All Films

Mako Takigawa: Right Hand and Tissue

1987 • 50 min • Japan

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Urusei Yatsura: Inaba the Dreammaker

1987 • 57 min • Japan

It is summertime, and Shinobu laments not having a boyfriend. She then happens upon a young man weak from hunger, and wearing a rabbit costume. She gives him a carrot, he expresses his gratitude by hitting on her... and she hits back. The young man leaves behind a key to another dimension where everybody's possible futures exist. Lum and Ataru join Shinobu to find the bunny boy, and happy futures for themselves.

Digital Devil Story - Megami Tensei

1987 • 45 min • Japan

Handsome high school student Akemi is a computer genius. One day a new girl, Yumiko, transfers to his class from another school. She quickly falls in love with Akemi but, absorbed in his computer, he pays her no attention at all. Akemi accidentally summons demons who wreak chaos on his enemies and friends.

Seasons

1987 • 32 min • United States of America

Poetry meets technology in this film about the cycle of the seasons. Narrated by William Shatner, and accompanied by a special digital "surround" recording of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, the film takes audiences on a breathtaking trip through the eruption of spring, the growth of summer, the harvest and festivity of autumn, and the dormancy of winter. The beauty of the seasons is interspersed with a look at the earth as a planet, the sun as a star, and the human quest to understand the relationship between the two.

I'm All Yours

1987 • 45 min • Japan

Rokuro, a penniless student living in a run-down apartment, gets a surprise visit by the beautiful and quite mysterious Mamiya Yu. For some reason she has hopelessly fallen for this no-good pervert. As it turns out she is actually the daughter of a very wealthy Japanese family. Considering Rokuro's background, he cannot believe his luck... but not all is as it seems. This rich family seems to be a lot more perverted than even Rokuro could have imagined...

Making Waves

1987 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A group of elderly women go on vacation to the seaside. One of them takes her son along and constantly watches him saying he has a brain tumor. His problem is something else entirely.

Twilight Q

1987 • 60 min • Japan

Part 1: "Time Knot: Reflection" Written by Kazunori Itô, directed by Tomomi Mochizuki. Mayu finds a camera floating in the ocean while on vacation. A very unusual camera. The film, mostly intact, reveals a picture of herself with a man she has never seen before. But that isn't the unusual part. This camera hasn't been made yet, and won't be made for another two years. Soon, Mayu finds herself swinging uncontrollably back and forth through time like a pendulum. Part 2: "Mystery Article File 538" Written and directed by Mamoru Oshii. This episode follows a down-on-his-luck detective who accepts the first case to come his way: Surveillance of a man and a little girl. But who are they? And why do airplanes that fly over them turn into giant imperial carp? An investigator's normal methods don't apply when reality itself no longer applies.

A Muppet Family Christmas

1987 • 47 min • United States of America

Fozzie Bear surprises his mother on Christmas Eve by bringing the entire Muppet gang to her farm to celebrate the holidays. Doc and his dog Sprocket, who had planned a quiet Christmas, end up joining the Muppets in their holiday activities and preparations. The Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock regulars join the festivities, but to Kermit's dismay, the only one missing is Miss Piggy, who has been caught in a snowstorm.

Black Magic M-66

1987 • 47 min • Japan

A top-secret weapon escapes from military custody ready to destroy its pre-programmed target. The nosy freelance reporter who shows up to cover the story lands herself at the center of something even more dangerous than the international scandal she signed up for.

Creepy Classics

1987 • 30 min • United States of America

A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price.

The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012

1987 • 30 min • Japan

Flash Back 2012 is Minmay's farewell concert. Featuring some of her best songs, the music is performed over various scenes and events taken from the first Macross television series as well as Macross: Do You Remember Love film. Also included is a newly animated closing sequence showing the launch of Misa's colony vessel, the Megaroad-01, into space.

Tim Maia

1987 • 15 min • Brazil

A day in the life of singer and songwriter Tim Maia. The Brazilian musical icon discusses themes such as his childhood, love, his musical influences, and life outside of Earth.

A Matter of Perspective

1987 • 10 min • Belgium, France

A young teacher is the victim of a cruel joke. When she enters the classroom, all her pupils are naked, standing near their bench. Their clothes are heaped up on the podium.

Lotus

1987 • 27 min

Lotus is a traditional Chinese woman with bound feet who must decide whether or not to bind her daughter Joy's feet. Her strict, but loving, mother-in-law insists that Joy's feet be bound in order to guarantee her a secure future. Lotus, for the first time in her life, does not blindly obey. She is further influenced by her good friend, Coral, a colorful performer with a traveling Cantonese opera troupe who openly challenges the outlawed custom. In the end, Lotus makes a decision which will change her daughter's life forever.

Turma da Mônica em O Bicho-Papão e Outras Histórias

1987 • 58 min • Brazil

On a walk in the countryside, Cascão and Cebolinha encounter a strange creature, the Boogeyman's little son. They try to capture him, but receive a serious moral lesson. Other Stories: I Want to Get In: Cebolinha's father, Mr. Cebola, loses the key to the front door. How will he get in? Dirty Mountain: Cascão finds a mountain, but it turns out it's all dirty. The Boogeyman: Cascão and Cebolinha go camping in the forest, but a baby boogeyman also goes there! The Forest Ogre: This story takes place in medieval times. Monica (Princess Monica) is kidnapped by a forest ogre who wants to kidnap all the princesses of the kingdoms, but Cebolinha (Sir Cebolinha) will save Monica at all costs.

To-y

1987 • 54 min • Japan

GASP is a popular alternative band. Conflict arises when the lead singer To-Y is offered a pop idol contract that stipulates he leave the rest of the band behind.

Holey Pants: Desire on a Stroll

1987 • 25 min • Japan

A collection of short stories, all of which are perverted to various degrees.

Bug-tte Honey: Megarom Shoujo Mai 4622

1987 • 48 min • Japan

The Bug-tte Honey movie.

Junk Boy

1987 • 45 min • Japan

Overconfident 23-year-old Ryouhei somehow lucks into a job at the lucrative skin mag Potato Boy, with his only qualification being an abnormally high sex drive. Immediately smitten with the publication's prestigious editor Yuki (and just about every other female colleague), Ryouhei shows a libidinous instinct that could take Potato Boy to the next level — if he can ever take the job seriously.

Treasure Island

1987 • 50 min • Australia

Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Fartiste

1987 • 59 min

A fake documentary about the rise and fall of the (real life) “flatulist” performer Le Pétomane, who narrates his story from Purgatory.

A Birthday

1987 • 4 min • United States of America

Emma, a lonely old woman, reminisces of one of her childhood birthday parties.

Skulden

1987 • 35 min • Sweden

A man wakes up in a hospital after a car crash where he lost his memory. When his mother brings him photos from a roll of film recovered from his camera his memories start coming back.

Alaya

1987 • 28 min • United States of America

Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the emulsions. The viewer is the star.