Yoshiharu Ueoka

History

Yoshiharu Ueoka produced a number of independent 8mm films in the Kansai region at the end of the 1970s, and also directed a theatrical release, The Whispering of Spirits. His films were deeply intertwined with the Kansai subculture scene of the time and created a one-of-a-kind world in which manga artist Michio Hisauchi and cult queen Alice Saylor played angels and demons. The film will be screened at two venues, Planet Plus One in Osaka and the Kobe Film Archive, screening works from the early period to those produced at the Film School of Tokyo after 2000, in order to discover the whole picture of Ueoka's films.

Movies

Yakuza and Mutant

Director

A yakuza man who falls to the bottom of the earth and a woman he meets there get together, and 50 years later their son and daughter rise up to take revenge.

Look of Love

Script

A young man is unable to have relations with the girls he likes. A pimp meets him after having a strange experience and they are althogether on a bizarre ride through a gloomy and disconnected Tokyo.

Look of Love

Director

A young man is unable to have relations with the girls he likes. A pimp meets him after having a strange experience and they are althogether on a bizarre ride through a gloomy and disconnected Tokyo.

ひととしっく

Director

An omnibus film directed by Ueoka, Hisauchi Michio, Kawasaki Toru and Masui Kouji, is about love in four seasons and four films, with the heroine played by Sumino Mako.

月へ行く

Director

A tragedy occurs when a man and his daughter encounter a tofu shop owner who is grieving after his wife leaves him. A collaboration between an instructor and a student at the Film School of Tokyo.

奇術師

Director

From the day a stranger falls from a building and brings a stranger with him, the protagonist's house is covered with grass and trees and turns into a jungle.

Let's Meet in a Dream

Director of Photography

A young woman, Yoriko, who has repeatedly attempted suicide since the disappearance of her beloved brother, runs barefoot through heaven and hell, dreams and reality.

Let's Meet in a Dream

Script

A young woman, Yoriko, who has repeatedly attempted suicide since the disappearance of her beloved brother, runs barefoot through heaven and hell, dreams and reality.

Let's Meet in a Dream

Director

A young woman, Yoriko, who has repeatedly attempted suicide since the disappearance of her beloved brother, runs barefoot through heaven and hell, dreams and reality.

恋のそよ風

Director

An omnibus film in which Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Yoshiharu Ueoka and others took part.

WONDER WALL

Director

The story of a serial gourd robbery murderer and the police pursuing him is interspersed with episodes from a film director whose motif is based on Ueoka himself.

眠れる森の吸血鬼

Director

In the town of Arkham in 1927, a series of female murders occur. An exorcist arrives in a town gripped by fear.