All Films

Hisashi Eguchi's It Will All Work Out!

1990 • 43 min • Japan

Adapted from the manga of the same name by Hisashi Eguchi, and directed by Minoru Kawasaki and Rintaro, this is a series of random skits featuring anime, live action, and puppet show segments, exploring love, sex, death and many other sometimes controversial subjects.

Garfield's Feline Fantasies

1990 • 22 min • United States of America

Garfield and Odie fantasize that they are on a Middle-East mission to retrieve the Banana of Bombay, the symbol of humour to nations around the world.

Ashes

1990 • 39 min • United Kingdom

A young man must confront his family's past when he returns to his childhood home on the Isle of Skye for the funeral of his father.

Teach 109

1990 • 25 min • United States of America

In the future, surgeons practice their skill on androids designed to imitate patients, but Dr. Garrett sees this as pointless since she cares little about fake robotic patients. However, her latest patient Teach 109 changes her mind.

Arrivederci Millwall

1990 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A group of Millwall supporting hooligans travels to Spain for the 1982 World Cup Finals soon after the start of the Falklands War. One member of the gang is bent on avenging a personal loss.

The Kingdom Chums - Original Top Ten

1990 • 48 min

Join Petey, Annie, and Osborne as they meet the Kingdom Chums and embark on a fun-filled, colorful quest. Essie, Christopher, Marvelous Mose, Little Miriam, and Little David teach the kids the meaning of the Original Top Ten, the Ten Commandments! With a song for each commandment, your kids will be sure to sing a long with each catchy tune!

Marina the Manga Artist Goes to Camelot

1990 • 48 min • Japan

Marina meets beautiful boys in an SF Fantasy based in Medieval England.

The Troublemakers

1990 • 20 min • Canada

The lives of four down-on-their-luck characters. Surrounded by the vestiges of conspicuous consumption, they struggle to survive outside of society, fashioning their own aesthetics of poverty and devising strategies to navigate a surveillance society, evading or performing for cameras everywhere.

Licca: the Mystery Tale of Mysterious Yunia

1990 • 60 min • Japan

Based on the popular Licca doll in Japan. Licca is accidentally transported into the world of Yunia and must find a way to return home.

Abnormal Petting

1990 • 53 min • Japan

Three women who are tired of normal sex. Snack mama Yukie, college student Tozuko, and young wife Hiromi promised to go on a physical adventure, and in a month they would meet up and report on their experiences.

Unison

1990 • 10 min

This avant-garde, associative collage equates the system’s relationship to Filipino citizens as a marriage. But instead of a wedding full of majestic gestures, we witness a tyrannical system led by a conductor-like figure representing colonial domination and a military regime. The work, which was created under German cinematographer Christoph Janetzko's direction, borrows on archived records from such classic Filipino documentary filmmakers as Nick Deocampo and Ricky Orellana.

Sunday Pursuit

1990 • 26 min • Portugal, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain

Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his boss Mr Gerald, who wants a younger man with new ideas. Thomas advertise under "Lonely Hearts" and receives an answer.

Gdleen

1990 • 45 min • Japan

Ryu, a ladder-climbing salaryman exploring the galaxy on the company’s dime, crash-lands in the middle of a generational war over the seat of power on the planet Gdleen.

Lightning Trap: Leina & Laika

1990 • 27 min • Japan

In present day Tokyo, traveling has never been more comfortable than aboard the Lightning L808, Japan's new luxury passenger plane. One day, on what seemed to be a routine flight, Haruka Leina and the plane's passengers were unaware of the mysterious and top secret cargo brought aboard, which attracted the attention of international terrorists set on obtaining it. Now, with a dangerous hostage situation at hand, only special agent Laika Strange and brave Leina may be able to save the passengers, and keep the deadly cargo from falling into the wrong hands...

Eiji

1990 • 49 min • Japan

Legendary boxer Keijiro Akagi's second son, Eiji, is a high school dropout and the world's worst rock guitarist. Though his father and elder brother are both boxers, he hates the sport but suddenly takes an interest in it when he meets the local champion's little sister.

Onna bôkôma baibu-zeme

1990 • 60 min • Japan

Ritsuko, who works at a credit union, becomes close to her boss, Murashima, and gives in to him. Later, she is found out to have embezzled public funds for him, and is fired, but Murashima's attitude towards her is cold. Ritsuko joins a dating club and starts selling her body. During her days of SM and vibrating, she becomes close with a customer, Takagi. One day, she meets her old colleague, Hiromi, and when she finds out that Hiromi has married Murashima, she teams up with Takagi to kidnap her and take the ransom from Murashima.

Next Door

1990 • 3 min • United States of America

An old square-headed man tries to watch TV while a little girl makes a playful ruckus outside. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.

Kennosuke-sama

1990 • 20 min • Japan

Kennosuke, an old-fashioned samurai kid in midcentury Tokyo, gets invited on his first-ever date by his classmate Oden. To prove he's up to the challenge, Kennosuke and his friend Shinobimaru conduct a dry run.

Network Baby

1990 • 60 min • Japan

A grieving young mother employed at a video game company is recruited to test and train a new virtual world. She finds a character in this world of fantasy who becomes her new albeit virtual daughter.

Violence Jack: Hell's Wind

1990 • 50 min • Japan

The survivors of Kanto's Hell Earthquake built a new city and christened it "Hope Town". However, this peaceful town becomes a nightmare when it's raided by the motorcycle gang, "Hell's Wind". They abduct the women while the remaining townsfolk are left helpless against them. Meanwhile, a boy, Saburo, meets Jun. Jun's lover was previously murdered, and the duo help one another to fight against Hell's Wind. The battles are getting more and more difficult, but with the appearance of Violence Jack, the citizens seem to gain the upper hand against Hell's Wind.

Devil Boy: Welcome to Devil Land!!

1990 • 30 min • Japan

Akuma-kun and his friends go to the Makai Amusement Park to solve the child kidnapping case caused by an autonomous mysterious toy. An original work for the theater of the Toei Manga Festival, which is an animation of the original manga by Shigeru Mizuki.

The Real Big Tits!

1990 • 60 min • Japan

Pinku directed by Sachi Hamano.

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections

1990 • 36 min • United States of America

Jonas Mekas’s intimate diary film spans 1963 to 1990, capturing Andy Warhol alongside friends and collaborators from the New York avant-garde. Featuring figures such as Allen Ginsberg, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Maciunas—as well as rare footage of the Velvet Underground’s first performance—it offers a personal portrait of Warhol’s world and his intersections with art, music, and counterculture.

Gude Crest: The Emblem of Gude

1990 • 45 min • Japan

Two partners Effera and Jiliora escape from a slave boat with the aid of their friend Orlin and a young boy named Kilian. When Kilian is killed in the escape Effera and Jiliora take it upon themselves to return Kilian's pendant to his two siblings who are being held captive by Baron Celdion, who is plotting to take over all of the neighboring countries.