All Films

Maison Ikkoku: Shipwrecked on Ikkoku Island

1991 • 25 min • Japan

Yotsuya and Ichinose reminisce about a time when Shun Mitaka, Yotsuya's suitor, took the tenants of Ikkoku-kan on a pleasure cruise aboard his new boat. After the boat breaks up, everyone is left shipwrecked on a desert island, where they must try to make the best of the situation. This animated short is an adaptation of a story from MAISON IKKOKU, a manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi.

Dance of Nature

1991 • 4 min • United States of America

Traces elements of nature common to Vermont and Norway.

Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Ichi no Maki

1991 • 46 min • Japan

Horror film released in 1991.

Wizardry

1991 • 50 min • Japan

In a mystical land filled with magic and monsters, eager adventurers scour a ten-floor dungeon in search of fame and fortune - if they are able to escape with their lives! But none dare set foot in the tenth floor, as a powerful foe will make sure that they never return to the light of day: the evil Werdna, a wizard who stole an amulet of immense power. Now, to aid a beautiful woman, a group of skilled warriors must descend to the tenth floor to find the woman's lost love, and to take back the amulet from the hands of evil!

Kyoto, My Mother's Place

1991 • 50 min • Japan

Story of Kyoto: its history, culture, as well as the role it has played in the director's life and the life of his mother.

A Wish for Wings That Work

1991 • 22 min • United States of America

Opus the Penguin struggles to achieve his seemingly impossible dream to be able to fly.

Sweet Spot

1991 • 45 min • Japan

Based on a manga by Chuusonji Yutsuko, it tells the story of OL (office lady) extraordinaire and golf fanatic Oyamada Non. She is 23 and works at Major Products in Tokyo's commercial district, Marunouchi. Between bossing her bosses and managing her managers, she finds time to golf, shop, party, and pursue the important things in life, i.e., marriageable men.

The Passion of Martin

1991 • 49 min • United States of America

A lonely photographer gradually develops a rather unhealthy obsession with a young woman he once met by sheer chance.

The Calculus Affair

1991 • 57 min • Belgium, Canada, France

Strange things are happening in the evening at the mansion. Glass things break without any apparent reason. The Professor, somewhat apathetic to the whole series of events, leaves the following day to attend a conference on nuclear physics in Geneva. Foreign powers get wind of the Professor's work and send their agents to investigate.

Capricorn

1991 • 45 min • Japan

In the blink of an eye, high school student Taku Shimamura finds himself transported to the bizarre world of Slaffleaze, where intelligent creatures govern and the ruling class, led by the villainous Zolba, is plotting the invasion of the world they know as Capricorn, the Earth. Joining together with the oppressed Slaffleaze peasants, Taku must find a way to stop Zolba's dark forces before the way to the unsuspecting Earth is opened. In order to do so, he must first gain the love and trust of the last of the Yappie, the ancestral guardians of Slaffeaze. This is a task that will take more than a little courage and daring, for the last Yappie is not just a cute young female, she`s also a dragon.

Twilight Mystery Murder Game

1991 • 52 min

A murder game with four men and three women has begun on an uninhabited island. It's a substitute for killing each other and raping each other. However, a paranormal phenomenon occurs on this island, and the game becomes more scary ....

Vital Signs

1991 • 10 min • United States of America

In “Vital Signs” (1991), Barbara Hammer demonstratively transforms the horror of death into its opposite. She tenderly cares for a human skeleton, feeding it, dressing and caressing it, taking it for walks in the dark cabaret of an intimate relationship beyond death. She confronts pain and fear rather than repressing them.

Monster Mania

1991 • 60 min • United States of America

A compilation of classic horror trailers

Travelling

1991 • 9 min

Early experiments with VHS. Metros kinda look the same.

More Otaku no Video 1985

1991 • 50 min • Japan

Part 2 of a hilarious mockumentary featuring an animated tale of an average person who slowly becomes an otaku (obsessive fanatic) and eventually becomes the "Otaking"! Between story segments, live action interviews with fictional die-hard otakus take place.

Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki

1991 • 50 min • Japan

Horror film released in 1991.

Cigars of the Pharaoh

1991 • 44 min • Belgium, Canada, France

While on vacation in Egypt, Tintin encounters an eccentric archaeologist who believes to have found the whereabouts of Pharaoh Kih-Oskh's tomb. Tintin finds there a cigar marked with a strange emblem.

Ganbare Goemon: The Nightmare of the Dimensional Castle

1991 • 28 min • Japan

The first OVA of the Ganbare Goemon series.

Sa 204-272

1991 • 55 min • Yugoslavia

A high representative goes by the narrow macadam road to the grand opening of the facility in a mountain village, another new victory of his own. In the car with him was not his wife but his mistress, a young and rather attractive girl. The car stucks in the quite large and deep puddle in the middle of the country road...

Gensou no iru Basho

1991 • 50 min

Tomoyo Harada live performance compilation from 1991.

MR★Lady Assassin Group

1991 • 60 min • Japan

A mysterious transgender murder group wearing black dresses appears. It is a brutal method in which the targeted man are raped and then killed. Ohara is asked to investigate and discovers the existence of a gay man named Shimizu. However, Ohara, who has always been interested in relationships between men, ends up having an affair with Shimizu...

The Adventures of the Maltese Cat

1991 • 8 min • United States of America

Based on the Rudyard Kipling story.

Licca: Mysterious Magical Ring

1991 • 50 min • Japan

After watching some fireworks at an amusement park that is closing down, Licca has an adventure trying to assist Lunar in catching 3 night spirits. If the spirits are not caught, the morning will never come.

Psychic Wars

1991 • 60 min • Japan

When brilliant surgeon Ukyo Retsu removes a cancer from a mysterious old woman, he doesn't realize that the cancer is a 5000 year-old demon. Ukyo must then assume the role of protector of the Earth.