All Films

Cyber Team in Akihabara: The Movie

1999 • 60 min • Japan

One year after Crane's visit to earth, Hibari dreams about him not being able to sleep well. So, she decides that the Cyberteam has to travel towards the Metatrone and find out if things are ok. Metatrone surveillance system has gone wild, and it's up to Hibari and her friends to fix things out and help Prince Crane.

Halloween: Unmasked

1999 • 27 min • United States of America

A retrospective documentary on the making of the movie "Halloween," featuring exclusive interviews with director John Carpenter, producer Debra Hill, and stars Jamie Lee Curtis, PJ Soles, and Nick Castle.

Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You

1999 • 22 min • United States of America

After Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Rabbit see Christopher Robin making a valentine for -- gasp! -- a girl, they find he's been bitten by a "Smitten" and is lovesick! Worried that he'll no longer have time for them, and hoping a second bite from the love bug will cure him, they set out on a wild adventure to capture the Smitten. This wonderful story, filled with magic and whimsy, and sweetened with three new songs, reminds us all that the heart is big and always has plenty of room for friends -- old and new.

Groper Train: Target the Impossible Woman

1999 • 60 min • Japan

Kenichi, a student at a cram school, witnesses a young office lady being attacked on a crowded train. Kenichi musters up his courage and helps the lady. However, the lady yells at him for taking away her fun. From then on, Kenichi rides crowded trains every day in search of thrills. One day, a tough-looking man grabs his arm...

Junji Inagawa: Horror Theater

1999 • 60 min • Japan

An original video directed, written and planned by Junji Inagawa, the 'preacher of the spirit world'. The drama recreates the latest true ghost stories experienced by Junji Inagawa himself.

Samurai Shodown 2

1999 • 60 min • Japan

The story mainly revolves on Nakoruru and her humanistic ideals: she believes that anyone with a heart has the right to live peacefully. Shiki, though apparently free from Yuga's influence, is recognized as a threat for the sorceress' return and it was through Nakoruru's reasoning that previously saved her life from Haohmaru. Nakoruru finds her and then struggles to peacefully defend her from her pursuers, which include Haohmaru, Galford, and Asura.

Counting Sheep

1999 • 25 min • Germany

A short love story between a lonely sleeping-car attendant and a lousy toy salesman.

Inter-View

1999 • 45 min • Austria

A movie about the possibility to be happy—or about the impossibility of the same. A young man interviews people on the street. He asks them about the substance of their lives in order to find answers for himself, but he cannot find any. Then, a young woman: after a couple of disappointments, she finds the happy side of life—she finds something like love. They meet each other…

Kureshin Paradise! Made in Saitama

1999 • 12 min • Japan

This collection of short stories was released along with "Crayon Shin-chan: Explosion! The Hot Spring's Feel Good Final Battle."

Torrance Rises

1999 • 34 min • United States of America

A mockumentary chronicling the Torrance Community Dance Group (from Fatboy Slim's "Praise You" video) on their road to the MTV Video Music Awards.

Gösta & Olivia

1999 • 28 min • Sweden

A couple lives together for a lifetime. Gösta's senile dementia changes the situation drastically. Olivia makes a decision with consequences.

Princess Knight

1999 • 8 min • Japan

In heaven, boys and girls were assigned their gender by being given a blue heart for boys and a red heart for girls. One of the cherubs does not want to stop being a cherub, so he gives one of the girls (Zafiro) his blue heart, because of Cachito's mischief, who is sent to earth as punishment to correct his mistake. The story really begins when, after a few years, the elf-like angel finds the girl and tries to convince her to return the extra blue heart he gave her. At birth, her situation is already complicated: in her kingdom, the Salic law prevails, so the king passes his baby girl off as a boy to prevent unscrupulous nobles from seizing power.

Juliet

1999 • 27 min • Japan

This is a story of two siblings, Anzu and Naruto Nozaki, heirs to the fabulous Nozaki fortune. Naruto appears to be an overbearing sis-con. In fact, he's madly in love with Anzu, because they're not blood-related. He confines her to the family mansion for "security," depriving her of companionship and a real life. At age 16, she starts to rebel. She smuggles in a kitten as a pet (Naruto hates cats) and then escapes in a delivery truck. Naruto catches up to her and realizes that she can't be confined like a bird in a cage. He agrees to let have a normal life, but just then, tragedy strikes

Angel in the Toilet

1999 • 32 min • Japan

The story of an angel who encounters a series of men in a public toilet. A fable about identity.

The Nuttiest Nutcracker

1999 • 48 min • United States of America

A group of fruit and vegetables try to help the Nutcracker's army get a star up on a Christmas tree before midnight, and stop a rodent army from destroying Christmas.

The Old Man and the Sea

1999 • 21 min • Russia, Canada, Japan

An old fisherman makes the biggest catch of his life.

Wolves

1999 • 40 min • Canada, United States of America

A look at the great wolf debate with comments and views from people on both sides. It also contains footage of Natives dressing up & doing tribal dances. The link between wolves, bison, and Native Americans; as well as white man's reasoning behind their determination to eliminate bison and wolves from the landscape.

毒婦／妖しい炎

1999 • 60 min • Japan

Erotic drama depicts the psychology of a middle-aged woman who gradually develops a lust for a young girl whom she had envied.

Love Story

1999 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Dave, a homeless man, shares a public toilet with narcotic users and alcoholics. Struggling to survive, he resorts to theft to provide for his pregnant girlfriend. Joined by his friend, they steal goods to sell for cash. However, in a world of desperation and exploitation, nothing is simple.

The Waste Land

1999 • 5 min

A personal interpretation of the poetry and letters of T S Eliot which explores the ambiguities of language and space in a scenario built around an anagram.

Bokura No Rhapsody

1999 • 59 min

Ken, who has just been released from a juvenile detention center, is approached by Iwao and starts a jack-of-all-trades as his younger brother. One day, Ken gets into an argument with Iwao over a trivial matter, runs away from home, and ends up selling his body to Izawa for money. Izawa showed Ken a photo of a certain woman and said, "Today's catch." He then roughly hugged Ken. When Ken returns home and makes up with Iwao, he learns that the woman in the photo that Izawa had was the daughter of a famous designer who was kidnapped. The two plot to rescue her and extort a large sum of money, but...

Maaz

1999 • 8 min

In an immense and deserted city, Maaz is running, his head buried in his top hat, and lost in a heavy cape which is wrapped around him to the ground. Dressed like that, where is he going?

PM López

1999 • 17 min • Peru

Short film that, with black humor, depicts life as a reality TV show.

The Lustful Sister-in-Law 2: Erotic Games

1999 • 59 min • Japan

This is the second installment in the so-called "stupid brothers" series, which depicts the end of a female-loving and selfish sibling and a brother-wife. Directed by the genius of the genius, Toshiya Ueno, and the screenwriter Masahiro Kobayashi continues to follow, and a good work that comically spells out a night where a man and a woman with a personality full of desire are confused, centered on his brother, wife, and younger brother. After finishing his mother's funeral, his brother Ryosuke (Honda Kikuo) and younger brother Kenji (Ebata Hidehisa) go out into the city at night, remembering the emptiness and loneliness. On the other hand, Haruyo (Hazuki Tae) is his wife, Haruyo (Hazuki Tae), who is a man-oriented Ryosuke, who is a man-oriented woman, who is out of the house, reunites with her high school boyfriend at a hot spring inn where she works and warms up old friendships.