All Films

Lunn Flies into the Wind

1985 • 24 min • Japan

Akira is a lonely middle school boy, ignored by his classmates and bullied by his teacher. He falls in love with the image of a girl on a coffee advertising poster and names her Lunn. Through his "friendship" with Lunn, he gradually finds the strength to pursue his own dreams.

Osaka People

1985 • 60 min • Japan

A man with a wound from the past pops up into a gay bar in the South of Osaka. While sheltering him, the bar's owner falls in love with him.

Kinnikuman: Hour-of-Triumph! Justice Superman

1985 • 60 min • Japan

While performing in a movie at Toei Eigamura, Kinnikuman suddenly disappears. Somehow, he has been sent to Edo Period Japan. In Edo Japan, a villain called Shuten Doji is threatening to destroy the Earth if he is not given Princess Mari. Always willing to impress a pretty girl, Kinnikuman immediately vows to destroy Shuten Doji. Aware of Kinnikuman's situation, Terryman, Robin Mask, and the other Justice Chojins travel to Edo Japan too (via Kinkotsu-obaba's powers).

Spooky Kitaro

1985 • 24 min • Japan

Movie based on the 1985 TV anime with an original plot.

Groper Train: One Minute Before Departure

1985 • 60 min • Japan

Kimiko, who came from the countryside, gets a job at a travel agency, but the manager she is introduced to is Yu, who was the person who molested her on the train. Feeling somewhat responsible, Yu teaches her the job and also gently guides her to become a more urban woman. Kimiko begins to have feelings for him, but is shocked to find out that Yu secretly loves Eri, the secretary to a client's president. Then, due to a certain incident, Kimiko ends up going to a hotel with that client's president, Chikamatsu...

Urban Jungle

1985 • 60 min

Bradford. Journalist Tristan Hanley, up from the south, is told by his paper's proprietor to get the story on a missing girl. His trail leads through the undergrowth of the city....

OL kankin (hakuchū no reipu)

1985 • 60 min • Japan

A taxi driver kidnaps a fare and imprisons her in his apartment.

Prehistoric Beast

1985 • 9 min • United States of America

In a dense forest, a monoceratops-type plant-eating dinosaur is stalked by a carnivorous Tyrannosaurus rex.

Carmen

1985 • 18 min

Carmen was Alexander Payne’s first short film, made while he was studying at UCLA Film School. It is a silent comedy, derived from the opera of the same name. In the film a mentally challenged gas station attendant is put in charge of the store, which leads to love and a tragic-comic end.

Cosmo Police Justy

1985 • 44 min • Japan

In the future humanity is spread throughout the galaxy. In their efforts to combat criminal espers the Cosmo Police are fortunate to have Justy on their side. However the esper criminals also know this and some of them are making plans for Cosmo Policeman Justy. As their leader says "There's only one way to kill the most powerful esper in the galaxy".

Graffiti

1985 • 28 min

A young man who lives in a South American military dictatorship goes out during curfew to make drawings with chalk, for thrills. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Urusei Yatsura: Ryoko's September Tea Party

1985 • 48 min • Japan

Ryoko throws a tea party for her friends. Flashbacks reveal the pasts of Ryoko's various guests.

Kinnikuman: Counterattack! Hidden Space Superman

1985 • 39 min • Japan

As the whole world watches the Choujin Rugby game on TV, the "Underground Space Emperor" Hydra King has his Underground Space Supermen kidnap Robin Mask. Their aim is to lure out the Seigi Choujins and then attack them using the Robin Memo, which contains info on all of the Seigi Choujin's weaknesses. Watching on TV all over the world, Kinnikuman and the Seigi Choujins get together and head for Planet Hydra.

Robotman & Friends

1985 • 42 min

Robotman, Stellar, and Oops are mechanical beings from the planet Robot Land who embark on a mission to help earthlings in need. Their mission is jeopardized by Roboron, an evil robot seeking to capture them and reprogram them to hate, not love.

The Demon Within

1985 • 54 min • Japan

A journalist becomes possessed by a gakidama, a spirit of the dead. Unknown to the man, a demon is now incubating in his stomach, and a mysterious stranger seem to know what afflicts him.

La Lune

1985 • 8 min • France

Michel Piccoli reads the first pages of Victor Hugo's 'Promontoire du songe'. In this text, Hugo describes his sensations when he sees, enlarged 40 times, the Moon through the telescope of the Observatorium of Paris. His visions drive him into a meditation about the relationships in between dream, reality and poetry.

Dinosaur!

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

An entertaining documentary look at dinosaurs with Emmy Award-winning special effects, feature film clips and stills, commentary by leading paleontologists of the time, and an on camera as well as voice-over narrative by Christopher Reeve. Shot on location in Los Angeles and New York at the American Museum of Natural History

Dinosaur Matrix

1985 • 1 min

A method by which drawings can be enlarged on a grid.

Nora

1985 • 57 min • Japan

Nora is on vacation in a "Holiday Inn" space station. When the artificial gravity fails, the whole space resort becomes chaotic but she helps solve the problem.

Cinderella

1985 • 51 min • United States of America

An oppressed young woman finds happiness when she secretly attends the royal ball.

Videoviolín

1985 • 3 min • Spain

A visual exercise which aims to synchronize classical music to the digital image. In this manner, two completely different cultural paradigms are put together.

Berlin Now

1985 • 59 min • Germany

A voyeuristic panorama of a specific moment in the German independent music scene.

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

1985 • 50 min • United States of America, Japan

The Great Ak calls a council of the Immortals to ask that Santa Claus be given immortality. And to justify it, he tells the history of Santa Claus. The Ak found an abandoned baby and gave it to a lioness and a fairy to raise, who named him Claus. When Claus grew up, the Great Ak showed him the evil and hardship in the world and Claus decides to live there and relieve some of the suffering. He decides to make toys for orphans, but King Awgwa, the ruler of the valley where Claus lives doesn't want the children to be happy, and there is a great battle among Immortals.

Creamy Mami: Long Good-Bye

1985 • 55 min • Japan

Shingo is planning the film "A Story of Two Worlds" starring Megumi. Yuu's transformation into Creamy Mami is happening without her wanting it. She is asked to star in the film too. But the magic doesn't last...