Director
Over the Threshold is about intermarriage between Japanese and Westerners. The filmmakers are a husband and wife team who met during their studies at Britain's National Film & TV School in London. The film documents their first visit to Japan together, during which husband Tezuka introduces his non-Japanese wife to his family (his father coincidentally was the creator of the cartoon series Astro Boy). The point-of-view is largely that of the 'outsider', and much of the film is devoted to her attempts to find out what it means to 'fit in' in Japan. At a deeper level, the film amounts to a socio-cultural study of a Japanese family, who seem to adapt surprisingly well to having a 'geijan' or foreigner in their midst. This aspect is strengthened by the incorporation of interviews with other Western women who have married Japanese husbands.
Director of Photography
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.
Assistant Director of Photography
At an isolated location training camp for soldiers with supernatural powers makes a man revolt, causing a war to break out among the soldiers.
Cinematography
Two young men are hungry, so they decide to rob a bakery. Adaptation of a short story by Haruki Murakami.
Cinematography
Ryo once rode with a biker gang; ever since his friend Tetsuji died riding in September, he's retired from biking, trying to forget the past.
Camera Operator
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.
When the '70s ended the anger of young people rose, differences in social values occurred between adults and young people, and the word "generation" began to be widespread among the young people.,The film depicts a group of young men and women who are forced to flee their homes after committing a murder. The screenplay is written by Wataru Hino (a pseudonym of Atsushi Yamatoya), wherein he asks whether these young people are sick or sensible.
Gaffer
This is Yamakawa's first feature film in 16mm. A group of university students who grew up in an era of rapid economic growth yearn for "another side" of life as they face romantic conflicts and the suicide of a fellow student.
Gaffer
Банды японских байкеров оказываются под сильным прессингом полиции и вынуждены объединиться, прекращая беспредел. Однако Фантомы во главе с безумцем-наркоманом Дзином не собираются соблюдать договор, лупят попавшихся под руку, чем вызывают ненависть остальных. Фантомы малочисленны, но они называют себя «камикадзе», ведут себя дико и дерзко. Неудивительно, что по прошествии некоторого времени байкеры решают проучить Дзина. Ультраправые против байкеров, байкеры против друг друга и Дзин — против всех. Все попытки цивилизовать главного героя оказываются бесполезными. Ни служба в армии ультраправых, ни неминуемая смерть его не останавливают. После того, как ему ампутируют руку, герой добирается до склада оружия и решает наказать каждого в этом городе.