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1987 • 9 min • Czechoslovakia

An artistic animated short showing the life in secondary school.

Pro Golfer Saru: Kouga Hikyou! Kage no Ninpou Golfer Sanjou!

1987 • 40 min • Japan

Set in a hidden valley in the Japanese Alps, Saru and his family must battle a trio of golf-assassins.

Cyclops

1987 • 52 min • Japan

A bizarre medical exam of a nude woman by several doctors and scientists reveals that their latest subject has committed suicide before giving birth to one of the mutant creatures they had placed within her body. So, an investigative crew of scientists (along with a large human mutant cyclops creature) heads out to the city streets to obtain a new donor/victim in the form of a young girl. Gore and Z-Grade mayhem ensue.

Magical Girl Club Quartet: Alien X from A Zone

1987 • 45 min • Japan

Yuu, Persia, Mai and Yumi are together in a science fiction-like adventure. An awful monster assault young and beautiful girls, leaving them transformed into ugly hags: only our four magical girls with their powers can fly to the space and fight for Earth 's sake, so Yuu transforms into Creamy Mami, Mai into Magical Emi, Persia into Fairy and little Yumi draws space suits for all of them.

Choushinsei Flashman: Big Rally! Titan Boy!

1987 • 32 min • Japan

Big Rally! Titan Boy! is the second movie of Choushinsei Flashman. It is a theatrical edit of episodes 15 to 18 (The Giant Robo is Worn Out, The Human Minimini Plan, The Mysterious Giant Reckless Car! and Big Turnaround! The Transforming Robo) with new and extended scenes.

Prairie Women

1987 • 45 min • Canada

This film illustrates the struggles of Canadian prairies women to achieve a more just and humane society within the farm movement and at large. During the early 1900s, women on the prairies looked for ways to overcome their isolation. Out of the resulting farm women's organizations grew a group of women possessing remarkable intellectual abilities, social and cultural awareness, and advanced worldviews.

Moonlight Rabbit

1987 • 60 min

Eighteen-year-old Isamu works at a coffee shop. Rebelling against his father, he eloped with Momo (Yasuko Tomita). One night, Isamu injures a middle-aged woman by hitting her with his bicycle.

Laughing Target

1987 • 47 min • Japan

Things couldn't have seemed better for Shiga Yuzuru, your average teenage high-schooler. The captain of the school archery team, he's going steady with teammate and classmate Satomi. He had almost forgotten that he had been betrothed to his cousin, Shiga Azusa, when he was only 6... but all this changes when his aunt dies a peculiar and unnatural death. Now arriving to claim what she feels is rightfully hers, only Satomi stands in Azusa's way... and with the mysterious and frightening powers that Azusa brings, Satomi won't stand in her way for long!

Dead Heat

1987 • 31 min • Japan

Formula X racer Makoto is willing to do almost whatever it takes to get to the top, and victory at the upcoming Open Cup could propel his loyal crew to international racing glory. A new engine from a mysterious benefactor gives his mech a much-needed edge — but they soon find out victory only comes to those who keep their underdog spirit.

Body Jack: Sublime Separation

1987 • 33 min • Japan

A high schooler fulfills a lifelong fantasy after a high-tech device lets him slip into the body of his childhood crush's best friend.

Shoreleave

1987 • 37 min

Inspired by true events. Billy (Phil Daniels) comes home on shore leave from the Royal Navy, and discovers that his brother Michael has died two weeks prior to his leave. Trying to piece together what happened, Billy becomes enamoured with Myra (Joanne Whalley), a nightclub singer.

Kaze to Ki no Uta Sanctus: Sei Naru Kana

1987 • 60 min • Japan

Son of a viscount and a Roma prostitute (both deceased), Serge is intelligent, sweet, talented, and alienated by his family due to his heritage. Upon being sent to his new school, he rooms with Gilbert Cocteau, a gorgeous loner of a boy who sells his body for reasons unknown. Serge's attempts to reach out to Gilbert fail spectacularly, and yet there is something in both of them that attracts them to each other.

Dream Dimension Gentleman

1987 • 49 min • Japan

When a strange group of men attempt to kidnap Atsuko Fukune, a dancer at a club, she seeks the help of Mamiya Mugen, a famous detective - who also happens to be a child. When it turns out that other girls have gone missing, Mamiya, with the help of his butler Alucard, springs into action to solve the mystery.

The Samurai

1987 • 45 min • Japan

Sixteen-year-old high school student Takeshi Chimatsuri has devoted his life to being a master samurai like his father was. Then one day, the Toki twins, two ninja sisters he's known since childhood, transfer to his school and issue him a challenge to take back their family dagger from him. Unfortunately for him, they have discovered his one weakness: the fear of the naked female body. Now, Takeshi must undergo special training from his classmates Atsuko and Torai, and his teacher Miss Ayatsugi to resist the combined brute strength of Akari and the temptation of her sex-crazed twin Kagiri. Class will never be in order with these three constantly fighting each other.

Hiroshima no pika

1987 • 25 min • Japan

Video version of the picture book 'Hiroshima no pika', based on the art pieces known as The Hiroshima Panels by Iri and Maruki Toshi

Scoopers

1987 • 60 min • Japan

It's the 22nd century and Shambhala city reporter Youko and her android boyfriend, bodyguard and cameraman Pete are hunting the enigmatic criminal Mr. X. Their search leads them to the Rainbow Tower, were Youko is taken hostage and Vito must battle to save her by destroying the program of the Tower's central computer to prevent X's escape.

Red Assault

1987 • 58 min • Japan

A wife is frightened by the sound of the phone ringing, and her worried husband uses hypnosis to try to understand the cause of her fear. Eventually, the presence of a man behind the phone emerges. This brings despair and an unprecedented excitement to the husband. What is the true nature of his wife's lewd and sad nature?

Lullaby for Wednesday's Cinderella

1987 • 53 min • Japan

On a Wednesday morning, Kenji goes touring with his girlfriend when he spots some other riders waiting and stops his bike. One of them explains that a legendary female driver nicknamed Wednesday Cinderella passes this place every Wednesday in her white Porsche. Kenji becomes interested in this mysterious driver; however, racing with her proves more dangerous than it first seems to be.

Saxofonhallicken

1987 • 55 min • Sweden

Saxophone-pimp is a meditation on urban hotel as youth. Here, at the city hotel in the small town, we find the entire gallery of: the young lion dance, the drunk lady and the happy party. New for the evening is Vera, a divorced mother in her prime. Dance band saxophonist follows the awkward attempts at contact between Vera and a drummer, and decides to help her along. He plays the classic "Petite Fleur". Again and again and again .....

Groper Train: Check With Your Finger

1987 • 60 min • Japan

One day, four men were playing mahjong, and each of them developed a memoir about groping from the tiles they drew.

Dungeness

1987 • 4 min • United Kingdom

‘Dungeness’ was originally made for ‘Dungeness: The Desert in the Garden’, a multi-media theatre production directed by Graeme Miller. By selectively framing and alternating monochrome fields within the Dungeness landscape the film creates a series of abstract rhythms. Incidentally, and unbeknown to myself until years after filming, ‘Dungeness’ features a guest appearance from Derek Jarman’s then recently acquired Prospect Cottage.

Steps

1987 • 25 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

A tourist group is shown the latest in Soviet virtual reality technology through the Potemkin.

Battle Royale High School

1987 • 60 min • Japan

When the school Karate club's star fighter quits and decides to go pro, he unwittingly fulfills an ancient interdimensional prophecy and becomes demon king of his dimension. Soon his high school becomes a battleground for demon slaying samurai, interplanetary law enforcement, and even his own traitorous demon minions. Well animated fight scenes ensue.

Tocade

1987 • 7 min

Through clever stylistic composition, this experimental film shows that everything is interdependent, even in the arts, and that, inevitably, both the artist and the viewer are being manipulated.