All Films

Faust IV

1989 • 37 min • United States of America

Music by Rick Corrigan. This is the imaged thought process of young Faust escaping the unbearable pictures of his broken romantic idyll, mentally fleeing the particulars of his dramatized "love," Faust's mind ranging the geography of his upbringing and its structures of cultural hubris – the whole nervous system "going to ground" and finally "becoming one" with the hypnagogically visible cells of his receptive sight and inner cognition ... all that I could give him of Heaven in this current visualization of these ancient themes. Films

Märkische Ziegel

1989 • 33 min • East Germany, Germany

Spring 1988: a cinematic chronicle of the small town of Zehdenick an der Havel in the Mark Brandenburg. Brickworks have determined the rhythm of life in Zehdenick for exactly 100 years. Seasoned brickmakers and young skilled workers speak frankly and critically about their working and living conditions and their futile efforts to improve them. The film is the first part of the Märkische Trilogie, which Volker Koepp shot "over the course of time about a brickworks in the small town of Zehdenick in the Mark Brandenburg. The very sensitively and atmospherically designed film was withheld by the GDR censors of the time. A depressing report about outdated production methods and disillusioned people."

The Caretaker

1989 • 10 min

A Mowelfund short documentary on an artist who serves as a caretaker of a rundown art gallery/museum.

Kidou Keiji Jiban: Great Explosion at the Monster Factory of Fear

1989 • 25 min • Japan

Jiban goes into action to save Yoko and several captured children from Doctor Giba's plot of creating the ultimate lifeform.

The Nightwatch

1989 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Dark and brooding thriller. A group of mercenaries are assembled in Amsterdam by a British intelligence officer. Believing they are awaiting the details of a new mission, they decide to spend their free time in the sleazy bars and brothels. Over the course of the weekend it gradually becomes clear that all is not what it seems. Unknown to them their paths have all crossed before, and the deceit and violence of the past is about to become their own downfall.

Carmela Campo

1989 • 24 min • United Kingdom

At the start of the 20th century many left the Feudal and impoverished Southern Italy looking for a brighter future in the Americas. Carmela and Giacomo set off from their home land never to return. After many years, Carmela's son,now a middle aged man, visits his parents village only to find it derelict and abandoned

Your Wife is a Masochist, Let Me Hold Her!

1989 • 60 min

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Soap Technique

1989 • 55 min • Japan

Dirty Tennis

1989 • 33 min • United States of America

A great comedy about how to win at tennis by playing dirty.

The Real Behind-the-scenes Business

1989 • 58 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Woman of Dreams

1989 • 55 min • Japan

Yoichi, who works for an advertising agency becomes heavily obsessed with a strange woman, things go unexpected, leading to a divorce and other disasters...

Urusei Yatsura: I Howl at the Moon

1989 • 26 min • Japan

Ataru learns to think before he eats when he gobbles down some of Lum's Cherry Rice Cakes -- and promptly starts turning into a wolf!

Devil Boy

1989 • 40 min • Japan

The age of the demons has begun. Dr Faust has foreseen this rise of evil. Unfortunately, he is near death and is unable to personally battle this upcoming threat. Faust entrusts a young boy, Shingo Yamada, to take the responsibility of ridding the Earth of this new evil presence. Faust finds a birthmark on Shingo's forehead that signifies that he is the chosen demon fighter. Faust also summons from hell what may be humanity's only hope of surviving: a less than enthusiastic devil named Mephisto rises. After signing a pact in blood to save humankind, Shingo and Mephisto set out to battle the supernatural world.

Goku II: Midnight Eye

1989 • 53 min • Japan

Goku, the lone wolf private detective is back, contracted by Yoshiko, a mysterious, beautiful and very afraid woman, to find and save her brother, Ryu. Will Goku be able to protect Yoshiko from her step father's soldiers long enough to find her brother? Meanwhile Ryu, the unfortunate subject of a military experiment gone bad, leaves a trail of bodies behind him and has no intention of being found or saved by anyone. Will Goku have to kill the man he is supposed to save? Will even his omniscient cybernetic eye and sceptre be enough to help him defeat this indestructible killing machine?

Guinea Pig Part 6: Android of Notre Dame

1989 • 52 min • Japan

A dwarf scientist has his dreams frustrated when his sister becomes seriously ill. Determined to find a way to preserve the essence of his sister after the death, the scientist begins to use humans as guinea pigs in a bizarre experiment.

Hitch-Hikers

1989 • 30 min • United States of America

In 1930s Mississippi, a traveling salesman picks up two hitch-hikers.

Oh No, Not Them

1989 • 30 min • United States of America

The untransmitted pilot of the failed American remake of The Young Ones

Giordano

1989 • 18 min • Soviet Union

The protagonist of this satirical short is a photographer whose camera captures photos of people's true nature. We often have to ask ourselves whether we see the truth around us. But do we want to see it?

Sayaka VS Chiyo-kun: Abnormal Lesbian

1989 • 58 min • Japan

Sayaka is a professional lesbian who goes by the nickname "Three Years of Climax." On the other hand, Chiyo is a bisexual player. Based on these two's spectacular abnormal play, various men and women become involved in their perverted acts. Who will win in the actual lesbian battle on the bridge, Sayaka or Chiyo-kun...?

Blue Flames

1989 • 50 min • Japan

Ryuuichi is a high-school student tired of living in a small town with small people. He's determined to claw his way to the top of Tokyo, and he'll use any woman he can to do it.

Cinderella Express

1989 • 47 min • Japan

Everyday salary man Shimano Yuji meets and beds a pretty young girl at his bachelor party. Meeting her again at his wedding, he realizes that he has just began an affair with his sister-in-law.

What Does Love Mean to You?

1989 • 6 min

Animated short.

E-Cup Real Action Take Two: Rich & Ripe

1989 • 59 min • Japan

A melodrama that emotionally depicts a broken couple with sensual scenes. This is the first film by director Toshiki Sato and screenwriter Masahiro Kobayashi, who have produced a number of excellent works. The film painstakingly depicts the heartbreaking endings of a couple who are trapped in the past and gradually falling out of love, and includes a strong scene of sexual passion. Yuko (Satsuki Fuji), who is troubled by her marital relationship, is having an affair with Akiyama (Kikujiro Honda). Fumio (Toru Nakane), who is unable to handle his beloved wife, uses a duplicate key found in an old jacket to sneak into the room where Yuko used to live before their marriage.

Osomatsu-kun: Greetings From The Watermelon Planet-zansu!

1989 • 25 min • Japan

Episode-length Osomatsu-kun film, released as a feature of the Toei Manga Movie Festival. Loosely based on a manga chapter, the film revolves around an alien plot to take over the world.