All Films

Weekender

1992 • 18 min • United Kingdom

A look at club and drug culture through the prism of the band Flowered Up.

Rokudenashi BLUES

1992 • 33 min • Japan

Trouble finds Maeda, a good-for-nothing outcast with dreams of becoming a boxing champ, soon after enrolling at Teiken High School. His cavalier clumsiness has a way of attracting attention from gang leaders, school staff, and the precocious schoolgirl Chiaki. When a dangerous new gang leader threatens to upend order in the school, Maeda puts his training to work — along with every brain cell he can muster — to protect the balance of power.

Promiscuous Wife's Sexuality: Pleasure Hunting

1992 • 59 min • Japan

Fumio, who works at an ironworks, has an affair with Yoko, the wife of the president of the ironworks. The wife of Shimizu, a detective who investigates Yoko's background at the request of Nobuo, the president of the company, is also having an affair with his mistress, Kenichi. Nobuo becomes angry and impulsive. Upon receiving the report, a jealous Nobuo impulsively kills Shimizu and appears with an iron pipe in front of Fumio and Yoko, who are entangled in an ironworks. The story accelerates toward the end as the impulsive murderer brings together a man and a woman in a love-hate relationship at a villa in Izu....

Queen Esther

1992 • 30 min • United States of America

This Hanna-Barbera animated video tells a version of the Bible story about Esther, whose heroism is commemorated annually by the feast of Purim. Esther, a Jewish orphan girl, is chosen by King Ahasuerus of Persia to be his queen.

Black Lion

1992 • 60 min • Japan

The year is 1580 and Nobunaga Oda is working to consolidate his power over Japan. In his army are weapons of great destructive power: rapid fire machine guns, lasers, missiles and, most frightening of all, the reputedly immortal ninja Ginnai Doma. Like a sentence of divine wrath he hunts down and destroys dissident monks, ninjas and others, wherever they may be. With the clans on the brink of destruction, a single ninja accepts the impossible task: kill the immortal Ginnai.

Rispondetemi

1992 • 18 min • Canada

As the paramedics pry her hand apart from her dead lover's grip a woman's life flashes before her eyes. Racing to the hospital the stunning skies and rooftops of Montreal from the back of the ambulance are inter-cut with the most exquisitely cinematic memories.

Dragon Ball Z: Summer Vacation Special

1992 • 43 min • Japan

This is a TV special that takes place directly after Dragon Ball Z movie 7. In it, Goku and Gohan discuss Dragon Ball movies 1-3 and Dragon Ball Z movies 1-7.

The Passing

1992 • 54 min

Internationally acclaimed and award-winning video installation artist Bill Viola juxtaposes personal pictures of his mother's death with images of his own son's birth to explore foundational and potent themes of beginnings and endings, the cycle of life and the movement of generations. An evocative exploration of personal and communal spirituality, this deeply felt film is a poetic masterpiece to contemplate time and again.

Gekashitsu

1992 • 50 min • Japan

In the Meiji era, Countess Kibune must undergo surgery to save her life, but she refuses to receive anesthesia because she is afraid to reveal a secret. She asks a young doctor, Takamine, to operate on her without anesthesia.

Uniform Gals: Underwear Encyclopedia

1992 • 59 min • Japan

At the Asami Planning office in a corner of a rundown multi-tenant building, manager Inada is having sex with nurse Saya Hanyu in the middle of the day. Then Asami returns with Sachiko and scolds Inada. While traveling in Kyushu, Asami happened to be on a tour bus with Sachiko as a guide, and fell in love with her singing voice, so he forcefully scouted her.

Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.

1992 • 29 min • United States of America

Short documentary on the making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula" (1992).

Gargantuan

1992 • 1 min • United Kingdom

“London artist John Smith uses light-hearted humour to explore theoretical concerns - Gargantuan, for instance, is both pleasantly silly and acutely conscious of how imagery depends entirely on its framing. A voice-over intones the words ‘huge’ and ‘strapping’ as a lizard almost fills the screen, then ‘medium’ as the camera zooms out, then ‘tiny’, and finally ‘minute’, a pun on the film’s running time.” Fred Camper, Chicago Reader 2001

Soyokaze Toki ni wa Tsumujikaze

1992 • 54 min • Japan

A dramatization of veteran actor Ryo Ikebe's essay of the same name about his parents' eccentric marriage.

The Weekenders

1992 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Two friends search for a quality sausage at an open air meat festival.

Gayniggers from Outer Space

1992 • 26 min • Denmark

Extraterrestrial beings travel the galaxy to free men "oppressed" by females to make way for an entirely-homosexual society.

Hanappe Bazooka

1992 • 43 min • Japan

When trickster demons give him the power to seduce any woman he wants, a high school pervert accidentally puts his family, the girl of his dreams, and his very soul on the line.

The Weathering Continent

1992 • 54 min • Japan

Three adventurers – a warrior, a priest, and a young woman – traverse a land devastated by centuries of environmental calamities searching only for a way to survive. In their journeys they stumble across first the remains of a band of desperate treasure-hunters, and then the treasure they were seeking: Azec Sistra, the legendary City of the Dead. Unfortunately, the bandits responsible for slaughtering the treasure-hunters have also found their way to the city, but more worrisome still are the guardians which protect Azec Sistra from those who would violate the spirits at rest there…

Shaved Bondage Demon

1992 • 60 min • Japan

Several people are interviewed about the twisted story of a man who only gets an erection from shaving female pubic hair. Distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Groper Train: Lots of Big Breasts

1992 • 54 min

Haruo Kawashima, a deputy manager at a real estate company, has an extraordinary fetish for big breasts. He can only get aroused by women with big breasts. However, his wife Akiko has extremely small breasts, so they never have sex. Haruo molested a big-breasted woman on a crowded train, but it turned out to be Natsuko, who worked at the same company. Natsuko confessed her love to him and gave him a blowjob. Then the train came to a sudden halt, and he got his penis bitten off. He thought it was just a dream, but since then, he has often had sex with big-breasted women in his dreams. After hearing about his dream, Akiko became jealous of the woman, but the same thing happened repeatedly, so she finally...

Blind Alley

1992 • 10 min

An optician awakes from a bad dream to find himself in a living nightmare as he faces death-by-video.

Saishin Pinsaro Jôhô: Gekisha!! Nama Honban

1992 • 59 min • Japan

Battletoads

1992 • 25 min • Canada, United States of America

Far away, at the edge of this Galaxy, Princess Angelica and her mentor Professor T. Bird flee the wicked Dark Queen and her Beast Police. At stake is the Princess' magical amulet, which will make the Dark Queen absolute ruler of the universe - if she gets her hands on it. After landing in Oxnard, California, T. Bird finds three nerdy teens and turns them into Battletoads named Zits, Rash and Pimple! As powerful, hip, humanoid heroes with superpowers, they help thwart the Dark Queen's evil plans.

Chahine & Co

1992 • 55 min • France

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by French film critic Jean-Louis Comolli on the Egyptian director Youssef Chahine.

Evilio

1992 • 10 min • Spain

Evilio, a deranged, knife-wielding maniac abducts three pretty young women and drags them to an abandoned building. He tells his bound and helpless captives that he will call their families one by one - if someone answers the phone, that captive will live; if not, a gruesome death awaits.