Toshi Ichiyanagi Movies

Part documentary, part fiction this film revolves around the life of the haiku poet Seigetsu Inoue who wandered Ina Valley for about 30 years from...

The film consists of fragmentary images, of water flowing in stone-paved gutters, narrow alleys and the rooftops of buildings, afternoon and night ...

Expansion remixes the images of Matsumoto’s Esctasis into an more colourful psychedelic short.

Writes Matsumoto, "I used the Erekutoro Karapurosesu (Electro Color Processor), which is mainly used in the field of medicine and engineering, to...

There's more to picture than meets the eye in this journey into oriental metaphysical imagery. Starting (in a very Christian manner) with the Word,...

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.

The humble line has a life of its own. As it travels from one point to the next it can take whatever route it fancies. With plenty of ups and downs,...

A medical film that explores the mechanism of bones, which support the body and act as a calcium storehouse to maintain balance within the body.

A small white box. Everything happens in that little world. A woman's face comes out from the side of the room and roars, birds peck at human flesh,...

The entire human body is made of cells, and health is maintained through the continuous process of old cells making way for new cells. Bones are no...

Why Not is hypnotic, compulsive and claustrophobic. It is bathed in a cold, pervasive eroticism, which, oblique and displaced at first, finally...

Cameraman Yonesaku Kobayashi (1905-2005) is a pioneer of scientific films of Japan. He and producer Sozo Okada made many scientific educational...

The red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout the body have a lifespan of 120 days. The living body continuously produces blood to ensure a...