Toshihiko Hino

追悼のざわめき

Yoshihiko Matsui

Kazuhiro Sano, Yukiko Murata

In the slums of Osaka, various marginalized misfits have their own interpretations of love. Completely alienated from the outside world, they commit sexual perversions, violence and cannibalism.

TVO

Tatsuya Ohta

Miho Tsumiki, Atsushi Okuno

Satsuki, a high school student living in the countryside, travels to Tokyo to find out the truth about the death of her sister Kiyomi, who has apparently been murdered by her own boyfriend.

書見機

Shūji Terayama

Momo Yaguchi, Takeshi Wakamatsu

In this Borgesian satire on knowledge and technology, bibliophilic desire leads to the construction of a pedal-powered reading machine. Resembling a combination of gymnastic contraption, printing press and early cinematic apparatus, the machine’s purpose remains ambiguous. And like this machine, Terayama’s film connects his work in poetry, motion picture and graphic design by weaving together printed and projected, still and moving images.

一寸法師を記述する試み

Shūji Terayama

Toshihiko Hino, Momo Yaguchi

Using bluescreen video techniques, Terayama playfully—and with a silent film theatricality—posits a series of postmodern vignettes featuring realities-within-realities as his protagonist attempts some kind of relationship with a nude woman on the screen-within-the-screen. In his struggles to “free” her, he exposes the absurd flimsiness, deceptiveness and mutability of both the cinema experience and our human dimension.

豚鶏心中

Yoshihiko Matsui

Naomi Hagio, Takahiro Hattori

Pig Chicken Suicide is a veritable assault on the senses, mixing violent images of animal slaughter, racial strife, and surrealism to tell the story of two Koreans living in Japan whose love is destroyed due to overwhelming racial discrimination. In explicit abattoir photos and much symbolism, Matsui tells about the struggles of ethnic Koreans in Japan. A butcher's love affair and his relationship with the animals he kills frame the story.

プ

Mikio Yamazaki

Koichi Sato, Tomorowo Taguchi

A wanderer and his son arrive on an obscure northern island of Japan, causing the village of Pu to fall into disarray.

Guinea Pig's Greatest Cuts

Mari Somei, Toshihiko Hino

A 'best of' compilation comprised of V&R Planning's 73-minute Ginî piggu: Zansatsu supesharu and 19 minutes of scenes from Japan Home Video's Ginî piggu: Manhôru no naka no ningyo and The guinea pig 2: Nôtoru Damu no andoroido.

ザ・ギニーピッグ2 ノートルダムのアンドロイド

Kazuhito Kuramoto

Toshihiko Hino, Mio Takaki

A dwarf scientist has his dreams frustrated when his sister becomes seriously ill. Determined to find a way to preserve the essence of his sister after the death, the scientist begins to use humans as guinea pigs in a bizarre experiment.