All Films

Ghost Soup

1992 • 58 min • Japan

It's Christmas Eve in Tokyo as Ichiro is moving into his new apartment one month ahead of schedule. As he is getting settled in, two strangers enter the apartment and are surprised to find him there. They begin complaining that he is upsetting their plans for a Christmas party to be thrown in the apartment that night before attempting to kick him out.

Erotic Massage Wife: Incredible Pleasure Techniques

1992 • 53 min • Japan

Tatsuya and Etsuko are a newlywed couple, but Tatsuya becomes impotent due to work stress, and is forced to take a long-term rest at home, cutting his salary in half. Etsuko searches for a part-time job and finds one as a pleasure massage therapist, a job that would put her pleasuring skills to the test...

Bloody Mary

1992 • 7 min • Netherlands

A big vulgar man in black with a revolver orders beers in an empty bar from a little barmaid, who seems intimidated.

Beware Haderer

1992 • 30 min • Austria

A staged TV portrait of the Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer; and first collaboration with Maria Hofstätter.

King Ottokar's Sceptre

1992 • 42 min • Belgium, Canada, France

An absent-minded sigillographer gets Tintin involved in a dangerous political intrigue in the Balkan nation of Syldavia.

Bondage Rope Training

1992 • 60 min • Japan

The basement of the house where sculptor Takai lives. This is the studio where he creates his works. Yoko, an art critic, is tied up and hung from the ceiling by Takai. Takai beats Yoko's supple naked body with a whip. Yoko feels a perverse pleasure in the pain.

Delinquent in Drag

1992 • 43 min • Japan

Does being the only guy in an all girl school sound like paradise? It might be, if the girls knew you were a guy, but to stay in school teenage pervert Banji can't let can't let anyone find out his chromosomes don't match. Banji's status conscious parents want him to go to a good school, but not enough to spend the money on a good co-ed school. Now, in addition to studying math and science, Banji has to learn how to put on a bra and makeup. His life has become a living hell. Not only is he at the bottom of the social pecking order, he must also got to conceal his inner-masculinity from the pretty classmate girl who's stolen his heart while avoiding the female bullies who threaten to expose his less-than-feminine charms in the locker room.

Horror House Vol.1: Grudge Ghost Classroom

1992 • 60 min • Japan

Film directed by Yorida Katsuya.

Oruorane the Cat Player

1992 • 30 min • Japan

A passionless cellist, stumbling drunk through back alleys in the days before Christmas, meets a wizened hobo who has honed a technique that allows him to create impossible music from the mewing of stray cats. Enthralled, the once-jaded young musician hopes to reignite his creative spark under the mentorship of the old man and his feline friends.

Go! Anpanman: The Secret of Tsumiki Castle

1992 • 60 min • Japan

Can Anpanman and friends rescue Princess Olga and regain Tsumiki Island?

Land of Black Gold

1992 • 42 min • Belgium, Canada, France

When cars start to explode, which can lead to a serious oil crisis, Tintin and his friends travel to the Middle East to get to the bottom of the problem.

The Little Mermaid

1992 • 50 min • United States of America

This charming, lively tale based on Hans Christian Anderson's beloved children's story comes to splendid life in an enchanting animated film. The beautiful and adventurous mermaid, Princess Lena, lives with her family in a watery castle and has everything she could ever need, but she longs for only one thing; to explore the world of humans. Determined to marry Prince Stefan, whom she sees when a whirlpool takes her to the surface, Princess Lena must turn to the evil sea witch Cassandra and pay a heavy price for her promise of help.

Calico Cat Holmes and the Lord of the Haunted Castle

1992 • 45 min • Japan

Based on Akagawa Jirou's popular book series about hapless detective Katayama Yoshitaro who lives with his sister Harumi and their cat Holmes, which has a sixth sense when it comes to solve mysteries. In this stand alone OVA the aftershow party of Harumi's acting troupe becomes the showplace of murder and tragedy. Luckily Yoshitaro brought Holmes along.

Tintin and the Picaros

1992 • 41 min • Belgium, Canada, France

Tintin falls into a dangerous trap after his friends are falsely arrested in a troubled South American country where a revolution is about to explode.

Weekender

1992 • 18 min • United Kingdom

A look at club and drug culture through the prism of the band Flowered Up.

Rokudenashi BLUES

1992 • 33 min • Japan

Trouble finds Maeda, a good-for-nothing outcast with dreams of becoming a boxing champ, soon after enrolling at Teiken High School. His cavalier clumsiness has a way of attracting attention from gang leaders, school staff, and the precocious schoolgirl Chiaki. When a dangerous new gang leader threatens to upend order in the school, Maeda puts his training to work — along with every brain cell he can muster — to protect the balance of power.

Promiscuous Wife's Sexuality: Pleasure Hunting

1992 • 59 min • Japan

Fumio, who works at an ironworks, has an affair with Yoko, the wife of the president of the ironworks. The wife of Shimizu, a detective who investigates Yoko's background at the request of Nobuo, the president of the company, is also having an affair with his mistress, Kenichi. Nobuo becomes angry and impulsive. Upon receiving the report, a jealous Nobuo impulsively kills Shimizu and appears with an iron pipe in front of Fumio and Yoko, who are entangled in an ironworks. The story accelerates toward the end as the impulsive murderer brings together a man and a woman in a love-hate relationship at a villa in Izu....

Queen Esther

1992 • 30 min • United States of America

This Hanna-Barbera animated video tells a version of the Bible story about Esther, whose heroism is commemorated annually by the feast of Purim. Esther, a Jewish orphan girl, is chosen by King Ahasuerus of Persia to be his queen.

Black Lion

1992 • 60 min • Japan

The year is 1580 and Nobunaga Oda is working to consolidate his power over Japan. In his army are weapons of great destructive power: rapid fire machine guns, lasers, missiles and, most frightening of all, the reputedly immortal ninja Ginnai Doma. Like a sentence of divine wrath he hunts down and destroys dissident monks, ninjas and others, wherever they may be. With the clans on the brink of destruction, a single ninja accepts the impossible task: kill the immortal Ginnai.

Rispondetemi

1992 • 18 min • Canada

As the paramedics pry her hand apart from her dead lover's grip a woman's life flashes before her eyes. Racing to the hospital the stunning skies and rooftops of Montreal from the back of the ambulance are inter-cut with the most exquisitely cinematic memories.

Dragon Ball Z: Summer Vacation Special

1992 • 43 min • Japan

This is a TV special that takes place directly after Dragon Ball Z movie 7. In it, Goku and Gohan discuss Dragon Ball movies 1-3 and Dragon Ball Z movies 1-7.

The Passing

1992 • 54 min

Internationally acclaimed and award-winning video installation artist Bill Viola juxtaposes personal pictures of his mother's death with images of his own son's birth to explore foundational and potent themes of beginnings and endings, the cycle of life and the movement of generations. An evocative exploration of personal and communal spirituality, this deeply felt film is a poetic masterpiece to contemplate time and again.

Gekashitsu

1992 • 50 min • Japan

In the Meiji era, Countess Kibune must undergo surgery to save her life, but she refuses to receive anesthesia because she is afraid to reveal a secret. She asks a young doctor, Takamine, to operate on her without anesthesia.

Uniform Gals: Underwear Encyclopedia

1992 • 59 min • Japan

At the Asami Planning office in a corner of a rundown multi-tenant building, manager Inada is having sex with nurse Saya Hanyu in the middle of the day. Then Asami returns with Sachiko and scolds Inada. While traveling in Kyushu, Asami happened to be on a tour bus with Sachiko as a guide, and fell in love with her singing voice, so he forcefully scouted her.