All Films

Urusei Yatsura: Nagisa's Fiancé

1988 • 27 min • Japan

Lum, Ataru, Mendou and Shinobu visit an inn which Ryuunosuke and her father have opened. But when it turns out to be on a haunted desert island, the stage is set for some serious silliness!

Dragon Ball: Goku's Traffic Safety

1988 • 15 min

A public service video which uses the main Dragon Ball characters to promote traffic safety. It was aired on TV between shows as a public service announcement and distributed to schools as a safety demonstration video.

The Strike

1988 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners' strike. However, the Hollywood production company that gets hold of his script turns it into a ludicrously sensationalist and anachronistic action film, starring Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill, and Meryl Streep as his wife.

Married Woman's Desire to Have an Affair

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Married women are, in other words, a different form of life from us. Because they have the tendency to repeat reproductive acts day and night, if there is a gap between acts or they are unsatisfied, they substitute it with simulated acts or acts with other men.

One Pound Gospel

1988 • 50 min • Japan

Hatanaka Kosaku is a young boxer who has a major flaw, he can't stop eating. That weakness puts him into into heavier weight classes that put him against stronger boxers and even worse, he's prone to throw up when he gets a body blow, which drives potential opponents away. His coach is at his wit's end as he struggles to get this idiot to show some discipline in his training. The matter is complicated when a young nun feeds the "starving" boy after she finds him fainted on the streets during his enforced fast. She learns of her mistake and she tries to help him get ready for a fight, but his weakness for food and the odd relationship they share don't makes things easy.

Flapjack Floozie

1988 • 30 min • United States of America

A vaudeville star struggles with her addiction to pancakes.

Crowded Commuter Train Mass Groping

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Senzo, an elderly man who once made a living by pickpocketing on crowded trains, now lives alone in a spacious house. His biggest worry is that he is no longer able to have sex with women due to his age. So he decides to cure his impotence by listening to erotic stories from Yumi, a young part-time worker. Yumi asks her friend Mika to come up with stories and reads them to Senzo every day. The stories stimulate his lust and gradually Senzo's penis begins to rise, and finally...

Tatakae!! Ramenman

1988 • 25 min • Japan

Theatrical film of the anime series Tatakae!! Ramenman, based on the manga chapter "Strike the Darkness".

Freak Married Couple Radical Love

1988 • 59 min • Japan

A unique pink film that vividly depicts the reality of prostitution in a secret club and, as an addition, strange sexual games between women and men.

Crying Freeman 1: Portrait of a Killer

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Emu Hino, a 29-year-old virgin, witnesses a mob hit and fears that the killer will now find her and kill her. Indeed, he sets out to do so; he's Yo Hinomura, a talented potter and artist who's been conscripted against his will to be the prime hitman for the 108 Dragons, a gang within the Chinese Mafia, who are determined to push aside Tokyo's local crime lords. He breaks into her house, and she asks that he make love to her before he kills her; she connects to his inner self, and he becomes her protector. Now he must defend her against the local crime gang, who have connections with corrupt Tokyo police. Will Yo and Emu make it out alive, and will the 108 Dragons triumph?

Apon Gharey

1988 • 52 min • India

The film is a family drama of Arijit, his wife and son. A bolt from the blue brings troubles to the peaceful household. During a tour in an accident Arijit's wife dies. This puts the family into a state of shock. But time is the greatest healer, they say. Arijit becomes a successful businessman but his villainous brother lands Arijit into a disastrous financial situation. Arunava loves a doctor Indrani. Suddenly it is revealed that Arijit's wife was not dead but had just lost her memory in the accident. She was in a ashram for several years. When she got her memory back she came to her house but here she saw Aparna. She was heart-broken and wanted to return to the ashram. Complications build up which are finally settled and the daughters-in-law return to their respective and rightful homes.

Koisuru Onna-tachi: Triple Ecstasy: Keiren

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Yoko, Shoko, and Kyoko are three female college students. Yoko has a boyfriend named Hiroshi, but when she hears that Shoko is having an affair, she becomes anxious. She also dreams of having an affair. Yoko approaches her professor Maehara to have an affair. Kyoko ends up sleeping with Yoko's boyfriend Hiroshi by chance. And then the three of them.

Queen Sacrifice

1988 • 30 min

Davey, a talented young chess player, and Wil Bevan, his history teacher, are in Bournemouth for the British Chess Championships. When Davey meets up with Helen, a punk girl from London, Wil is faced with the problem of steering his charge through the championship and the trauma of first love.

Niizuma Hard Onanii

1988 • 59 min • Japan

Balthus: Tia's Radiance

1988 • 30 min • Japan

The inhabitants of the peaceful village Le-jeute are lured to the factory city with the promise of pleasure. A small group of workers prepare to revolt against the evil factory owner, Morlock. The worker Eud escapes, ending up in the arms of the beautiful Tia. When Morlock captures them both, Eud is thrown in the dungeon, and Tia is subjected to Morlock's sexual appetite.

The Shepherd

1988 • 6 min • Portugal

João Pedro Rodrigues' gradutation short film.

Kosuke and Rikimaru: The Dragon of Konpei Island

1988 • 45 min • Japan

When bandits show up to lay claim to a precious treasure, swordsman brothers Kosuke and Rikimaru join with a visiting researcher to protect the last divine dragon and preserve the delicate balance of life on their remote island.

Zillion: Burning Night

1988 • 45 min • Japan

In the 24th century, on the war-torn planet Maris the conniving Queen Adama abducts Apple, a member of an heroic trio known as the White Knights, and imprisons her in the infamous Zone. Even though no one has ever returned alive from the Zone — and despite the low ammo at their disposal — the other knights follow their companion. What they find there, however, is an enigmatic figure with a mind-bending revelation...

Chikan densha: Ecchi ga ippai

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Haruki Michikawa is a female lolicon manga artist who is currently gaining popularity under the pen name Minamino Vibe. She is popular not only among readers, but also liked, or even targeted, by editorial production staff. This is because while Haruki draws extreme erotic manga, she is still rumored to be a virgin. Then Haruki receives a request from her editor, Kitayama, to create a manga covering her molester experience. The ending of the molestation experience coverage on a crowded train... A lecherous editor also appears among the perverted staff, and what will happen to Minamino Vibrator's virginity?

Kamen Rider 1 through RX: Big Gathering

1988 • 25 min • Japan

A TV special, centered on introduction of Kamen Rider Black RX.

Rage Net

1988 • 1 min • United States of America

Another of Brakhage’s works of “moving visual thinking,” Rage Net reminds one of the vibrant pioneering experiments of European animators of the 1920s.

The Tokyo Project

1988 • 54 min • Japan

Akira, Junpei, Keiko and Kumiko are members of the Rutz Detective Agency, and are always ready for a good case. When a mysterious murder places a top secret floppy disk in the hands of Junpei, the gang suddenly has a conspiracy on their hands of grandiose proportions. Not only have they made an enemy of politicians and shady characters, but also the munitions manufacturer company Yotsuboshi itself! With murder attempts, rampaging machinery and kidnappers to handle, the group must race against the clock to foil the evil scheme before it's too late!

Broken Glass

1988 • 50 min • Iceland

Maria is somewhat of a rebel and problem child. Her mother died and her father remarried some awful lady, and Maria isn't happy at all. She takes a drug overdose and winds up in a home for other girls with problems, but the two women who run the place turn out to be not quite the ladies they seemed. Maria knows she can't stay there very long, and starts planning her escape.

Badlands 2005

1988 • 48 min

In 1995, a severe drought forced Americans to flee the West for the cities. Water became more precious than gold. Now in 2005, settlers are coming back, meeting new challenges, and age-old adversaries. A U.S. Marshal and his cyborg partner patrol the American West. A hard-as-nails female boss heads two U.S. Marshals (one human, one bionic) in Badlands 2005, a concept where the near future sees water as a more precious commodity than gold. The West of America has been deserted after droughts a decade earlier, and now a re-population program is underway.