes of Bach or The Preludium of Buxtehude than anything of my surroundings when I was painting.

Nerabe

1996 • 11 min

Nerabe unravels through 11 minutes the process of waiting, the ritual of motherhood through a look full of poetic resonances. She starts with a dance made of transitional steps, accomplice of maternal games, victim of fears, dreams, haste and self-absorption of those who are waiting.

Prelude 16

1996 • 2 min

Singly-printed criss-crosses of molten "brush"-(hard-edge)-strokes of black over pebbled yellow, ending finally on an intermix of all intertwined forms with increasing lightness/whiteness.

Nymphomaniac Carnival

1996 • 55 min • Japan

A sensual drama that carefully examines the crossroads faced by an elderly man who has had a spectacular career with women. Director Yutaka Ikejima, who also plays the lead role, skillfully portrays the sadness of a popular man's old age while performing various erotic scenes himself, and this is a good film that won the Top 10 Pink Award. Ezaki (Yutaka Ikeshima) was asked to divorce his wife Kumi (Satomi Shinozaki) on the day he retired due to cheating, and his partner introduces him to his friend Kaori (Yuna Kawamura), but her mother... ・Etsuko (Ayumi Taguchi) and her younger sister Yayoi (Kyoko Hashimoto) are former mistresses, and when they reunite, they develop a strange friendship.

Basketball Mozart

1996 • 57 min • Croatia

Film is about one of all time best basketball player from Europe - Drazen Petrovic, who after successful career in European league played in the NBA. He died in 1993 in a car accident in Germany.