All Films

Dazzling Youth

1990 • 59 min • Japan

Naoto Yoshimoto, who has a handsome face, plays the role of a man with a uniform fetish who has no choice but to work as a security guard because he aspires to be a policeman but cannot become one.

Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk IV

1990 • 20 min • Japan

The SD Gundams are at it again: first with a race among all of the prior SD Gundam characters, then the SD Zeons run a space travel agency in the second episode.

Transformers: Zone

1990 • 23 min • Japan

The mysterious three-faced insectoid being, Violenjiger dispatches the nine "Great Decepticon Generals" to acquire "Zone Energy", destroying the planet Feminia to obtain the world's store, and search for the powerful Zodiac.

7 Colours

1990 • 28 min

7 COLOURS is an innovative short dance film, a series of seven sequences, a kaleidoscope of colour, lighting effects and fluid body movement. Stephen Page from the Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre and Victoria Taylor, with her background at the Sydney Dance Company, bring two very different cultures together to create the movement for this piece.

Nocturne

1990 • 58 min

Nocturne is a taut chamber drama, set in a musty suburban estate to which a pretty but drab-looking woman returns upon the death of her mother, who in flashback we discover was a fiercely proper and dominating woman. Eichhorn's depressed reveries are abruptly interrupted with the unexpected arrival of a pair of hitchhikers, amoral, free-spirited young lesbian lovers seeking shelter from the rain.

Super Real Mahjong: Mahjong Battle Scramble

1990 • 46 min • Japan

Mahjong-playing sisters Kasumi, Miki, and Shouko are sent to a world where mahjong tiles are currency. In order to return to their world, they must defeat a mahjong-playing rabbit who rules the land.

Earth Defense Girl Iko-chan 3: Big Operation in Big Edo

1990 • 52 min • Japan

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue

1990 • 26 min • United States of America

The plot chronicles the exploits of Michael, a teenager who is using marijuana and stealing his father's beer. His younger sister, Corey, is worried about him because he started acting differently. When her piggy bank goes missing, her cartoon tie-in toys come to life to help her find it. After discovering it in Michael's room along with his stash of drugs, the various cartoon characters proceed to work together and take him on a fantasy journey to teach him the risks and consequences a life of drug-use can bring and save the world.

Osomatsu-kun: Iyami Alone in the Wind

1990 • 21 min • Japan

In an Edo-period retelling of "City Lights", Iyami, a poor beggar, befriends a flower-selling blind young girl. Through the ups and downs of their friendship, Iyami strives to find a way to make her see again.

Heart-Coloured Killer Ticket

1990 • 51 min • Japan

Seiko, while suspended from school goes to Nagasaki, where she finds herself involved in a murder mystery.

Shiki Jôkyô Nikki: Chôinran

1990 • 60 min • Japan

Ippei, a private detective, was suddenly involved in a strange incident at the request of Nao. He was guided by Nao and went on a trip to the hot spring town with his assistant, Santa, but when Nao's best friend and landlady Harumi had a seizure for some reason, he was in agony in search of a man.

Keroppi and the Beanstalk

1990 • 25 min • Japan

Keroppi in the classic tale of Jack and the Beanstalk.

Dirty Pair: Flight 005 Conspiracy

1990 • 60 min • Japan

The 3WA's Central Computer gave the Lovely Angels two cases at once! Kei and Yuri must investigate a space liner explosion and, simultaneously, find a missing scientist. It all seems easy enough, but this is actually the Angels' most dangerous mission yet – and if they're not careful, it'll be their last.

Scala

1990 • 36 min • United Kingdom

A film about the London repertory cinema the Scala, noted for its eclectic and sometimes controversial programmes, which changed daily. Management, staff and audience members are interviewed about the cinema's history and notable events, which included themed parties and personal appearances by film-makers.

Extremely Wild Genuine Sex: Night of the Perverts

1990 • 56 min • Japan

What did a man who had his wife stolen by his mistress and his girlfriend violated see in this hell on earth? A feast of lust unfolds every night like a nightmare in Kabukicho, a city without night... A mysterious and gruesome live show!

Next

1990 • 5 min • United Kingdom

William Shakespeare, without saying a word, gives a quick run through of all his plays in a very special audition.

Danchizuma: Dorei ni sarete

1990 • 60 min • Japan

Mimi-ko, who lives in a housing complex near Tokyo, holds jazz dance classes for housewives in the complex, making use of the dance she has learned since childhood. With her dynamic body, it is hard to believe that she is a married woman. One night, Mimi-ko is initially hesitant to her husband Kiichi's proposal for a night crawl...

City Streaming

1990 • 18 min • United States of America

This is a film made in Toronto, in memoriam, so to speak - a memory piece, a "piecing-together" of the experience of living there. The consciousness of the maker comes to sharply focused visual music - not to arrive at snapshots, as such, but rather to "sing" the city as remembered from daily living...complementary, then, to an earlier film, "Unconscious London Strata." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Sword for Truth

1990 • 49 min • Japan

Shurannosuke Sakaki is a masterless samurai with a razor-sharp katana and a cold-hearted personality. Whenever you see the mark of two crossed scythes on his back, death is sure to follow. Because of his exceptional swordsmanship, Shurannosuke is hired by the Nakura Clan to rescue Princess Mayu from the Seki Ninja. In this mission, he must use his full potential to survive the Seki Ninja's notorious henchmen.

The Curse of Kazuo Umezu

1990 • 43 min • Japan

"Do not toy with the supernatural." Two stories of the consequences that descend upon humans who venture beyond the safe confines of their ordinary worlds.

After All, I Love Cats the Three Onda Sisters’ Great Kyoto Troubles

1990 • 55 min • Japan

1990 Original Video

Wicked Willie

1990 • 39 min • United Kingdom

A series of shorts about adventures of a man and his "willie". They are best friends and talk about everyday problems they face, like competition or women and their "kitties". Willie is a live talking character in this satire on sexuality.

Wakaokusama no namashitagi: Ikasete

1990 • 56 min • Japan

Two sisters who used to work as call girls at a hotel. The older sister has retired and is now living happily as the wife of a police officer. The younger sister is still actively working as a call girl at a hotel. When the younger sister notices that a police investigation has befallen her, she runs away, and the older sister chases after her, and the two end up heading to their hometown on a road trip.

Revenge Investigation Line Hot Sands of Murderous Intent (Solution)

1990 • 40 min • Japan

1990 Original Video.