All Films

Savannah

1989 • 30 min

Through the employment of magical realist storytelling devices, an African-American actress is shown to be a hyper-competent career woman who denies her roots in traditional African beliefs and spirituality.

Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage

1989 • 59 min • Japan

After his partner Ahiru is gunned down in the process of arresting criminal Bruce Sawamura, cop Joe "Joker" Kawamura goes rogue and tries to get revenge. Since Bruce's last coup was stealing 5 million dollars in donations from a church, he is joined in his quest by nun Lily.

How to Make Tasty Water

1989 • 55 min • Japan

The lustful and intense sexual experiences of women at the beach one summer. Eventually, the women's unrestrained behavior develops into a strange love square, and their desires accelerate...

Demon Hunter Makaryūdo

1989 • 30 min • Japan

Forgiven of her crime of looking into the past life of the one she loved, Yama Rikudou is a powerful being from the underworld sent to the human realm to hunt demons. She must eliminate the overflowing evil here in order to provide some balance to this world.

Arietta

1989 • 52 min • Japan

A young widow becomes an SM call girl to pay off the debts accumulated by her yakuza husband. She's a depressed woman, merely going through the motions of existence, subjected to every cruel whim concocted by her clients. She's dedicated to the misery - even finding comfort in it - stumbling through life like a zombie.

Cybernetics Guardian

1989 • 43 min • Japan

A freak accident unleashes a demonic spirit within researcher John Stalker - transforming him into Saldo, a mythical cyber-beast fueled by hate and evil.

Brave Irene

1989 • 13 min • United States of America

Irene summons up all her courage in the face of a fierce snowstorm when her mother falls ill and Irene must deliver a ball gown to the duchess.

YBO2 canon

1989 • 5 min

The first Music Video work of Eiki Takahashi before he became a music video filmmaker and making documentaries about music idol groups.

Natural History

1989 • 18 min • United States of America

The parents of an adult infant named "Child", played by Todd Haynes, attempt to expel him from their home, by casting magical spell seen in a television documentary about Malaysian rites of passage.

Sir Drone

1989 • 56 min • United States of America

Three teenagers from the industrial part of Los Angeles try to form a punk rock band in Hollywood, in this feature length film by renowned artist Raymond Pettibon.

Shôten higi: Meiki saguri

1989 • 60 min • Japan

Pinku distrubuted by Xces / Nikkatsu

Married Woman: Mouth Full of Lust

1989 • 59 min • Japan

She witnessed her husband's affair right before her eyes! A young wife who has lost her memory embarks on a journey of boundless lust... She wants something big! Her bottomless desire is about to awaken...

Animated Self-Portraits

1989 • 8 min • Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Japan, Soviet Union, United States of America, Yugoslavia

An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

Chain Letter

1989 • 60 min • United States of America

The Messenger of Death has an interesting way of getting victims. His assistant, Miss Smith, would write a letter where recipients would be told to pass it along. The person that failed in doing so would meet misfortune (mostly death). The Messenger of Death and Miss Smith would watch the person that broke the chain on a television monitor. After the victim's demise, The Messenger of Death would go back to his desk, and say to his assistant, "Take a letter, Miss Smith".

Meiki Hitosuji

1989 • 60 min • Japan

A man once worked as an assistant director at a film studio. He had a past in which the master director he worked for taught him about exhibitionism and even homosexuality. Since then, the man was unable to find a girlfriend. One day, that a hookup said she was going to return to the countryside and get married properly, so she wanted to break up. The man was surprised, but she had already prepared another friend for him. He starts dating the girl, but she is also quite a pervert, and suggests having sex with him in front of his bedridden father at home. The man agrees and goes to her house, only to discover that the bedridden father is the famous director...

Riding Bean

1989 • 45 min • Japan

Bean Bandit and his partner Rally Vincent are couriers for hire - transporting clients and delivering goods in his custom sports car "Roadbuster" for a hefty price. But when they are hired to escort a kidnapped girl named Chelsea to her home, they don't realize they're being framed for kidnapping as their former clients Semmerling and Carrie plan their escape with Chelsea's father and the ransom money.

Cherry no Manma

1989 • 10 min • Japan

Kanoko is a young girl who lives alone with two young male housekeepers who could not be more different. While Yuzuru is kind and refined, Yuki is rude and crude. They try to keep their unusual family together in the face of conflict and misunderstanding. Note: Originally released as a bonus on the Umi no Yami, Tsuki no Kage LD/VHS.

Renga

1989 • 9 min • United States of America

“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries. It is characterized by being a group composition, typically in the presence of judges and an audience, with poets rapidly contributing stanzas such that each new stanza addresses only the previous stanza; there is no overarching plot development, and the overall structure is a chain, not a conventional, linear narrative… In 1989, I had the great privilege to be involved in a film renga that was produced in the graduate film seminar led by Nathaniel Dorsky at the San Francisco Art Institute.” —Eric Theise

Work Experience

1989 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Work Experience is a 1989 short film directed by James Hendrie. It follows Terence who is caught in a vicious circle. He cannot get a job because he has no experience, but he cannot gain experience without getting a job! The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

The Three Musketeers: Adventure of Aramis

1989 • 55 min • Japan

In this reimagining of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel, the musketeer Aramis is secretly a woman in disguise, drawn to the elite corps after exacting revenge on her lover's murderer. Years later, plucky musketeer-in-waiting D'Artagnan is to be hanged for a crime he didn't commit. To exonerate her friend, Aramis must uncover the truth by navigating a twisting web of court conspiracies and her own past — without revealing her secret.

An Exciting Afternoon

1989 • 60 min • Japan

A young man navigates his want for a carefree sex life and his possessive partner...

Fish Day

1989 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Human life in the absurd of the everyday

Groper Train: I Like the Inside

1989 • 57 min • Japan

A couple celebrate their anniversary through BDSM and unexpected results...

Kousoku Sentai Turboranger: The Movie

1989 • 25 min • Japan

The Turboranger must prevent a Bouma from unsealing his father in order to utilize his hellfire to burn the Earth.