Okite / 2003

Yakuza film directed by Hiroki Matsukata.

The Song of Rain / 2022

Somewhere in Japan, two men live in a new age house, through the windows of which the reflections and ripples of the rain shimmer in black and white. One of them explains to a journalist that the house’s design allows them to gather rainwater and use it for the plants that they grow in order to meet their needs. The other brings them tea. One is granted speech and social consideration, the other labour. But when they leave the house to walk through the fields or go fishing for eels, or when they try to kill a tortoise for a meal, the positions are reversed. An unexpected cruelty suddenly spices up this slapstick variation on diverging relations to nature in contemporary Japan. (Nathan Letoré)

The Actress and the Poet / 1935

Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and his nosy and greedy wife. Enter a young and seemingly high-class couple who just so happens is open to purchasing life insurance from their swift neighbour. In the meantime, life is imitating art across the street, which may end up providing for either a happy ending or a rude split - eventually that is.

Bad Poetry Tokyo / 2018

A 30 Year old woman, a hostess past her time working at a shady club and an aspiring actress living in Tokyo. Betrayed by her lover and her dreams crushed, the broken woman leaves Tokyo for her hometown in the countryside after five years of no contact with her family. There she reconnects with an old flame but is also forced to confront some unpleasant truths about her past.

Morinouta / 1977

Touching! Tears! Romance! The beginning and the end of the film are linked in a repeat. A fox, a baby mushroom, and a poisonous mushroom scurry across the screen.

Jazz Café Basie: The Ballad of Swifty / 2020

Seeking their best "sound" is why people gather into a small jazz cafe BASIE nowhere in the world at Ichinoseki, North East county in Japan. It seems a sanctuary for global jazz players, fans, and audio maniacs. Filming BASIE owner Sugawara Shoji tuning a 50-year-old JBL speaker everyday, stock footage became more than 150 hours.

Poetry Collection New People / 1988

In 1988, the poet Ikuo Yamamoto's poetry collection "New Man". There was a plan to make it with the participation of artists of various genres. I participated in the project with an 8mm independent film.

HANA / 1988

A companion to the film Poetry Collection New People 1988.

蟻族の詩～上海 求職旅館の若者たち～ / 2010

情熱の詩人啄木 / 1962

1962 Japanese movie

Poetries from the Bookstores /

Modern Poetry Exhibition/1966 / 1966

Artists contributing to the 1966 Modern Poetry Exhibition included HUANG Hua-cheng, LONG Sih-liang, HUANG Yong-song, and CHANG Chao-tang; each artist chose their favorite modern poems and transformed them into imagery. This film is a time capsule capturing some of the exhibits, as well as the young artists.

Pei Shih / 1972

Lung Kong collaborated with accomplished novelist Meng Jun to pen the script for this tale of heartbreak and doomed romance. The mounting despair of two solipsistic characters headed towards an emotionally shattering break-up is depicted through an elliptical series of flashbacks.

チョルラの詩 / 2010

Poetics of the Garden / 2022

I try to remember what your hand felt like on my back when I was a child. And now I place my hand on yours, bent from pain. Like landscaped gardens are meant to evoke the four seasons and the cyclical wonders of nature, I gaze at you, hoping to find us one more time.

WHO KiLLED IDOL? -The End of SiS- / 2017

A music documentary covering the short-lived BiS sister group, SiS, from their formation to their sudden disbandment, and their integration into GANG PARADE.

A Study of Katoran - 4 Lines Poem / 1964

Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.

NHKスペシャル 映像詩 里山II 命めぐる水辺 / 2008

Lingaraja: Poem for the Love of the Emptiness / 1971

He used experimental techniques to visualize the itinerancy of his soul during his journey, and released it as a medium-length documentary, "Lingaraja: Poem for the Love of the Emptiness". During his stay in Nepal, he encountered the "Tibetan Book of the Dead," which he translated and published upon his return to Japan. Since then, he has been working to open up a vision of the spiritual world. This program consists of two works produced after his return to Japan.

北上川の詩 / 1953

Japanese film.