Masami Akita

Good Alchemy Video

Maso Yamazaki, Fumio Kosakai

Performances by Japanese Noise acts: Masonna, Incapacitants, Merzbow, Solmania, Hijokaidan.

Beyond Ultra Violence: Uneasy Listening by Merzbow

Aryan Kaganof

Masami Akita

Documentary about and with the Japanese electronic composer and artist Merzbow.

Hell Bento: Uncovering the Japanese Underground

Andrew Sully, Anna Broinowski

Masami Akita, Sachiko Fujii

An exploration of underground Japanese counter-culture including the Yakuza, the nationalists, the gay and lesbian community, the bikers and the homeless.

Nor Noise

Tom Hovinbøle

Masami Akita, Tore Honoré Bøe

Nor Noise is the first norwegian documentary about noise music. Movie Maker Tom Hovinbøle has from the start in 2001 interviewed a number of artists in the noise genre. The artists relay their thoughts on the phenomenon of noise music - what is it, where does it come from, what is the trade off when replacing traditional harmony and melody for pure audio experience, which possibilities can be explored? The movie explains the historical context of the genre, from the movement of Futurism and Luigi Russolo from before WWI to electronic experiments in the fifties, avantgarde in the sixties, industry and punk in the seventies to the final establishment of the noise genre at the end of the seventies in Japan. Adding to the flavour are concert performances.

失楽園・乗馬服女腹切り

Masami Akita

Asako Mochizuki, Yuuri Sunohara

Directed by Masami Akita,who is also one of Japan's leading noise musicians under the name Merzbow. With a soundtrack by the director himself, this intense and ultra-gory seppuku film shows a young woman taking her own life by an act of ritual harakiri.

Signal to Noise

Aryan Kaganof

Masami Akita, Djeff Babcock

Short documentary on Japanese noise artist Merzbow by South African filmmaker Aryan Kaganof. Filmed on location at the Kamakura Temple, Japan, 1997.

Merzbow: Live at Middle East Cafe Boston 21 Sep 1990

Masami Akita, Reiko Azuma

Live concert recorded at the Middle East cafe in Boston, MA on September 21, 1990.

Merzbow: Live July 5th, 1995

Masami Akita, Reiko Azuma

Live concert recorded at Brückenkopf in Mainz, Germany on July 5, 1995.

Merzbow: Live in Germany 1996

Masami Akita

Live concert recorded on the MS Stubnitz in Rostock, Germany on April 6, 1996.

騒音の王

Akifumi Nakajima, Fumio Kosakai

Various life performances by Japanese Noise acts: Aube - Low Spin Drift / Incapacitants - Live At 20000V / Dislocation - Writing And Masturbation / Masonna - Live At Bears And La Mama / Seed Mouth - Twilight City / Violent Onsen Geisha - Night Of Unlcean Water / Solmania - Live At Living Room / Merzbow - Piss For Yves Klein / C.C.C.C. - Loud Sounds Dopa / Hijokaidan - Live At La Mama.

Oh! Moro Volume 5

David Hopkins, Maso Yamazaki

Kansai New Art Video Magazine - Noise Collection. Rare noise compilation of some of Japan's top musicians in 1992. The first part includes an interview about the Japanese Noise scene by David Hopkins. Aube playing a parking garage installation using halogen lamps as sound source, Merzbow playing a small village in Korea as the townspeople look on bewildered, Incapacitants Live in the Mountains of Tajima, Japan.