All Films

Giordano

1989 • 18 min • Soviet Union

The protagonist of this satirical short is a photographer whose camera captures photos of people's true nature. We often have to ask ourselves whether we see the truth around us. But do we want to see it?

Sayaka VS Chiyo-kun: Abnormal Lesbian

1989 • 58 min • Japan

Sayaka is a professional lesbian who goes by the nickname "Three Years of Climax." On the other hand, Chiyo is a bisexual player. Based on these two's spectacular abnormal play, various men and women become involved in their perverted acts. Who will win in the actual lesbian battle on the bridge, Sayaka or Chiyo-kun...?

Blue Flames

1989 • 50 min • Japan

Ryuuichi is a high-school student tired of living in a small town with small people. He's determined to claw his way to the top of Tokyo, and he'll use any woman he can to do it.

Cinderella Express

1989 • 47 min • Japan

Everyday salary man Shimano Yuji meets and beds a pretty young girl at his bachelor party. Meeting her again at his wedding, he realizes that he has just began an affair with his sister-in-law.

What Does Love Mean to You?

1989 • 6 min

Animated short.

E-Cup Real Action Take Two: Rich & Ripe

1989 • 59 min • Japan

A melodrama that emotionally depicts a broken couple with sensual scenes. This is the first film by director Toshiki Sato and screenwriter Masahiro Kobayashi, who have produced a number of excellent works. The film painstakingly depicts the heartbreaking endings of a couple who are trapped in the past and gradually falling out of love, and includes a strong scene of sexual passion. Yuko (Satsuki Fuji), who is troubled by her marital relationship, is having an affair with Akiyama (Kikujiro Honda). Fumio (Toru Nakane), who is unable to handle his beloved wife, uses a duplicate key found in an old jacket to sneak into the room where Yuko used to live before their marriage.

Osomatsu-kun: Greetings From The Watermelon Planet-zansu!

1989 • 25 min • Japan

Episode-length Osomatsu-kun film, released as a feature of the Toei Manga Movie Festival. Loosely based on a manga chapter, the film revolves around an alien plot to take over the world.

Savannah

1989 • 30 min

Through the employment of magical realist storytelling devices, an African-American actress is shown to be a hyper-competent career woman who denies her roots in traditional African beliefs and spirituality.

Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage

1989 • 59 min • Japan

After his partner Ahiru is gunned down in the process of arresting criminal Bruce Sawamura, cop Joe "Joker" Kawamura goes rogue and tries to get revenge. Since Bruce's last coup was stealing 5 million dollars in donations from a church, he is joined in his quest by nun Lily.

How to Make Tasty Water

1989 • 55 min • Japan

The lustful and intense sexual experiences of women at the beach one summer. Eventually, the women's unrestrained behavior develops into a strange love square, and their desires accelerate...

Demon Hunter Makaryūdo

1989 • 30 min • Japan

Forgiven of her crime of looking into the past life of the one she loved, Yama Rikudou is a powerful being from the underworld sent to the human realm to hunt demons. She must eliminate the overflowing evil here in order to provide some balance to this world.

Arietta

1989 • 52 min • Japan

A young widow becomes an SM call girl to pay off the debts accumulated by her yakuza husband. She's a depressed woman, merely going through the motions of existence, subjected to every cruel whim concocted by her clients. She's dedicated to the misery - even finding comfort in it - stumbling through life like a zombie.

Cybernetics Guardian

1989 • 43 min • Japan

A freak accident unleashes a demonic spirit within researcher John Stalker - transforming him into Saldo, a mythical cyber-beast fueled by hate and evil.

Brave Irene

1989 • 13 min • United States of America

Irene summons up all her courage in the face of a fierce snowstorm when her mother falls ill and Irene must deliver a ball gown to the duchess.

YBO2 canon

1989 • 5 min

The first Music Video work of Eiki Takahashi before he became a music video filmmaker and making documentaries about music idol groups.

Natural History

1989 • 18 min • United States of America

The parents of an adult infant named "Child", played by Todd Haynes, attempt to expel him from their home, by casting magical spell seen in a television documentary about Malaysian rites of passage.

Sir Drone

1989 • 56 min • United States of America

Three teenagers from the industrial part of Los Angeles try to form a punk rock band in Hollywood, in this feature length film by renowned artist Raymond Pettibon.

Shôten higi: Meiki saguri

1989 • 60 min • Japan

Pinku distrubuted by Xces / Nikkatsu

Married Woman: Mouth Full of Lust

1989 • 59 min • Japan

She witnessed her husband's affair right before her eyes! A young wife who has lost her memory embarks on a journey of boundless lust... She wants something big! Her bottomless desire is about to awaken...

Animated Self-Portraits

1989 • 8 min • Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Japan, Soviet Union, United States of America, Yugoslavia

An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

Chain Letter

1989 • 60 min • United States of America

The Messenger of Death has an interesting way of getting victims. His assistant, Miss Smith, would write a letter where recipients would be told to pass it along. The person that failed in doing so would meet misfortune (mostly death). The Messenger of Death and Miss Smith would watch the person that broke the chain on a television monitor. After the victim's demise, The Messenger of Death would go back to his desk, and say to his assistant, "Take a letter, Miss Smith".

Meiki Hitosuji

1989 • 60 min • Japan

A man once worked as an assistant director at a film studio. He had a past in which the master director he worked for taught him about exhibitionism and even homosexuality. Since then, the man was unable to find a girlfriend. One day, that a hookup said she was going to return to the countryside and get married properly, so she wanted to break up. The man was surprised, but she had already prepared another friend for him. He starts dating the girl, but she is also quite a pervert, and suggests having sex with him in front of his bedridden father at home. The man agrees and goes to her house, only to discover that the bedridden father is the famous director...

Riding Bean

1989 • 45 min • Japan

Bean Bandit and his partner Rally Vincent are couriers for hire - transporting clients and delivering goods in his custom sports car "Roadbuster" for a hefty price. But when they are hired to escort a kidnapped girl named Chelsea to her home, they don't realize they're being framed for kidnapping as their former clients Semmerling and Carrie plan their escape with Chelsea's father and the ransom money.

Cherry no Manma

1989 • 10 min • Japan

Kanoko is a young girl who lives alone with two young male housekeepers who could not be more different. While Yuzuru is kind and refined, Yuki is rude and crude. They try to keep their unusual family together in the face of conflict and misunderstanding. Note: Originally released as a bonus on the Umi no Yami, Tsuki no Kage LD/VHS.