All Films

Mob Stories

1993 • 60 min

They're the real 'goodfellas': 'Joe Dogs' Iannuzzi, Tommy DelGiorno, 'Big Dom' Lofaro. For the first time on television, Mafia turncoats give personal accounts of life inside the Mob. In this shocking documentary, five high-ranking informants tell tales of murder, brutality, greed and vanity--and why they broke the Sicilian code of honor. The first generation of the American Mafia stood on the foundation of loyalty and a code of silence. The second and third generations traded their Sicilian traditions for government protection and instant personal gain. MOB STORIES presents five chilling narratives from five members of the underworld, most of whom are overwhelmed with fear and paranoia with the exception of “Fat Jackie”, a loyal lifelong mobster. Father and son team, Alan and Marc Levin, direct and produce an honest and personal portrayal of the demise of the Mafia.

Goodbye Gibraltar

1993 • 57 min • Finland

Goodbye Gibraltar, directed by Ulrika Bengst, is a film about reconciliation, encountering different lifestyles and dreams.

Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha! From Penguin Village with Love

1993 • 31 min • Japan

Unable to entertain their princess Puruah, the kingdom of Yapaya requests professor Senbei to create a comedic robot capable of making her laugh for the first time in her life.

Tokusou Robo Janperson the Movie: Mother is Eternal! The Electric Brain’s Love and Passion on the Operating Table

1993 • 25 min • Japan

Focusing on the search for Sayaka, a young girl whose mother has recently died. Sayaka’s father, an undercover F.B.I. agent, has had a rough relationship with his daughter since the death of her mother and feels that her kidnapping by the evil Neo-Guild is his fault. Sayaka has been angry at her father because he was away in America while her mother died, leaving her feeling abandoned. Aiding Sayaka's father in the search is Tokusou Robo Janperson! The two don’t get along at first, but things between them go smoother as they continue the search.

Ursa Minor Blue

1993 • 23 min • Japan

This adventurous story of a boy named Uri and an old man takes place in the cosmic Milky Way where the starfish live. This is the tale of their fantasy journey in search of the mysterious monster fish.

Silent Mobius Gaiden: The End of the Edo Period

1993 • 58 min • Japan

Set in the final years of Japan's shogunate, all characters from the main series, Silent Mobius, appear with the same name. According to the setting, they are said to be the previous lives of the characters in the main story...

Richard Scarry's Best Learning Songs Video Ever!

1993 • 30 min • United States of America

Another great day at Richard Scarry's Busytown where the kids will learn favorite songs about letters, numbers, shapes and sizes while all your other favorite characters join in.

The Girl from the Darkness

1993 • 45 min • Japan

A popular author becomes concerned when she learns of the unusual behavior of a man's eight-year-old daughter before her marriage to a used bookstore owner.

Chibusa

1993 • 57 min • Japan

Based on the novel of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Played as a double feature with Crepe (1993).

Minky Momo in the Bridge Over Dreams

1993 • 38 min • Japan

A bridge's legend tells that when two people meet on it, they will surely meet again. Momo meets a boy who doesn't believe the legend, and promises that she will meet him again to prove it. As the year passes, she comes every day to wait for him, and becomes a small part of many people's lives.

Girl

1993 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Carol Morley's debut short uses the iconography of the genre of melodrama – the staircase, the father – to explore the story of a girl's relationship with her father, and the impossibility of recreating a time, a place, and a memory. Cross-cutting between the girl protagonist and her father, the film creates a sense of crisis and conflict. As the girl invests her feelings in her surroundings and describes events connected to her father, we are drawn into a world of pain and pathos. Morley's first directorial credit was her graduation film from Central St. Martin's School of Art.

After a Dream

1993 • 47 min • Japan

Yuko dreams of a woman in a straw hat, an alternate herself who chose another path in her life

Fried Dragon Fish

1993 • 50 min • Japan

A dragon fish is stolen by Tetsu Tobiyama and biologist Thomas Earwing seeks its return. Poo is led to Natsuro after she worms her way into a top secret file at Delta headquarters for information.

Cigarettes & Coffee

1993 • 24 min • United States of America

At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut feature Hard Eight (1996).

The Hurricane of '38

1993 • 54 min • United States of America

In September of 1938, a great storm rose up on the coast of West Africa and began making its way across the Atlantic Ocean. The National Weather Bureau learned about it from merchant ships at sea and predicted it would blow itself out at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, as such storms usually did. Within 24 hours, the storm ripped into the New England shore with enough fury to set off seismographs in Sitka, Alaska. Traveling at a shocking 60 miles per hour -- three times faster than most tropical storms -- it was astonishingly swift and powerful, with peak wind gusts up to 186 mph. Over 600 people were killed, most by drowning. Another hundred were never found. Property damage was estimated at $400 million -- over 8,000 homes were destroyed, 6,000 boats wrecked or damaged.

Kamen Rider ZO

1993 • 50 min • Japan

Masaru Aso was the lab assistant of geneticist Doctor Mochizuki, used as one of his experiments related the creation of the Neo Organism, enabling him to transform into a grasshopper-like being called Kamen Rider ZO. He fled into the mountainside and went into a coma before he was awakened by a telepathic call two years later with an unconscious urge to protect Hiroshi Mochizuki, the son of Doctor Mochizuki.

A-Girl

1993 • 31 min • Japan

Sisters Mariko and May, along with Mariko's bad-tempered boyfriend, become involved with Ichiro, an arrogant, womanising male model.

Akuemon

1993 • 25 min • Japan

A fortuneteller tells Hidari Taisho that he must hunt down 1000 foxes in order to conquer the country. So Akuemon, who is disliked by everybody, is hired to do the foxhunting. In response, the foxes send a female fox to Akuemon's house disguised as his wife. A story unfolds between Akuemon, who has never loved anyone, and the female fox, who slowly discovers true love in him even while tormented by sorrow over her comrades' death. This is the 6th work in "The Lion Books" series. It is also the first attempt by visualist Tezuka Makoto, Tezuka's older son, to render an original of his father's into an animated version.

Toei TV Hero Encyclopedia Vol. 2: Chojin Sentai Jetman

1993 • 59 min • Japan

A happily married Ryu Tendo (Red Hawk) and Kaori Rokumeikan (White Swan) reminisce about their time as part of the Jetman team defending Earth from the invasion of Dimensional War Party Vyram. The bulk of the special is the couple taking turns narrating an overview of the events of Jetman with footage from the 51-episode series.

Hiroshima ni Ichiban Densha ga Hashitta

1993 • 31 min • Japan

The story follows a girl who works on a streetcar both before and after the bomb drops on Hiroshima.

A Bullet Named Love

1993 • 60 min

tear past midnight shadows accelerator roaring through this highway city in the seat next to mine, you look away hiding your blush in fear I will protect you, wield me like a knife I'll hold you close in my arms my sweet babe leave your worries behind past and future is ours to rewrite together let's go to a paradise made for the two of us 100 million, 200 million, 10 billion count every last kiss that I give to you baby! I'll hold you tight in my arms and never let you go just fall in love with my machine gun kiss!

When Nobody Is Looking

1993 • 60 min • Croatia

A suspicious cop tracks his own wife in this romantic thriller about hypertrophied jealousy.

Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!

1993 • 47 min • Japan

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head of the opposing lord to declare victory.

Weird Volunteers

1993 • 46 min • Japan

A film produced and paid for by Kitakyushu City's Board of Education and Council for the Promotion of Outcast Issue Awareness. The story follows two second-year junior high girls who discover an old lady collapsed outside her home in rural Japan. After assisting her back inside, the two hear the old lady's harrowing life story and discover that she is illiterate. Shocked by this, the girls vow to volunteer their time to teach the old woman to read and write each day.